SAN ANTONIO — Militia groups along the Texas-Mexico border have grown to more than 10 active "teams" from El Paso to the Rio Grande Valley, despite warnings from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has invoked what he termed the Lone Star State's "constitutional right to defend itself from ...

MISSION, Texas (AP) — On a recent moonlit night, Border Patrol agents began rounding up eight immigrants hiding in and around a canal near the Rio Grande. A state trooper soon arrived to help. Then ...

The reported leader of an ongoing effort to organize an armed militia to go to the Texas-Mexico border was an active participant in Open Carry Texas, the Second Amendment activist group that forced ...

SOUTHEAST TEXAS -- David Smith has been a member of the unorganized militia in Southeast Texas for almost two years. He's now the commander. "If you have a community that is well armed, then you can ...

Though the Take Our Border Back convoy has largely been a mess so far as the small group makes its way toward the Texas-Mexico border, experts warn that it has acted as a lightning rod for militias, ...

DALLAS — Only days ago, residents of Eagle Pass sent a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott, accusing his rhetoric of putting the community in danger. Members of armed, far-right militias are traveling to Eagle ...

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The Texas militia member who was the first to be convicted for the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was given a lighter sentence on Friday because of the Supreme Court's June ruling to narrow an obstruction ...