Pamphlets billed as a resource guide for transgender and LGBTQ+ students began turning up in Texas mailboxes around the start of early voting, and news organizations tracing them found a sender with almost no public footprint.
The envelopes name the household's "student" as the recipient, according to The Texas Tribune. They cover student legal rights, finding support outside the family and emancipation, and suggest talking to a "safe adult" or an advocacy group if parents are unsupportive. FOX 4 reported that North Texas viewers had received them.
Who is behind them
A company using the return name, Texas Transgender Student Union LLC, was set up in Wyoming on Sept. 2, according to state business records cited by FOX 4 and CBS News Texas. The filing lists a registered agent service in Sheridan, Wyo., and does not identify the people who formed the company.
The return address on the envelopes, in Meadows Place near Houston, does not appear to exist, FOX 4 and CBS reported. CBS found that a nearly matching address leads to a UPS Store mailbox near Houston.
The Tribune reported that a mailer ID on two pamphlets its employees received was tied, by a Postal Service employee who looked it up, to SnailWorks, a Maryland mail tracking firm. The Tribune also found, in federal campaign finance filings, $57,300 in list rental payments from the National Republican Congressional Committee to SnailWorks in the last two years.
