A screenshot of a facebook post from an account called HTX News showing a decorated USMC veteran (Aboyte) at the Houston No Kings 3 protest outside city hall on March 28th 2026 being hassled and cited by an HPD officer for carrying a U.S. flag in distress coupled with a OnePiece pirate flag because HPD believed the size of the stick did not conform to the municipal code. He is surrounded by a crowd of protesters. The account asks readers should veterans exercise their first amendment right to peacefully gather while in full uniform?

#HPD and #HTXNews, you are a fucking DISGRACE. Of course a decorated USMC veteran has EVERY right to exercise free speech. MY. FUCKIN. WORDT. This veteran attendee was so helpful in deescalating two different tense situations, but all HPD saw was a problem with a pole. Whew! #HoustonPoliceDepartment

In November, "Tom Lea: Brushstrokes from the Frontlines of World War II"—a new exhibition in partnership w/ the Tom Lea Institute—debuted at the El Paso Veterans One-Stop Center. Read more about their work & why they chose to host "Brushstrokes": www.humanitiestexas.org/news/article... #htxnews

For our latest issue of #htxnews, we asked writer George Getschow to give a look inside the Larry McMurtry Literary Center, its growing public impact, and the efforts underway to preserve McMurtry’s extraordinary personal library.

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