The State of Texas began as the "Republic of Texas" after the so-called Texas War of Independence, which was waged against Mexico by invading Yankee Anglos settling in Texas, with or without permission from the Mexican government. They began their war of annexation with the Manifest Destiny of stealing these lands to build their plantation slavery, enslaving Mexicans, Africans, and all other non-white Indigenous tribes, who had resided in these ancestral lands for thousands of years before the invasion. 

The Texas Rangers police force was founded in 1823 to enforce colonial rule in a "for whites only" government. The continued holocaust butchery of Mexicans and all non-whites by the dialectical process of an evil, criminal Death by Demoralization is inherent in the psychological process of ethnic cleansing and erasure of a conquered, colonized people, as articulated by Dr. Frantz Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth. Much of this true history of settler colonialism has been buried in myths, stereotypes, and outright lies. 

The Chicano revolutionary movement, although in its ebb and flow of the dialectics of social movements, has never died. It never will. Not until true justice is administered for the return of ancestral lands, for reparations for the crimes of colonialism, for war crimes tribunals prosecuting a people's right to self-determination.

The Chicano revolutionary movement, although in its ebb and flow of the dialectics of social movements, has never died. It never will. Not until true justice is administered for the return of ancestral lands, for reparations for the crimes of colonialism, and for war crimes tribunals prosecuting a people's right to self-determination. One that is unchained by the interests of capital accumulation and a capitalist system that robs working-class labor power to make the rich richer and keep the poor in prison. 

Chicanos have a rich, beautiful history of resisting the robbery of their homeland. From the first counter revolution of 1823 to postwar guerrilla war movements, such as the revolutionary 1915 Plan of San Diego, which called for an armed resistance by Mexican-Americans, Black-Americans, and Indigenous people, against the United States, to create an independent republic in the Southwestern U.S. Similar movements across the U.S. Southwest also produced guerrilla fighters such as Juan Cortina, Catarino Garza, Jacinto Trevino, Joaquin Murieta, Gregorio Cortez. Modern-day movements such as La Raza Unida Party, Mexican American Youth Organization, the Crusade for Justice, the National Chicano Moratorium to End the Vietnam War, and the Brown Berets. All of these revolutionaries have been targeted by the U.S. government, criminalizing critical race theory, as the ruling class fears, as it always has, the masses being taught true history. They fear youth discovering their humanity and love for revolutionary change. They are terrified of a new world with a new set of ethics based on the priorities of people's humanity as opposed to property interests based on racism, materialism, militarism, corporate greed, and oligarchy. The modern industrial fossil fuel oligarchs that are in control of government and world markets are destroying our ecosystems, drinking water, rivers, oceans, wildlife, the ozone and humanity. 

Even before historian Derrick Bell wrote his brilliant theses on Critical Race Theory and investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones launched The 1619 Project, exposing the true history of African plantation slavery and white settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and U.S. imperialism, political rulers in control of governments feared the oppressed masses educating themselves and falling in love with revolution. Political rulers continue to criminalize academic freedoms for fear of oppressed people breaking their chains of psychological imprisonment.

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Study and embrace these theories and visions to change your subserviency, embrace the various schools of revolutionary thought, and engage the citizenry in working to upend old oppressive values. Create new ones—liberated from the vices of capital and accumulation in making the rich richer and sending the poor to prison. The essence of the ruling-class hegemony is mass psychological manipulation.

At any given time, social conditions, such as the recent student university uprisings and the repression of activist leaders leading these movements, spread into communities and can inspire globalization of the revolutionary movement against imperialism, the head of the snake being U.S. imperialism. It is a historical, dialectical scientific process we must be conscious of, as articulated by Dr. Frantz Fanon, in his excellent treatise on the machinations of an evil system. This process is inherent in the modern-day system of class and race oppression. 

We can only free ourselves through revolutionary struggle and poor people's mass mobilization. University students continuing to struggle in defense of the genocide of Palestinian people, and the world erupting in protests against the horrific police execution of George Floyd show the Power of the People. We, as oppressed people, wield power. We are interested in our true liberation from this criminal system, guaranteeing colonized peoples the fundamental right to free themselves from such a racist, criminal system by any means necessary, including popular people's revolution.

We can only free ourselves through revolutionary struggle and poor people's mass mobilization. University students continuing to struggle in defense of the genocide of Palestinian people, and the world erupting in protests against the horrific police execution of George Floyd show the Power of the People.

The United States empire was built on the horrific slavery of Africans. Chicanos have suffered a comparable history of colonial crimes, through robbery of their ancestral lands, lynchings, massacres by the Texas Rangers, a police paramilitary militia that still exists today in the service of police terrorism.  Both are in the service of an unjust system that alienates humanity in the service of capital—a criminal system that cannot be reformed, but rather, must be dismantled, one limb at a time. And a new equalitarian system of economics and a new revolutionary value system based on a collective ethics of care, love, unity, solidarity, humanism, independence, autonomy, land, liberty, and self-determination must take its place.

What an obnoxious travesty, when a society masquerades war criminals as "heroes and patriots." They are glorified in monuments or institutions—symbols of suit supremacy. From the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas, to the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, which displays an electric chair named Old Sparky that executed many innocent people.   

Texas has, again, become known as the snake pit of U.S. fascism. Dr. Frantz Fanon addressed the destructive evils of colonialism, but also gave a blueprint on how we can free ourselves from a criminal system through political education, decolonization, and people's rebirth for our true liberation from colonialism. Our oppressors do not want us to learn of our own history, nor the power of liberation movements. The new Trump-Musk administration has assembled an ultra-right-wing ideologue and extremist in Christopher Rufo—an opponent of critical race theory—to destroy diversity, equity, and inclusion and criminalize political free speech and any activist or political group that criticizes and opposes government repression and Zionism. 

We have entered into the Twilight Zone of U.S. oligarchy fascism, which is destructive to Planet Earth and its ecosystems as well as to civilization and humanity, in the interests of fossil fuel oligarchs, controlling every aspect of the U.S. imperialist bureaucracy of racism, materialism, militarism, corporate greed, and power and control of global markets.

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The Confederate Republic created a system to essentially rent prison slaves to entrepreneurs in building the economy and a new colonial government. Prison slaves built the State Capitol, the governor's mansion, and government buildings in Austin, the capital of Texas. The walls of these buildings are stained with their blood.

Today, prison units are named in honor of enslavers. Brutal prison chiefdoms carry a history of heinous crimes against the prison captive population of racially segregated prisons. Federal litigation, led by courageous people of color, jailhouse lawyers, and political activists,  won epochal legal victories ordering reforms in the celebrated 1972 Ruiz v. Estelle litigation in which Texas prison inmates challenged the conditions within the Texas Department of Corrections. Unfortunately, the Texas prison system has returned to the pre-Ruiz times, and conditions remain unconstitutional, resulting in many prisoner deaths due to extreme heat conditions—the subject of more federal litigation in favor of the prisoner class. Texas prisons are disproportionately composed of people of color, in a demographics-changing state, where ethnic persons are the majority in inner cities. Political rulers in charge of prisons, parole boards, and legislative authority fear these changing demographics. They enacted additional layers of gang intelligence special operations to surveil and target "radical prisoners" leading the prison movement inside. 

We are in dangerous times, ruled by tyrants and deranged lunatics who are in total control of the government, the police, the military, and the C.I.A.

The case of Daniel Perry is another prime example. Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered his ultra-conservative Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to send him a recommendation granting executive clemency to Perry for the murder of Black Lives Matter protester Garret Foster, who was protesting the police murder of George Floyd in July 2020. Perry had been found guilty by an Austin jury and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Before he entered prison to begin serving his sentence, Fox News aired a special segment urging  Abbott to grant Perry clemency. He did. This is not new, as attorneys for BIPOC on death row have filed legal pleadings in various cases protesting the racially discriminatory policies of the governor's parole board.

In my case, there is strong evidence of scientific crime lab reports and documents that the parole board knows exist, but has ignored, since the records show his innocence. Trial juries have never been shown these exhibits, though they would have acquitted me of all alleged crimes. The political repression against me goes back to my youth, when I protested the Alpine Police murders of my 16-year-old friend Ervay Ramos on June 18, 1968. The cop, a known racist, never served a day in jail. 

I have been in solitary confinement for 23 consecutive years under death by imprisonment, at the McConnell Unit in Beeville, Texas. I have repeatedly been denied parole, despite my elder age and medical conditions. My next parole review is set for December 2027. Despite such brutal repression, I remain strong and defiant in spirit and continue managing the study and struggle of groups that focus on educating prisoners on the true nature of prisons under capitalism—in a prison with deep roots in 1823 settler colonialism, white supremacy, and chattel and prison slavery. 

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We are in dangerous times, ruled by tyrants and deranged lunatics who are in total control of the government, the police, the military, and the C.I.A. They're creating a police state apparatus, with its new torture prison in El Salvador, where refugees, immigrants, citizens, and non-citizens will be caged if they continue to criticize and oppose this new fascist government of billionaire wolves who will destroy civilization, humanity, and Planet Earth if we don't organize against this insanity and madness and change course. We must realize these dangers and unite to create a revolutionary movement against imperialism and produce trained cadres educating communities of what we must do to fight back and build a strong united front, for the Power of the People is stronger than the power of tyrants.

People join us to Free Xinachtli and all of our political prisoners. Builds a revolutionary united front against imperialism. Learn from the Zapatista experience.

XINACHTLI FREEDOM CAMPAIGN
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San Antonio, Houston, Austin, El Paso

Xinachtli (pronounced she-nawsht-lee), aka Alvaro Hernandez, was born in Alpine, Texas. Born into a racially-segregated society, he was forced to attend segregated public schools and experienced the violent policing of Chicano barrios. At 23 years old, Xinachtli was put in jail for the first time and convicted for a crime he didn’t commit. He soon began his study in law and prisoners’ rights, which led him to study histories of global revolutions and movements, such as the anarchist-communist Mexican Liberal Party and the Black Panther Party, leading him to the works of thinkers like Ricardo Flores Magón and George Jackson. Through his study he re-birthed and dedicated his life to eliminating the racist and oppressive colonial occupations across Turtle Island and the world. A respected Chicano freedom fighter, Xinachtli has been recognized nationally and internationally as the coordinator of the Ricardo Aldape Guerra Defense Committee and spearheaded the National Movement of La Raza, Stop the Violence Youth Committee, and Prisoners Solidarity Committee in Houston, Texas, where he is known as a symbol of resistance. As of 2025, he has served 27 years of his 50-year-long sentence, 23 of those in solitary confinement. Today, he is known as a writer, poet, artist, leader, and respected elder. He has written countless essays addressing a spectrum of topics including anti-imperialist movement building and historical analysis, some of which can be found on his freedom campaign website, freealvaro.net.