Texas

**Texas**, officially the **Socialist American Republic of Texas**,is a constitute state of the United Socialist American Republics.

## History

The revolution in Texas is one of two
 parts: The Eastern half of the state on the border of Louisiana, and
the West. This is mainly concerned with the East. As Babineux's WRML
fight in Louisiana, the despotic Governor of Texas Dolph Briscoe
initializes a statewide crackdown, particularly in Jefferson, Newton,
and Orange counties. These areas have historically large influence of
Cajun people, many of whom speak Cajun French as a primary or secondary
language. Jefferson and Orange counties(forming the "Golden Triangle" of
 Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange) are historically hotbeds of union
activities.

As soldiers start
coming home from Vietnam, many former US Marines are shocked when they
disembark in California. Including one Les Rutlage who returns to his
home in rural Jefferson County deeply concerned about how the American
government is treating its people. His experience in Vietnam was as a
mechanic and a general grunt, then he hears of the exploits of the WRML
in neighboring Louisiana, where most of his family grew up. Taking
initiative, Les joins the United Steel Workers and begins working at one
 of the plentiful petrochemical refineries in Port Arthur with his
little brother, and closely follows the exploits of the WMRL.

Then,
 at a meeting in late 1969, Texas State Troopers, sent by Briscoe,
assault the meeting. Many of the Union Men, armed with little more than
pipe wrenches and hammers, fight back against the government thugs, and
Les and his brother Tom are arrested. Les later is released from prison,
 but Tom is nowhere to be found. A week later his body is dumped outside
 the union hall with a sign around his neck reading "This is what we do
to communists in Texas."

Les is
enraged. The Catholic church where so often in his youth he served as an
 altar boy refuses to give his brother a Christian burial. This was the
last straw. Rutlage and thirty other union men start their own militia,
the Texas Workers Militia(TWM). This outrage warrants a response, and
so, armed with M-1 Garand rifles and M-1 Carbines, old revolvers and
hunting rifles, they plan to assault the police station in Port Arthur,
which had been used as a staging area by the State Police in the attack
on the Union Hall.

**January 1st 1970: The revolution begins**

At
 midnight, Les enters the police station with two cases of Miller and a
carton of cigarettes. Under his coat is the Colt 1911 he took from the
government armory when he left the Marines. As the cops start drinking
and smoking, he draws his pistol and shoots the police chief in the back
 of the head. This was the signal, pouring through the door, ten members
 of the TWM kill thirty policemen, including six State Troopers, seize
their weapons and ammunition, pin a note on the door, and leave. It read
 simply "Kill one of ours, and we'll kill five times as many. Revolution
 or die!"

**Repression and reprisals**

The
 police in Port Arthur react violently. The Jefferson County Sheriff's
Office declares a state of martial law, sending armed men into nearby
Groves, Port Neches, and Nederland. Here they harass refinery workers,
Cajuns, and African Americans. In Beaumont, a group of student
demonstrators at Lamar University are gunned down by local sheriffs
deputies with Tommy guns when they refuse to leave the quad. Les and the
 poorly armed TWM are almost powerless to respond, living many nights on
 the run, and often crossing the border to avoid detection. He reaches
out to Babineaux's WRML, and is given a crate of M2 ball, some hand
grenades, K-rations, and the promise that aid will come for him soon.

A
 student group, called the Lamar Revolutionary Union(LRU for short)
reaches out to Les and offers assistance. Les is loathe to put the armed
 struggle into the hands of such innocents, but eventually agrees.

**The TWM and the LRU attack**

Les
 and a student called Justin Prejean plan an attack of revenge on the
sheriff's department as an act of revenge, and in June of 1970, the date
 is set. At noon on June 5th, the courthouse is wracked with multiple
explosions near where the sheriff's office is located. As deputies come
pouring out, covered in asbestos and soot, they are met by the combined
force, totaling five hundred. They are disarmed, and the two deputies
who sprayed the students with .45 caliber bullets are executed on the
courthouse lawn. More guns are seized, and this time a statement is read
 by Prejean:

*Fellow
 Texans, the time has come to rise up in the name of liberty and justice
 for all! No more shall the working people of this state be treated as
slaves by the rich. Never again shall our people be harmed. We hereby
establish the Golden Triangle Republic. Our new nation stands in
solidarity with the U.S.A.R. and the revolution in Louisiana. We will
never, ever surrender!*

With
that, the Golden Triangle Republic was born. Union members, students,
and the proletarians of Southeast Texas seem to rise with one voice. The
 new Port Arthur Black Militia(PABM), led by Bessie Jackson, a black
feminist, recruits hundreds of African Americans from across the Golden
Triangle. Together with the TWM and the LUR, they form the new Armed
Forces of the GTR.

**First Battle of Beaumont**

Governor
 Briscoe, in his manse in Austin is shocked. Southeast Texas was
supposedly kept well in hand, but now he finds this not to be true. He
summons the national guard to march immediately upon Beaumont and
restore order. By December of 1970, the Texas National Guard sits on the
 border of Jefferson county, some 15,000 strong, and prepares to invade.

Les,
 now Acting Captain-General of the GTR Army, calls for volunteers. From
Orange, Port Arthur, and Beaumont, seven thousand men and women, some
barely above the age of sixteen, join forces. Every Western Auto, Pawn
Shop, and sporting goods store is raided for arms and ammunition. The
rag-tag army prepares to defend the new capitol, while the newly
commissioned GTR Brown Water Navy(a group of majority black and Cajun
shrimpers), patrol the Port of Port Arthur, the Neches River, and Sabine
 Lake.

On Christmas Eve of 1970,
the Texas National Guard attacks. As the first infantry units cross the
border into unincorporated Jefferson County they are fired upon, and
return fire for a time. More probing attacks follow, and soon, the bulk
of the TNG force their way past the militia. The GTR Army falls back to
the city of Beaumont Proper, hoping to hold the new capitol against the
advance.

December 25th to the
31st, the attack continues with heavy losses on both sides. Civilian
casualties mount as Les attempts to evacuate the city, and Beaumont's
civilians flee to the safety of Port Arthur. The port falls first, as
the dockworkers are taken unaware by scabs in their midst, who massacre
them en-masse while on watch. Next is the city hall and county
courthouse, which is surrounded by the Texas National Guard and falls.
Lamar University, then Lamar Technical College, is the only bastion
left. It forms a salient now, the reinforced lines on the city limits
hold at last, and the Texas National Guard falters.

The
 GTR continues this way until 1973, when the Babineaux and the WRML, in
force with the GTR Army, return to Beaumont triumphantly.