Court Rules Texas Professor Should Be Reinstated

Court rules Texas professor should be reinstated

By CG Bartell Texas Hill Country Texas State University in San Marcos — a city located between San Antonio and Austin — abruptly fired tenured history Professor Dr. Tom Alter on Sept. 10, three days after he gave an off-campus talk at a socialist conference. Right-wing influencers had recorded

MAGA McCarthyism Comes to Texas State

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, a self-described “anti-communist cult leader” used a selectively edited video to falsely accuse labor historian and tenured professor Tom Alter of inciting violence. Texas State University’s president swiftly fired him. Tom Alter raises a fist during a rally held in opposition to his firing from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, on September 25, 2025. (Mikala Compton / The Austin American-Statesm…

UPDATE: Judge Ordered Texas State to Reinstate Fired Professor Thomas Alter — Minding The Campus

Yesterday, we reported that Texas State University (TXST) had terminated Thomas Alter, a newly tenured associate professor of history, following remarks he made on a virtual September 7th Socialist Horizon conference. At the time of that publication, we didn’t yet know that a Hays County district judge had already ordered the university to reinstate him […] The post UPDATE: Judge Ordered Texas State to Reinstate Fired Professor Thomas Alter appe…