A Republican district attorney in West Texas has opened a criminal investigation into pamphlets mailed to homes across Texas purporting to come from a transgender rights organization.

Sarah Stogner, district attorney for Loving, Reeves and Ward counties west of Odessa, told The Texas Tribune that her office is investigating the mailers as a potential forgery but said the scope could expand as new information comes in. Forgery is a state jail felony under Texas law.

Stogner said she felt the mailers — which were marketed as a resource guide for LGBTQ+ students from the Texas Transgender Student Union, a group recently formed in Wyoming — were an obvious bid to agitate voters ahead of the November midterm elections.

“If this ends up being legal, it is everything that is wrong with our current political climate,” Stogner said.

The origin of the mailers is currently unknown, Stogner said. The student union listed as the sender was formed as a limited liability company in Wyoming in September, records show. The group’s address on the mailer was listed as a Houston-area post office box.

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It's likely not only not a trans group but it's incorporated in Wyoming and the flyers have an address in Texas. Pretty sketchy. If I blanketed my neighborhood with flyers for the California Fascist Party it would create the impression there was a California Fascist Party. And if I endorsed a Yes vote on certain judges (who usually run nonpartisan and with very little advertising, they're appointed by a governor but have to be pre-approved by voters periodically) I bet people would vote No on them. Just as I vote against anything endorsed by Howard Jarvis.

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