If you are in Dallas tomorrow night, I will be at this event. I'll be talking broadly about the history of protest in Dallas with a focus on the demonstrators who flocked to Big D for the 1984 Republican Convention.

I want to invite you to the first Human Rights Fair ever held in Dallas, this Saturday from 11-3 at the downtown Central Library. More information is in the video.

This Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Human Rights Dallas hosts the city’s first-ever Human Rights Fair at the 6th floor of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library across from City Hall. Yesterday, we had a meeting planning the event. Below is pictured Hadi Jawad, the co-founder of HRD.

On August 5, I was interviewed by Dr. Rahman Mohammed, the host of the podcast "The Doctor's Couch." We talked about the history of racism in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and why the area has seen such an alarming spike in Islamophobia. I'll let you know when the episode drops.

Sunday, we gathered at the home of our good friend Janet Neff to remember Bill Neff. I first met Bill and Janet when I was a community college student at Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas, in 1979-1980. At least 100-150 people paid their respects to a great nurse and professor.

@betsyfriauf.bsky.social and I celebrated the 18th anniversary of our first date by seeing The Odyssey and then having dinner at a local Greek restaurant. Nolan’s film is great, by the way.

Last night in Dallas an event, "Remembering Santos Rodriguez," honored a 12-year-old murdered by Dallas PD in 1973 & included a panel with journalist Dianne Solis, community leaders Eva Arreguin & Albert Valtierra, and longtime Dallas human rights leader and scholar Dr. Rick Halperin.

Our friend Winnie Hinson (seen below sitting next to Betsy Friauf) invited us to speak to the Fahrenheit 451 Book Club in Richardson, Texas to discuss our book "The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas." The club focuses on banned books, but they made time for us anyway.

Saturday, we had some of our favorite people over for dinner. Pictured from the left is recently tenured University of North Texas labor historian Chad Pearson, his wife and Mexican labor historian Sandra Mendiola, my wife Betsy Friauf, and long time labor activist Les Cunningham.

This is what Betsy looked like not too long before we first met in 1988. I love this photo because it captures the incredible warmth of her smile. You can see her eyes smile too. ClosI was in awe of her the first moment I saw her. The 18th anniversary of our first date in July 26.

@betsyfriauf.bsky.social and I had a great time watching the touring company of "Spamalot" at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas yesterday.

On Sunday at the Community Unitarian Universalist Church of Plano we heard human rights crusader Bill Holston ask us to honestly confront whether this country has ever lived up to its stated ideals and how we can come closer to them in the future.

This photo from 2013 came up on Facebook memories. My son Dominic, who was very interested in his Jewish roots on his mother's side and was about to go to an Orthodox synagogue, stands next to my stepdaughter Sarah. They were smart, beautiful kids and have grown up to be great adults.

Remembering when I used to date Michelle Johnston, who earned a Grammy nomination for best new artist under the name Michelle Shocked. She's was a difficult person and later had a terrible homophobic outburst on stage. We became estranged. Here, she's to my left in Kerrville, Texas.

On June 16, Betsy and I got to spend a little time with Kathleen Thompson of @progresstexas.bsky.social, it was an energizing event. They are an important group in the fight against Lone Star fascism.

Dominic is enjoying his HR job at LG and they are giving him an ever-expanding portfolio of responsibilities. We're really proud of him.

Last Sunday, June 21, Betsy Friauf participated in a question and answer session about our book "The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas." The Rev. T.J. Fitzgerald said really nice things about our writing talents and teed up some great questions for the audience.

They are removing the Trump name from the Kennedy Center. Good riddance. I look forward to the day he's completely scrubbed from the public landscape.

On June 2, during a press conference about Islamophobia in Grand Prairie, Texas, I got to meet one of my heroes, Dr. Deborah Armintour. She is an English professor English & one of the leaders of Jewish Voice for Peace. Also pictured is my colleague in Human Rights Dallas, Hadi Jawad.

On Friday, I got to attend a book talk at Interabang Books by a fellow Dallas historian, Dr. M. Rhys Dotson, the author of the just-published "The Dallas Way: Gay Rights in a Conservative City." Dallas is still under-discussed by historians and this book fills a conspicuous gap.

An Islamophobic preacher was screaming so loud at a press conference held to highlight the City of Grand Prairie's anti-Muslim policies that speakers couldn't be heard. The Rev. Dr. Daniel C. Kanter of Dallas's First Unitarian Church & I stood in front of him to block him from TV cameras.

Dominic's birthday was yesterday. He's changed a bit over the past 23 years.

Today is Dominic's 23rd birthday. Here he celebrates his eighth with me and his mother.

We participated again in the regular Monday vigil at the Dallas ICE headquarters. There’s no more patriotic way to honor those who have died in our nation’s wars than to insist that the country live up to its purported values.

@betsyfriauf.bsky.social and I hosted fantastic scholars last night including sociologist Christopher Mathey, philosopher Charles Hermes, suffrage historian Rachel Gunter, Mexican historian Sandra Mendiola, & labor historian Chad Pearson, who just earned tenure at the University of North Texas.

The world in 2026.

Here I am with my friend Arash Farasat of the Workers Defense Project in Dallas.

A group shot of our vigil at Dallas ICE headquarters this past Monday.

My co-author and partner in all things @betsyfriauf.bsky.social making her voice heard during the one-year anniversary vigil outside of Dallas ICE headquarters on Monday.

On May 14, Texas will execute a prisoner by lethal injection for the 600th time since it pioneered that death house protocol in 1982. On that day, Human Rights Dallas will be holding a vigil near the Kennedy Memorial and the Old Red Courthouse from 5-7 p.m.