Texas Tea

Also backing Devine was Texas’ Tea Party movement, which had coalesced around intense fears that President Barack Obama would use his second term to persecute Christians en masse.

"The Republican Party doesn't want Black people to vote if they are going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats," Texas Tea Party activist Ken Emanuelson told the crowd at a Dallas County GOP event in early June 2013.

But all were swayed by the promise of a free Texas Tea, a cousin of the Long Island Iced Tea that contains approximately 78 different spirits.

Truck drivers carrying lumber and feed pass through the square en route to nearby Marshall or Nacogdoches, stopping off for a burger at the Texas Tea Room or a quick trim at a barbershop called “Jesus Shaves.”

The report was written by Russell Ramsland, a Texas tea party activist who had previously written affidavits that, though riddled with errors and baseless claims, were submitted as evidence in multiple lawsuits challenging Biden’s victory.