The Houston Chronicle is trying to make these patriotic Texans seem like bad people but we think they're heroes.
The group of armed activists are guarding and defending the San Jacinto Monument and they've promised to use force to make sure nobody desecrates this sacred land.
The activists are upset because there aren't more police present to protect the monument and they're asking Texas Governor Greg Abbott to do more to protect the land.
The San Jacinto Monument is located near the city of Houston. The monument is topped with a 220-ton star that commemorates the site of the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution.
In recent weeks we've also seen large crowds of Texas patriots defending the Alamo in San Antonio.
The Houston Chronicle reports:
The group blamed activists tied to Antifa, the Brown Berets and the Black Lives Matter movement for defacing a Christopher Columbus statue in Houston; a Confederate monument in Huntsville; a statue of Confederate leader Lawrence Sullivan Ross at Texas A&M University; and the Cenotaph at the Alamo, a memorial to the Alamo defenders who died in 1836 during the Texas Revolution.
More than 100 people crowded under a cluster of oak trees during a lightning storm at San Jacinto as rally speakers pledged to use force to defend themselves if that’s what it takes to protect historical landmarks from being vandalized or destroyed. Thunder occasionally punctuated their words.