10/24/2025
This is a pretty crazy story. I'll try and recap:
1. Kate Rogers is a Texas Native who is experienced in leading educational non-profits with a Master's degree.
2. After a long feud both sides agreed on how to move forward on renovations to our sacred Alamo site and removed the CEO of the project (who was from Ohio).
3. Kate Rogers is appointed as Executive Director of the Alamo project and then enrolls at University of Southern California for a PhD program.
4. Kate then writes a 110-page dissertation that attacks her work at the Alamo, the political control of the site, and claims teachers should be able to change curriculum at their whim. The whole thing reeks of 'wokeness' and the idea that she will be using the Alamo to forward leftist concepts like critical race theory. It feels like she's on the side of Santa Ana and Mexico. If you read the excerpts it feels like she's telling her California school about her plans to twist the Alamo's history to fit current modern day leftist political and social agendas.
5. Kate gets her PhD from California.
6. The board of the Alamo project elevates her to CEO.
7. Dawn Buckingham, Texas Land Commission who currently controls the Alamo site, is somehow tipped off to the dissertation and starts feuding with Kate over what she sees as an attack on the Alamo's history and role in Texas independence and culture.
8. Kate uses her newly gained role as CEO to have the official Alamo social media channels declare they will be dedicating an entire space in the renovated Alamo to Native American history / art. She does this on Columbus Day, a day leftists in recent years have tried to rebrand to "Indigenous Peoples Day".
9. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick is told about all of this and talks to Kate, Dan will be part of the oversight leadership team for the new Alamo. After their talk he requests her resignation.
10. Kate is no longer with the Alamo but there is as of yet no official word as to why.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is calling for the resignation of Alamo Trust Inc. President and CEO Kate Rogers over past writings he said are “incompatible with the telling of the history of the battle of the Alamo.”