Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that his office will investigate whether any laws were broken after a private Facebook group urged members to pressure teachers at a Spring Branch high school into refusing sponsorship of a Club America chapter.
Moms for Liberty Harris County exposed the post in the “Be the Change SBISD” group, which was written by Nathalie Herpin. She mentioned Stratford High School teachers by name and called on group members to “please send an email and remind them of the following.”
Herpin argued that as Turning Point USA is a political organization, any teacher sponsoring Club America (a high school chapter powered by Turning Point) would be making a personal political statement.
Herpin further alleged that TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was murdered in what she described as an “interpersonal rivalry (Nick Fuentes or Charlie Kirk being the better far-right activist).” She suggested that opening a chapter at Stratford would put students at risk by importing those rivalries into schools.
She closed her post by claiming Kirk’s views—and TPUSA’s views—were divisive to female, black, Muslim, and LGBTQ+ students, urging parents to tell teachers to “focus on their careers, their students, and actual education.”
Publicly, Herpin is listed as vice president of the Spring Branch Democrats Club. Her biography on the group’s website includes pronouns “she/her” and notes she is originally from Belgium. It highlights her work in the nonprofit sector with organizations such as the Alley Theatre and UNICEF.
In 2021, she helped launch a political action committee promoting “transparency and educational equity” within Spring Branch ISD. That PAC is the one Texas Education 911 highlighted in response to the Moms for Liberty post, pointing out that public records show Herpin was involved in the now-dissolved Families 4 Every Child. That PAC’s very first donor was Amin Mitha of Lakeland, Florida, who gave $2,000 in seed money. Within a month, the PAC spent $1,681 on startup costs.
Mitha owns several corporations in Florida, including a hotel. That same hotel was listed in 2022 as the mailing address for Emgage Foundation Inc., in which Mitha was then registered agent and board member. Today, Emgage’s website lists him as treasurer. The group says it works to “educate and mobilize Muslim American voters in support of policies that enable our communities to thrive and democracy to flourish.”
Emgage’s 2019 Annual Report listed George Soros’ Open Society Foundations as its largest sponsor. Texas Scorecard previously reported on Families 4 Every Child in 2023, when the PAC, alongside Emgage and others in the district, was tied to clogging Spring Branch ISD’s book reporting system by filing numerous complaints, removing ordinary books from shelves, and delaying the handling of legitimate reports.
“These are sick individuals,” Paxton said in an X post. “My office will review these messages for any violations of the law. The radical leftist culture of suppression must be totally defeated. We are not backing down, and we will not be silenced.”
