A Hays County judge has ordered Texas State University to reinstate a tenured history professor who was fired earlier this month over comments he made during an online socialist conference.

Thomas Alter, who has taught at Texas State since 2017 and earned tenure in 2019, was terminated Sept. 10 after a video surfaced of him speaking at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference.

In the video, Alter urged working-class people to organize, saying in part: “Without organization, how can anyone expect to overthrow the most bloodthirsty, profit-driven, mad organization in the history of the world, that of the U.S. government?”

University officials said the remarks incited violence, leading to his immediate dismissal without a due process hearing.

Alter disputed that characterization.

“I was ca

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