SAN ANTONIO — ( The Texas Tribune ) Kate Rogers, the former president of the Alamo Trust which manages San Antonio’s historic site, sued Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham and the trust’s board Monday, weeks after she resigned under pressure from conservative officials.

Rogers filed the suit in federal court, seeking to reclaim her old job and asking for an unspecified amount of damages from Patrick, Buckingham and the board. In the suit, Rogers claims that Patrick and Buckingham “ignored” her First Amendment protections in urging the Alamo Trust to remove Rogers because of a 2023 dissertation asserting the importance of Indigenous people’s history at the Alamo. She also alleges her severance pay was revoked after a Texas Monthly story was published in which she

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