Overview

• Texas State President Kelly Damphousse said Thomas Alter’s comments amounted to serious professional and personal misconduct and terminated him effective immediately.
• A video from the Revolutionary Socialism Conference spread on X in edited form, while the full talk on YouTube provides additional context and qualifiers.
• In the recordings, Alter urged building a revolutionary socialist party and questioned how to overthrow the U.S. government without organization.
• System Chancellor Brian McCall endorsed the decision, saying the university will not tolerate conduct intended to incite violence.
• The university removed Alter’s faculty page, and the firing came the same week that Texas A&M dismissed a professor after a separate viral video.