1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

I am writing as your constituent to ask a simple question that deserves a direct answer: why are you silent while the federal government actively rewrites American history? Your silence is not neutrality. It is permission. Across the country, under directives tied to the current administration, the National Park Service has begun altering, removing, or sanitizing educational materials at federally managed historic sites—especially those that confront uncomfortable truths about slavery, racial violence, and civil rights struggles. These are not minor edits. They are changes to the historical record that millions of Americans and visitors rely on to understand our nation’s past. For example: • Educational materials connected to historic plantations and Civil War sites have reportedly removed or softened language about the central role of slavery in the founding and economic expansion of the United States. • References to massacres and racial violence—including events like the Tulsa Race Massacre—have been minimized or stripped from some public-facing historical summaries. • Interpretive programs discussing the forced removal and violence against Indigenous peoples, such as the Trail of Tears, have faced pressure to reframe or dilute the brutality of those policies. • At Stonewall National Monument in New York, one of the most significant civil rights landmarks in the country, symbols and educational framing tied to LGBTQ+ history have been altered or removed. The site commemorates the Stonewall Uprising—a documented turning point in the fight for equal rights. That history does not become less real because it is politically inconvenient. These places exist precisely so Americans can learn from the truth—not a version of history filtered through political ideology. And yet Congress has largely said nothing. At the same time, the president continues to promote the false claim that the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen. That lie has been rejected repeatedly—by courts, by election officials in both parties, by the Department of Justice under his own administration, and by congressional investigations. More than sixty court decisions found no evidence of widespread fraud. Congress knows this. Yet too many of you refuse to say it plainly. Why? Why is Congress allowing a president to undermine democratic institutions, manipulate federal agencies, and sanitize the historical record without meaningful oversight or public rebuke? Why are you failing to defend the integrity of institutions like the National Park Service, whose mission is to preserve—not rewrite—America’s history? This is not a partisan issue. It is a moral and constitutional one. Congress has a duty to provide oversight of the executive branch. That duty does not disappear when the truth becomes politically inconvenient. When elected leaders refuse to speak, they are not avoiding controversy—they are enabling it. The stories being erased are not abstract. They belong to real Americans: enslaved people whose labor built this country, Indigenous communities forced from their lands, and civil rights activists who fought to expand the promise of freedom. Their history is American history. If the federal government begins deciding which truths are acceptable and which must disappear, then the United States is no longer preserving its past—it is manufacturing it. So I ask again: Why are you silent? Hold oversight hearings into the alteration of historical materials across federal sites. Demand transparency from the National Park Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior. Defend the integrity of the historical record. Stop pretending this is normal. Stop pretending it is acceptable. And stop abandoning the responsibility entrusted to you by the American people. History is watching. And so are we. Explain your silence.