Mysterious mailers flooding red state mailboxes ignite suspicion of GOP midterm op

A mysterious mailer offering Texas students guidance on emancipation and out-of-state medical care is landing in mailboxes under the name of a trans group that doesn’t appear to exist, and critics suspect it’s a GOP scheme to fire up conservative voters before the midterms.The mailers use branding similar to the Transgender Education Network of Texas, but the group said it had nothing to do with them or with a related text-message campaign.“I wouldn’t be surprised if Elon [Musk] did this,” wrote Carl Schulze, a Wisconsin disability-rights activist and former political candidate, referring to the nearly $190 million Musk poured into Texas’ U.S. Senate race on behalf of Republicans. “It should be illegal to create and distribute garbage like this with the intention of influencing an election.”The mailers, photos of which began spreading online Monday, prominently feature a transgender pride flag on the envelope and list a return address in Meadows...