Anti-LGBTQ Activist Arrested for Kidnaping her Daughter

Anti-LGBTQ Christian activist Tamara "Tammi" Hamby has been charged with orchestrating the kidnapping, zip-tying of her daughter to a tree, and leaving her for dead.

For dead? According to the arrest warrant Hamby was to watch from afar and "rescue" her daughter when she felt she had learned her lesson. She wasn't there during the kidnapping and apparently was not there when her traumatized daughter broke free and ran to a nearby house. So yes, for dead.

Her daughter eventually freed herself, according to CBS, and ran to a nearby home, where the residents called the police.

Hamby told police that she did it to teach her intellectually challenged daughter a lesson after she allegedly talked with someone online. Jeffery Hamby, a Van Buren family physician, told CBS News that he didn't know in advance about his wife's failed "intervention".

In 2022, Tammi Hamby helped remove LGBTQ-themed books and those featuring people of color from her library system because they were offensive to her Christian sensibilities and she wanted to protect children.

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues to stop Muslim housing project in North Texas

by Alejandro Serrano, The Texas Tribune
December 5, 2025

Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday sued the East Plano Islamic Center and its leaders in North Texas for alleged securities fraud after months of fierce scrutiny from GOP officials and commentators over a planned Muslim community.

The East Plano Islamic Center has pitched a residential development, formerly called EPIC City, with more than 1,000 residential units, a mosque, a K-12 faith-based school and retail shops outside of Dallas. The project drew numerous state investigations earlier this year — some for unclear reasons — including one from Paxton, who said in March he was looking into potential violations of consumer protection laws.

On Friday, Paxton accused Community Capital Partners — a private group he alleged EPIC founded — of failing to register as a securities dealer and committing securities fraud by misrepresenting the proposed development’s location and its leader’s compensation in relation to the project, according to the suit.

Paxton filed the suit in Collin County, where part of the development is planned, a month and a half after he wrote to the Texas Secu­ri­ties Board about violations his office had uncovered while investigating the development. He asked the board to review those findings and get back to him so that he could sue. 

The development is no longer called EPIC City and is instead called The Meadow. EPIC could not be reached for comment Friday night.

“The leaders behind EPIC City have engaged in a radical plot to destroy hundreds of acres of beautiful Texas land and line their own pockets,” Paxton said in a statement, vowing to stop the development. “I will relentlessly bring the full force of the law against anyone who thinks they can ignore the rules and hurt Texans.”

The legal action is the latest development to bring attention to the community, which has been the recipient of Islamaphic vitriol for months. 

This summer, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly closed a probe into the housing project — saying that the developers had agreed to follow federal fair housing laws.

This article first appeared on The Texas Tribune.