Texas voters have been receiving a mailing from the Texas Transgender Student Union this week. This group does not exist! It’s not a legitimate student organization or advocacy group. It’s a fictitious entity used in an unsolicited political mailer and messaging campaign across Texas. If you received one of these in the mail, you are a victim of political astroturfing. This is the deceptive practice of orchestrating a top-down, funded campaign to create the false impression of spontaneous, bottom-up “grassroots” support, employing the herd instinct mentality against the target group. This particular campaign is designed to alarm conservative voters to drive them to the polls. It should go without saying…