A complimentary screening of the documentary “Remember the Alamo: Don't Sharia My Texas,” paired with brunch and a panel discussion featuring former CBS News correspondent Lara Logan, is set to run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday at the W Dallas Living Room Bar, located at 2440 Victory Park Lane. The event lands just steps from the American Airlines Center, where the Republican National Committee is holding its first-ever Midterm Convention the same day.
The screening is organized by The Dallas Express, which will host the film along with brunch and a panel discussion featuring Logan. The venue sits across the street from Victory Plaza, placing it directly in the path of convention-goers as the RNC's inaugural midterm gathering kicks off at 3 p.m. that same day and runs through Wednesday, according to the outlet. As Hoodline reported in earlier coverage of the RNC's Dallas plans, the convention is expected to feature President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other Republican leaders and delegates.
Logan, who spent 16 years at CBS News and served as the network's chief foreign affairs correspondent, reported for 60 Minutes during a journalism career spanning more than 35 years, per the Dallas Express. She now hosts the show Going Rogue with Lara Logan and will both headline the screening and join the panel discussion afterward, alongside Dallas Express co-founder Sarah Zubiate-Bennett, who also hosts the Let's Talk Local podcast.
A Documentary With a Contested Premise
The film argues that Sharia-related influence and mass Muslim immigration pose a threat to constitutional liberty in Texas, presenting what the Dallas Express describes as the filmmakers' case that religious freedom, public safety, women's rights, and constitutional protections are at stake. Director Chris Burgard, described by the outlet as an award-winning filmmaker with a background as a bull rider and a dancer with the Ruth Page Chicago Ballet on scholarship, will join the post-screening panel. Burgard previously directed “Capitol Punishment,” a 2021 film that defended individuals arrested in connection with the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot and alleged systemic federal surveillance of conservative activists, according to background material from the film's own website.
The documentary opens with a dramatized execution scene and includes commentary from far-right figures including Alex Jones, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, and Logan herself, according to reporting by the San Antonio Current. It also features former U.S. Rep. Allen West and former FBI special agent John Guandolo, per the Dallas Express account. In an August interview on Alpha News, Burgard argued that Sharia law and mass Muslim immigration are deliberately targeting Texas to destroy Western civilization, pushing back directly against outlets that have called the documentary extremist propaganda.
Scrutiny Over the Film's Key Voices
Guandolo, the former FBI agent featured in the film, resigned from the bureau in 2008 following internal ethics investigations and has since been classified as an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist by civil rights watchdogs including the Southern Poverty Law Center, according to reporting by Newsweek. Logan's own path to independent media has drawn similar scrutiny: talent agency UTA dropped her in January 2022, and Fox News sidelined her streaming show after she compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in a November 2021 television appearance, as the Los Angeles Times reported at the time.
Newsmax permanently banned Logan from its broadcasts in October 2022 after an on-air interview in which she made QAnon-related claims that global leaders drink children's blood and that open borders are controlled by Satan, according to The Guardian. Those episodes mark the trajectory that led Logan from a two-decade broadcast news career to the independent conservative speaking circuit where she now headlines events like this one.
Existing Texas Law Already Addresses the Premise
The film's central argument arrives nearly a decade after Texas lawmakers already acted on the underlying concern. Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 45, known as “American Laws for American Courts,” in June 2017, explicitly prohibiting Texas state judges from applying foreign or religious laws, including Sharia, in family law decisions if doing so would violate constitutional rights, according to CBN News.
Civil rights groups, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, have maintained that Texas anti-Sharia legislative campaigns and political films like this one serve to demonize Muslim Americans and stoke religious fearmongering rather than address any real legal conflict, per the same CBN News report. The screening's timing and location, directly beside a major national political gathering, reflect a broader pattern of North Texas debates over Muslim community institutions that Hoodline has tracked in stories on Frisco's mosque zoning fight and a Colleyville school board controversy, per Hoodline.
“Remember the Alamo: Don't Sharia My Texas” premiered at Dallas's Angelika Film Center on June 28 before receiving a digital release on July 4, per the Dallas Express. The film was produced by Tim Lowry, and Tuesday's screening event is free to attend, with interested attendees able to RSVP through Eventbrite.
