A week after a Texas court paused the Martha Laird Chapter's disbandment, the order made the news. What the Society said, and where coverage strayed.

Claims of an exodus from the DAR have circulated since 2023. The Society's own figures show none, but they can't prove no one left over the policy.

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A Texas Court Temporarily Restores the Martha Laird Chapter Who Counts as a Daughter? · Dispatch · First published 4 November 2026 · This post will be updated as documents surface. Update below, 7 November 2026 On 2 November 2026, at 3:37 p.m., Judge Angela Saucier of the 76th District Court in Titus County, Texas, signed a temporary restraining order in the Martha Laird Chapter's lawsuit against the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and the Texas Society