‘I’ve never worked with so many conservatives’: the Texans fighting the Big Bend border wall

‘First it was shock. Then anger. Now I think we’ve internalized the reality of a long-term fight,’ says Clara Bensen, an organizer with No Big Bend Wall (NBBW). Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images

Last February, 41-year-old Molly Walker posted an Instagram story: a photo of herself standing in the desert, sunglasses hooked over the front of her shirt, jeans slung low beneath her exposed midriff. She held a protest sign fashioned from a pizza box, a hand-drawn heart framing the words “Border Cultura”, with “NO WALL” scrawled beneath.

The text over the photo included a call to action: “… if you want to organize, DM me.”