Joshua Treviño

Joshua Treviño is an American political commentator, formerly a consultant and United States Army officer. He is Vice President for External Relations at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He is a former George W. Bush Administration speech writer but never wrote for President Bush or any members of his cabinet and was listed as a 2006 Lincoln Fellow with the Claremont Institute.

Before joining the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Treviño was founder and president of Treviño Strategies and Media in Sacramento, California, where he worked on national and international media campaigns, and served as communication manager for California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore’s 2010 campaign for the United States Senate. Prior to his current role, Treviño was an associate in Booz Allen Hamilton's international health business. He has held positions in the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services as an international communications coordinator and speechwriter.

Treviño blogged for years under the pseudonym Tacitus, a reference to the Roman historian of the same name. He was a co-founder of RedState, a politically conservative weblog modeled on the liberal DailyKos. He holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Furman University.

In August 2012, a controversy arose around statements Treviño had made on Twitter over a year previously, following the Israeli military's May 31, 2010 raid on the Mavi Marmara and later in the context of the planned Freedom Flotilla II. In June 2011 he had written: "Dear IDF: If you end up shooting any Americans on the new Gaza flotilla—well, most Americans are cool with that. Including me." critics accused him of incitement to murder and demanded that The Guardian drop him as a columnist. Others, including conservative author Bruce Bawer, defended Treviño.

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