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Texas govt code 431 establishes and allows a militia. It doesn’t outlaw them.

It pretty much does, unless you can get around it by calling yourself a private security contractor or something like that. The Code doesn't define what constitutes a private militia / military organization. All the rest of the code does is mostly deal with official forces: TX National Guard, State Guard, and reserve militia, which is just everyone they draft in an emergency. But what's the difference between your shooting club, your tactical training group, Security companies, Military contractors like Blackwater, and the guys in your neighborhood? Where's the defining line between allowed by the grace of government and not?

§ 431.010. ORGANIZATION PROHIBITED. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a body of persons other than the regularly organized state military forces or the troops of the United States may not associate as a military company or organization or parade in public with firearms in a municipality of the state.
(b) With the consent of the governor, students in an educational institution at which military science is a prescribed part of the course of instruction and soldiers honorably discharged from the service of the United States may drill and parade with firearms in public.

My question is:

Just who is financing the riots they aren’t cheap. I know everyone thinks it’s Soros but I haven’t seen anything about any investigations.

Van loads of weapons and explosives and not a word.

But what's the difference between your shooting club, your tactical training group, Security companies, Military contractors like Blackwater, and the guys in your neighborhood? Where's the defining line between allowed by the grace of government and not?

The Texas State constitution and US Constitution. Both allow for militias. 431.010 clearly expresses hostility to independent local militias within municipalities, but it has no penalties, and does not apply to rural areas. (A key phrase here being " in a municipality of the state..") It's main intent seems to be to discourage local officials from calling up the militia.

The only statutes which local officials might invoke against a militia muster within a municipality would be those against exhibiting a firearm in a way that "alarms" the public. However, centuries of common law makes it clear that merely carrying firearms is not to be considered "alarming".

I also found this opinion to be of interest: Present U.S. and Texas law clearly fail to implement the requirements for organizing and training the Militia established by the Framers. However, we must also recognize that this failure goes all the way back to 1792, and that such organizing and training are, therefore, left to the people themselves, in the form of independent local militias, which they have a constitutional duty to maintain in a high state of preparedness, even if they get little support from the authorities, and indeed, especially if they get opposition from the authorities.