TEXIT update :: Notes from 5/17 TNM Q&A session :: TX Special Session (very LONG post)

Questions:

How many people called Austin to voice their complaints against TEXIT? I was told by a rep that they weren’t hearing much advocacy.

They’re LYING. And I don’t know what the impetus was other than to get our people to stop calling. They lied about the volume of calls. I’ll give you a phenomenal example: Chris Paddie’s (Chairman of the State Affairs Committee, where HB1359 was sent) office of staffers told our people they weren’t fielding many calls. On the flip side of that coin, Chris Paddie personally told Rep. Kyle Biedermann that he was mad for receiving so many calls. This is the game they run. They stopped answering office phones and moved to cell phones to communicate. Our people have been lied to, they’ve been lied about, they’ve been disparaged, they’ve been slurred ... that was the experience that all of our people had during the legislative session. And it was utter garbage.


Mark your calendars: On June 14, 2021 we will have a special announcement that is going to be huge. As I told you—what’s going on with the governor and the special session—that special session is not our only move. As a matter of fact, now that we’ve gotten past the legislative session, our opportunities have opened up greatly. And we’ve got a bombshell announcement to make on June 14 at 7pm.


Has there been any response from the legislature and/or the State Affairs Committee re: our virtual testimony?

No, other than via back channel rumblings. The deadline is done and locked in. The lege had set events in motion that cannot be undone at this point.


How can we get the attention of the governor?

Phone calls are important. Handwritten letters. The same legislative activism that we’ve talked about all along still applies. We’re in the process of creating a digital ad deal to house the virtual testimonies—so keep ‘em coming; they’ll be shared repeatedly.


What is a realistic timeline for Texas to actually become its own nation after a referendum?

That depends on a lot of different factors. There are some things that can happen that could really accelerate that timeline (e.g., a currency crash, a massive crackdown on our fundamental rights and liberties by the federal government, massive unrest in the US)—all of those things could change the timeline from being a very orderly process to literally a matter of days or weeks. So you’ve got that at one end. And at the other end it literally depends on how long we want it to take. We don’t have that Article 50 provision that the UK had to deal with in relation to the EU that set a two-year time limit. The speed of the process depends on us and how quickly we want to make it happen. One of the most important things we want to do post-TEXIT is to minimize disruption as much as possible.


Has TNM vetted real candidates to run for office?

Yes. We have a recruitment and training process. We’re in the first stages of the recruitment process right now. As I mentioned before, if you’re interested, go to the link above.


Is there a path forward (i.e., independence) without going through the legislature? If not, why?

Great question. For us to have a binding referendum that would appear on a general election ballot, all roads lead through the Texas legislature. But one of the biggest challenges for the TEXIT movement in the past has been that people focus on the 140 days of the Texas legislative session, only to lose their energy when they don’t get what they want. Then everyone just sits around until the legislature meets again two years later.

Understand that the battles that will take place in the next legislative session have already started. Right now. As disappointing as the agenda has been for this current lege session, it was set by the primary elections back in 2020. And those primary elections were already set by the last day of the lege session in 2019. So you gotta get really passionate and upset about how you’re not being represented.


Do you think we’ll ever win?

Victory or death, buddy. I already covered it.


Can Abbott call for another special session after the September special session?

Absolutely. You put enough pressure on him—especially when the guy is coming up for re-election and now has a credible primary opponent through LINK ]Don Huffines—and there’re some real interesting dynamics that mean Abbott would probably be more susceptible to pressure on this issue in a special session than he otherwise would.


Does Huffines support TEXIT?

We don’t know the answer to that.


I can’t get an answer from [my representatives] re: whether they support TEXIT. Can you shed some light on [my particular candidates]?

If you can’t get an answer, they’ve told you everything you need to know about ‘em. Bottom line.


Can the primarily blue large cities of Texas outvote the rest of the state?

About 76% of Texas voters live in 35 counties (out of 254 total counties). But here’s what people don’t understand about TEXIT: This issue is such a trans-partisan issue. As such, we’ve learned that support is coming from really weird places where people don’t expect it. We’re going to fight for TEXIT in every corner of the state—from Dalhart to Del Rio and El Paso to Orange. Because this is about all of Texas. TEXIT benefits every Texan. The cities are where the biggest upset to the opposition will be delivered, because TEXIT opponents feel like they’ve got those cities on lock. What they don’t realize is there are so many people in those cities who have been disenfranchised by the political system that TEXIT is inspiring to them. It’s aspirational and gives them hope for the future. So we don’t write off the cities, particularly when the biggest concentration for TEXIT, per capita, is in Houston—the place, according to the opposition, where you shouldn’t be able to find a TEXIT supporter with a huntin’ dog and a Ouija board. So we don’t give up any territory.


How do we get the message out?

Yes, there is a muzzle on this issue. The mainstream media outlets are afraid of it. Our media guy has been told it rankles the political establishment. So it’s going to be up to all of us. If we can’t get out the message through mainstream media, we’ll do billboards, radio, TV, digital. They’ll gladly take our money. But YOU are the most important mechanism for connecting people with Texas independence. You fly the flag. You wear the shirt. You have the sign in your yard. You start the conversation. You direct people where they need to go.

One of the things that has hampered us the most as of late—with regard to our usual TEXIT events (e.g. spring retreat, TexiCon [Texas independence convention], west Texas swing, regional directors’ events —is this mask nonsense.


Do any foreign powers support TEXIT?

Don’t know; don’t care. Maybe Oklahoma does? The issue of TEXIT is a question for the people of Texas and the people of Texas alone. Whether we have support, well-wishers, or detractors outside the borders of Texas doesn’t really matter, because they’re not going to vote.

God bless Texas.

We’re workin’ on it, Tex.

Probably when the For The People Act becomes law of the land? Is that when Texit starts to have legs?

How about taking the Louisiana Purchase territory with you

Texas would fully support Florida seceding and forming its own republic.
Same goes for any other state.

We need to be our own country, but with close economic, trade, and football ties with the rest of the South.

ETA: Except Georgia. Atlanta has made that state irredeemable.

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We need to be our own country, but with close economic, trade, and football ties with the rest of the South.

ETA: Except Georgia. Atlanta has made that state irredeemable.
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Sounds great but...
With the Louisiana Purchase and the 1819 annexations, you have the gulf ports of Mobile, Florida, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Houston, Corpus and Galveston. You have control of the Mississippi River, you have the oil and farm belts and infrastructure including pipelines and interstate systems. Without that you have an economy that would deflate like a pecker in iceberg

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Texas doesn't need any of that though. Texas is by far the state with the most ability to function as a sovereign entity. Access to the Mississippi would be nice but really not needed, Texas already has massive rail access, huge ports, and massive natural resources and refining capability. We even have our own power grid. Texas has passed Canada in GDP.

Of course, Texas will want to have friendly relations with the US and other countries and a mutual defense agreement makes plenty of sense but adding Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia are a net negative and while there are many cultural similarities Texas is still very different.

I would rather Texas go it alone and then look at potential additions down the road. Happy for other states to go their own way though, I think it would be healthy and they would be happier.

Also, to those of you Texans who are looking to become active in the movement ....

In addition to (a) joining the LINK ]Texas Nationalist Movement and (b) calling Gov. Abbott’s office, you can help by (c) contacting your local state reps and senators. I sent the following email today and will continue to do so regularly:

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Dear [Representative/Senator],

On Jan. 26, 2021 Rep. Kyle Biedermann filed HB1359 in the Texas House. At that time I reached out to you, via email, requesting that you co-sign the legislation and seek coauthors for such. My expectation was, at the very least, that you provide me the courtesy of a response. You did not, nor did you speak out in support of HB1359. As a native Houstonian I was disappointed by your lack of correspondence with one of your voting constituents.

I have watched the 2021 Texas Legislative Session closely—in particular, your participation in it, along with every politician who represents me. By failing to publicly support HB1359, the Texas Independence Referendum Act, you, [sir/ma’am], served as an impediment to my right (Texas Constitution Article 1, Section 2) to have a voice in my own governance.

Your inaction passively hindered the bill's passage and stood in the way of me having a say on November 2, 2021.

Understand this: I and hundreds of thousands of like-minded Texans aren’t going anywhere, nor will we forget your arrogance with regard to stepping aside and honoring Texans’ right to self-determination.

This issue has made me, for the time being, a single-issue voter, as it touches on ALL the important issues facing Texans. Your lack of support and your inaction on this matter is the only impetus I need to vote against you in 2023.

In Liberty and Freedom,
EKG
Houston, TX

If it were up to you, that much is clear.
However, it’s a cause in which I deeply believe.
Many others feel the same.
We’re not looking to sit by and wait, while others fight our battle.

I’m originally from Louisiana but now live in Texas so I’d be good with a Texit but I was thinking about this last week when the Colonial Pipeline hack was taking place and it crossed my mind that the Federal government will try to do anything they have to in order to prevent a Texit because Texas controls such a large part of supplies and commerce, like one pipeline supplying 45% of the northeast gasoline. There are other major gasoline supplies, natural gas, wind energy, not to mention agriculture and other commodities that Texas is a major supplier of. If the US lost Texas it would destabilize the rest of the states too badly for them to recover, the Feds won’t allow that if they can prevent it.