TEXIT Is Finally On The Move

Good Tuesday to you.

I will tell you up front that this article is predominantly about an issue that is currently underway in Texas. But I hope you will stick with me through this, because there are larger points to be made about the nation as a whole as well.

Full disclosure here: I am a member of the Texas Nationalist Movement. Before anyone starts thinking this is some militia group or people on the fringe, the movement is around 440,000 strong and is designed to give the voters of Texas the final say on whether they wish to remain as part of the United States. That’s it. I’ve written about these efforts before, but this week, legislation was finally introduced to get the measure on the ballot for voters to consider.

Texas State Representative Bryan Slaton (R-2nd District) filed his bill on Monday, officially called the Texas Independence Referendum Act, with the State Legislature. Pending legislative approval, it would allow for the vote to be put to Texas voters to commission the state government to organize a commission to explore the possibility of leaving the Union.

The Texas Nationalist Movement is made up of people from all walks of life and all different political leanings. They’re people who are tired of living under a government that’s based hundreds of miles that doesn’t have Texans, and by extension, Middle America’s best interests at heart. I think TNM’s President, Daniel Miller, put it best:

“At the end of the day, the people of Texas want that right of self-government. They do not feel like they’re being represented in a system where they feel crushed under the weight of 180,000 pages of federal laws, rules, and regulations administered by two and a half million unelected bureaucrats.”

“Texans are tired of making decisions here at home and having them overwritten at the stroke of a pen by an executive order or a ruling from an unelected, unaccountable federal judiciary. Texans want the ability to govern themselves, and they believe that the best people to govern Texas just happen to be Texans.”

Now, of course, not everyone is on board with the idea of giving voters the ability to express their wishes. One Republican Representative by the name of Jeff Leach, who represents the far North Dallas/Collin County areas (if you’re not familiar with it, its overrun with rich RINOs) has come out swinging against Representative Slaton, proclaiming that even considering such a move is sedition and treason, and that any legislator that signs off on supporting this won’t see a single piece of legislation they introduce this session see the light of day. Oooo, what a tough guy.

Now, I’m a realist. There’s no guarantee that this bill will pass in the State Legislature or that Governor Abbott will sign off on it. There’s no guarantee that even if it makes it to the ballot that voters will approve it. There’s no guarantee that if it gets approved by the voters, that the state government will jump right on it and get things moving on the secession effort. There’s no guarantee that the federal government will willingly go along with a move to secede without putting up a fight. As much as I would love to see Texas become an independent nation again during my lifetime, I know it’s likely years away from happening at best.

But my real question to people like Jeff Leach is this: What are you so afraid of? Why are you so opposed to the people of Texas having a voice, of having self-determination? Are you ok with what has happened to Texas since “Biden” came into office? Are you ok with the billions in tax revenue that gets shipped out of Texas and given to poorly run Democrat cities and states to prop up their bloated budgets?

For that matter, why should any state in the Union that’s watched this train wreck unfold over the last two years want to continue to be abused like we have? Why are we having to financially prop up states that throw temper tantrums and ban government travel to Republican-led states because they don’t agree with our stance against abortion on demand, grooming of elementary age schoolchildren, or whatever the liberal pet project of the moment is?

Now, there will be those who will say that Texans should just be patient, because the next presidential election is next year. You know what I say to that? So What! Short of President Trump or Governor DeSantis overcoming the margin of cheating, unless either man comes in with a giant broom and fires every member of the federal bureaucracy, nothing is going to change. The next Republican President who supports an America First agenda is going to have to go scorched earth on the bureaucracy. But even then, both men would still likely be hamstrung by Swamp creatures that manage to escape. And if Trump or DeSantis faces off against a Democratic House, you know they’ll be tying their administration in knots with false impeachment efforts. And we’ll be right back to business as usual.

The way things work in DC right now don’t work, and they haven’t worked right for years. To those Texas “leaders” who don’t have the intestinal fortitude to accept the will of the people, then I suggest you relocate somewhere more suited to your mindset. California perhaps. Maybe New York. I hear China is nice this time of year.