Texas MAGAt Republicans want Texas to secede and become a separate country again, and they think they have enough voter support to do it. Personally, if the voters of Texas vote to pass this referendum, I think they should be allowed to do secede. Within five years Texas will become a third world country. One-third of the Texas state budget presently comes from federal dollars. Without the billions of dollars your taxes and mine pay to Texas, a state that currently has very poor healthcare, very poor education, women’s rights, child care, and elder care, with secession it will deteriorate further very quickly. People will pour out of Texas and it will revert to being something from Central America. Texas isn’t the only state promoting this idiocy, Idaho is another. Republican voters are the cause of this problem and I think it would be appropriate to let them live their dreams. They will regret it, and when they ask to be readmitted to the United States, a different set of rules can be set up.
The Welcome To Texas sign, taken from the south (Texas) side of the New Mexico/Texas state line, halfway between Las Cruces (NM) and El Paso (TX). Credit: David Herrera / Creative Commons
Leaders of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) — which openly calls for the Lone Star State to secede from the United States and become an independent nation again — appear to have surpassed the threshold to put a secession ballot initiative on the 2024 Republican primary ballot this March.
Newsweek reported Friday that TNM president Daniel Miller delivered 139,456 signatures to the Republican Party of Texas’ (RPT) headquarters in favor of a March 2024 ballot referendum dubbed “Texit” (named after the UK’s Brexit referendum in 2016). Texas law only requires “five percent of the total vote received by all candidates for governor in the party’s most recent gubernatorial general primary election.” And in 2022, there were 1,954,172 ballots cast in Texas’ Republican gubernatorial primary. By this standard, TNM only needed 97,709 signatures to get its referendum on the ballot.
John Ullman
on Sunday, December 17, 2023 at 8:31 am
Texans started making noise about leaving the Union after Obama was elected. I had several thoughts about that. One was that it would make a lovely change to Congress. The other was that while I would love to see Texas go, I doubt we could come up with enough money to get Mexico to take it back.
And Austin, Huston, and San Antonio should be retained by the US as independent protectorates, sort of like Puerto Rico.
Texans started making noise about leaving the Union after Obama was elected. I had several thoughts about that. One was that it would make a lovely change to Congress. The other was that while I would love to see Texas go, I doubt we could come up with enough money to get Mexico to take it back.
And Austin, Huston, and San Antonio should be retained by the US as independent protectorates, sort of like Puerto Rico.