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Tuesday, December 26th, 2023

What an Independent Texas Would Look Like

Author:     James Bickerton
Source:     Newsweek
Publication Date:     Dec 23, 2023 | 3:00 AM EST
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The christofascist Republicans who control the Texas government are committed to their “Texit” vote in March 2024 to secede from the United States and create a Republic of Texas. It is an astonishing stupid play because it will turn Texas into a third world country. Texas is already so badly governed that it social outcome data, from education to maternal mortality is already dreadful, and it’s all going to get worse because a third of the Texas budget is paid for from the money the federal government gives to Texas. We will also see massive emigration of tens of thousands out of Texas if they secede.

The Texas State Flag is seen during the game between the Baylor Bears and the Texas Longhorns at McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas, on September 23, 2023. The Texas Nationalist Movement is campaigning for Texas to become an independent nation.
Credit: Tim Warner / Getty

Supporters of “Texit,” the campaign for Texas to secede from the United States and become a fully independent nation, have had a busy year. Earlier this month the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), the leading pro-independence campaign group, delivered a petition with 139,456 signatures to the Republican Party of Texas in Austin.

It called for an advisory referendum on Texan independence to be included on the March 2024 primary ballot. According to the Texas election code, the minimum number of signatures needed for a referendum to be considered is “five percent of the total vote received by all candidates for governor in the party’s most recent gubernatorial general primary election.”

The most recent Republican gubernatorial primary was in 2022, when 1,954,172 votes were cast, electing incumbent State Governor Greg Abbott. A […]

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1 Comment

  1. Annie on Tuesday, December 26, 2023 at 7:59 am

    Go for it Texas! BUT, before you go, repay the USA ALL the monies you have received over the decades that helped develop your state to where it is today (you know for like the roads, bridges, Fema disaster funds, etc etc.) Also, I call b.s. on the statement that ‘Texas would have “no obligation to pay a portion of the debt accumulated by the federal system”. Texas was the beneficiary of some of that debt, so if you can’t repay it in one lump sum, then start sending in monthly payments!