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The Texas Nationalist Movement on the record. Official releases and statements on the case for Texas independence, the campaign for a binding vote, and the developments that move it. Each one is the movement's own word, at a citable source.
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RSS feedThe Texas Nationalist Movement has launched whoboughttexas.com, a public index that traces the money in Texas politics to its source, now covering both state offices and Texas's federal races.
The Texas Nationalist Movement has published a free, 34-lesson Texas Civics course on the TNM Academy, teaching how Texas governs itself and the lawful path to a vote on independence.
The Texas Nationalist Movement has no affiliation with TEXITcoin, and any claim of a connection between the two is false.
"Can Texas Make It?" answers an eleven-year-old question in the federal government's own numbers.
Daniel Miller responds to the federal government's declassified election-security records and calls on Governor Abbott to convene a special session on election security before the November election.
New platform at usexit.org poses a question pollsters haven’t asked: if your state were already independent, would you vote to join the union today?
Daniel Miller responds to the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision striking down the executive order on birthright citizenship, and argues that the only nullification left to Texas is independence.
At the 2026 Republican Party of Texas convention, the independence planks the Texas Nationalist Movement authored were retained in the party platform, and two Texas First Pledge signers were elected to the party's two highest offices.
In the March 2026 Republican primary, more than 1.6 million Texans voted for candidates who signed the Texas First Pledge, including a 57.4 percent win for Don Huffines in the Comptroller race.
With House Bill 1056 signed into law, Texas recognizes gold and silver as legal tender, a concrete building block for Texas financial self-government.
The Texas Nationalist Movement stood with the people of Alberta in their push for an independence referendum, calling it the same fight for self-government underway in Texas.
Two bills restricting out-of-state campaign contributions, long championed by the movement as a sovereignty issue, advanced in the 2025 legislative session.
For the 2025 session, the Texas Nationalist Movement backed a slate of bills on state sovereignty, sound money, monument protection, and limiting international influence, with the Texas Independence Referendum Act as its primary focus.
Candidates who signed the Texas First Pledge won across the state in 2024, from the Legislature to county courthouses, building a bloc committed to Texans' right to vote on independence.
At the 2024 Republican Party of Texas convention, two Texas First Pledge signers were elected Chair and Vice Chair, months after the party's leadership rejected 139,000 signatures for a TEXIT referendum.
Delegates to the 2024 Republican Party of Texas convention again adopted a platform plank calling for a referendum on Texas independence, reaffirming the plank first adopted in 2022.
Amid the border crisis, TNM President Daniel Miller released a video, in English and Spanish, backing the movement to assert the independence of Mexico's northern states from Mexico City.
After the Supreme Court let the federal government remove Texas's border barriers in a 5-4 decision, the Texas Nationalist Movement urged Governor Abbott to call a special session to explore Texas independence.
The movement asked a Travis County court to halt the printing of primary ballots and order the TEXIT question onto the ballot, the second in a series of legal actions over the party's rejection.
After the Republican Party of Texas rejected the 139,456 signatures gathered to put TEXIT on the 2024 ballot, the movement called the stated reasons baseless and announced it would take legal action.
The TNM submitted more than 139,000 petition signatures to place a proposition on the 2024 Republican primary ballot asking Texans whether the state should reassert its status as an independent nation.
With more than 102,000 signatures, the movement cleared the legal threshold to place a Texas independence proposition on the 2024 Republican primary ballot and notified the State Republican Executive Committee.
The movement's petition to put a Texas independence question on the March 2024 Republican primary ballot passed 65,000 signatures, two-thirds of the threshold, gaining about 2,000 a day.
The Texas Nationalist Movement condemned State Senator Brian Birdwell's changes to House Bill 4, which it said surrendered Texas's authority over its own border to the federal government.
TNM President Daniel Miller joined the dedication of a new statue in Gonzales commemorating the first battle of the Texas Revolution, a tribute to Texas heritage and cultural independence.
After the Texas Senate acquitted Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Nationalist Movement said the impeachment had exposed the dysfunction in Austin that makes the case for Texas self-government.
The Texas Independence Referendum Act, House Bill 3596, was referred to the House State Affairs Committee in the 2023 session, where the next step is a hearing at the chairman's discretion.
TikTok reinstated the Texas Nationalist Movement's account a week after banning it without explanation, as the movement pressed its broader fight against Big Tech censorship.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton backed the movement's censorship lawsuit against Meta with an amicus brief defending HB 20, after the suit had already prompted Facebook to stop censoring the movement.
The Texas Nationalist Movement and Daniel Miller sued Meta under Texas's new anti-censorship law, HB 20, on behalf of roughly 185 users blocked from sharing TEXIT links.
After Facebook spent weeks blocking links to the movement's TEXIT pages and labeling the movement dangerous, the Texas Nationalist Movement said it would fight back against the censorship.
The Texas Nationalist Movement sent an open letter to the State Republican Executive Committee, calling on it to place a Texas independence referendum on the 2022 Republican primary ballot.
With the legislature's TEXIT referendum bill dead in committee, the movement detailed a two-track plan: a petition to put TEXIT on the 2022 primary ballot, and pro-TEXIT challengers to the legislators who let the bill die.
After the legislature let the TEXIT referendum bill die, the Texas Nationalist Movement launched a petition campaign to place the independence question directly on the 2022 Republican primary ballot.
On the day the United Kingdom left the European Union, the Texas Nationalist Movement marked Brexit as proof of concept for a Texas independence vote.
In an open letter to candidates, TNM President Daniel Miller set out the standards a candidate must meet to earn his support, from respecting the Texas Constitution to pledging to file the Texas Independence Referendum Act.
TNM President Daniel Miller asked the Texas Rangers to investigate House Speaker Dennis Bonnen over possible violations of the state's anti-bribery law, citing the movement's commitment to good government.
Daniel Miller sent an open letter to the Republican Party of Texas chairman urging him to oppose the plan to reimagine the Alamo and remove its cenotaph, citing the party's own platform.
TNM President Daniel Miller, author of the TEXIT book, condemned Amazon's six-week shadowban of the title as part of a systematic attempt to silence the case for Texas independence.
Oil exports from the Texas coast outpaced imports for the first time in 2018, a milestone the movement pointed to as evidence that an independent Texas could stand on its own energy infrastructure.
As Texas recovered from Hurricane Harvey, the Texas Nationalist Movement challenged the claim that Texas needs FEMA, noting that Texans pay far more into the federal system than they ever receive back.
After the President of the European Commission publicly floated Texas independence, the Texas Nationalist Movement welcomed genuine support but refused to be a pawn in anyone's political games.
Watching the United Kingdom's referendum on European Union membership, the Texas Nationalist Movement warned that if Britain votes to remain, its future is Texas's present.
TNM President Daniel Miller invited the government of Catalonia to open a diplomatic mission in Texas, a step toward Texas standing among the nations that seek self-determination.
When the White House dismissed a petition for Texas independence, the Texas Nationalist Movement answered that the response was itself one more argument for the right of Texans to decide their own future.