If you don't like America, why don't you just move?

Because this is our home. Texans are not the ones who should have to leave. The whole point is to stay in Texas and make Texas free.

Wanting better government is the most American thing there is

The "love it or leave it" line assumes that anyone who wants to change how they are governed must not belong. The founders of this country thought the opposite. They did not move. They stayed, and they changed their government. Wanting a say in the laws you live under is not a reason to pack a bag. It is the founding idea of self-government, and it is the idea Texas independence is built on.

You don't abandon your home, you fix it

Texans have built families, businesses, communities, and generations of history in this state. Telling a Texan to move is telling them to surrender the place their grandparents are buried and their children are growing up. Independence is the refusal to do that. It says we are not leaving Texas. We are taking responsibility for it.

There is nowhere to move to, and that is the point

The deeper answer is that the things driving people toward independence, a federal government too big to reform, too far away to listen, and too indebted to fix itself, are not problems you can outrun by crossing a state line. Every state is under the same federal government. Moving to another state changes your weather, not your sovereignty. The only way to actually live under a government accountable to Texans is to make Texas independent.

The question reveals the weakness of the other side

Notice that "why don't you just leave" is not an argument that Texas cannot govern itself, or that Texans are not overtaxed, or that the people should not get a vote. It is a way to avoid all of those questions by suggesting the people asking them should disappear. When the response to "let the people vote" is "then get out," the person saying it has run out of reasons.

The bottom line

We are not leaving Texas. We are freeing it. This is our home, and we intend to govern it ourselves.