What is TEXIT?

TEXIT is the campaign to restore Texas independence. It is the effort to give Texans what they have never actually had: a direct vote on whether Texas should govern itself again as a free and independent nation, rather than be governed from Washington.

Where the word comes from

TEXIT is shorthand for "Texas Exit." It follows the same naming as Brexit, the word the world used when Britain voted to leave the European Union. The shorthand stuck because the idea is that simple. Britain left a political union it had outgrown. Texas can do the same.

TEXIT is a process, not a single event

The most common misunderstanding is that TEXIT is one dramatic moment, a signature on a document or a declaration on the Capitol steps. It is not. Independence is a state of being, and it is reached through a process. That process begins with a free, fair, statewide referendum, the formal expression of the will of the people of Texas. The vote is the starting gun, not the finish line. After it comes negotiation and transition, conducted the way every modern nation conducts its affairs.

The legal path runs through the ballot box

There are no secret clauses and no shortcuts. Where there is a legal path, it must be followed, and that path runs through the Texas Legislature and then through the people. A bill puts the question on the ballot. Texans answer it. Under Article 1, Section 2 of the Texas Constitution, all political power is inherent in the people, and they have at all times the inalienable right to alter or reform their government as they think expedient. TEXIT simply asks the Legislature to let the people exercise that right.

Why it matters

For generations, the decisions that shape life in Texas have drifted further from Texas. Texans send hundreds of billions of dollars to Washington every year and watch a shrinking share return with strings attached. The federal government grows, the debt grows, and the distance between the governed and those who govern grows with it. TEXIT is the answer that matches the size of the problem. It does not ask Washington to behave. It returns the decision to the people who have to live with it.

What TEXIT is not

TEXIT is not a protest, a stunt, or a threat. It is not anti-American, and it is not a call for conflict. It is a peaceful, legal, democratic process, the same kind of self-determination vote that free people have used around the world. The Texas Nationalist Movement leads it, and everything the movement does is built to win that vote and secure the result.

The bottom line

TEXIT means one thing above all else. Texans, not Washington, decide the future of Texas.