Would my property rights change?

No. Your property is yours before independence and yours after. Your house, your land, your truck, your business, your savings: a change in which government Texas answers to does not transfer ownership of anything you own. This is not a hopeful guess. It is a settled principle of international law, and the Texas Constitution protects property rights more strongly than most.

What you own, you keep

The deed to your home, the title to your vehicle, the ownership of your business, the balance in your accounts: all of it stays in your name through a change of sovereignty. Independence operates at the level of which government governs Texas. It does not reach down into your ownership of your own things. There is no version of Texas independence in which Texans wake up owning less than they did the day before. The entire premise of the movement is that Texans should control what is theirs, starting with what is already theirs.

International law settles this, and it is not close

This is one of the most established rules in the law of how nations change hands. When sovereignty changes, private property rights and private contracts survive. Legal scholars call it the doctrine of acquired rights, and the principle is that the legal order of the predecessor does not vanish overnight, so lawfully held private rights remain, as a matter of principle, unaffected. It has been affirmed in international arbitration, including the Lighthouses case between France and Greece, where the new sovereign was held to private rights granted under the old one. When territory has changed hands in the modern era, ordinary people have kept their homes, their land, and their belongings. That is the rule, not the exception.

The Texas Constitution already guards your property

Texans do not rely on Washington to protect what they own, and never have. The Texas Constitution opens with a Bill of Rights that protects private property, including strong protections against the taking of property without adequate compensation, and in several respects it guards property more firmly than the federal Constitution does. Those protections are already in force today, they apply to every Texan, and independence does not weaken a single one. An independent Texas answers to its own Bill of Rights directly, which means your property protections are decided in Texas, not second-guessed from outside it.

Land, mineral rights, and water keep their Texas character

Property in Texas is already deeply Texan in its rules. Land titles are recorded in Texas county courthouses, under Texas law. Mineral rights, the bedrock of so much Texas wealth, are governed by Texas property law and adjudicated in Texas courts. Surface water and groundwater are managed under Texas law through Texas institutions. The legal home of your property is already Austin and your county seat, not Washington. Independence keeps it there. If anything, it removes a distant layer that could second-guess how Texas defines and protects ownership.

Honest about the one real mechanism, and why it protects you

Be precise about the single caveat, because honesty is how this answer earns trust. A sovereign government, any government, can change property law going forward, the same way Texas and Washington can pass new property laws today. That is ordinary lawmaking, not confiscation, and international law requires that any change respecting existing rights be accompanied by compensation. The difference after independence is that the government writing those rules answers to Texas voters. The power to define property in Texas moves closer to you, into the hands of a government you help choose, which is more protection for what you own, not less.

The bottom line

Your property rights do not change at independence. What you own stays yours, protected by a settled rule of international law and by a Texas Bill of Rights that already guards property tightly. The only shift is that the government with a say over property in Texas becomes one that answers to Texans.