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Texas primary advances conservative – and secessionist – cause
By Terry A. Hurlbut
The Texas primary, a Super Tuesday contest that also featured down-ticket races, went largely unnoticed outside of Texas. But anyone outside of Texas ought to pay close attention. Seven Republicans, who had pledged to support legislation to move secession forward, won their primaries in House and Senate races. An eighth forced the Speaker of the Texas House into a runoff. Results like these should signal everyone, in and out of Texas, to pay attention. That goes double when the federal government seems determined to keep the Texas border open – and Texas is rapidly gaining new industries that would be critical to any independent nation-state.
Texas First Pledge and object
The Texas Nationalist Movement has most of the results; the Associated Press and other news organs have more. TNM keeps a separate site, Take Texas Back, that features the Texas First Pledge, which reads as follows:
I pledge to place the interests of Texas and Texans before any other nation, state, political entity, organization, or individual.
I further pledge to uphold the right of Texans under Article 1 Section 2 of the Texas Constitution “to alter, reform or abolish their government.”
If it is within the powers of my office, I will vote for legislation and resolutions to call for a vote on Texas reasserting its status as an independent nation in every term that I am elected until such a referendum is held.
If a majority of the people of Texas vote in support of Texas reasserting its status as an independent nation, I pledge to work toward a fair and expedient separation of Texas from the federal government placing the interests of Texans first.
The legislation in view is the Texas Independence Referendum Act, which has seen two introductions in regular Texas legislative sessions. It saw one introduction in 2021 and another in 2023. These bills would each have called for a referendum, in the fall of the same year, on whether to seat a special study committee to study the feasibility of Texas secession from the Union. And if secession were feasible, this committee would report on a way to make it happen. The members of this Committee would include the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the Texas House, and four each Senators and Representatives, whom their respective chamber presiding officer would appoint – except that the bill reserves two seats on this Committee for the Chairmen of the House and Senate Committees on State Affairs.
Among the issues this Committee would consider:
1. Amending the Texas Constitution, with respect to new officers, new duties, and recognizing all current rights of Texas residents,
2. Changing Texas laws, with respect to new agencies and new charters for existing agencies,
3. Functionally transitioning Texas from State to independent Republic, and
4. Recommending whether (or not) to join any “international convention or multilateral agreement.”
Chubbed!
Unfortunately, the “Texit Bill” has died in committee each time – “chubbed” as Texans like to call it. (To chub is to delay to death with dilatory motions, refusal to discuss, and other such tactics.) TNM blames Rep. Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont), current Speaker of the Texas State House, for the “chubbing.” Mr. Phelan kept his seat last Midterms, though his ally, the chairman of the State Affairs Committee, lost his.
Dan Miller, head of the TNM, was determined to “primary” Mr. Phelan for “chubbing” his bill twice. But Phelan made another deadly enemy in the meantime. He led a campaign to pass Articles of Impeachment against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Unfortunately for Mr. Phelan, Paxton survived his trial in the Texas Senate. So he was out for revenge for his own motive, apart from Texas secessionist sentiment.
But lately, Mr. Paxton has made several statements one could construe as supporting secessionist sentiment. Quite simply, he has indicated that the federal government is not doing Texas any favors. The chief context of his remarks is the illegal immigration surge at the Rio Grande. Paxton has filed several lawsuits against the federal government, and is defending several more, all over a simple proposition. Which is: the federal government has a duty to defend the border, they haven’t done it, and so Texas has the right to do that itself.
Texas primary results
As morning dawned on March 5 (Texas primary day), TNM greeted it with their best photo of Mision San Antonio de Valero – the Alamo.
https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1765043740996161691
(On March 5, 1836, the Alamo defenders reckoned with the reality that no one would come to relieve the siege that General Antonio López de Santa Ana was laying to it. So Lt. Col. William Barrett Travis, in command, drew a line in the Texas sand with his sword. “Every man willing to die in Texas’ cause, let him come over to me!” he said. And everyone did – except Jim Bowie, who had to ask several men to carry him over the line, and Louis “Moses” Rose, who took Travis’ invitation to leave.)
TNM published their own article listing candidates who won their primaries outright, advanced to runoffs, or won county or precinct chairmanships. They had published it earlier as a long-form post:
https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1765477631330517405
Of 128 candidates who signed the Texas First Pledge, twelve won their races outright, and eight more advanced to runoffs. The most significant of those eight is David Covey, candidate for Texas Representative in the 21st District – where Dade Phelan is the incumbent. Another eight candidates for county and precinct chairmanships won their races. Among them: Allen West, former Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, now County Chairman of Dallas County.
Media opposition
This year, the Dallas Morning News saw fit to criticize the Texas First Pledge and all those who signed it. The daily spoke of “a worrisome number of candidates” signing that pledge, which they called “unpatriotic.” They also lamented the apparent projected loss of federal funds amounting to 30% of the Texas State budget.
That turned out to be a major miscalculation – for their editorial incensed enough people to vote for the signatories.
The day after the Texas primary, TNM indulged in some schadenfreude by posting an image of the Dallas Morning News’ morning-after editorial.
https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1765485196214980806
From the tone of that editorial, and their earlier article before the Texas primary, the Dallas Morning News makes clear that they don’t like Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton or anyone allied or sympathetic with him.
Newsweek has been giving Texas secession sentiment national attention for months, and did so again. They quote Dan Miller as saying the consideration of another Texit Bill is “virtually guaranteed.” Of course the guarantee is that someone will introduce that bill in the Texas House for yet a third time. Bringing it to the full House will be a taller order – and passage will be the tallest order of all.
Next steps from the Texas primary
On Tuesday, May 28, Texas will hold its runoff. Because many Texas First Pledge signatories are in that runoff, Texas independence will likely be foremost in voters’ minds. Border security will likely drive more people to vote for Texas Independence supporters, for a simple reason. They want a closed border. Joe Biden is keeping it open, to get more good little Democrat voters. And the fastest way to close the border is to declare Texas independence.
Of course, a Trump victory in November will change the dynamic. Donald Trump has pledged to help, not hinder, efforts to secure the Texas-Mexican border. These Texas primary results will ensure that a President Trump will have sympathetic Texas officials to work with.
But suppose Biden wins? Biden does not poll well, and his State of the Union address was the worst-received in a quarter century. Tucker Carlson warns that the Democrats “are going to steal the Election.”
https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1765952544386191772
If that succeeds, Dr. Steve Turley predicts civil war. But that civil war might take the form of millions of conservatives flocking to Texas, registering to vote, flooding legislative offices with calls to support a Texit bill – and all voting Yes on a Texas referendum. And to give leftists further pause, at least two gun manufacturers – Colt and Ruger – are moving to Texas.
That’s how the 2024 Texas primary advanced secessionist sentiment, as well as conservative causes, in and out of Texas.
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Earlier videos:
Super Tuesday:
https://rumble.com/v4ht86w-super-tuesday-changes-everything.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6
State of the Union:
https://rumble.com/v4i2reo-state-of-the-union-2024-pack-of-lies.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6