Founder & President
Daniel Miller
Founder and President, Texas Nationalist Movement. Sixth-generation Texan, son of a Korean War veteran. Author of TEXIT. Nearly thirty years making the case for Texas independence.
Biography
Daniel Miller is a sixth-generation Texan and the son of a Korean War veteran. The conviction that has defined his life was forged at his father's dinner table, where politics was discussed every night. He set out to build a movement that could win Texas independence the right way: legal, transparent, democratic, and built on popular support rather than paperwork.
On November 17, 2005, Daniel founded the Texas Nationalist Movement with Lauren Savage and Charlie Doreck, signing a founding charter at a small square table in his home in Nederland, with his wife Cara present. He dedicated his book TEXIT to Savage and Doreck, two men who never gave up on the vision of an independent Republic and did not live to see it come within reach.
Daniel has served as TNM's President from the founding to the present. Under his leadership, the movement has grown from three signers at a kitchen table to 635,352 supporters across all 254 Texas counties, 257 officials and candidates on the Texas First Pledge, an independence plank in the dominant Texas political party across three consecutive conventions (a 2020 right-to-secede plank at 93 percent of delegates, then a 2022 independence-referendum plank reaffirmed in 2024), the Texas Independence Referendum Act filed for a binding vote, and the 2025 passage of HB 1056, gold and silver as legal tender, a foundational piece of the economic architecture for an independent Texas. In the March 2026 primary, roughly 1.6 million Texans voted for a Texas First Pledge signer.
Daniel is the author of TEXIT: Why and How Texas Will Leave the Union (Defiance Press, 2018), the canonical book-length case for modern Texas independence, and Line in the Sand (2011), his first book. Two further books are forthcoming: The Tethered Sovereign and Crossing The Line. His wife, Cara Miller, serves as the movement's Director of Operations.
Daniel is an Orthodox Christian and a member of St. Michael Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church in Beaumont, Texas. He resides in Nederland, Texas, with his family.
Books by Daniel Miller
TEXIT: Why and How Texas Will Leave the Union
TEXIT: Why and How Texas Will Leave the Unionis Daniel Miller's book-length exposition of the modern case for Texas independence. Published by Defiance Press in 2018, TEXIT covers:
- The historical case: Texas as a Republic, the 1845 annexation, the post-Civil War status of Texas, and the twentieth-century evolution of the federal-state relationship.
- The legal case: Article 1, Section 2 of the Texas Constitution, the Texas v. White analysis, the international-law framework.
- The economic case: Texas as the 8th-largest economy, the energy sector, the trade relationships, the currency and tax architecture.
- The political case: the path to a binding vote, the legislative mechanism, the international recognition pipeline.
- The personal case: what Texas independence means for a Texan family, a Texan worker, a Texan business owner.
Daniel in the media
From his earliest national appearance on Glenn Beck in 2009 to the cover of Newsweek in 2024, Daniel has carried the case for Texas independence onto Fox, CNN, the BBC, CNBC, Newsmax, and OAN—onto Dr. Phil Primetime and Tim Pool's Timcast IRL, and across the Atlantic onto France 24 and Britain's GB News. The coverage runs the full spectrum, from Reason and Newsmax to NPR and The Guardian.
The Texas Nationalist Movement on Hannity Could this new change ignite a civil war? Daniel Miller makes the TEXIT case on Fox Business Daniel Miller on the Chris Salcedo Show Tim Pool covers TEXIT and the future of Texas Daniel Miller on OANN’s In Focus with Addison Smith The TNM president on The Water Cooler “With ‘Texit,’ some want to make Texas a country, again” Daniel Miller on GB News — the border crisis & Texas independence Daniel Miller on Just the News Why Texans want to leave the Union — Daniel Miller on Crossroads
Booking Daniel for speaking, podcasts, and media
Daniel is available for speaking engagements, podcast interviews, and broadcast media appearances on subjects related to Texas independence, Texas history, the Texas constitutional framework, the Texas economy, and the contemporary politics of the Texas Nationalist Movement.
Booking is handled through the TNM Communications Office. For speaking inquiries, podcast bookings, or media requests, contact media@thetnm.org or 800-662-1836.
Speaker fees and engagement terms are arranged through the Communications Office and vary by event. Contact the office to discuss availability and terms for a specific engagement.