The track record
A movement is judged by what it has achieved. Below is the record, from legislative to cultural. The work is not finished. The results so far are real.
Critics of Texas independence often suggest the movement is a fringe project without political achievements. The record below is the response: concrete, dated, and verifiable. These are not all the wins. They are the substantive ones.
HB 1056 makes gold and silver legal tender in Texas, allowing Texans to settle debts, pay taxes, and conduct commercial transactions using gold and silver. The bill is the foundational sound-money architecture for an independent Texas economy, providing the legal framework for the multi-currency monetary regime described in The Plan. It was advocated for by TNM throughout the legislative process.
The Plan: secure independence →TIRA is the legislative mechanism that would put Texas independence on the ballot as a binding vote. Representative Kyle Biedermann first filed it as HB 1359 in January 2021, with Representative James White as joint author, and it has been refiled since. Every version was blocked by the Speaker's committee referral power, never voted down on the merits, and committed sponsors are in place for the 90th Legislature in 2027. 257 officials and candidates now publicly back the cause through the Texas First Pledge.
After the bill's own author declared it dead, TNM mobilized the grassroots campaign that revived it. HB 483 passed the Texas House 140 to 1 and was signed on June 12, 2015. The depository opened in Leander in 2018 and now safeguards roughly $400 million in precious metals, the first state-administered bullion depository in the United States and the institutional groundwork beneath HB 1056's legal-tender provisions.
Authored by Cecil Bell Jr. and backed by TNM, the Texas Sovereignty Act gives Texas a mechanism to review and refuse federal actions that exceed constitutional authority. It passed the House 94 to 53 and the Senate 19 to 12, with every Republican in the House voting yes.
Drafted by TNM and passed by the 84th Legislature, HB 1150 legalized fireworks sales for Texas Independence Day and San Jacinto Day. A modest bill, but a law TNM wrote, on the books and signed by the governor.
TNM joined the coalition that legalized the Bowie knife in Texas. Signed on June 15, 2017, it lifted a ban that had stood since 1871, 146 years on the books.
The 2020 Texas Republican Party convention adopted Plank 65, affirming that Texas retains the right to secede, passed by 93 percent of delegates. The first time the dominant party in Texas put independence in its platform. The floor fight had begun in 2016, when an independence resolution fell just two votes short.
In 2022, the Republican Party of Texas went further and adopted a dedicated independence-referendum plank, Plank 225, calling on the Legislature to put Texas independence to a statewide vote, passed by about 90 percent of delegates. The 2024 convention reaffirmed it as Plank 203 and named it a legislative priority. Texas independence is now an established part of the dominant Texas political party's platform across three consecutive conventions.
The Texas First Pledge commits signers to put Texas first in their votes. It is a permanent, apolitical commitment, not a candidate endorsement. 257 officials and candidates have signed it, from statewide offices down to local races, a broad cross-faction coalition.
TakeTexasBack.com →On March 3, 2026, about 1.6 million Texans, roughly three in four Republican primary voters, cast a ballot for at least one Texas First Pledge signer. Don Huffines won the Comptroller primary outright with 57.4 percent. Steve Toth unseated incumbent Congressman Dan Crenshaw in CD-2. Nine incumbent state representatives held their seats.
TNM's 635,352 supporters, accumulated over the life of the movement and counted through five paths (petition, in-person, member, donor, and volunteer signups), are the broad base the movement organizes from, and the clearest measure of how many Texans want a vote on independence. The Let Texas Decide petition is one of those paths.
Petition methodology →TNM's 2023 petition drive put up to a thousand certified circulators in nineteen-plus cities and collected 139,456 signatures, more than 42,000 past the legal threshold. On December 11, the movement delivered eleven boxes to Republican Party of Texas headquarters. The party rejected it on a technicality, but exceeding the threshold by tens of thousands of signatures proved the organizing capacity is real.
The movement's local backbone is relational organizing: coordinators and organizers working their own counties, moving neighbors from supporter to committed Texian one real conversation at a time. It is the structure that turns a broad base of support into organized political force, county by county.
TEXITCon brings the Texas independence movement together once a year: Texians, organizers, legislators, journalists, and academic observers, in one room for the case and the plan.
When the $450 million plan to reimagine the Alamo threatened to move the Cenotaph and reframe the shrine, TNM fought it for years with testimony, rallies, and monthly memorial marches. The State Republican Executive Committee repudiated the plan's champion 57 to 1, the Cenotaph stays where it stands, and the plan was killed.
When a state committee recommended striking the words 'heroic defenders' from seventh-grade Texas history standards, TNM mobilized a contact campaign within days. The State Board of Education voted the proposal down unanimously.
An A-plus-rated SurveyUSA poll found that 66 percent of likely Texas voters would vote for Texas independence. From single digits when TNM was founded to two-thirds of the electorate, the question has moved from the fringe to the mainstream.
TNM has been the subject of mainstream and international press coverage, treated as a legitimate political phenomenon, even when individual outlets are critical of the movement's positions.
Daniel Miller's book, published by Defiance Press in 2018, is the canonical book-length exposition of the modern case for Texas independence.
The Texian Partisan carries the Texas independence case in the movement's own voice. It is one of the movement's longest-running sustained-media platforms.
The TEXIAN platform, at texian.app, is the member experience for the movement: membership, the Declaration, missions, and county organizing in one secure place.
Every result above started with Texans who decided to act. The next one needs you.
