How far along is the Texas independence movement?
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Further than most people know. TEXIT is an organized political campaign with a written plan, legislation that has been filed, a measurable base of support, and a party platform behind it.
The support is real and it is documented
More than 698,315 Texans are on record demanding a vote on independence, a base of support that rivals the largest single-issue organizations in the country as a share of registered voters. Polling has shown around 60 percent of Texans supporting peaceful independence and about 66 percent wanting the chance to vote on it.
The legislation has already been filed
The Texas Independence Referendum Act was filed in the Texas Legislature as House Bill 1359 in 2021 by Representative Kyle Biedermann, with Representative James White as joint author, and a revised version was filed in 2023 as House Bill 3596 by Representative Bryan Slaton. Both bills are on the public record. The single question the 2023 bill would put to Texans, whether Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation, has been drafted and is ready.
The party platform is behind it
The Republican Party of Texas, the largest political party in the state, has put this in its platform. In 2020 its delegates adopted a plank affirming Texas’s right to leave, passed with 93 percent support. In 2022 the party went further and called for a referendum on Texas independence, a position it reaffirmed in 2024 and again in 2026.
There is a published plan
The Texas Nationalist Movement runs a four-part strategy: build the organized capacity to win, pressure the Legislature to pass the referendum, win the vote, and secure independence in the transition that follows. It is informed by how independence has actually been won elsewhere, in Britain, in Scotland’s process, and across the former Soviet bloc, and it is published for anyone to read.
The bottom line
TEXIT is an organized, growing campaign with filed legislation, a party platform behind it, hundreds of thousands of Texans on record, and a written plan to win.
Sources & further reading
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