Isn't Texas independence really a Confederate or white-nationalist project in disguise?

No. It is the opposite, and anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to avoid the actual argument for independence by smearing the people who make it.

Independence is about the future, not the past

TEXIT is a forward-looking movement about self-government in the twenty-first century. It is about who decides the laws Texans live under, who spends the money Texans earn, and whether the people of Texas get a say in their own future. It has nothing to do with restoring anything from 1861, and everything to do with the question every free people eventually asks: should we govern ourselves? The Confederacy was a government that denied that the people it ruled were people at all. A movement built on the consent of the governed is its moral opposite.

The coalition tells the real story

Support for Texas independence does not fit the smear, and the numbers prove it. Polling has shown roughly 60 percent of Texans supporting independence and about two-thirds wanting a vote on it. You cannot reach those numbers with a fringe. That coalition crosses every line the smear depends on. It includes Texans of every race, every background, and every corner of the political map, from lifelong conservatives to disillusioned progressives to people who have never been political at all. A cause that draws a majority of a state as diverse as Texas is by definition not the property of a fringe.

We reject the haters, and we say so plainly

Any movement that grows attracts people who want to attach their own agenda to it. The Texas Nationalist Movement has been consistent and unflinching: the case for independence is the consent of the governed, full stop. Racism and the politics of hatred have no place in it and contradict its founding premise. Independence is for all Texans, or it is not what we say it is. We have never wavered on that, and we never will.

The smear is a tactic, not an argument

Notice what the accusation is designed to do. It changes the subject. Rather than answer whether Texas can govern itself, whether Texans are overtaxed by Washington, or whether the people deserve a vote, opponents reach for the most toxic label available so the conversation never gets to the merits. It is easier to call a Texan a name than to explain why Texans should not be allowed to vote on their own future. When you see the smear, you are watching someone concede the real debate.

The bottom line

Texas independence is a peaceful, lawful, broad-based movement for self-government that belongs to every Texan. The label is mud thrown to avoid the argument. The argument still stands.