Is TEXIT a left-wing or right-wing idea?

Neither. Self-government is not a left or right idea. It is a Texan one. The case for independence does not sit on one side of the partisan map, and the support for it does not either.

The argument is not partisan

The case for Texas independence is not "your team wins." It is that decisions about Texas should be made in Texas, by Texans, close to the people they affect. That argument does not belong to conservatives or progressives. It belongs to anyone who would rather be governed by people they can hold accountable than by a distant capital they cannot. The principle is the consent of the governed, and that predates the modern left-right divide by centuries.

The support already crosses the lines

The numbers bear this out. Support for independence has reached levels that no single faction could produce on its own. You cannot poll around 60 percent in a state as varied as Texas by appealing to one wing. That support runs across party lines and includes Texans of every background, from lifelong conservatives to disillusioned progressives to people who have never been political at all. A coalition that broad is, by definition, not the property of one side.

We take no position beyond independence itself

This movement is deliberately disciplined about staying in its lane. The Texas Nationalist Movement does not take sides on the policy fights that divide left from right. What an independent Texas does about taxes, spending, or any contested issue is for the government Texans elect to decide. Our single ask is that Texans get the right to govern themselves. Loading independence with a partisan policy agenda would be a mistake, and it is one we refuse to make.

Scotland is the cautionary tale

There is a reason for that discipline. In Scotland's 2014 independence vote, the campaign tied independence to one party's policy program. Opponents pounced, recast the vote as a referendum on that party, and independence lost ground it did not need to lose. The lesson is clear. The moment you turn self-government into a partisan package, you hand your opponents the easiest attack there is. Independence is bigger than any party, and it has to be argued that way.

Why opponents push the partisan label anyway

Calling independence "right-wing" or "left-wing" is a tactic, not a description. If opponents can pin a partisan label on it, they can write off half the electorate before the conversation even starts. It is easier to dismiss a movement as one side's project than to answer whether Texans deserve a vote on their own future. The label is a way to avoid that question.

The bottom line

TEXIT is neither left nor right. It is the right of Texans to govern themselves, and that right belongs to every Texan regardless of party. Independence is not a wing of anything. It is a question for all of Texas.