What happens to Texas's current members of Congress?

When Texas becomes an independent nation, it no longer sends representatives to a federal Congress, because Texas is no longer in that union. Its members of the U.S. House and Senate would no longer hold federal seats. Where those individuals go next is a personal choice, and the deeper point is that Texas trades a small, outvoted delegation for a government that is entirely its own.

No union means no seats in its legislature

This is simple. A country does not send members to another country's legislature. Once Texas is independent, the offices that exist to represent Texas inside the federal government in Washington no longer apply to Texas, the same way Texas does not send senators to Mexico City or London. The federal seats end because the federal relationship ends. That is not a loss of representation. It is the replacement of distant representation with self-government.

The people are the ones who gain power

The math of the current arrangement tells the story. Texas sends a few dozen members to a U.S. House of 435 and 2 senators to a Senate of 100. Even when every Texan in Washington votes together, Texas is heavily outnumbered in a body designed to be governed by majorities from everywhere else. Independence ends that permanent minority status. Instead of a small voice in someone else's capital, Texans get the whole say in their own. The power does not vanish. It comes home.

Sitting officials choose their own next chapter

The men and women who currently hold those federal seats are Texans, and independence does not change that. What they do next is up to them. Many have deep experience in government and public life that an independent Texas could put to good use, in its own offices, its diplomacy, or its public institutions, if they choose that path and the voters choose them. Others may step back. That is an individual decision, made like any other Texan's, and the movement does not presume to script it or to endorse anyone for any role.

Texas's own legislature is already seated

There is no representation gap to worry about, because Texas already has a fully functioning legislature of its own. The 31 senators and 150 representatives Texans elect to the Texas Legislature continue right through the transition. Texans are not left unrepresented for a single day. They simply concentrate their representation in the body that has always been theirs and add the national authority that independence brings.

The bottom line

Texas's federal seats end because the federal union ends, and that is the trade Texans are choosing: a small minority in Washington exchanged for full control of a government in Texas. The Texas Legislature carries on, and the people gain power rather than lose it.