Who is Texas independence for?
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Every Texan. Texas independence is a peaceful movement for self-government, built on the consent of the governed, and it belongs to Texans of every background and every party.
Independence is about the future
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 is the question every free people eventually asks: should we govern ourselves? A movement built on the consent of the governed belongs to everyone it would govern.
The coalition tells the real story
Support for Texas independence crosses every line, and the numbers prove it. Polling has shown roughly 60 percent of Texans supporting independence and about two-thirds wanting a vote on it. 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 belongs to all of it.
No place for hatred
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 bottom line
Texas independence is a peaceful, lawful, broad-based movement for self-government that belongs to every Texan, and the question it asks is one every Texan gets to answer.
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- Didn’t the Civil War settle this once and for all?
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- People say Texas can’t legally secede. Is that true?
- Can Texas secede from the United States?
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