Would the Texas National Guard stay under Texas control?

Yes. Permanent, exclusive Texas control of Texas's forces is one of the central things independence delivers. Today the Texas National Guard serves Texas in normal times but carries a federal string. Independence cuts that string for good.

How it works today

Right now the Texas Army National Guard and Texas Air National Guard live in a dual-status arrangement. Day to day, they belong to Texas. The governor commands them, the state adjutant general runs them, and they answer to Austin for hurricanes, floods, and border missions. But under federal law, the President retains an authority to call the National Guard into federal service in certain circumstances. That call-up power is the one way Washington can reach into the Texas Guard, and it is the precise limitation independence is designed to remove.

What independence changes

Sovereignty resolves the dual status in Texas's favor, permanently. An independent Texas's forces answer to Texas and only to Texas. There is no federal call-up authority over the military of a separate nation. The Texas Guard would simply become what the Texas State Guard already is today: a force under the exclusive command of the Texas government, with no outside claim on it. The arrangement Texans already trust for the State Guard becomes the arrangement for all of Texas's forces.

Texas already commands these forces in every way that counts

It is worth seeing how little has to change institutionally. The chain of command already runs to the governor. The adjutant general is already a Texas appointee. The soldiers and airmen are already Texans, the bases are already in Texas, the equipment is already here. The Texas Military Department already mobilizes for Texas missions on the governor's order. Independence does not build a new command. It removes the single federal exception sitting on top of a command that is otherwise already Texas's.

The State Guard proves the model

Texans do not have to imagine a state force that Washington cannot touch, because they already have one. The Texas State Guard answers to the governor alone and cannot be federalized. It is organized into army regiments, air wings, maritime regiments, and medical battalions, staffed by Texans. It is living proof that Texas can field, fund, and exclusively command its own military. After independence, that principle covers everything.

One honest caveat about timing

There is a real and separate question about whether the President could attempt a federal call-up during the transition window, before independence is fully final, and we address that directly in its own answer rather than overstate the law here. The point for this question is the destination, not the disputed in-between. Once Texas is a sovereign nation, the answer is settled and simple: Texas's forces are Texas's, with no federal claim on them at all.

The bottom line

Yes, the Texas Guard stays under Texas control, and independence makes that control absolute by removing the federal call-up string that exists today. The model already runs in the Texas State Guard, a force Washington cannot touch. Independence extends that to all of Texas's military.