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Press Kit
Pull the boilerplate, a current fact sheet, citation-ready statistics, quotes you can run as written, logos, and the founder media kit straight from this page. If something you need isn't here, the Communications Office will get it to you fast.
Boilerplate
The standard description for the end of an article. Free to use, verbatim, with no clearance needed.
The Texas Nationalist Movement is the largest organization working to put a single question to the people of Texas in a binding, up-or-down vote: whether Texas should govern itself as an independent nation. 650,988 Texans across all 254 counties are on record in support. Learn more at thetnm.org.
Fact sheet
A quick-reference summary of the movement's key facts, figures, and positions.
- November 2005
- Nederland, Texas
- Daniel Miller
- To secure and protect the political, cultural and economic independence of the nation of Texas and to restore and protect a constitutional Republic and the inherent rights of the people of Texas.
- A binding, up-or-down referendum in which the people of Texas vote on independence.
- 650,988 across all 254 Texas counties
- 66% of likely Texas voters back independence (SurveyUSA, 2022)
- 1.6 million Texans voted for a Texas First Pledge signer
- 265 officials and candidates signed, a permanent and apolitical commitment, not an endorsement
- Independence in the Texas GOP platform across the 2020, 2022, 2024, and 2026 conventions
- HB 1056 (gold and silver as legal tender), signed June 22, 2025
- The Texas Independence Referendum Act, first filed 2021 (HB 1359, Rep. Kyle Biedermann)
- Cover of Newsweek (2024), and coverage across 22 countries
- Daniel Miller has done 60+ broadcast interviews
- TEXIT (Defiance Press, 2018)
- The Texian Partisan (texianpartisan.com)
Key statistics
Sourced and dated, free to use in your reporting. Key figures link to their source.
- 650,988
- Texan supporters on record, via five paths including the Let Texas Decide petition Source: How the count works
- 66%
- Likely Texas voters who support Texas becoming an independent country (SurveyUSA, 2022) Source: SurveyUSA poll
- 265
- Officials and candidates who have signed the Texas First Pledge
- 1.6M
- Texans who voted for a Texas First Pledge signer in the March 3, 2026 primary
- 2005
- The year the movement was founded, at a kitchen table in Nederland
- 8th
- Texas's rank among world economies, bigger than Canada, Russia, and South Korea Source: Texas Comptroller
- 4
- Texas GOP conventions (2020, 2022, 2024, 2026) with the independence plank
- 254
- Texas counties with TNM supporters on record
Quotes you can run
Attributable quotes from Daniel Miller, free to use with attribution. For fresh comment on a developing story, contact the Communications Office.
“The people of Texas are tired of living under 180,000 pages of federal laws, administered by 440 separate federal agencies and 2.5 million unelected bureaucrats.”
“Texas independence isn't a slogan, it's our future.”
“It is clear that the Republican Party of Texas is grasping for any tactic, no matter how ridiculous, to suppress the voices of Republican voters who merely want their voices heard on this fundamental issue of governance.”
“What the political establishment once called fringe is now mainstream. Texans are tired of broken promises, and it was only a matter of time before more Texas First candidates took office.”
Questions reporters ask
Straight answers to the questions that come up most. Each links to the full treatment if you want to go deeper.
- What exactly is the Texas Nationalist Movement asking for?
- One thing: a binding, up-or-down referendum in which the people of Texas vote on whether Texas should become an independent nation. That vote is the ask. The mechanism is the Texas Independence Referendum Act, legislation filed to put the question directly to Texas voters. The plan→
- Is this legal? What about Texas v. White?
- TNM pursues independence the lawful, democratic way: a vote of the people, then a negotiated settlement, not a unilateral declaration. Texas v. White is often cited as a bar, but its famous line about an “indestructible Union” was dictum, not the question the Court decided, and the bond rule the case existed to settle was later overruled. Self-governing peoples from Scotland to Quebec have put the same question to the ballot. Texas v. White, in full→
- Could Texas actually stand on its own?
- Texas is already the 8th-largest economy in the world, ahead of Canada, Russia, and South Korea, with its own power grid, deep-water ports, and major energy, agriculture, and technology sectors. The real question is not whether Texas could function as an independent nation, but how the transition is managed. The economic case→
- How much support does this have? Isn’t it fringe?
- 633,098 Texans across all 254 counties are on record in support. A 2022 SurveyUSA poll found 66% of likely Texas voters back independence, and an independence plank has been in the Texas GOP platform across four consecutive state conventions. In the March 2026 primary, roughly 1.6 million Texans voted for a Texas First Pledge signer. The polling→
- How is TNM funded?
- The Texas Nationalist Movement is a grassroots organization funded by its members and supporters, Texans who pay dues and give donations. It is not the project of any single donor or outside interest.
- Is this a partisan, Republican project?
- No. The right of Texans to govern themselves is not a left-or-right question, and TNM works with anyone who supports putting it to a vote. The Texas First Pledge is apolitical and is not an endorsement; it is a standing commitment to defend that right.
Logos & brand assets
The TNM logo set is available for press use, academic citation, and editorial reproduction, in high-resolution PNG (3300 × 1140), in a blue and a white treatment.
Use the logo as is, with no alterations. The symbol (the star) can stand alone or sit with the wordmark. Either works.
Daniel Miller media kit
Print-resolution founder portraits — a headshot and a full-length, both around 2,800 × 4,000 px — and a ready-to-run biography are available right now. Additional editorial photos and extended booking details come from the Communications Office.
Daniel speaks on Texas independence and the path to a binding vote; the legal case, including Article 1 of the Texas Constitution and Texas v. White; the Texas economy as an independent nation; Texas history and the Republic; and the politics of the movement, from the Texas Independence Referendum Act to the Texas First Pledge and the GOP platform.
Media library
Broadcast-ready assets to support clear, accurate coverage. Available to credentialed press through the Communications Office.
High-resolution photographs of key moments and figures within the movement, for authentic visuals alongside your reporting.
Broadcast-quality footage and informational video on the movement and its initiatives, suited to segments and digital features.
Data on the case for Texas independence, designed for clean integration into articles and reports.