TNM Responds to the Texas GOP's Rejection of the TEXIT Petition Signatures
After the Republican Party of Texas rejected the 139,456 signatures gathered to put TEXIT on the 2024 ballot, the movement called the stated reasons baseless and announced it would take legal action.
The Republican Party of Texas has rejected the 139,456 signatures the Texas Nationalist Movement gathered to place the TEXIT question on the March 2024 primary ballot. The party's chairman delivered the rejection to a reporter rather than to the movement, and the reasons it gave do not withstand scrutiny.
The party claimed the petition was delivered too late and that electronic signatures are invalid. Both claims fail. The Texas Business and Commerce Code is explicit that if a law requires a signature, an electronic signature satisfies it, with no exceptions. The rejection is a transparent attempt to suppress the voices of Republican voters who simply want to be heard on a fundamental question of self-government.
“It is clear that the Republican Party of Texas is grasping for any tactic, no matter how ridiculous, to keep this question off the ballot,” said TNM President Daniel Miller. The movement gave the party 24 hours to reconsider and adopted a resolution authorizing every available legal action to overturn the ruling.
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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. 635,352 Texans across all 254 counties are on record in support. Learn more at tnm.me.