TNM Launches a Petition Campaign to Put TEXIT on the 2022 Primary Ballot
After the legislature let the TEXIT referendum bill die, the Texas Nationalist Movement launched a petition campaign to place the independence question directly on the 2022 Republican primary ballot.
The Texas Nationalist Movement has launched a campaign to deliver what the Texas Legislature would not: a vote on TEXIT. In January, State Representative Kyle Biedermann filed House Bill 1359, which would have let Texans vote on whether the state should plan to leave the United States, but after thousands of calls and visits from supporters, the bill died in the State Affairs Committee.
Rather than let the question fade, the movement is using a provision of the Texas Election Code that lets the people force a question onto a party's primary ballot by petition. For the 2022 Republican primary, that requires roughly 77,000 valid signatures, and the movement is already collecting them.
Where the bill would only have studied how to pursue independence, the petition puts the question itself to the voters. On the March 2022 ballot it would read: “The State of Texas should reassert itself as an independent nation. For or Against.” With volunteer circulators joining daily, the movement said, success is now a matter of connecting Texans to the effort.
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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.