Texas Nationalist Movement Launches US★EXIT, Bringing Its Independence Playbook to All 50 States

On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Texas Nationalist Movement today launched US★EXIT, a platform that hands the organizing model behind the largest independence movement in the country to people in every other state. The site is live at usexit.org.

For two decades, TNM has built toward one goal: a lawful vote on Texas independence. Along the way, people in other states kept asking the same thing. How did you do it? US★EXIT is the answer, built as its own project with TNM as the steward behind it.

The timing is deliberate. The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776, when thirteen colonies declared themselves, in its own words, “Free and Independent States.” US★EXIT’s case is that the right those states claimed then is the same right every state holds today.

“Read the last paragraph of the Declaration, the part nobody quotes on the Fourth of July,” said TNM President Daniel Miller. “Thirteen states declared themselves free and independent, each claiming the right to govern itself. They didn’t found one nation that day. They asserted the independence of thirteen. That right didn’t expire. It belongs to every state in the union now, and there’s nothing radical about saying so. It’s the most American idea there is.”

At the center of the site is a question Miller has put to audiences for years, one that runs backward from what people expect.

“Ask people whether their state should secede and you set off every alarm Washington spent a century installing. So ask it honestly instead,” Miller said. “If your state were already an independent nation in every respect, with its own border, its own money, its own defense, everything 200 other nations control, and instead of leaving you were asked whether to give all that up and join the United States on today’s terms, would you vote to join? If not, why stay one second longer? That’s the reversal test. It takes the fear out and shows you what people actually want.”

The reversal is Miller’s challenge to the reader. The site also carries hard data, and it’s careful to separate the floor from the ceiling. In February 2024, YouGov asked 35,307 adults whether their state would be better off independent. Eight states came back at 25 percent or higher. Texas sat at 31.

Those are real numbers from a serious pollster, but they’re the floor. The question was abstract, it handed people a “not sure” way out, and it never said independence would be peaceful. A ballot doesn’t ask it that way, and when someone does, the number jumps. California is the clearest case. YouGov’s own survey put it at 29 percent. Days later the same firm, polling for the Independent California Institute, asked the way a referendum actually would, a forced choice about leaving peacefully, and got 58. Same pollster, same month, one question changed: 29 to 58, a 30-point swing. Texas tells the same story. In 2022, SurveyUSA asked Texans about peaceful independence and got 66 percent, against YouGov’s 31.

US★EXIT applies that same 30-point correction to every state’s raw number. Do that, and a majority backs independence in 23 states, with 22 more within striking distance. The site leads with the corrected number, and it shows the work: every step, every source, on its methodology page.

“Texas built the largest movement of its kind in the country,” Miller said. “The will in the other states was never the problem. What’s been missing is each other. US★EXIT fixes that. We bring the playbook, the standard, and the people near you who already agree. We don’t run your group. We don’t take your money. What you build is yours.”

That boundary is the design. US★EXIT doesn’t collect a dime from the groups it helps, and it doesn’t speak for them. In states that already have a movement, the site points to it as a resource rather than a rival: Calexit Now in California, NHExit Now in New Hampshire, Free Louisiana in Louisiana. In the states with no organized effort yet, US★EXIT helps neighbors find each other and start one.

It also sits off the partisan axis on purpose. The platform takes no side in the fights between the parties, and its palette is neither red nor blue. A Californian and a Texan may agree on almost nothing else. Whether the people who live in a place get to decide how it’s governed is the question underneath the party fight, and it reads the same in both states.

What’s live at usexit.org today

• An interactive map of all 50 states showing measured support, economic scale, and which states already have a movement
• The reversal question on every state page, where residents can cast a vote and add their name
• A free organizing Library: a first-90-days guide, first-meeting scripts, and downloadable sign-in sheets and contact trackers, hosted as education under TNM Education
• Model legislation, offered as education, that other states can adapt to bring an independence referendum before their own legislatures
• A point-by-point answer to Texas v. White, the 1869 ruling critics cite to claim independence is illegal
• The Self-Determination Covenant, the standard that governs how movements in the network recognize one another

For each state, US★EXIT runs the numbers behind the line on its social card: your state is already a nation. It ranks a state’s economy against the world’s countries and its population against comparable ones. By that measure most states come out bigger, richer, or both, than countries that hold a full seat at the United Nations. The site does the arithmetic state by state.

US★EXIT is a project of the Texas Nationalist Movement. It is educational and peer-support work. It does not run, fund, or speak for any group in any state.