This bundle covers contemporary (2005-present) Texas independence advocacy, centred on the Texas Nationalist Movement and its "TEXIT" campaign, including the repeatedly filed Texas Independence Referendum Act and the 2024/2026 Republican Party of Texas platform planks calling for a secession referendum. The historical 1836-1846 Republic of Texas and the 1869 US Supreme Court ruling in Texas v. White are noted only as background context and are not treated as part of the contemporary movement.
The Texas Nationalist Movement was founded in 2005 by Daniel Miller as a splinter of a faction of the earlier Republic of Texas group, campaigning for Texas independence from the United States through a lawful popular vote under the "TEXIT" brand, and reporting supporters across all 254 Texas counties.[1] Texas legislators have repeatedly filed a Texas Independence Referendum Act calling for such a vote; the most recent version, House Bill 3596, was filed on 6 March 2023 and, like its predecessors, did not pass.[2] In 2024, TNM's president submitted more than 140,000 secession-petition signatures, and the Republican Party of Texas adopted a platform plank calling for an independence referendum.[3] At the party's 2026 state convention, further TNM-authored planks were adopted affirming Texas's right to secede and calling on the legislature to pass a referendum, with TNM-aligned supporters holding leadership positions on the party's governing committee.[4]
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Texas remains a state of the United States. No independence referendum has been held or authorized by the legislature. The Texas Nationalist Movement continues active campaigning, and its planks have been adopted into the Republican Party of Texas platform in 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2026, though a state party platform plank does not itself change Texas's legal or constitutional status.[4]
History
From the 2005 founding of the Texas Nationalist Movement to the 2026 state party platform planks.
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· Organisation founded
The principal organisation of the contemporary Texas independence movement was founded.
Significance here: The founding organisation of the contemporary Texas independence campaign.
· Other
The state party's convention adopted independence-referendum planks into its platform.
Significance here: A significant institutional endorsement of the referendum demand within Texas's dominant political party.
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Claim: The Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) was founded in 2005 by Daniel Miller as a splinter organisation from a faction of the earlier Republic of Texas group; it advocates for Texas independence from the United States through a lawful popular vote, a campaign it brands "TEXIT," and reports supporters across all 254 Texas counties.
Claim: Texas state legislators have repeatedly filed a Texas Independence Referendum Act, which would call a statewide referendum on whether Texas should "reassert its status as an independent nation"; the most recent version, House Bill 3596, was filed by state representative Bryan Slaton on 6 March 2023 and, like its predecessors, did not pass.
Claim: In 2024, TNM president Daniel Miller submitted more than 140,000 petition signatures gathered in support of secession, and the Republican Party of Texas adopted a 2024 platform plank calling for a referendum on Texas independence.
Claim: At the Republican Party of Texas's 2026 state convention, TNM-authored independence planks were adopted into the party platform, affirming Texas's right to secede and calling on the legislature to pass a referendum; these planks gained majority delegate support at the party's 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2026 conventions, and TNM-aligned Texas First Pledge signers held leadership positions on the party's governing committee.