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Flag of Texas. Texas secession movements, also known as the Texas Independence movement or Texit, [1] [2] refers to both the secession of Texas during the American Civil War as well as activities of modern organizations supporting such efforts to secede from the United States and become an independent sovereign state.
The TNM solicits politician signatures to the "Texas First Pledge," which "place[s] the interests of Texas and Texans before any other nation, state, political entity, organization, or individual ...
The Texas Republican Party is in the process of verifying 139,000 petition signatures that would put a "Texit" resolution before March primary voters. Texas Nationalist Movement wants secession ...
The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and was formally signed the next day after mistakes were noted in the text.
In December 2020, when the Supreme Court refused to hear Texas' lawsuit in Texas v. Pennsylvania, the chair of the Texas GOP, Allen West, suggested that Texas and other like-minded states could leave the Union. [4] [5] [6] In 2022, the Republican Party of Texas added a statement in its party platform that called for a referendum over secession ...
"So if Texas were to secede, there are a number of problems. A lot of the companies that have been brought in would now be seen as foreign companies. And so they may leave because of that. Also ...
Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance: Other Sides of Civil War Texas (2016). Timmons, Joe T. "The Referendum in Texas on the Ordinance of Secession, February 23, 1861: The Vote." East Texas Historical Journal 11.2 (1973) online. Wooster Ralph A. (1999). Civil War Texas: A History and a Guide. Texas State Historical Association. ISBN 0 ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott displays a signed border security bill on June 08, 2023 in Austin Credit - Brandon Bell—Getty Images. This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter.