Posted on 07/06/2022 8:44:03 PM PDT by TigerClaws
The Republican Party of Texas has finally released its 2022 platform and the vote totals for each plank. Over 90% support a vote on TEXIT.
After a two-and-a-half-week delay, the RPT has released its platform, and the delegate vote totals for each plank. The Texas Nationalist Movement has been eagerly awaiting the results of the vote for two planks that expressly call for a vote on TEXIT.
The strongest of the two numbered initially as Plank 224, was renumbered as Plank 225 due to a last-minute addition of a plank earlier in the platform at the convention. Plank 225 reads:
“Texas Independence: We urge the Texas Legislature to pass a bill in its next session requiring a referendum in the 2023 General Election for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”
The TEXIT plank passed with support from 90.08% of the delegates. Therefore, a vote on TEXIT is now the official position of the Republican Party of Texas.
The TEXIT plank outperformed other core and hot-button Republican issues such as the Convention of the States (78.9%), Border Security and Immigration (85.64%), Prosecution of Election Fraud (83.95%), and Support of the Armed Forces (89.12%).
Support at the convention was evident even before the vote was taken. When interviewed at the convention, Joshua Stambaugh, a delegate from Senate District 22 and the TNM’s Local Coordinator in Waco, experienced the overwhelming support first-hand. “I can tell you, here at the convention, everyone I’ve talked to, and I’ve talked to at least 100 people, only one didn’t support our movement.”
The TNM has said for years that Texas is at a tipping point and that Texans want to express their right to self-government in a TEXIT vote. 90% of the largest political convention in the world, representing the dominant political party of Texas, have spoken.
While the opposition and political establishment continue to push the narrative that TEXIT is a fringe idea pushed by a vocal minority of Texans, they have again been exposed as abject liars or woefully out-of-touch with Texas voters.
State Representative Kyle Biedermann, the author of House Bill 1359, the Texas Independence Referendum Act in the 87th legislative session, expressed his lack of surprise at the result.
Last time Texas voted for TEXIT, it didn’t work out too well.
I don’t think the votes are there from the voters.
90% of 50 to 60% are for it. So what? It won’t fly and it’s “rubbing your Johnson” material. May be a nice idea but it ain’t going no where. Get every body on board, possibly but you better lock and load. Just saying.
Good question, what would happen if a state wanted to secede from the union?
We know our civil war history. Military force was used to keep the union together back then. Would military force be used today, if a state voted to secede? Would a peaceable agreement be worked out, to allow a state to leave the union?
What about the American citizenship of Texas residents? Would that citizenship be revoked?
Just some questions I wonder about. Nobody knows what would happen nowadays if states wanted to leave the union.
I would never pass; and if it did, it would be very bad for the people of Texas.
So? Brexit failed many times too. It took strong visible leaders like Nigel Farage who took YEARS of personal time to push it to the masses. Time for a divorce and there’s only one state capable of doing this, and it’s Texas.
Texas was a Republic - a separate country.
When admitted to the Union they reserved the right to Texit.
So we can go when we want.
Yeah, no.
That status begs other questions, such as, if Texas can secede whenever they want to, why didn’t they remain out of the union after the civil war? Theoretically they could have exercised that option then.
I like the idea but probably the details would be tough.
I have a friend who literally just moved this week from Portland, OR to the Houston area (Woodforest). She can’t believe how friendly everyone is and is so happy!
Wish I could get some of my family to leave the left coast...
“Military force was used to keep the union together back then.”
Back then. Magic 2 words. with a woke military whose latest policy is gender pronouns and low morale, I have more than an idea who wins this time..
Yawn.
No, Texas can’t legally secede from the U.S., despite popular myth
The right they reserved was to divide into multiple states, not to secede.
This is a great time to do it. If you need to threaten the other states, go ahead. Brexit took years to happen and it did. Nigel Farage took a decade of personal time to get it done. Texas WILL separate.
I stated 10 years ago Roe will overturn in my life time, and I’ll double-down Texas will secede within the next 30 years..
“When admitted to the Union they reserved the right to Texit.”
Yawn.
You gonna stop them?
Not even that. It’s 90% of the delegates at the RPT convention.
I expect they’re a little more hard core than the average Texan registered Republican.
We will. Hopefully, peacefully and legally. The implosion of the USA economy will be the trigger. Could be with a few years. I know that there are several very well known people that are in favor of it (but on the downlow for the most part).
Well good luck. Crockett and Travis are gone. They should have stayed out when they were out. IMO.
More importantly, what will the Russians and Chinese do?
Like the French who were so eager to join the Yanks in slapping the British around, don’t you think either Russia or China would be all to happy to help Texas humiliate the US?
Russia will remember how we welcomed the splintering of the Soviet Union, and China will remember our support for Taiwan.
I think Texas could be successful this time around because our sins will always come back to us.
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