Interesting times indeed.
Would they be able to fly or do anything the federal alphabet agencies control in their state?
Maybe Texas can join NATO
As I recall, Texas was an independent nation before they joined the Union, with Embassies in Britain and many other nations. When they decided to join the Union, it was with the specific stipulation that they could separate and return to being an independent nation at any time. This should be interesting . . .
I would strongly consider immigrating to Texas.
I watched the youtube clip about the Karen head of the illegal alien lawn and pool boyz union. At least the freeloaders have enough sense to wear parkas when they sneak into the land of “global warming.” Lots of BP Diaper Delivery trucks driving around in the clip. I hope those things are EVs. If not, they are polluting the hell out of the Mexican Moth’s “enviomen.”
I think Oklahoma would join the new Republic of Texas.
> Washington cannot override the sovereignty of the states. <
True, in theory. The Constitution is clear on that. But try it in practice, and General Sherman will come knocking at your door.
At one point, an Article V Convention of States might have worked. But 2/3 of the states are required to call such a convention. And 3/4 of them are needed to ratify an amendment.
No way could those hurdles be met today. So it sure looks like we’re stuck with an imperial nanny state. Until the whole thing collapses, of course.
Not with a very hostile pair of neighbors… one with nukes .
DC should boycott Texas fossil fuels. That will teach Texas a lesson!
In fact, DC should boycott all fossil fuels. DC should go entirely zero-emission, banning all but solar and wind energy sources.
Become that shining beacon of environmental justice on a hill.
Why wait?
If Texas was to declare independence from the USA, get rid of all illegal criminals in the state, and get their financial house in order I would move there in a heartbeat. I don’t care if I had to live in my car.
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Since you support sovereignty for Texas how about supporting sovereignty for Ukraine?
“Without Texas, the United States would not be able to wage war...”
Which is why anyone who thinks the US would let Texas just peacefully walk away is an idiot.
The general public in Texas lacks to will. Never going to happen.
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1861
“Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the Union is perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was “to form a more perfect Union.”
“But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity.
“It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.”
This is worth reading:
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lincoln1.asp
But consider Amendment X:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
In my opinion Amendment X voids the Articles of Confederation and the preamble of the Constitution for states that are parties to the Constitution.
Texas could file at the Supreme Court a petition for divorce from all other governmental parties to the Union on the grounds of irreconcilable differences.
I imagine Texas has multitudes across this country who are willing to meet on the border and stand ready for what may come.
Twelve years ago my sister-in-law heard some Hispanics claim.. “WE ARE TAKING TEXAS BACK, ONE BABY AT A TIME!”
I see it as Daisy-Head Mayzie saying “The work is all done, now I want it back!”
The Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed on 6 December 1921, took effect exactly a year later on 6 December 1922. The Irish Free State – a new Dominion within what was then the British Empire – was born.
Negotiations between the UK Government and representatives of Sinn Féin had begun on 11 October 1921 in an attempt to answer what was known as the “Irish Question” once and for all. The talks followed decades of attempts by the UK Parliament to give a degree of autonomy known as “Home Rule” to Ireland.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9260/
A document describing the creation of the Irish Free State:
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9260/CBP-9260.pdf
What states could do is to limit new house size to say no more than 1600 square feet (and 2500 square feet on parcels of more than an acre). This would curtail invader employment and hit remittances hard.
It could all be done in the name of ‘affordable housing’.
Remittances could also be taxed to fund K-12 education.