Thanks for the info. Forwarding it to those I know that will be interested in attending.
Native Texans love their country, but they love Texas more. We were a Republic long before we became a state. It is in our blood. It is our heritage.
U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
And, when the republican form of government is replaced with a judicial dictatorship, and when an invasion by approximately 1/20th of the population of Mexico is permitted to occur, the constitutional promise is broken; and the contract from which that promise was derived becomes null and void, abrogated and moot.
Starting with this part: We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Accordingly, the former United States of America, deriving its legitimate authority and powers from the promises of limitations of government within that constitution, ceases to be. And the people of the territories formerly so governed are thereby welcome to reinstitute those provisions within their own jurisdictions, or to try to put together something that will be more permanent and to which both citizens and officeholders can and will remain faithful.
Of course the de facto government will proclaim that it is still legitimate. So did Hitler's government.