Posted on 01/13/2021 7:34:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Texit effort is slated for a major boost this week with the introduction of a bill in the Texas State Legislature that would put the question of secession into a referendum form to voters on the November 2021 ballot.
The notion of secession is increasingly being discussed across the country in the wake of what many believe was a gerrymandered election and a complete failure and abdication of the judicial system to affect justice for the American people.
Additionally, a vast majority of people are aghast that the federal government is doing nothing to secure their First Amendment rights to free speech, freedom to redress government, and freedom of association in the face of draconian censorship by Big Tech companies whose products have become ipso facto utilities in the modern age.
America is coming apart at the seams. We don’t want to admit it but it’s true. Eventually we will have to talk seriously about secession and national divorce. I’ve been saying it for years. Maybe the time has finally come.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 7, 2021
But in the State of Texas, talk has turned to action.
Texas State Rep. Kyle Biedermann (R), a conservative and former hardware store owner and gun dealer, says he will introduce a bill that would place a referendum on secession on the November ballot as early as this week.
Without revealing any specifics, the referendum would query whether Texas should assert its independence from the United States.
“The federal government is out of control and does not represent the values of Texans,” Biedermann wrote in emailed comments. “My office has been flooded with support from not only Texans, but like minded patriots across the country.”
If his bill advances out of committee debates and hearings, it would be put to a vote before the 150 State Representatives and 31 State Senators.
In Texas, the Legislature convenes at noon on the second Tuesday of January in odd-numbered years for no more than 140 days, thus avoiding the spendthrift policies of the federal government.
Biedermann is not alone in his want to seriously discuss a practical and legitimate way forward in the face of a transformative effort away from the US Constitution and the rule of law in Washington, DC.
Allen West, chairman of the Texas State Republican Party, floated a form of the idea after a Texas-led lawsuit aimed at holding five battleground states to their own constitutions with respect to election law was dismissed by the US Supreme Court.
“Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution,” West said in a statement immediately after the High Court Ruling.
The Texas GOP had a fit after the Supreme Court rejected their bid to flip the election in Trump's favor, and now they're hinting at secession https://t.co/DmoKBImblN
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) December 12, 2020
And Rush Limbaugh discussed the idea as well, saying “I never would advocate for secession…I’m simply repeating what I have heard,” but, he said, “a sizable and growing sentiment” for secession is percolating amongst the citizenry from coast to coast following the election results.
Is Limbaugh correct?https://t.co/7yyfaj9FzI
— Doctor-Elect Bloviating Zeppelin (@BZep) January 13, 2021
There has been buzz about secession across the State of Florida as well, with many citizens calling on Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), to entertain the idea.
Haven’t heard if there is a FLEXIT movement. It wouldn’t surprise me.
All for it.
Texas will be a blue state within two (s)election cycles. On top of the immigration issues you’ve cited, our soon-to-be installed “president” will be welcoming 10+million Central Americans, and you better believe a giant chunk of them will be settled in Texas.
Only 1.8% of Texas is federal land, about 3 million acres. But I’ll bet Uncle Whiskers wouldn’t let go of it, no matter what.
I don’t know but now is the perfect time to find out. As the DC oligarchs press harder the resentment is gonna grow.
Texas needs to join with all states east and southeast of them to secede.
I don’t know but now is the perfect time to find out. As the DC oligarchs press harder the resentment is gonna grow.
it will have to be done by force, not via referendum.
Also how would it affect my military pension?
I’m in Texas. Every non liberal I know is in favor of secession. It’s been planned for a long time... so it’s nothing new. Granted, it’s now going to accelerate. My personal preference is for a “soft secession”, one in which we don’t overtly secede... but ignore unconstitutional mandates. We should respond with “meh” or “get your goons out of here.”
There are 10s of thousands of Americans drawing SS and military pension living all over the world.
Texas will be a blue state within two (s)election cycles. On top of the immigration issues you’ve cited, our soon-to-be installed “president” will be welcoming 10+million Central Americans, and you better believe a giant chunk of them will be settled in Texas.
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And Hiden/Ho is giving away 10 million green cards to Indian trash, removing or heavily raising the caps of H1B and H4EAD trash, legalizing 500,000 illegal alien Indians and starting a new program (DALCA) for Indian kids, patterned after DACA.
A certain gun lover from Texas can’t be happier.
If Texas attempts secession and President Biden/Harris try to go full Lincoln, would the military invade Texas guns blazing?
My brother works IT in the Austin area. He was given the death virus boot back in the spring. He has had a difficult time finding a job because of all the Indians that will work for half of what he has been paid in the past.
You wouldn’t have been of much use at Lexington.
Don’t allow non US citizens to vote on an independence referendum.
That should help.
Your question, and the mindset behind it, is exactly the reason many of us want to secede.
Given that the federal government has so obviously been taken over by unconstitutional means it no longer represents the best interests of these United States. I believe it is every State’s duty to begin proceedings to secede from and dissolve the union until such time as it can be reconstituted in accordance with the Constitution.
The referendum for Texas succession should only be up for voting by native Texans that would eliminate the Johnny come lately slobs from commiefornia and all the massholes infesting Austin. Further more once a republic only native Texans automatically have citizenship and the right to vote all others must apply for a visa and work pay taxes and enter a waiting list for citizenship. My family has been land owners and cattlemen since the 1730 in central Texas. A member has fought in every conflict Texas has been in since the war for Texas independence to the second Iraqi war and every war in between. I am the direct blood descendent from the very Texians who beat that tyrant Santa Anna it doesn’t get more Texan than my bloodline. I’ll fight with arms to the death like my ancestors did for Texas independence and all the other males in my family and a good portion of the females will too. Please father in heaven get this on the ballot in the fall and tell the now commie former USA to pissoff
All just details that need to be worked out.
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