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Texas could vote on referendum to secede from the United States this spring
msn.com ^ | 12/16/2023 | Carl Gibson

Posted on 12/19/2023 4:40:22 PM PST by eastexsteve

Leaders of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) — which openly calls for the Lone Star State to secede from the United States and become an independent nation again — appear to have surpassed the threshold to put a secession ballot initiative on the 2024 Republican primary ballot this March..

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bs; democrats; headfake; nonsense; secession; signatures; texas
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To: Coronal

Yes———40 fewer electoral votes for a GOP candidate.
Irreplaceable. Dems would celebrate.


21 posted on 12/19/2023 5:08:18 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: eastexsteve

Make sure Sheila Jackson Lee and Eyepatch go with it


22 posted on 12/19/2023 5:13:32 PM PST by bigbob
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To: eastexsteve

I believe the problem of secession was settled back in 1861-1865 by war, and a Supreme Court ruling in 1869 that NO STATE can secede from the US.

Texas v. White
1869 U.S. Supreme Court case ruling Civil War secession invalid

https://www.britannica.com/event/Texas-v-White

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/74/700


23 posted on 12/19/2023 5:13:54 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: eastexsteve

If Texas did secede, then they would be in a position to kick out every single RINO in Texas, then move militarily to remove all criminal illegal aliens and secure their borders. If they did all that, I’d move there.


24 posted on 12/19/2023 5:14:14 PM PST by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Az Joe

“I’m stayin in. Let’s vote on kicking the deep Blue states OUT of the union.”
NO! We kick the blue cities out.
History has many precedents for city states.


25 posted on 12/19/2023 5:15:29 PM PST by rellic
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To: eastexsteve

I’ve lived there twice while in Air Force. Can do it again.


26 posted on 12/19/2023 5:15:32 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: cowboyusa

but keep their land ...


27 posted on 12/19/2023 5:17:36 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Regulator

Fr is from California.


28 posted on 12/19/2023 5:18:26 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: cowboyusa

People can move.


29 posted on 12/19/2023 5:27:18 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

No, ship every leftist out of the US.


30 posted on 12/19/2023 5:30:01 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: cowboyusa

How are you going to ship the Californians out of California?


31 posted on 12/19/2023 5:31:58 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: eastexsteve

Folks, do your homework.

This didn’t happen overnight and it isn’t going to happen overnight. The TEXIT movement if very well organized and they are doing these movements incrementally and thoughtfully. They are not making this up, but are following a plan guided by experts.

They already know they have the votes. They are seeking to inform and influence through the entire process, rather than uncork a sudden Texas-wide referendum. They truly would rather the citizens of the United States to come to their senses, but in case they don’t: this is a move towards self-preservation and self-determination.

They are not screwing around.


32 posted on 12/19/2023 5:32:58 PM PST by Salvavida
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To: eastexsteve

I couldn’t think of a bigger waste of time


33 posted on 12/19/2023 5:34:08 PM PST by wild74
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To: ansel12

All leftists in the US. A man can dream.


34 posted on 12/19/2023 5:34:28 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: eastexsteve

I believe that it is impossible because Congress has to approve.


35 posted on 12/19/2023 5:39:33 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Coronal
It doesn't matter.

The Central Government is the problem, no matter who is in charge by fact or appearance. It is hopelessly corrupt and run by a million bureaucrats that cannot be removed by electoral means. It is kept safe by an increasingly dangerous police apparatus.

A new government and/or country needs to be formed, merely "kicking out the blue states" will not work. The federal government as it is IS the capitol of 'blue America', with red states as tax vassals and the breadbasket. We have no representation because as soon as they get sworn in, they become compromised, willingly or otherwise.

Secession isn't an act of petulant rebellion. At this point it is an act of self-preservation.

36 posted on 12/19/2023 5:41:28 PM PST by thescourged1
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To: eastexsteve

TEXIT now!


37 posted on 12/19/2023 5:43:02 PM PST by texanyankee
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To: ridesthemiles

How many of those states would otherwise go for Trump/Republicans?


38 posted on 12/19/2023 5:43:05 PM PST by Coronal
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To: mrmeyer

Martin Armstrong was right, again.


39 posted on 12/19/2023 5:45:11 PM PST by delta7
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To: Coronal

“”If Texas secedes, then they cannot vote in federal elections.””

mmm, kind of the point as The Republic of Texas (luv saying that!) no longer cares what fed.gov does.

If Texas goes they are going to show the way to a LOT of other States.

As the states left complete the sprint to their destruction, normal American Citizens will flood into the new Free States taking their work ethic and tax revenue.

Prosperity will shine from the Free States and communism will prevail in the prog states.

THEN you will see the progs building walls in mere weeks to keep the prisoners, uhh, workers from escaping.

Eventually Washington D.C. will become a drive-through museum where the progs have a parade once a year.

You know, like Red Square...

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40 posted on 12/19/2023 5:46:20 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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