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Social Security Does Not Stop at the Border. Americans Already Collect It Abroad for Life.
The claim that Social Security and other benefits would stop if Texas left runs into Washington's own rules. U.S. citizens collect Social Security abroad for life, most VA benefits are payable anywhere, and Texas already runs Medicaid, SNAP and WIC.
Daily Briefing: Saturday, September 19, 2026
Washington repays Texas $7.5 billion of its border spending, the Texas House sets a prosecutor hearing, the Texas Supreme Court holds Galveston County to its primary map, Galveston restores its Texas Revolution monument, Greenland backs a security pact that recognizes its self-determination, Alberta restricts voter lists, and Somaliland lobbies Senator Cruz.
A Dallas-Area Post Asked Whether Texans Should Vote on Independence. 1,700 Reactions and 500 Comments Later, Here Is What Texans Said.
A Collin County Journal post asking whether Texans should vote on independence drew 1,700 reactions and 500 comments. Counted like ballots, the reactions ran about 88 percent for. Here is what the thread said, and the answers to every objection in it.
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Why Texas Cheers Self-Determination Abroad, How an Independent Texas Guards Its Borders, and the $5,000 Check Problem
Daniel Miller flew solo this week and closed the show on the question several viewers had been asking: why should Texans care what happens in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Alberta or Quebec? His answer is that every one of those movements is walking the same road. It is not TNM's place to say any of them would be better off independent. It is TNM's place to cheer on the exercise of self-determination itself, the way Texans celebrated that the UK got a vote on leaving the European Union and that Scotland got a vote in 2014, even though it failed....
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I Crossed the Line at Twenty-Two
Thirty years ago today, I pressed my thumb into red ink in a Tyler hotel hallway and joined the fight for Texas independence. What that decision built, and why the vote was always ours to hold.