Recording on Thanksgiving eve, Daniel Miller turned this Late Night Coffee Talk into a status report on the fight he says is now unavoidable. The political establishment reads the same TEXIT poll numbers the movement does, he argued, and whatever Texans think of the recent election, the country is heading toward having fewer states in it than it has today. Independence, in his telling, is the inevitability. TEXIT is just the process that gets Texas there.
Most of the hour landed on the Texas Legislature. With the pre-filing window for the 89th session wide open, Miller counted 147 bills already filed on the House side and 495 on the Senate side, an unusually heavy load this early. He flagged a refiled Texas Sovereignty Act, the return of monument-protection legislation, a wave of border bills, and a Rep. Raymond measure on honesty in state taxes, alongside bills the movement will fight because they threaten the right to keep and bear arms and other guarantees in the Texas Bill of Rights.
The sharpest stretch was on House leadership. Miller said the movement wants wholesale change at the top, named the Calendars Committee as the choke point where pro-Texas bills quietly die, and traced that committee back to the 63rd session as the place its weaponization became, in his words, an art form. With the GOP caucus set to pick its speaker candidate on December 7, his instruction to viewers was blunt: get in your legislator’s ear now, because the decision is almost made. He closed on gratitude, telling the story of a coffee roaster who pulled his family and business out of Washington State and moved to Texas because of where the movement is taking it.
Questions answered in this episode
- Will the new election mandate and the decisions of both houses of Congress be shaped by TEXIT and the other states moving toward independence, including pressure to cut taxes, deficits, and debt?
- After TEXIT, would Texas resume an original constitution or start from scratch with a new one?
- With the Texas Independence Referendum Act still pending, what sovereignty bills are already filed for the 89th session, and how can citizen activists support them?
- How will an independent Texas handle the inflow of people from other states seeking freedom from the federal government?
- Will Texas have its own currency or keep using the US dollar, and how would it stand up its own monetary system?
- Are there any updates on filing the Texas Independence Referendum Act this session?
- Is the movement taking official measures to keep Dade Phelan from working his way back into the House Speaker’s chair?
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