For 20 years, people outside Texas have been asking the Texas Nationalist Movement the same question: “How did you build this?”
On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, TNM gave them an answer. The organization launched US★EXIT today, a new platform at usexit.org that hands the organizing model behind the largest independence movement in the United States to people in every other state. TNM built it and stands behind it as the steward, but US★EXIT is structured as its own project, not an extension of TNM’s Texas work.
The date is not incidental. The Declaration of Independence, adopted July 4, 1776, did not create one nation that day. It declared thirteen colonies to be, in its own language, “Free and Independent States.” US★EXIT’s founding argument is that the right those thirteen states claimed is the same right every state holds now.
“Read the last paragraph of the Declaration, the part nobody quotes on the Fourth of July,” said TNM President Daniel Miller. “Thirteen states declared themselves free and independent, each claiming the right to govern itself. They didn’t found one nation that day. They asserted the independence of thirteen. That right didn’t expire. It belongs to every state in the union now, and there’s nothing radical about saying so. It’s the most American idea there is.”
The Reversal Question
The site is built around a question Miller has been putting to audiences for years, framed in reverse from how pollsters usually ask it.
“Ask people whether their state should secede, and you set off every alarm Washington spent a century installing. So ask it honestly instead,” Miller said. “If your state were already an independent nation in every respect, with its own border, its own money, its own defense, everything 200 other nations control, and instead of leaving you were asked whether to give all that up and join the United States on today’s terms, would you vote to join? If not, why stay one second longer? That’s the reversal test. It takes the fear out and shows you what people actually want.”
Every state page on US★EXIT carries that question, along with a place for residents to cast a vote and add their name.
The Numbers, Floor and Ceiling
US★EXIT draws a hard line between raw polling and what a real referendum would show, and it shows its work on a dedicated methodology page.
The floor: in February 2024, YouGov polled 35,307 adults on whether their state would be better off independent. Eight states came back at 25 percent or higher, with Texas at 31.
Those numbers are real, but US★EXIT argues they undercount the true figure, because the question was abstract, offered an easy “not sure,” and never specified that independence would be peaceful. When pollsters ask it the way an actual referendum would, the number moves. California is the clearest example: the same YouGov survey had California at 29 percent, but days later, when the Independent California Institute commissioned YouGov to ask a forced-choice question about leaving peacefully, the number jumped to 58, a 30-point swing on the same question in the same month. Texas shows the same pattern: SurveyUSA’s 2022 poll on peaceful Texas independence found 66 percent support, more than double YouGov’s abstract 31.
Applying that same 30-point correction across all fifty states, US★EXIT calculates a majority in favor of independence in 23 states, with 22 more within striking distance. The site leads with the corrected figures and links every source behind them.
What’s Live Today
US★EXIT launches with:
- An interactive map of all 50 states showing measured support, economic scale, and which states already have an organized movement
- The reversal question on every state page, with a running vote and name count
- A free organizing Library: a first-90-days guide, first-meeting scripts, sign-in sheets, and contact trackers, offered as education under TNM Education
- Model legislation, offered as education, for state legislators who want to bring an independence referendum to their own legislature
- A point-by-point rebuttal of Texas v. White, the 1869 Supreme Court ruling most often cited to claim state independence is settled law
- The Self-Determination Covenant, the standard that governs how movements in the network recognize one another
The site also runs the numbers behind a claim Miller has made for years: that most states, measured against the world’s economies and populations, would already stand on their own among the world’s sovereign nations. US★EXIT ranks each state’s economy and population against sovereign countries, state by state.
What US★EXIT Won’t Do
The platform is built with a deliberate boundary. It does not collect money from the state groups it works with, and it does not speak for them.
Where an organized movement already exists, US★EXIT treats it as the resource, not a rival: Calexit Now in California, NHExit Now in New Hampshire, Free Louisiana in Louisiana. Where no organized effort exists yet, the platform’s job is to help residents of that state find each other and start one.
“Texas built the largest movement of its kind in the United States,” Miller said. “The will in the other states was never the problem. What’s been missing is each other. US★EXIT fixes that. We bring the playbook, the standard, and the people near you who already agree. We don’t run your group. We don’t take your money. What you build is yours.”
The platform is also built off the partisan axis by design, with a palette that is neither red nor blue. A resident of California and a resident of Texas may disagree on nearly everything else in politics. Whether the people who live in a place get to decide how it is governed sits underneath that fight in both states, and US★EXIT is betting the answer reads the same either way.
US★EXIT is a project of the Texas Nationalist Movement: educational and peer-support work that does not run, fund, or speak for any group in any state. It joins TNM’s own decades-long push for TEXIT, the restoration of Texas independence decided by a lawful vote of the Texas people, now backed by more than 633,000 registered supporters across all 254 Texas counties.
The full site, including the Texas v. White rebuttal and the organizing Library, is live now at usexit.org.
Comments have moved. The real debate about Texas independence now happens with thousands of Texians in the app.
Get the TEXIAN app
