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Power Given to One President Is Given to All of Them
The new White House press secretary once said Washington should take over California and suspend habeas corpus. Lincoln showed where that power goes.
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Signed columns by Daniel Miller and other leaders of the Texas Nationalist Movement, written in the first person and in their own voices. They argue the case for Texas independence against the news of the day.
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Nothing New Under the Sun
The Cruz rumor, Salmon Chase, and the case Texans are told settles everything
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There Is No Such Thing as Two First Places
More candidates are calling themselves America First and Texas First at once.
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What a Village in England Just Told Texas
A village in Oxfordshire voted to hold a referendum on leaving the United Kingdom.
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Men Die. Principles Live.
I have spent a good part of this year making an argument I now want to finish, because I have come to see that I was only ever making half of it.
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Decided Without Us
On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that Election Day does not have to end on Election Day.
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I Wrote A Secret Book
I started this spring with a simple project. A document. A response to the line, repeated for twenty years now, that the TNM is not doing anything.
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190 Years Ago, 59 Texans Changed Everything
March 2, 1836. Washington-on-the-Brazos. Fifty-nine men in a drafty, unfinished building put their names on a document that most of the world thought was suicidal.
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Alaska Writer Warns American Empire Nears Collapse
An Alaska independence advocate's essay on America's failing empire offers a stark warning Texas can't ignore. Federal dysfunction now threatens civil war.
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The Far Chair
I’m at my daughter’s house for Christmas. It got crowded inside, so I stepped out to the back porch where they have a round table with four chairs.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Resignation Proves We’ve Been Right All Along
Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from Congress on November 21st. Her resignation statement—all four pages of it—reads like something we could have written ourselves.
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“Texas First” is Everywhere. You’re Welcome.
Back in 2009, we started using a phrase that seemed perfectly natural to us—Texas First. By 2011, it was emblazoned across our banners at events across the state.
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Twenty Years of Defying the Odds
Twenty years ago today, skeptics predicted the Texas Nationalist Movement would fade into obscurity within a year.
