How a vote on Texas independence would work and the campaigns working to put one on the ballot. The section also answers the questions and myths people raise most. The full FAQ and the movement's founding documents live at thetnm.org.
Texas already commands three military branches, and Washington spends tens of billions a year on defense inside the state. The Texas Nationalist Movement's plan builds on the first and settles the second by treaty.
Nearly five million Texans draw Social Security. The Texas Nationalist Movement's position is that every Texan who paid in and draws benefits keeps them, and Washington already pays its citizens abroad.
Texas is the world's eighth-largest economy by output.
Washington owed $40.30 trillion on October 9, 2026.
An independent Texas could keep the U.S. dollar from its first day without anyone's permission.
The United States recognized the Republic of Texas in 1837.
Only the Texas Legislature can order a statewide vote on independence.
Texas v. White was a lawsuit over bonds.
Texas joined the union in 1845 as an independent republic. It kept its public lands and its debts and won a clause allowing four more states.
The claim that Texas could leave only by constitutional amendment or war assumes Texans need permission to decide. The Texas Constitution places that right with the people.
The claim that an independent Texas would be defenseless ignores the Texas Military Department, a $47.4 billion defense economy already on Texas soil, and a Mexican military budget of $13.6 billion.
The claim that Social Security and other benefits would stop if Texas left runs into Washington's own rules.
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.
