Secession Speakeasy Sizes Up TNM’s Advances Inside the Texas GOP
A pro-independence show walks its audience through the Partisan's report on the Texas Nationalist Movement's gains at the 2026 Republican convention.
The Secession Speakeasy, a pro-independence show, gave its 191st episode over to the Texas Nationalist Movement and the ground it gained at the June convention of the Republican Party of Texas. The show’s hosts read through the Partisan’s own report on the convention and used it to walk their audience through how far the independence question has traveled inside the state party.
The hosts credit the movement’s two decades of county-by-county work for what the convention produced. The independence planks the movement wrote are in the platform, an organized floor attempt to strip the language out was beaten back, and Texas First Pledge signers now hold the party’s chair, vice chair, and at least 17 seats on its governing committee. Their throughline is the one the report drew: ten years ago a vote on independence could not survive a committee, and today it is the official position of the largest state party in the United States.
The full account they worked from is here: Ten Years from Two Votes Short: Texas Independence at the 2026 State Convention.
The argument underneath it has not changed in those ten years. It rests on a single question the party fight only sharpens: whether Texans, not Washington, decide the terms of their own government.
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