Election-Eve Column in Washington Examiner Calls for a Red-Blue ‘Divorce’

A column in the Washington Examiner published Sunday, two days before the midterm elections, argues that the union “doesn’t need an election. It needs a divorce.”

The author, Michael Levin, a two-time New York Times bestselling author, proposes that the red states separate from the Pacific coast states, Michigan, Minnesota, Chicago and “everything from Virginia to Maine.” He calls the two halves Red-State America and Blue-State America, writes that the blue half has “surrendered to socialism,” and predicts that it “will come crawling back.”

Texas turns up in his case for the red side. Financial services, he writes, are moving to Texas and Florida, and he lists the University of Texas and Rice among the red states’ schools.

An Old Idea Back in Print

Levin is not the first to make the case. Marjorie Taylor Greene, then a congresswoman from Georgia, called for a national divorce between red and blue states in February 2023, as the Texian Partisan reported when she resigned.

The Texas Nationalist Movement’s Position

The Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), which works for a vote on Texas independence, rejects the term. Asked about it on Late Night Coffee Talk in October 2025, TNM President Daniel Miller said, “I don’t like it,” and called it “a very inaccurate term.”

“It is not constructed of political parties,” Miller said of the union. “It’s constructed of states.”

The Texas Constitution opens on the same ground. Article 1, Section 1 begins, “Texas is a free and independent State.”

A split along party lines would decide Texas’s future by where someone else drew the line. The Texas Independence Referendum Act, TNM’s model legislation, puts the question to Texans alone, in a vote ordered by the Texas Legislature, whatever the other 49 states do.