90.08 Percent: The Night the Texas GOP Put a TEXIT Vote in Its Platform

This Late Night Coffee Talk landed on a banner news day, and Daniel Miller knew it. Hours earlier the Republican Party of Texas had released the delegate vote totals from its 2022 platform, and the plank the TNM crafted, the one that expressly calls on the Legislature to give Texans a referendum on reasserting independence, passed with 90.08 percent of the largest political convention in the world. Miller’s message to the legislators who spent the last session insisting that nobody wants this vote was blunt: the team jersey you claim to wear just made it the official position of your party. He framed it in football terms, a first down deep in opposing territory, and warned supporters not to rest on it but to carry the platform into the district offices of their Republican champions and demand they honor planks 33 and 225.

He spent the open explaining why the TNM’s new app and social network, launched on July 4, matter beyond novelty. Drawing on Gene Sharp’s idea of atomization, Miller argued that regimes keep people compliant by isolating them and convincing them they are alone, and that a many-to-many communications platform the movement controls is how Texans bypass the spam folders, throttled posts, and gatekeepers. He pointed to the establishment’s habit of dismissing independence supporters as a fringe vocal minority, and to a telling reaction that very afternoon: after the TNM sent out its platform release, a Fox News senior producer unsubscribed and a small paper’s editor demanded to be told where Texas gets the right to secede. Miller’s answer was that the 90.08 percent result means the movement no longer has to do their homework for them.

The hour also covered the border. With several counties declaring an invasion, Miller argued citizens have little lawful recourse to seal it themselves and worried the state would not shield anyone who tried, while the real pre-independence step remains Governor Abbott declaring an invasion and deploying the Texas military forces. He closed by teasing new third-party polling due within 24 to 48 hours that he promised would show how the rest of Texas, not just GOP delegates, feels about a vote.

Questions answered in this episode

• If we vote for TEXIT and it passes, what is the first thing we should do so we do not end up like the United States again?
• Will the Republic of Texas lay claim to its traditional, larger borders?
• Will anti-Texan remainers push for reunification with the United States the way Brexit opponents did?
• Can Texas citizens legally do anything to close the border themselves?
• Should we be sending ambassadors to Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana?
• What do the 2022 RPT platform results, and the 90.08 percent vote, actually mean for the path to a referendum?