A Cancer You Cut Out: Cat Parks Comes for the Booth, and Why Texas Cannot Be Fixed From Inside

Daniel Miller opens this week back from three days of leadership training near the San Jacinto Monument, where district directors and local coordinators drilled the skills and mindset for winning Texas independence. The bigger story of the week, though, is a fight inside the Republican Party of Texas. After months of waiting on a routine booth application for the RPT convention, Miller got a call: Vice Chair Cat Parks is on the warpath, insisting the TNM has no business at the convention because what the movement does is somehow unconstitutional. Miller is unbothered. Parks has no vote and no say, the TNM still has allies on the State Republican Executive Committee, and the organization whose supporters make up a majority of the party she claims to represent does not take kindly to being slandered. He promises a recording of the committee meeting and action steps for members.

The heart of the night is a question Miller has answered for years and clearly relishes: how can anyone back Convention of States but not Texas independence? His answer is blunt. The federal union cannot be fixed. Over the last 75 to 80 years the world produced roughly 150 new self-governing nation states, and not one Article V convention. If you would not vote to join the union today knowing what you know, you would not vote to stay. He reaches for the metaphor that gives this episode its spine. A cancerous mole gets cut out, not tattooed around. Texas raises up, reclaims its right of self-government, and becomes a beacon for anyone else who refuses a slow political suicide.

He closes on scale and structure. The United States was never meant to be a single monolithic nation, Miller argues, but a federated union of fifty sovereign self-governing states. The gap between that original design and how Washington actually behaves, plus the sheer size his late friend Dr. Thomas Naylor warned about, is why the system is in serious trouble. Either way, the case for Texas standing as a nation among nations only gets stronger.

Questions answered in this episode

• Does the Texas Election Code require elected convention delegates to pay to attend, or can they refuse?
• Can Texas print its own money, and can the state start decoupling from the federal monetary system before independence?
• Can the TNM start a campaign to get the broken elevator at the San Jacinto Monument repaired, and who actually controls it?
• How can Texans pressure Governor Abbott to stop renewing the March 2020 COVID state of emergency every 30 days?
• How can someone support a Convention of States but not Texas independence?
• What is the statute that lets Texans deposit gold into Texas-chartered banks, and how did the Texas Gold Depository Act come about?
• When is the TNM going back to PorcFest in New Hampshire?
• Will there be a TEXIT rally coming up?
• Is the United States struggling because of its size, and can a nation of 330 million people be a successful republic without more cultural cohesion?