Daniel Miller spent the open of this Late Night Coffee Talk on the news that matters to the movement. More than 20 lawsuits are now pending, a point he raised after a conversation with Attorney General Paxton, and the message to an impatient base was blunt: he is upset too, but Texans do not curl up and suck their thumbs, they put their backs into the work. He walked through a wave of brand new local groups, welcomed the organization’s first ever local coordinator in El Paso, and unveiled a run of merch built entirely from viewer requests, including the line about being as nervous as a chihuahua in a peach pit when the Legislature is in session.
The centerpiece was Greg Abbott’s plan to bus illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C. Miller replayed his Real America’s Voice interview to make the case that the Texas Nationalist Movement floated this exact idea in 2010, that Abbott has now spent taxpayer money on it, and that buses are the wrong tool entirely. The governor, he argued, should invoke Article 1, Section 10 to declare an invasion and use his authority under Article 4, Section 7 as commander in chief to deploy the full strength of the Texas Military Department. Putting people on buses while cartels run the border, he said, is like reaching for an astronaut diaper when you have stomach trouble. You are catching the mess instead of fixing the problem.
From there it was all viewer questions, which is the reason the show exists. Miller pushed back on the idea that the movement is running out of time, noting he has heard that for 25 years, and returned again and again to the same engine: one supporter talking to one new person, multiplied across the state. He tied Washington’s refusal to reform to a long train of abuses, drew the line between Texas nationalism and globalism, and used a George Mason study on federal regulatory accumulation to argue that the compounding two percent annual drag on the economy is why TEXIT would mean a roughly six hundred dollar boost in pay for working Texans, with the poor hit hardest by the rules Austin now seems eager to copy.
Questions answered in this episode
- Why do you look tired, and are you sick? (Allergy season in Texas, plus a note that Miller has been asked to co-chair Americans United for Peaceful Separation.)
- How many counties adopted the resolution calling for a vote on TEXIT, and what happened with the state convention booth request?
- Can you put to rest the current strategy around the petition? (The official petition window has closed, but a separate petitioning effort for local groups may roll out pending legal and strategic sign off.)
- How do we capitalize on the chaos coming out of Washington when they cannot keep their promises?
- Which parts of Texas have been hardest to communicate the mission to, urban or rural?
- How does the movement feel about people moving to Texas expressly for independence?
- What about standing up an operational military for the new republic, including production and logistics?
- How will taxes work and what is planned after independence?
- How do I get started promoting the movement in my own area?
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