The first Late Night Coffee Talk of 2026 was a planning session as much as a Q&A. Daniel Miller spent the night laying out why this year is about one thing for the Texas Nationalist Movement: capacity. We are less than eight weeks from the primaries, he noted, which means the makeup of the next Texas Legislature is effectively being decided right now. His warning was blunt. The party in power at the federal level always faces headwinds going into a midterm, and this cycle those headwinds will be brutal. When the people who gave Washington one more chance watch that ship run up on the rocks, support for independence will spike, and the only question that matters is whether the movement has built enough infrastructure to capitalize on it before the legislative session opens. Build too little, he said, and you collapse under the weight of your own success.
Miller also used the hour to draw a hard line away from Big Tech. The TNM is winding down its long-running Facebook groups by mid-January and moving all community activity to its own platform, TNM Social, complete with a mobile app and a live chat that hosted much of this very broadcast. He framed it as the natural endgame of years of censorship and algorithmic suppression: if the platforms will not let us talk to each other, we build our own. On the substance, he kept returning to the economics that make the federal arrangement indefensible, from the shell game of partially funded federal mandates that force Texas to double-dip its own taxpayers, to the roughly 103 to 160 billion dollars Texas overpays into the system every year, to the plain fact that the government is run not by the people on the ballot but by some 2.5 million unelected bureaucrats and lifetime-appointed judges.
He closed with news for the content lineup. The Texas News podcast is being retooled and split in two. It returns as the Texas First Podcast for deep dives on Texas First issues, with an early episode digging into why Greg Abbott handed the Republican Party of Texas a two million dollar convention contribution. The interviews move to a new show, Texian Talks, livestreamed exclusively on TNM Social, where viewers help drive the conversation. First up are candidates, and Miller was emphatic: if you have not signed the Texas First Pledge, do not bother asking for a seat.
Questions answered in this episode
- What is happening this year that can actually get Texas closer to independence?
- When did the Union shift from being the United States to functioning as a single United State?
- How do we turn waste, fraud, and corruption into a real motivator for Texas independence?
- What should we make of the fraud being exposed in Texas, including the SBA loan and daycare-style scandals?
- Is there any update on the military and intellectual property negotiations?
- Did you catch the Kyle Rittenhouse interview, and is he genuinely pro-Texas independence?
- Can you give an update on Take Texas Back and getting our own people elected at the precinct level?
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