Facebook Is Censoring Texas: A Purge, a New Poll, and the Right to Vote on TEXIT

Daniel Miller opened this midweek session with a tell. The show was not on Facebook. The platform had refused to let the Texas Nationalist Movement go live that night, so the broadcast ran on YouTube, Roku, the TNM app, and Twitter instead. Miller framed it as the headline event of the hour. Facebook is blocking people from sharing the link to TNM’s TEXIT section, and minutes before air he had been notified that six county-group posts from two years ago were deleted for containing that same link. He called it outrage archaeology, a slash-and-burn campaign reaching back through old posts, and he pointed supporters to a new page at tnm.me/Facebook to fight back.

The ask was specific and a little mysterious. Miller wanted one screenshot from as many people as possible showing Facebook’s block message, the one citing community standards. He would not say why beyond a hint that the reason would become clear in a couple of weeks, and he was blunt that the effort needs an email address to work. He also drew a hard line for his own audience. Do not send him mail demanding TNM abandon Facebook. The job is to be where Texans are, and until some other platform becomes the most-used network in Texas, that means staying on the one the people actually use.

Then came the numbers. A Defend Texas Liberty PAC survey of Republican primary and runoff voters asked whether Texans have the right to hold a referendum on seceding from the United States. The split was 59 percent yes, 25 percent no, 16 percent unsure. Miller read it against the SurveyUSA poll showing 66 percent of likely Texas voters and 76 percent of Republicans would vote for independence, and argued the unsure 16 percent are the very people TNM has always targeted. They favor independence but were taught their whole lives it could not be done. His conclusion was flat. Support for Texas independence has not abated. The side that wants the vote is the majority, and the work now is to turn that majority into pressure on the legislature.

Questions answered in this episode

• Can the Texas Nationalist Movement set up scholarships or a volunteer-hours exchange so supporters on a fixed income can afford membership?
• Once a referendum is won, can Texas immediately act as an independent nation against federal law if an emergency demands it?
• What happens to the movement if Beto O’Rourke wins the governor’s race?
• If TEXIT is not on this November ballot and no candidates ran, did the movement break its promise?
• What is the realistic timeline and likelihood of getting TEXIT onto the state ballot?
• Should the votes of multi-generational Texans count more than those of newer arrivals?
• Would an independent Texas create its own currency, and how would that affect commerce, oil, and gas?
• What offensive and defensive measures is TNM building to overcome federal resistance to TEXIT?
• Does TNM have a position on poker rooms?
• At what point after a vote for self-governance do U.S. federal laws stop binding Texas?
• How can supporters be signed up when they do not have an email address?