Daniel Miller opened this Late Night Coffee Talk on the theme that has dominated the start of 2026: the worldwide drift toward decentralization. Viewers keep asking about Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec, Scotland, New Hampshire, Nuevo Leon, and the recent folding of the Alaskan Independence Party, and Daniel used the moment to explain how the TNM relates to those movements. The organization stays in regular contact with self-determination efforts around the world, offering experience and consultation as a debt it owes to the movements that informed the TNM’s own founding study. A rising tide raises all ships, he argued, and the global surge in independence sentiment keeps pushing the needle in Texas’s favor heading into the general election and the next legislative session.
The conversation kept circling back to one idea: what looks like a new nationalism coming out of Washington is really globalism repackaged. Asked about Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick attending the World Economic Forum at Davos, Daniel said the average Texas voter has no idea what Davos or the WEF even is, so it will not move the primary by itself, but it fits a larger pattern. The United States, he stressed, is not a nation but an institution, and the fight in Washington is over who gets the most influential seat at the globalist table, not over America first. He also revived the old story of Patrick’s claim to have donated to the Calexit movement, a claim the TNM’s contacts there could find no record of.
Daniel was blunt about the federal system itself. He holds a long-standing principled aversion to voting in federal races because the popular election of senators stripped the states of real representation, leaving what he called the illusion of a voice. That same logic shaped his answers on the Paxton versus Talarico Senate contest and on Steve Bannon: who Texas sends to Washington does not matter much when the machine is rigged against state-level pushback. The thread tying it together was the single-issue voter doctrine. If independence is not your priority, he warned, you will not get it, and torpedoing a 99 percent aligned pro-independence legislator over one unrelated stance is how the movement shatters like glass instead of punching through like a cannonball.
He closed with a look ahead at 2026: renewed capacity building in the counties, more in-person events including a likely return of TexitCon in November, a TNM presence at the Republican Party of Texas convention, and immediate work on legislative strategy the day after the March 3 primary. He also marked the 165th anniversary of Texas leaving the union, when the 1861 convention voted 166 to 7 and Texans ratified by popular vote 34,794 to 11,325, three of every four voters choosing to go.
Questions answered in this episode
- How does the TNM connect with and support other independence movements like Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec, and New Hampshire?
- Could the immigration fights in Minnesota spark a real secession movement there or in other sanctuary states?
- Is Dan Patrick bragging about Davos enough to show Texas voters that current state leadership is globalist rather than Texas first?
- Will Dan Patrick offer to donate to Minnesota leaving the union the way he claimed to with Calexit?
- Can a high schooler start a TNM club on campus with friends?
- What are your thoughts on the Texas Senate race if it comes down to Ken Paxton versus James Talarico?
- Will the TNM do anything to commemorate the 165th anniversary of Texas seceding from the United States?
- What should supporters know about the TNM’s plans for 2026?
- What do the reported US sonic weapons used in Venezuela mean for Texas independence?
- What do you make of Steve Bannon’s possible run for president?
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