Hoping Isn’t a Plan: TEXIT’s Inevitability, Veterans the Feds Abandoned, and What’s Actually Missing

Daniel Miller opened this week’s Late Night Coffee Talk on the relaunch of TNM Social. After years of fighting big tech censorship, the network now runs on its own hardware, separate from the main TNM site. Inactive accounts were cleared, and anyone can register support straight from the app and land in groups tied to their county, their House and Senate districts, and their interests. Miller’s pitch was blunt: this is where you organize with people who actually want Texas to be a self-governing independent nation.

The night’s recurring theme was the gap between wanting independence and working for it. Asked by Charles Ross what the realistic likelihood of TEXIT ever happening is, Miller called it an inevitability given the trajectory of the United States. The real question, he said, is the timeline, and that is set by the people, not by him or the organization. Hoping, wishing, and praying are fine, but unbounded by work they accomplish nothing. The choice he laid out: Texas can leave the union deliberately, as the world’s eighth-largest economy with its infrastructure intact, or spin out as an accident of federal collapse the way the Soviet republics did.

That set up Caleb’s question about the one thing the TNM lacks that would propel Texas to a vote. Miller pushed past the obvious answer of money, calling a war chest a symptom rather than the disease. What’s actually missing, he argued, is a deeper, larger, more committed community of people who don’t just support independence but champion it. The fix ties back to the show’s first questions: plenty of people are willing, they just don’t know what to do, and the organization owes them better resources for that.

Questions answered in this episode

• What happened to the outreach center link that disappeared from TNM Social after the upgrade?
• How can someone with almost no free time, raising a grandchild and running a ranch, still help advance Texas independence?
• What is the realistic likelihood that Texas independence will ever actually happen?
• Is there a fix for the on-ramp and off-ramp imbalance in Texas’s new transactional gold system at the state bullion depository?
• Is the independence movement in Western Canada, and Alberta in particular, a serious development?
• Can Texas become the first state to protect its veterans from deportation, including those whose non-violent drug offenses trace back to untreated PTSD?
• If you could point to one thing the TNM lacks that would propel Texas to an independence vote, what is it?
• As a young person, a Zoomer, how do you get involved with the organization?

Along the way Miller answered Julio Torres, a Marine Corps veteran who runs a recovery home, with a personal account of watching the VA fail his own father after Korea, and argued an independent Texas would care for its veterans far better than the government that broke its promises to them. He also mapped independence sentiment across North America, from the Alberta Prosperity Project to the late Dr. Naylor’s Second Vermont Republic, and told the show’s youngest questioner the same first step it always is: register your support, then choose your own adventure from there.