Daniel Miller opened this Late Night Coffee Talk fresh off the road from Montgomery, Alabama, where he spoke at the Abbeville Institute’s conference on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. He was there as one of the few practitioners in a room full of academics, alongside Mike Maharrey of the Tenth Amendment Center, and he came back convinced that something is shifting. The full transcript of his remarks is posted on texianpartisan.com.
The night’s through line was the establishment’s growing nervousness. A Wired magazine piece by Syracuse professor Ryan Griffiths attacking self-determination became the centerpiece. Miller’s read is that the article is not aimed at Texans at all. It is aimed at progressives in California, Minnesota, and elsewhere who are starting to realize their own states might be better off outside the union, and Griffiths is trying to talk them out of using the very mechanism the TNM has proven works. The real question, Miller argued, is not whether the article is wrong. It is why Wired chose to publish it now. You do not write a rebuttal to a movement that has no wind at its back.
From there the conversation ranged across Meta and the federal habit of outsourcing tyranny to private platforms it funds with tax dollars, the Flock camera surveillance networks going up across Southeast Texas, the structural reality that roughly 72 percent of Texas votes come from about 35 counties, and what a faceless Democrat polling within striking distance of Greg Abbott really tells you. Tying it all together was the Texian app, now three weeks live, which Miller frames as the organizational backbone that finally lets the movement reach supporters without going through hostile gatekeepers. The 2027 legislative strategy, he said plainly, will rise or fall on how many people become declared Texians between now and then.
Questions answered in this episode
- Can the new declared-Texian pledge videos be shared as links for recruitment?
- If Texas turns blue, what are the pros and cons for the TNM and for Texit, and has Texas already effectively turned blue under the current power-sharing in the House?
- What are Beto O’Rourke’s real chances of winning the U.S. Senate seat?
- What should we make of Trump putting Mark Zuckerberg in a role advising the White House on AI and tech?
- Did a previous episode cover Pete Chambers, the Texas First Pledge signer?
- What is going on with Ryan Griffiths, the academic behind the Wired magazine article?
- What is the name of the new podcast replacing the Texas News podcast?
- What are the TNM’s plans for the 2027 Texas legislative session?
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