Daniel Miller opened a leaner-than-usual coffee talk by clearing his book backlog. The Texas v. White manuscript he channeled years of disgust into is off to the publisher, the Being Texian draft is in editing with thirty thousand words still to cut, and a reader poll on TNM Social has the title America Is Not a Nation running away with the next slot. He framed the night around a single thread that ran through every answer. The fight for independence is not won shouting at the sky. It is won in the living rooms of Texas communities, against politicians who tell the truth roughly a third of the time and spend the rest gaslighting voters with mailers and money.
On the John Cornyn race, Miller refused to extrapolate. Cornyn has aged like milk and become a Vichy senator who puts a Texas seal of approval on Washington dysfunction, but his challengers are two exceedingly well-funded operators with name ID, while a primary run at Abbott or Patrick has to be built years in advance with a war chest most insurgents will never have. He saved his sharpest contempt for the newborn savings-account proposal floated federally by Trump, Cruz, and Michael Dell, now echoed by Dan Patrick for Texas. With the federal government thirty-eight trillion in debt and property-tax elimination stalled for two decades, Miller called it redistribution dressed up as nationalism, a platform that would be branded socialist instantly with a Democrat’s name on the flyer.
The redistricting answer cut the same way. Miller said he opposes racial gerrymandering on principle, but the tell is that the legislature redrew only the congressional maps. If the old Voting Rights Act criteria really tainted the lines, the Texas House and Senate maps were drawn the same way and should have been redrawn too. Doing one set and not the others exposes the whole exercise as political convenience aimed at the midterms. On the bigger questions, he separated county-to-county splits like the Greater Idaho movement from Texas withdrawing as a nation, noted that Texas counties are administrative subdivisions of the state, and warned that the regime’s real weapon is atomization, keeping neighbors who already agree from ever finding each other.
Questions answered in this episode
- Cornyn polling shows Texas voters ready for a change. Can the same shift reach Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick, given their challengers face huge gaps in name recognition and campaign cash?
- Where is the QR code for supporting the Texas Nationalist Movement?
- What are the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s stay on the redistricting ruling for Texas sovereignty and Washington’s reach into the state?
- What position would the movement take on Texas territorial expansion, specifically opening negotiations to annex Eddy and Lea counties in southeast New Mexico?
- In your experience, is Dallas receptive to TEXIT?
- When will the Being Texian book be available?
- Will big oil and gas help or hinder Texas independence, and will an industry that effectively rules the state allow it to happen?
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