Quebec voters swept the Parti Québécois into the lead this week on a promise to put independence back on the ballot. It would be Quebec’s third referendum, after 1980 and 1995, and it lands as Alberta heads to the polls on its own question in less than two weeks. Add Scotland, Wales, Catalonia and the coming vote in Nuevo León, and the pattern is plain: people around the world are deciding their future peacefully at the ballot box. Daniel Miller put the question back to Texas politicians. If it is good enough for Quebec and Alberta, and it was good enough for Texans in 1845 and 1861, why not now? This Tuesday marks the 181st anniversary of the vote Texans took to join the Union.
Daniel also walked through the recall fight in Granbury. Residents gathered more than 5,000 signatures on five recall petitions after the city annexed and rezoned land for an AI data center campus without telling residents what it was for. The officials named in the petitions refused to certify them, then sued, with explanations that shifted from unverifiable signatures to vague charges to fraud. Daniel noted that forgery is a crime you report to police, not a reason to file a lawsuit, and compared the episode to how the Texas Republican Party handled TNM’s own petition: the law followed to the letter, and the establishment still stood in the way.
He closed with a look at sound money. Texas now has its own bullion depository and a legal framework for transactional gold, but adoption is the next hurdle. Most Texans do not yet know how to use it or why it matters, and Daniel argued that building that appetite is work for now, not after independence.
Questions answered in this episode
- Any thoughts on James Talarico’s nearly two-week absence from the U.S. Senate campaign trail?
- Do you think Texas really will be its own country?
- What are your thoughts on the Granbury recall election being put on hold after the city went to court, even though citizens met the petition threshold?
- Why do you pay income taxes if you believe they are unconstitutional?
- Any updates on TEXITCon 2027?
- How many supporters have taken the Army of One course in the TNM Academy?
- Where can I find Dr. Steve Turley’s full session from TEXITCon?
- After half a century of fiat currency, what are the real odds an independent Texas will have an appetite for sound money?
- How can we get young people more involved in the movement?
- Why is no one holding officials like Ken Paxton accountable?
- Is it too late for Texas independence given the H-1B visa problem?
Daniel also highlighted Fort Worth Magazine’s write-up of the new Texas citizenship test, which more than 10,000 people have now taken, and his essay “Nation, State, and Country” on why Texas already meets all three definitions.
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