The week’s coffee talk turns on a single viewer request. With precinct, county, and senate district conventions of the Republican Party of Texas landing that Saturday, a supporter named Stacey asked Daniel Miller to walk through how to actually fight for the TNM’s independence resolution once you are in the room. So that is where the night goes. Miller frames it bluntly: the Texas GOP state convention is the largest political convention in the world by delegate count, roughly 9,000 delegates, and much of the policy direction handed to the next legislature is supposed to be set there. The party and its platform matter, even if you can argue about how much attention the politicians actually pay to either.
His core advice is procedural. County and SD conventions run on Robert’s Rules of Order, not the loose scripts some precinct meetings used, so know the tools: the point of order when someone breaks decorum, the parliamentary inquiry directed to the chair, the point of information aimed at a speaker. Miller retells the 2016 Jefferson County fight where an opponent branded the resolution sedition, and how a point of order demanding an apology, plus the line “if we are committing a crime, call 911,” collapsed the attack and got the resolution passed. He hands delegates three arguments to lean on: Article 1, Section 2 of the Texas Constitution and its inalienable right to alter or abolish government; the fact that treason is the only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution, so accusations of treason or sedition invite a 911 call rather than a platform plank; and Plank 65, already in the RPT platform, which declares the federal government has impaired Texans’ right of local self-government and asserts the right to secede. He warns a move is coming to strip Plank 65 out, and tells supporters to be ready for that fight.
The practical playbook: bring far more copies of the resolution than required, arrive early to identify allies, be visibly identifiable as a TNM supporter, and enroll in the hour-long convention training in the TNM Academy before Saturday. Maintain decorum and you turn fence-sitters; lose your temper the moment you break decorum and you lose the room. From there Miller opens the floor, plugs the post-election plan and the new local groups spinning up across the state, points listeners to the election integrity reporting channel, and closes on the recurring Sam Houston line about Texas lifting its head to stand among the nations.
Questions answered in this episode
- How do we keep Texas from developing the same political dysfunction and corruption after independence that we see in Washington and Austin?
- With so many businesses relocating to Texas, how do we keep the state from changing politically?
- The movement needs to get serious about money. What is the plan for fundraising, and where does the money actually go?
- How should delegates argue and defend the independence resolution at the precinct, county, and SD conventions?
- What is the post-election plan, and how do supporters plug into the local groups forming across Texas?
- How can someone start a TNM group in their county or on a college campus, and where do they sign up?
- Does Daniel get paid by the organization, and is the TNM just out to grab money?
- Where do purchases from the TNM store and Texian store go?
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