Start Now or Be Just Noise: Getting Ready for the Legislative Session

Daniel Miller used this week’s coffee talk to look further down the calendar than most people want to. The general election is weeks away, pre-filing comes right after it, and the legislative session opens not long after that. His warning was blunt. The people who wait until January to engage their legislators arrive as part of a wall of noise and get tuned out. The work that matters happens now, while lawmakers are home holding town halls and, in his words, pretending to listen.

He laid out three things every Texan should be doing before the session starts. First, call your state representative and state senator now, with the same intensity people brought when the TEXIT referendum bill was filed, and make clear that independence is a voting issue. Second, learn the legislative process. He pointed people to the Texas Legislative Council flowchart and to the free Learn to Testify video from the Legislative Action Workshop. If you mean to fight this fight, learn the battlefield first. Third, stop working alone and plug into the organized effort by registering your support and volunteering, because disciplined numbers moving at the right time are what actually move legislation.

The night also doubled as a launch. The TNM is rolling out a regular slate of webinars, opening with Global Exit in the Americas, featuring independence leaders from New Hampshire, California, Nevada, Puerto Rico and northern Mexico, followed by a Crypto 101 session on blockchain and its Texas implications. Miller threaded the through line back to the border, drawing on his on-air segment about Venezuela emptying its prisons toward Texas, and his answer never changed. A sane immigration and border policy is impossible inside a broken federal system, and only a self-governing Texas can deliver one.