Daniel Miller broke from his usual setup for this one, broadcasting from a Dallas hotel room after his daughter came through brain surgery earlier that day. The scheduled Q&A got shelved, so he fired up a laptop and ran an impromptu coffee talk instead, fielding a chat that ran hot on the 2022 governor’s race and the freshly launched independence petition.
He opened with the question he says he gets constantly: why the movement uses “Texian” rather than “Texan.” It is a deliberate internal distinction made at the TNM’s founding in 2005, drawn from Mirabeau Lamar and the Texian army that fought for independence under Sam Houston. The point is the “i” for independence. A Texan may be Texan in name only. A Texian has crossed the line in the sand and is all in on Texas becoming a self-governing independent nation.
From there he worked the chat. On the governor’s race, with Allen West now in against Abbott, Chad Prather, and Don Huffines, Miller was blunt that the TNM has endorsed no one and holds candidates to a hard bar: membership and unequivocal support of the mission. He hit the ERCOT talking point hard, calling it one of the weakest arguments against TEXIT, and laid the 2021 grid failure at the feet of a board stacked with non-Texans and federal wind and solar subsidies that upset the market forces behind stable baseload power. He also walked through why he believes annexation was constitutional for Texas but not for the United States, and why Texas v. White rarely survives contact with anyone who has actually read it.
Questions answered in this episode
- Why does the TNM say “Texian” instead of “Texan,” and where does the term come from?
- Has the TNM endorsed anyone in the governor’s race among Abbott, Prather, Huffines, and Allen West?
- Will the website show a signature countdown and progress toward the petition goal?
- How do you find a petition signing event or a certified petition circulator near you, and how do you become one?
- Could other states join Texas, or at least become close allies?
- Based on the Texas Constitution, was the annexation of Texas to the United States legal?
- Will Daniel republish his earlier book, Line in the Sand?
- What do you say to someone who thinks their fight is better served in their own home state rather than moving to Texas?
- Wasn’t Sam Houston a unionist, and what does that mean for the independence argument today?
- People cite ERCOT as a reason against TEXIT. What is the quick rebuttal?
- After a vote for independence, how long would the transition and negotiations actually take?
- Would an independent Texas keep its ban on a personal income tax?
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