The Debt Crossed $40 Trillion Two Months Early, and Over a Billion in Outside Money Is Steering Texas Elections

The Texas Nationalist Movement’s new “Can Texas Make It?” report cited a projection that the federal debt would cross $40 trillion around the middle of October, teed up just before the election. It crossed two days before this broadcast, in the third week of August. Daniel Miller pulled the raw numbers on air and found the debt has grown between $5.5 and $5.6 trillion in the last two years alone. His read on where that leads is blunt. You do not need the number to reach $80 trillion to call it a collapse, because the collapse is already happening in real time. Texas will become independent by design or by default, and default means being caught in the ruins rather than clear of them. The whole reason for the constant alarm, he said, is that knowing danger is coming carries a duty to warn.

The night’s sharpest thread ran through the money in Texas elections. A viewer asked whether the consultants advising state legislators work only in Texas or spread across the country. Miller used it to preview a project his team has been running since March, a full network map of the Texas campaign finance universe going back to 2000 on the state side. The finding he flagged as the biggest is the path the money takes. It moves from C4 nonprofits, which never have to disclose their donors and can legally accept foreign contributions, into federal PACs, into state PACs, and finally into candidates, with the origin obscured at every hop. He closed the hour with a sneak peek of the tool built from that data, the Texas Outside Money Index, launching Monday. Pick a candidate or a PAC and see exactly what share of the contributions came from outside Texas. More than $1 billion historically has come from outside the state, and the single largest out-of-state source of money in Texas politics is Washington, DC.

On the legislative front, Miller said the outlook for filing the Texas Independence Referendum Act this session is excellent, and told supporters the time to build organizing capacity is now, not November. He also addressed the Flock automated license plate readers as warrantless mass surveillance the TNM will soon oppose publicly, Alberta’s coming vote on its own future, and the reported contact-harvesting concerns around the Abbott campaign app set against the privacy-first design of the Texian app.

Questions answered in this episode

• If the federal debt is already past $40 trillion and ahead of the projection, how soon should we expect $80 trillion and a collapse of the federal government?
• Any thoughts on the Orwellian Flock ALPR cameras?
• Do the high-paid political consultants who advise our state legislators represent Texas politicians only, or a conglomerate that works across many states?
• Do you think President Trump will pause the November midterm election over election fraud concerns?
• Is the outlook good for getting the Texas Independence Referendum Act filed this session?
• Does a structured withdrawal from the federal government require a negotiated agreement with them, or is it structured in some other sense?
• Will the uncontrolled debt contribute to the dollar being discontinued as the world’s reserve currency?
• If Texas becomes independent, will other states follow?
• What about the Abbott campaign app and its request for your contact list?
• What is the latest on Canadian secession and Alberta’s progress?