For the final Late Night Coffee Talk of 2025, Daniel Miller graded the year honestly. He put the Texas Nationalist Movement somewhere in the middle of its twenty-year history, a solid B-plus rather than a banner year, and explained why that is exactly what he expected. The legislative session delivered some wins and left work undone, but the real story of 2025 was structural. The groundwork laid this year, he argued, is what lets the organization build capacity through 2026 so it is ready when support spikes, which he predicts will come at the tail end of next year in a way the movement has not seen before, presidential election years included.
A recurring theme was where political power actually lives. Responding to a viewer who admired French farmers spraying manure on politicians’ homes, Miller redirected the energy: these fights are won or lost in legislators’ own backyards, not under the Austin dome. Too many people believe the work happens during the 140-day session and treat the years in between as an off-season. That is showing up late to the battle. The pressure has to be built in the districts, at the district offices, long before the gavel falls, so that a trip to Austin is just a courtesy reminder of the power waiting back home.
He also got candid about how the movement operates. One viewer asked who books his national interviews like the Dr. Phil appearance, and Miller walked through how media pitches really work, why the comms director role has been one of the hardest to fill, and why the TNM runs lean on membership dues and small donations rather than money plucked from trees. Asked about his faith, he confirmed he is a devout Orthodox Christian, baptized at nine, while drawing a firm line: the TNM exists to make Texas a self-governing nation, not to install a theocracy, and its only litmus test is the mission and the principles.
Questions answered in this episode
- Does Texas have any plans to legalize physician-assisted suicide, and how would we stop it?
- If a legal immigrant joins the TNM, would that put them on a federal agency’s radar?
- Can Texas farmers pressure the Capitol the way French farmers pressure their politicians?
- What is the real update on the TNM’s progress, and how would you grade 2025?
- When a politician swears an oath to the Texas Constitution, are they not bound to respect Article 1 and a vote on independence?
- Is anyone dedicated to landing national interviews like the Dr. Phil booking, and how does that get done?
- What can be done about the Compromise of 1850, and could it be repealed?
- Will you ever tell the full backstory of how you came to Texas independence?
- What are your religious views, and would you go on a show like InfoWars?
- How do we handle entrenched developments like Colony Ridge and Epic City?
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