Daniel Miller came back from a two week bout with the flu to launch what he calls the single greatest tool the movement has ever had. TNM Social is dead. In its place is the Texian app at texian.app, a version 3.0 release that folds connecting with pro independence Texans, TNM video and live streams, relational organizing, membership, events, and shareable graphics into one place. The argument is blunt. For years the movement has been throttled and de platformed. Facebook suppression that produced a lawsuit under Texas law and a Newsweek story. CallHub cutting off peer to peer texting because it decided to work only with Democrats. Posts about TEXIT that vanish on X even among followers who want them. When nothing off the shelf fits and nothing is affordable, you build your own. So they did, compressing roughly a year of work into four weeks.
The pitch is not a secession echo chamber. It is campaign headquarters. Miller frames it against Greg Abbott pouring two million dollars into the Republican Party of Texas convention to push his Abbott Impact app, which he says does a fraction of what Texian already does. County, House, and Senate district groupings, event RSVP and auto check in, legislative tracking on the way, and a relational organizing engine that connects supporters to identified voters in their own circles. Early mobile versions are live or in the queue at Apple and Google, with Miller noting the platforms are painfully slow to approve.
Then the primaries. Miller pointed to two Texian Partisan investigations on election integrity, one on an algorithm buried in Harris County voter rolls and one out of Bexar County where Weston Martinez is running point, and promised more digging. But the headline number is the Texas First Pledge. The establishment has long called signing it a political death warrant. Instead, of just over two million votes cast in the Republican primary, roughly 1.6 million went to pledge signers. About three out of four. The floor is the 1.1 million Don Huffines drew for comptroller. The legislative bench held, a pledge signer is headed to Congress with Dan Crenshaw gone, and county chairs went eight for eight. Catalyst Advisors Group ran attack mailers against pledge signers Andy Hopper and Rhonda Waring on behalf of Lisa McIntyre and Trent Ashby. Hopper won 70 to 30, and Miller’s read is that the attacks drove voters toward the pledge, not away from it.
Questions answered in this episode
- What should our position be on the US and Iran war? Our position is that Texas should be a self governing independent nation.
- Who actually coded the Texian app and site? Miller, as lead coder, with developers assisting, shipped as a minimum viable product with rough edges still being smoothed.
- Will supporters need new QR codes, and where do referral and share links live? QR codes are on the roadmap. Share links and sign up analytics are already in the web app settings.
- Why does connecting with other members only show a handful of names, and how do you find people you already know? Use the community, county, and district groups, contact matching, and the explore and search tools, all built to protect member privacy.
- Can the message reach a wider podcast and news audience? The Texas News Podcast is being replaced by the Texas First Podcast, and Texian hosts TNM content directly alongside texianpartisan.com.
- How do I get active? Sign up at texian.app, make your first post, and connect with people who can plug you in.
- Any idea what a viewer’s cryptic post about Texas falling to corruption was referring to? No. Miller had nothing on it.
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