Daniel Miller came in straight off a red-eye and a Timcast appearance to walk through a loaded week. The headline: the Texas Nationalist Movement has officially sued Meta. After Facebook started flagging posts that linked to texasnow.org as a violation of its rules on dangerous or harmful organizations, attorney Paul Davis filed suit in Jefferson County. Miller framed it as the first test of the new Texas anti-social-media-censorship law, which treats the platforms as common carriers once they accept taxpayer dollars. Everyone who submitted a screenshot and checked the box was folded into a request to certify the matter as a class action, and Miller signaled a separate defamation track over being lumped in with terror groups. The first hearing was set for November 30.
Davis joined live to explain the mechanics. He recounted being fired from an in-house counsel job after January 6, the vaccine-mandate litigation that put him on the map, and the temporary restraining order he won for Chad Prather a week before an election. He laid out the path from restraining order to temporary injunction to permanent injunction, and was blunt that the Jefferson County court had been hostile, rejecting the filing four times and refusing an early hearing despite the rule that censored speech is automatically irreparable harm.
Miller then turned to Greg Abbott’s invasion declaration, calling it theater. The action steps Abbott listed. gunboats on the Rio Grande, DPS patrols, the National Guard. were all things the state was already doing. To make the declaration mean something, Miller argued, Abbott would have to fully militarize the Texas State Guard, shift National Guard money to it, deploy it as a border protection force, and authorize it to turn people away at the river rather than hand them back to the federal pipeline. He closed the news with the Texas Independence Referendum Act: the draft is back, headed to Leg Council, with the referendum question restored to whether Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation. Oxford-trained independence scholar Dr. Matt Qvortrup, who correctly called Brexit, has agreed to consult on the bill. Miller’s ask was direct. contact your state representative and senator now, during pre-filing.
Questions answered in this episode
- Is it delusional to think Texas could leave the union without inheriting a share of the federal debt?
- Isn’t Meta a private company that is free to moderate its platform however it wants, even for political reasons?
- If 95 percent of federal spending is unconstitutional, does Texas owe any of that debt at all?
- How do we get TEXIT onto a ballot if it isn’t there already?
- Does the flood of bills already filed in Austin hurt the chances of the Texas Independence Referendum Act?
- Can Texas count on foreign support and international recognition after independence?
- Where and when is the next ‘next exit’ banner flyover?
- What would the national anthem of an independent Texas be?
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