This week’s coffee talk opened with the question the movement keeps fielding since the primaries: what does “1.6 million Texans voted Texas First in 2026” actually mean? Daniel Miller walked through the methodology line by line. The figure is anchored by the highest vote totals pulled by Texas First Pledge signers who ran statewide, with Don Huffines’ 1.17 million-vote comptroller win setting the floor. From there the model establishes a floor near 1.2 million and a ceiling near 2 million, landing on 1.6 million, roughly three of every four Republican primary votes cast for at least one pledge signer. The point he kept returning to is that every number on tnm.org now ships with its methodology attached, so opponents who call it a fabrication have nothing to swing at.
A question from a viewer named Buddy, asking whether the grievances in the Texas Declaration of Independence still apply, turned into an extended reading of the document itself. Miller traced the 1836 text’s spine directly into Article 1, Section 2 of the current Texas Constitution, the principle that all political power is inherent in the people. He argued the specific details differ across two centuries, but the core grievance is the same: a government whose constitution “no longer has a substantial existence,” with a declaration addressed not to the regime in power but to an impartial world. He tied it to Sam Houston’s line about Texas lifting its head to stand among the nations, noting that the words presuppose Texas is not standing now.
The sharpest new material came from a question about a Collin County judge barring a defendant from entering Texas as a condition of bail. That pivoted into the H-1B visa situation in North Texas, which Miller said he has spent a solid week researching. His conclusion was blunt. As long as Texas remains in the union, the state is effectively powerless on immigration and border policy, both of which are sovereign rights it would only recover through independence. He plans to press legislative allies for any state-level fix this side of a referendum, while signaling he doubts one exists. He also flagged an in-house overhaul of the Texian app’s video and livestreaming infrastructure now rolling out, part of bringing the movement’s tooling fully under its own control.
Questions answered in this episode
- What does the “1.6 million Texans voted Texas First in 2026” figure represent, and where did those votes come from?
- How relevant are the grievances listed in the Texas Declaration of Independence to the situation Texans face today?
- How do you feel about the progress the TNM has made since its founding, and did you expect to reach this point this early?
- How can a Collin County judge bar an American citizen from entering Texas, and what does that say about Texas sovereignty within the union?
- Are any Democrats among the Texas First Pledge signers?
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