AOC Wants to Federalize Our Power Grid

Texas runs its own power grid, and Daniel Miller opens this episode on a quiet threat to that independence. State Representative Lynn Stucky, who is facing a primary challenge from Andy Hopper in House District 64, told a candidate forum that tying Texas more tightly into the national grids was something they were looking at. Days later Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a group of Democrat lawmakers held a press conference to introduce legislation doing exactly that. Miller’s point is blunt. When a man who runs as a Republican lines up with the most progressive members of Congress on handing Washington control of how Texas generates and distributes its own power, voters are entitled to ask whether he filed in the right party. He calls it the work of Texas Last politicians, a fifth column willing to trade away Texas sovereignty for a seat at the federal table.

The episode then turns to the border, where Governor Greg Abbott announced a permanent 80 acre military installation at Eagle Pass and the expansion of operations north and south along the river. Miller reads it as Abbott finally acting on the promise that if the federal government will not secure the border, Texas will. He sets the context. The Biden administration had already retaliated against Texas by cancelling liquid natural gas export permits, a move Ted Cruz called economic war on the state. And Miller returns to a theme he repeats often. Texit is not a single act or a single vote. It is a process, and a Texas that defends its own border is already walking that road toward governing itself politically, culturally, and economically.

From there the show covers the cultural front, with a new Texit song from supporter Betsy Dewey and a call for Texas creatives to put their talents to work for the cause. Miller weighs in on the A24 film Civil War and whether Hollywood is running predictive programming, arguing that a peaceful vote is exactly how Texas releases the pressure others would rather let build. He breaks down the surge of Chinese nationals crossing the southern border and the People’s Liberation Army’s hand in the cyberattacks that hit American cell and pharmacy networks that same day. The main event is a long conversation with New Hampshire State Representative Jason Gerhard, who wrote a public letter of solidarity with the TNM and filed independence legislation built around a 40 trillion dollar federal debt trigger. Their exchange lands on one idea. A rising tide raises all ships, and every self-determination movement that gains ground strengthens the case for Texas.

In this episode

• Rep. Lynn Stucky’s push to connect Texas to the national power grids, and the matching bill from AOC and congressional Democrats
• Governor Abbott’s permanent 80 acre military base at Eagle Pass and the expansion of border operations
• Biden’s cancellation of LNG export permits as economic retaliation against Texas
• Betsy Dewey’s new Texit song and the growing place of independence in Texas culture
• The A24 film Civil War and the question of predictive programming
• The spike in Chinese border crossings and PLA-linked cyberattacks
• A full interview with New Hampshire State Rep. Jason Gerhard on his solidarity letter and New Hampshire’s independence bill