The Welcome To Texas sign, taken from the south (Texas) side of the New Mexico/Texas state line, halfway between Las Cruces (NM) and El Paso (TX). Credit: David Herrera / Creative Commons

Leaders of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) — which openly calls for the Lone Star State to secede from the United States and become an independent nation again — appear to have surpassed the threshold to put a secession ballot initiative on the 2024 Republican primary ballot this March.

Newsweek reported Friday that TNM president Daniel Miller delivered 139,456 signatures to the Republican Party of Texas’ (RPT) headquarters in favor of a March 2024 ballot referendum dubbed “Texit” (named after the UK’s Brexit referendum in 2016). Texas law only requires “five percent of the total vote received by all candidates for governor in the party’s most recent gubernatorial general primary election.” And in 2022, there were 1,954,172 ballots cast in Texas’ Republican gubernatorial primary. By this standard, TNM only needed 97,709 signatures to get its referendum on the ballot.

“We have submitted well over […]

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