Texas Nationalist Movement President Daniel Miller brought his message of secession to the Rockdale area and found a roomful of eager ears at the Rockdale Country Club on Saturday.
“We are at a most critical time. What other horrors await? If we stick around we will find out,” he told the receptive crowd of around 50 people there to learn about Texas House Bill 1359 which seeks to put the vote of Texas secession on the ballot in November.
One of the horrors he mentioned is Texas sending $103 to $160 billion to Washington, figures his researchers tallied after much work, he said.
“This money goes to Washington and disappears,” he said.
Later he said some of it does come back, but it is fettered with regulations and requirements.
Texas independence will wipe out those strings by keeping that money in the new nation of Texas, he said.
“TEXIT means we are going to stop those payments,” he said.
Toward that end the bill must first get on the ballot and to get on the ballot it must have a hearing in the State Affairs Committee.
He urged those at the meeting to contact state Rep. Chris Paddie’s office and let him know they want the bill heard.
Miller also said people should contact their own representative telling them that the measure must come to a vote of the people.
He charged those at the gathering to go out and spread the message of secession and get others to also contact Paddie and their own representatives.
Miller sees getting the matter to a vote of the people as a bigger hurdle than the matter passing a statewide ballot vote.
He feels the measure would win in a vote of the public.
“All political power is inherent in the people. The number one mechanism for getting our message out to Texas is people like you,” he said. “This is a people movement, finding people and mobilizing.”
The demographics of the movement is far more representative of the state than those of either political party, he said.
“The message of Texas independence works from the boardroom to the urban working poor to those below the poverty level and the rural poor,” he said.
Should the measure get on the ballot and win in November the mechanisms are in place for the formation of a new nation, he said.
However should the measure fail to get on the November ballot, the movement also has a plan.
“Woe unto those who stand between the people of Texas and a vote on TEXIT. Either we get a vote on TEXIT or there is a referendum on them in 2022 (legislative members),” Miller said.
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