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Texas Nationalist Movement President Daniel Miller told the Epoch Times that supporters of Texas independence from the United States of America are expected to win the referendum. In the referendum, Texans will decide whether to begin a process to determine the best way to leave the union.
In a recent interview with The Epoch Times’ Crossroads, Miller said that if the current radicals in Congress take charge of U.S. policy in areas such as health, the economy and energy, it could have a negative impact on Texans, who increasingly want to leave the United States of America.
Miller explained that Texans fear that the so-called “Green New Deal” will take more of their jobs, that the policies of the federal government in Washington will lead to more centralization and the introduction of more socialism, that the federal government will usurp more power, and that as a result, the rights of Texans will be “eroded and trampled upon.”
Miller predicts that if these trends continue, a referendum on Texas secession could increase by at least 10 to 15 percentage points, depending on how radical the Washington administration is.
He said the independence movement, led by Miller, supports the concept of “small government,” which is in stark contrast to the current situation. “The current situation is that the federal government gets between $103 billion and $160 billion of taxpayer money from Texas every year, and Texas gets almost nothing in return.”
Miller explained, “It’s like going to the doctor. The doctor takes all the blood out of your body, then pours 40 percent of it on the floor and reinjects the rest of it into you and says, ‘Hey, just so you know, you can’t live without me.'”
The Texas Withdrawal from the Union movement, which Miller calls “Texit,” is a group that has a Web site that says it is “a good idea. The group’s Web site says it means Texans will decide their own laws by themselves, rather than being ruled by “2.5 million unelected Washington bureaucrats.
In Texas, we face real issues related to borders and immigration,” Miller said, along with many other issues that a nation-state must deal with.
Miller said Texans will hold a referendum on the independence bill in November 2021.
Miller said the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit any state from seceding from the union. He said the Constitution lists all the things states are prohibited from doing, but that list does not include a prohibition on states withdrawing.
Miller said the perpetuation of the federal existence under the U.S. Constitution depends on the local autonomy of all states not being compromised. He added that he believes Texans would not agree that their right to local self-government is not compromised.
Texas has the 10th largest economy in the world, surpassing Canada and South Korea and trailing only Brazil and Italy. A report released last September by the University of Texas showed Texas is the second-largest economy in the United States after California.
The report said that although the state’s economy was hit by an Epidemic caused by the Chinese communist virus (Wuhan virus, New Crown virus), the unemployment situation was not serious compared to the United States as a whole.
Texas is the largest producer of oil and natural gas in the United States, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (pdf). Agriculture and technology also figure prominently in its diverse economy. Texas-based companies include computer maker Dell, AT&T and chipmaker Texas Instruments.
Independence Movement
The Texas Nationalist Movement’s website states that the organization was founded to “secure and protect the political, cultural and economic independence of the State of Texas and to restore and protect the constitutional republic and the inherent rights of the people of Texas.
At the same Time, the website notes that over the years, the movement has grown into the Texas Independence Movement, which advocates for Texas to secede from the Union and become an independent, self-governing state.
Miller explained that the organization has been involved in “many movements related not only to Texas, but to the preservation of our Culture.” Texans had to fight against their own state Board of Education. The board wanted to remove the reference to Alamo defenders as heroes because “the word ‘hero’ has value and is a value judgment.”
Miller also said that some people want to “indoctrinate or change the Alamo story to fit the neo-Marxist progressive narrative.”
For Texans, the Battle of the Alamo is a symbol of their heroic resistance and struggle for independence from Mexico. At the time, a group of Texans (historians estimate there were about 200) defended a fort in San Antonio for 13 days against thousands of Mexican troops led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
Although most of the defenders were killed by the enemy, their sacrifice exhausted the Mexican army, which contributed to the victory of the Texan army two months later and to the eventual independence of Texas.
According to Miller, nationalist movements around the world are on the rise, with the number of recognized nations increasing from 54 after World War II to more than 190 by the end of the 20th century. People in countries or regions like Texas want the ability to govern the way they want to be governed, Miller said.
The movement Miller is leading draws on the experiences of independence movements around the world, such as the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (Brexit), Scotland’s independence movement from the United Kingdom, and the Catalans’ quest for independence from Spain.
Miller said it can be seen in the debate over the U.K.’s withdrawal from the EU that “the indifference of the Brussels bureaucracy, the massive overpayments [to the EU] that could have been better spent at Home, redistributed at home, and the centralization of power in Brussels that threatens the individual rights and freedoms of the British people” are all very much like the situation in Texas similar to the situation in Texas.
Miller said the organization also studied the Catalan independence movement and found that the materials they used against the Spanish central government could be used to promote and recruit Texas independence supporters directly if the names were replaced with “Texas” and “Washington. supporters of independence.
The struggle people are waging in Texas now, Miller says, “is really part of a larger movement around the world to take back autonomy from a political elite who think they alone know what’s best.”
Miller prefers not to use the word “secession” to describe the process by which Texas gained its independence, but rather the word “withdrawal” or “exit. “(exit).
Miller explains that withdrawal means “withdrawal from a polity, usually an incorporated polity. The word “secession” can be used if the U.S. government is “absolutely centralized and considers the United States to be a sovereign nation-state, with the states as mere administrative divisions.
But according to Miller, Texit is Texas’ withdrawal from a political and economic union that no longer serves Texas’ interests, just as the United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union.
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