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Flag of Texas. Texas secession movements, also known as the Texas Independence movement or Texit, [1] [2] refers to both the secession of Texas during the American Civil War as well as activities of modern organizations supporting such efforts to secede from the United States and become an independent sovereign state.
In December 2020, when the Supreme Court refused to hear Texas' lawsuit in Texas v. Pennsylvania, the chair of the Texas GOP, Allen West, suggested that Texas and other like-minded states could leave the Union. [4] [5] [6] In 2022, the Republican Party of Texas added a statement in its party platform that called for a referendum over secession ...
The group wanted the Pima County Board of Supervisors to put the issue on the 2012 ballot, but it was rejected by the board due to lack of authority, so the group circulated petitions. [8] Interest in secession grew when Republican governor Jan Brewer and her allies enacted Arizona SB 1070, regarding illegal immigration. [9]
Washington has responded by suing Texas over various issues, including Abbott installing floating barriers to block migrants in the Rio Grande (U.S. v. Abbott) and asserting in its S.B. 4 law the ...
The government is on alert ahead of the 2022 midterms. Experts say the possibility of the political climate igniting a civil war is remote — but not off the table.
Secession talk an insult to nation. As a disabled American veteran, I strongly agree with Bud Kennedy when he writes that the idea of Texas seceding from the United States is not heroic, nor is it ...
Names like Fairpoint County (after the peninsula the county would be focused upon) and Reagan County (for President Reagan) have been proposed, but no name has been really pushed as part of these suggestions. [24] The City of Ocoee made an attempt in April 1980 to secede from Orange County due to local distain for the county's behavior towards ...
The Texas Republican Party is in the process of verifying 139,000 petition signatures that would put a "Texit" resolution before March primary voters. Texas Nationalist Movement wants secession ...