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  2. Texas secession movements - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Texas Independence Referendum Act - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Secession in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A New Hampshire man holds a sign advocating for secession during the 2012 presidential election. In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a state or territory to form a separate territory or new state, or to the severing of an area from a ...

  5. After abortion ruling, angry Texans call for secession—again

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    After the Supreme Court’s 5-3 decision to strike down parts of Texas’s restrictive abortion laws on Monday, familiar calls for the state to secede spiked. After abortion ruling, angry Texans ...

  6. Secession Is Back in Style in Texas - AOL

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    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 ...

  7. Texas secession? Civil war? Threats of violence — or worse ...

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    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.

  8. Texas in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance: Other Sides of Civil War Texas (2016). Timmons, Joe T. "The Referendum in Texas on the Ordinance of Secession, February 23, 1861: The Vote." East Texas Historical Journal 11.2 (1973) online. Wooster Ralph A. (1999). Civil War Texas: A History and a Guide. Texas State Historical Association. ISBN 0 ...

  9. Texas v. White - Wikipedia

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    Texas v. White, 74 U.S. (7 Wall.) 700 (1869), was a case argued before the Supreme Court of the U.S. in 1869. [1] The case's notable political dispute involved a claim by the Reconstruction era government of Texas that U.S. bonds owned by Texas since 1850 had been illegally sold by the Confederate state legislature during the American Civil War.