The problem with TEXIT is the same with BREXIT and pretty much any libertarian policy in that it expects so many things to stay the same.

As soon as this happens, assuming the US take direct military action, all the US bases are gone. Same with all defense contractors. Technology companies are gone too, they do not want to go through the headache of working with the US a foreign company. That's Texas Instruments and HP.

Taxes will skyrocket. They will lose all the US tax subsidies that allow them to have no state income tax and now they need to replace all military personnel and infrastructure.

They will probably not bottom out but they aren't going to be a world power. They will pretty much be Spain in terms of economy.

Texas lost the right to secede in The Civil War.

Ugh, I'm in the category of "can't afford to leave Texas but can't survive if I stay."

Can you guys hurry it up? Is there a GoFundMe I can donate to?

This sounds great to the base and a few wealthy dudes, but this is a real bad thing for literally everyone including Republicans - if they somehow did leave, it'd turn the remaining US permanently blue, plus they would immediately be invaded for their oil...

Texas would find itself a majority brown-skinned country with oil. You know, the kind of country the United States loves to "spread democracy" to.

Good luck with that. It'd be hilarious if Texas succeeded and then came crawling back within a decade.

Pussy ass Texans won't do it, no balls.

I hate it here. #votepirate

Quick! I need a MAN to MURDER a bunch of Children so I can Pretend I care about the Constitution again!

It's a shame that they never went to school. If they had an elementary level education they would know what happens to successionists.

And leave the protection of the UN and NATO? Mexico will love this -- and the land.

If Texas left the US, wouldn't that be a massive blow to the federal Republican party losing all those electoral college votes and seats in the legislature?

I think this comes up every year or so and never amounts to anything other than some headlines and a bump in Republican rah-rah.

However, when I follow this line of thinking to its conclusion it scares the shit out of me. It ends with armed militia showing up at my home to "enlist" my kids to be cannon fodder for these assholes' holy war against the Yankee libs.

The feeling of inevitably and helplessness is crushing.

Would it only be Texas though? Is there a chance that other US states might also join along with them, not because they wanted to secede before, but because the GOP is a cult and they can convince their people to go along with anything? Plus, how many military personnel would “defect” over to this new Texas Republic? The idea of Texas leaving and trying to go it alone against the rest of the current US is fairly one-sided, but what if Texas peels away a sizable chunk of the US with it? I wouldn’t doubt that Trump would support it if it meant saving his skin from all the trials he’s involved in (though given the status of most of them it may not be necessary).

Please someone get me out of this state before it descends into literal chaos

Tell them they can go if they take Musk with them.

Someones give me a little pros and cons list if they secede. What do they offer the country?

Is Texas going to pay for the additional wall?

I'm curious how Texas will handle "natural" disaster without proper tax structure and federal funding.

Good. Just remember to extract anything federal before they leave.

points at scoreboard

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Their cause has been helped by a surge in tensions between Texan authorities and the federal government over the past few months, particularly over illegal migration and education.

On its official website the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), which campaigns for the state to leave the Union in a move it dubs TEXIT, said: "The inclusion of these planks in the Republican Party of Texas Platform is a major step that could have far-reaching implications for the TEXIT movement in the next legislative session."

Newsweek contacted Texas Governor Greg Abbott for comment on Wednesday by email outside of usual business hours.

The Republican Party of Texas first backed calls for an independence referendum as part of its legislative platform in 2022, after it was approved by members at its convention that year in Houston.

In January the Supreme Court ruled razor wire placed along the Texas-Mexico border on the orders of Governor Abbott could be removed by federal agents.

Then in May, Governor Abbott instructed universities and community colleges in his state to ignore an update to Title IX equality legislation introduced by the Biden administration which would ban discrimination based on gender identity.

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