Not messing with Texas: State Supreme Court slaps down ‘Texit’ movement

The Texas Supreme Court rejected a recent petition from the Texas Nationalist Movement to place a petition on the state’s March primary that would allow voters to decide whether the state should secede from the United States.

The movement, which has been going on for decades, filed an emergency petition against the state Republican Party to get its petition on the primary ballot after it was rejected by the Texas GOP.

“Well, we did everything we could, but the Supreme Court of Texas screwed us,” Texit lawyer Paul Davis posted in response to the ruling. “Didn’t even want to look at the petition TNM submitted to Rinaldi to see if what we said was true. Just ‘nope.’ No explanation. No nothing. This is what the Texas Republican establishment thinks of Texians. You don’t have the right to petition your government. You’re the ‘wrong type’ of voter according to Rinaldi. The establishment won today, but we are not going away.”

The movement, dubbed Texit, has since filed a temporary restraining order that halts the printing of ballots in Travis County. A hearing on the restraining order will be held on Jan. 16.

The legal action is the latest in a series of moves that will be brought against the state GOP, the group said.

“Ballots should not be printed until the unlawful actions of the Texas GOP and Matt Rinaldi have been properly vetted by the courts,” Texas Nationalist Movement President Daniel Miller said in a statement. “We believe that the courts will find that Rinaldi’s actions were unlawful, and we expect the TEXIT question to be on the ballot this March.”

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The latest move to separate Texas from the U.S. started last year after the group launched a campaign to force a Texit referendum on the 2024 primary ballot.

Under a provision in the Texas Election Code, the question “Should the State of Texas reassert its status as an independent nation?” should appear on the ballot if the group acquired more than 97,709 signatures. The movement secured 139,456 signatures, according to the Daily Mail.