Author of TEXIT
For twenty years, he has made the sober, practical case that Texans can govern themselves. Not a slogan. An argument you can check.
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He wrote the definitive book on how a state leaves the Union, and he leads the largest movement doing it. On a stage or on the record, he makes the sober case that Texans can govern themselves, and he answers the hard questions instead of ducking them.
Author of TEXIT, President of the Texas Nationalist Movement, and founder of RFT Media. He hosts Late Night Coffee Talk and the Texas News podcast, and has carried this argument onto television, radio, and other people’s podcasts, into rooms that came to agree and rooms that came to disagree. He is at his best in the second kind.
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What he speaks on
The practical and constitutional case for self-government. Currency, the federal debt, the military, trade: the questions every serious room asks, answered so you can test them.
Twenty years building the largest independence movement in the United States, and the research that explains where movements stall and what actually moves people.
How a small team reaches a very large one. The automation and infrastructure he's built through his own technology company, work TNM itself relies on, for organizations that must do a great deal with a little.
The work
TEXIT: Why and How Texas Will Leave the Union is the first non-fiction book to take the hard questions seriously. Currency, the federal debt, the military, trade, treaties: it works through each one in turn and shows how it holds together. Not a manifesto. A case built to survive cross-examination.
The case in brief
The objections are fair, and they have answers. Here are the ones people raise first, put plainly. The full case, sourced and worked through, is one click away.
Money is a solved problem, not a barrier. Texas can keep the U.S. dollar in circulation on day one, the way Panama and Ecuador already do, with no one's permission, then move to its own currency on its own timeline. Nothing in daily commerce stops the day sovereignty begins.
There is no softening the blow. This is the hardest negotiation, and the debt is Washington's, borrowed in the federal government's name, not charged to Texas soil. The 1845 annexation terms had Texas keep its own books, and each side keeps them still. Texas negotiates its share in good faith from strength, with the federal installations and land on its soil as offsetting assets. It does not inherit borrowing it never authorized.
More than 200,000 Texans already serve in uniform, the defense-industrial base is already here, and the F-35 is built in Fort Worth. The bases stay open under a mutual-defense treaty, the way the United States already keeps hundreds abroad, and Texas already runs its own Military Department today. Capability is not the question. Command is.
Texas has been the number one exporting state in the country for 23 straight years, moving roughly $455 billion a year, more than California and New York combined. Ports, pipelines, and rail keep moving because the buyers on both sides want them to. Independence is a change of counterparty, not a blockade.
Who I am
I am a sixth-generation Texan. I did not come to this as a politician, and I have never claimed to be one. I came to it because I concluded that Texans should decide how Texans are governed. I have been in this fight for roughly thirty years and have led the movement for twenty of them, making the case in print, on stage, and in the organizations I build. This is patient work, argued on the merits and built to outlast the news cycle.
On the record
The latest writing and commentary, where the argument gets tested and extended in public.
Commentary
On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that Election Day does not have to end on Election Day. The case was Watson v. Republican National Committee. Federal law sets a single day for a federal election. Mississippi counts mail ballots that arrive as many as five days after that day, so […]
June 29, 2026
Analysis
Three sitting officeholders were rejected by Texas Republican primary voters on Tuesday. A four-term U.S. Senator lost by twenty-eight points. A Galveston state senator who used to be barely known statewide is now the Republican nominee for Attorney General. A sitting Railroad Commissioner who held endorsements from the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, and the Speaker […]
May 27, 2026
Commentary
March 2, 1836. Washington-on-the-Brazos. Fifty-nine men in a drafty, unfinished building put their names on a document that most of the world thought was suicidal. Mexico had an army. Texas had farmers, lawyers, a few doctors, and a whole lot of nerve. I’ve stood in that spot on the Brazos. If you haven’t, you should. […]
March 2, 2026
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