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 North America, 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
The man who wants the Constitution enforced is asking for the ship to be repaired. Nearly every plank in it has already been drawn out and replaced, most of them without anybody being asked, and Texas can still produce the receipts on its own timber.
September 21, 2026
Commentary
Thirty years ago today, I pressed my thumb into red ink in a Tyler hotel hallway and joined the fight for Texas independence. What that decision built, and why the vote was always ours to hold.
August 24, 2026
Commentary
The Cruz rumor, Salmon Chase, and the case Texans are told settles everything
August 15, 2026
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