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Founder & President, Texas Nationalist Movement

Sixth‑generation Texan.Thirty years in one fight.

I am Daniel Miller, founder and President of the Texas Nationalist Movement. I wrote TEXIT, and I started RFT Media, home of Radio Free Texas. I am not a politician, and I never wanted to be one. I came to this because I believe Texans should decide how Texans are governed, and I have spent thirty years proving that can be done lawfully.

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Daniel Miller speaking in front of a large Goliad flag, the 1835 Texas Revolution independence banner

The story

It started at my parents' dinner table.

“Not through violence. Not through rebellion. Through law.”
Daniel Miller broadcasting from a media set
On the air. He will take the argument onto any outlet that will book him, from major networks to independent podcasts.

I am a sixth-generation Texan and the son of a Korean War veteran. My family fought in the Texian Army during the Revolution that made Texas a nation the first time, and in our house that was never a line in a history book. It was a living thing, argued at my parents' dinner table every night. My father came home from a war that got no parade, watched the government he had served treat men like him as an inconvenience, and taught me to pay attention.

On a Saturday afternoon in August 1996, I stood in the hallway of a hotel in Tyler with my father, in a line of some eight hundred Texans, and declared my citizenship in the Republic of Texas. I signed my name and pressed my thumbprint into red ink. I was twenty-two. I did not wash the ink off, and I have been in this fight ever since.

What I found there was conviction without a vehicle that could carry it. So I built one. On November 17, 2005, at a small square table in my home in Nederland, with my wife Cara present, three of us signed a founding charter for the Texas Nationalist Movement, built to be legal, transparent, democratic, and impossible to criminalize. Two of the men beside me, Lauren Savage and Charlie Doreck, never gave up on an independent Republic and did not live to see it come within reach. I dedicated TEXIT to them.

From those three signatures, the movement has grown to 644,245 supporters in all 254 Texas counties. I have watched an idea that once drew open laughter become one that most likely Texas voters now say they hold.

In thirty years I have never once called for a shot to be fired. The lawful path is the only one I have ever walked, and I am not finished.

Outside the movement, the same year I founded TNM, I also founded RFT Media, a technology company. Its properties include Radio Free Texas, an internet station that has played Texas music around the clock ever since. Neither one makes the case for independence. Both are still mine.

The record

What the argument built.

Two decades of lawful organizing leaves a trail. Every figure here is a matter of public record, and every one of them was earned the hard way.

  • From single digits to 66 percentAn A-plus-rated SurveyUSA poll puts support for independence at 66 percent of likely Texas voters. When the movement began, that number was in the single digits. They said it would never leave the fringe. It left the fringe.
  • Independence in the party platformDelegates first adopted an independence plank in 2020 by a 93 percent vote. It has stayed in the Republican Party of Texas platform across four conventions since.
  • The party's own leadership, pledgedAt the 2026 Republican Party of Texas convention, Texas First Pledge signers were elected state chair and vice chair. More than 276 officials and candidates statewide have signed it, including a nominee for Comptroller.
  • A currency, signed into lawIn 2025, HB 1056 made gold and silver legal tender in Texas. The Texas Bullion Depository that anchors it, revived by the movement after its own author declared it dead, passed the Texas House 140 to 1 and now safeguards roughly $400 million in metals, the first state-administered depository in the United States.
  • A referendum, filedThe Texas Independence Referendum Act has been filed. It would put independence to a binding statewide vote, and it has sponsors committed for the coming session.
  • 139,456 signatures, by handA single petition drive gathered 139,456 signatures for a primary ballot question, more than 41,000 past the legal threshold, delivered by hand to party headquarters.
  • 1.6 million votesIn the March 2026 primary, roughly 1.6 million Texans, about three in four Republican primary voters, cast a ballot for a candidate who signed the Texas First Pledge.
Texas Nationalist Movement supporters gathered at the Republican Party of Texas convention
The movement he built, at the Texas GOP convention. 644,245 supporters, in every one of the 254 counties.

The work

The work, in four parts

Three of these serve the same argument. The fourth is a separate job, and it is mine too.

The Author

I wrote the case.

TEXIT: Why and How Texas Will Leave the Union was the first book to treat the practical questions as seriously as the moral ones and answer them. My next book, The Tethered Sovereign, takes apart Texas v. White, the 1869 ruling everyone cites to claim the door is sealed. Alongside the books is original research on how movements reach the point of no return, published in the open so anyone can check the math. I make my case on the page. Then I stand behind it.

The President

I lead the movement.

As founder and President of the Texas Nationalist Movement, I lead the largest pro-independence organization in North America, with 644,245 supporters across all 254 Texas counties. Most weeks I host two shows of my own, Late Night Coffee Talk, a live Q&A with our members, and the Texas News podcast, a rundown of what happened at the state house. Then I take the same argument to county libraries, living rooms, and any broadcast that will book me. That is how you move a state.

The Texan

Where I come from.

Underneath all of it is heritage. I am a sixth-generation Texan, and my family stood with the Texian Army in 1836. That inheritance is why I started, and it is why I have not stopped. I hold one conviction above the rest. A people are entitled to ask whether their government still serves them, and to act when the answer is no.

The Technologist

I also run a tech company.

In 2005, the same year I founded the movement, I also founded RFT Media, a technology company that builds websites, AI automation, and digital infrastructure for advocacy groups, publishers, churches, and nonprofits, TNM among its clients. Its properties include Radio Free Texas, an internet station that has played Texas music around the clock ever since. None of it makes the case for independence. It is simply the other job, and I am proud of it too.

Off the clock

I am an Orthodox Christian and a member of St. Michael Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church in Beaumont. I live in Nederland, Texas, with my family. My wife, Cara, is the movement’s Director of Operations. There is no line where the work ends and the rest of my life begins. The people who built this with me are the same people I go home to.

Where to go next

Three ways in

The book

Read the case

TEXIT works through the practical objections. The Tethered Sovereign answers the legal one.

On stage

Book Daniel to speak

Keynotes and panels on self-determination and how a movement is actually built, from someone who has done it.

For the press

Press and media

Bios, headshots, background, and a fast way to book. Working press on deadline go to the front of the line.