Texas could vote on referendum to secede from the United States this spring (www.alternet.org)

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Leaders of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) — which openly calls for the Lone Star State to secede from the United States and become an independent nation again — appear to have surpassed the threshold to put a secession ballot initiative on the 2024 Republican primary ballot this March.Newsweek...

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[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Again, this is performative nonsense. Yes, we'd be happy to let them go, but there's actually no legal method for them to leave.

And a big fucking precedent saying that they cannot. The end result of the civil war said no. States cannot leave the Union, not even Texas. They tried, they failed.

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