A Texas Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill to allow Texans the opportunity to vote on secession from the United States. On Monday, Texas state Rep. Bryan Slaton filed HB 3596, also known as the “TEXIT Referendum Act.” (pdf) If passed, the referendum would be placed on the 2024 general election ballot for Texans to…

A state lawmaker filed a bill in the Texas legislature on Monday to allow the state’s residents to vote on whether or not the state should investigate seceding from the United States. State Rep. Bryan Slaton, a Republican, filed HB 3596, commonly known as the “TEXIT Referendum Act” (pdf), in a bid to put the…

Commentary In recent years, families have fragmented and friendships have been fractured by clashing political ideologies and beliefs. What’s happening on the micro level is happening on the macro level, too: Secessionist sentiments are strengthening as American politics becomes ever-more polarized. Several counties in eastern Oregon are actively seeking to secede from Oregon and to…

Texas GOP delegates earlier this month voted on a platform item urging the state legislature to put Texit, the movement to secede from the United States, on the ballot in 2023. With their rough-and-tumble independent streak, secession has long been a theme for Texans and the state Republican conference from June 16 to June 18 again…

HONG KONG—The first person convicted under Hong Kong’s national security law and jailed for nine years last July has dropped his decision to appeal, his lawyer said on Thursday. Former waiter Tong Ying-kit, 24, was found guilty of terrorist activities and inciting secession after driving his motorcycle into three riot police officers in 2020 while…

In Maryland, three conservative counties in the western part of the state have gotten so tired of getting overlooked by the Democrats who control state politics that they have started the process of secession. These three counties sent a letter to West Virginia, asking whether they can join. And actually, this type of thing is…

Commentary I never thought I’d be writing about secession or anything close. Not in a million years. “America, the Beautiful” is my favorite national song, bringing tears to my eyes with its “sea to shining sea.” Giving up the magnificence that entails would be heartbreaking on so many levels. But the times being what they…

The American Civil War is often thought of as being the deciding historical factor putting to rest any future ambition of individual or groups of states wanting to secede from the union. Well over a century later, the idea of secession appears far from settled in the minds of millions of Americans—Democrats and Republicans alike. In…

I’m not for secession… yet… but I get closer every day. At first I thought, oh, no. That would end the greatest national experiment in human history. But in essence we already live in two countries—the United States of America and the United States of Woke. What’s the point in not making it formal? If…