https://www.newsweek.com/texas-secede-us-2023-gop-pushes-referendum-1717254?amp=1 scary shit in there
(( There’s all these articles cherry picking stuff out of the TX GOP platform for 2022, of which a vote on seceding is one provision. Makes for great headlines, but it really is missing the forest for the trees. Texas GOP is going all in on, Viktor Orban-style, illiberal democracy.
Here’s a full rundown:
Joe Biden is not the legit president, students are required “to learn about the dignity of the preborn human,” including that life begins at fertilization; it talks about treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice”; locking the number of Supreme Court justices at 9; getting rid of the constitutional power to levy income taxes; abolishing the Federal Reserve; rejecting the Equal Rights Amendment; returning Christianity to schools and government; ending all gun safety measures; abolishing the Department of Education; arming teachers; requiring colleges to teach “free-market liberty principles”; defending capital punishment; dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered; protecting Confederate monuments; ending gay marriage; withdrawing from the United Nations and the World Health Organization; and also…as this article focuses on…calling for a vote “for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.” ))