Newsweek reports:
Texas Republicans are pushing for a referendum to decide whether the state should secede from the U.S. The demand for Texans to be allowed to vote on the issue in 2023 was one of many measures adopted in the Texas GOP’s party platform following last week’s state convention in Houston.
Under a section titled “State Sovereignty,” the platform states: “Pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right of local self-government. Therefore, federally mandated legislation that infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified.
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The Texas GOP wants to hold a literal treason referendum in 2023. https://t.co/x8QeQPSiIn
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 20, 2022
The Republican Party of Texas adopted its latest platform. It includes
-Description of homosexuality as “abnormal”
-Declaring that President Biden was “not legitimately elected”
-Called for a referendum to secede from the USThis hateful anti-democracy party must be defeated!
— Republicans against Trumpism (@RpsAgainstTrump) June 20, 2022
I oppose Texas secession. We can’t afford to have an ally of Russia on our border.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 19, 2022