Texas Nationalist Movement is Growing.

A resolution calling for Texans to vote on seceding from the United States was struck down from being added to the Texas Republican Party platform yesterday at the Texas Republican Convention.

So, what? You might be thinking, but the fact that the motion got this far shows the grassroots movement may not be as “fringe” as it once was.

The Texas Nationalist Movement has led the charge to break ties with the union for the past 10 years, but the campaign has especially gained steam since the 2012 election. A Change.org petition to allow Texas’s secession gained more than 100,000 signatures in the January following the 2012 election.

Despite the growth, the movement remains small. The Houston Chronicle reports only 10 out of 270 counties passed independence resolutions this spring. Only one county passed such resolutions in the spring of 2012.

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