​To save America, we must save Texas

Without a doubt, we are losing Texas. Our values and our very way of life are threatened by a federal government obsessed with punishing law-abiding citizens while importing millions of people into the country illegally. The largest slave trade in the world is in our state, and yet the FBI is more interested in investigating moms protesting porn in schools than finding the cartel members who rape and kill little girls.

No matter how many Republicans we send to Austin, we don’t get solutions. Instead, we get the impeachment of the most conservative attorney general our state has seen in a long time. We get half-measures (at best) for securing the border. We don’t get school choice, we don’t get secure elections, and we don’t get pushback of any kind against the federal government.

Texas must recognize that we are at war with the federal government, and we must take action to protect our citizens.

The Constitution is a contract between the states and a contract between the states and the federal government. It gives three main objectives for the federal government: to provide for a stable currency, to protect the citizens from foreign enemies, and to make sure that the states do not unfairly tax each other.

The federal government has broken its contract in all three instances. It continues to print money, causing runaway inflation; encourages the border invasion; and uses the interstate commerce clause to control every aspect of our lives.

The interstate commerce clause has been completely abused and stretched far beyond its original intent. It’s now the basis for the EPA regulating the puddle in front of my house, for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms making felons out of millions of Texans based on a bureaucratic rule change, and for the government dictating your choice of home appliances. We are being regulated into authoritarianism.

Everyone remembers exactly where they were on September 11, 2001. The federal government formed a commission to get to the bottom of why our intelligence, law enforcement, and military agencies did not prevent the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The main takeaway from the 9/11 Commission’s report was that the terrorists were at war with us while we were not at war with them. I fear we may have forgotten our hard-learned lesson.

The federal government has broken its contract with us, instead declaring war on us. This must be stopped.

Texas must recognize that we are at war with the federal government, and we must take action to protect our citizens. We need Republicans in Austin who will recognize the reality of our situation and act accordingly.

But how do we accomplish this? We can’t just keep hoping that things will turn around. As we found out during the Trump years, the federal bureaucracy has grown beyond the ability of Congress or the president to manage. Though President Trump was easily the best president in my lifetime, our government and federal debt still grew under his administration.

We must first consider legislation to curb the federal government’s power, including preventing it from owning or renting property in our state and requiring federal police officers to either obtain permission from the local sheriff or face being arrested themselves. The border should be completely secured by the Texas National Guard.

While I support the intent and sentiment of the Convention of States movement, there are two fundamental flaws in its approach. First, the timing won’t work. Texas is under assault now and can’t endure another decade, perhaps not even a few years more. It will take at least a few years before the Convention of the States has enough states signed on.

Second, the problem with our federal government is that it is not following the Constitution. While the proposed amendments would be improvements to the Constitution, improving a document already not being followed seems as effective as telling a mass murderer that he is in a gun-free zone.

The only way to save our state is “Texit,” which would remove the federal government completely from our state. We will have the chance to save ourselves by protecting against the ongoing foreign invasion and providing our own gold-backed stable currency. We do not need bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., telling us that our schools don’t have enough diversity or that our corporations must play along with the pronoun mafia.

While the U.S. Constitution does not provide for any mechanism to exit this union, it also doesn’t expressly prohibit it. And there has never been a greater need to protect ourselves from our own federal government. If we are to save America, we must save Texas.