While the political elites may find the notion of Texas independence agenda well beyond amusing, they will do so at their own demise.

Most beltway insiders routinely dismiss the massive economic might of Texas, along with its building spirit of rebellious independence.

The same spirit which is feeding the question of Great Britain's possible exit from the Eurozone & the New World Order.

If the states were nations, the above represents the economic might of America....

Were Texas a nation, it would possess, easily, one of the largest economies on the planet, ranked about 10th, just ahead of the nation of Canada

~Refocus Notes

UK Guardian

Tom Dart in Port Arthur, Texas

How closely is Daniel Miller tracking the news ahead of the referendum about , whether Britain should leave the European Union? “Hourly!” he grins. The Sun’s recent editorial calling for the UK’s departure got him quite excited.

Miller, though, is not from London or Liverpool. He hails from Longview, Texas, and we are talking in a cafe in the bleakly industrial Gulf coast town of Port Arthur, some 5,000 miles from Westminster.

Culturally, too, we are a long way from Europe. Heck, we are even a long way from Dallas. But the referendum matters deeply to Miller and like-minded Texans. As the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, which wants Texas to secede from the United States, he is hoping for a Leave vote that he believes will ripple all the way from Austria to Austin.

The night before we met, Miller addressed a local Tea Party group, drawing parallels between Brexit and Texit, which the TNM is pushing as a hashtag. In Miller’s telling, Britain’s relationship with Europe was a marriage of convenience between ill-suited partners that has become stormy and ripe for divorce on grounds of irreconcilable differences, with too much sovereignty ceded to an ineffective central bureaucracy and too much hard-earned money sent elsewhere.