‘#Texit’: A Texas state lawmaker says he will propose a referendum on seceding from the US because the ‘federal government is out of control’

‘#Texit’: A Texas state lawmaker says he will propose a referendum on seceding from the US because the ‘federal government is out of control’

A Texas state lawmaker announced this week that he plans to propose a referendum aimed at seceding from the United States. 

"The federal government is out of control and does not represent the values of Texans," Rep. Kyle Biedermann, a Republican, said. 

State Republicans and Democrats have already criticized the proposal. 

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A Texas state lawmaker announced this week that he plans to propose a referendum aimed at seceding from the United States. 

"The federal government is out of control and does not represent the values of Texans," State Rep. Kyle Biedermann, a Republican representing the greater San Antonio area since 2017, wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday. 

"That is why I am committing to file legislation this session that will allow a referendum to give Texans a vote for the State of Texas to reassert its status as an independent nation," he added, along with the hashtag #Texit.

Talks around secession resurface every so often in Texas, but modern efforts to leave the union have not been successful. The state previously broke off from the country and joined the Confederate States of America in 1861. Yet after the civil war, the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v.