Secession & sovereignty bills in your state legislature need your support now
February is the most important month of the year when it comes to contacting your state legislature, because most state legislatures only vote on bills a couple months a year, beginning around now.
Follow the Tenth Amendment Center on social media to learn of bills moving through your state legislature that support your state’s sovereignty. Most of these bills would make secession easier or more successful. There are many good ones moving through legislatures and winning right now.
Indiana
Contact your state senator and state rep to support relocating the state line!
The Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives wrote a bill, HB 1008, that would, if Illinois reciprocates, create a commission to consider relocating the Illinois/Indiana state line to allow conservative counties of Illinois (central & southern Illinois) to join Indiana.
Yesterday, it passed an Indiana House committee 11-1. Even most Dems voted for it with a recommendation to the floor of "do pass." It is getting read on the floor of the House today, where it will face hostile amendment proposals from Democrats. In the House, the third reading, debate, and vote might occur as early as tomorrow. It’s very likely to pass the House, as House members want to maintain a good relationship with their Speaker. However, its support in the Senate is not known at all, so please contact your state senator (not your US senators). Look them up here. Ask them to vote YES on HB 1008. Reasons to support it are on our new blog post here.
When we find out which senate committee it will be assigned to, we’ll post on our social media, so follow us and contact the committee chair then, to ask him to allow his committee to consider the bill.
Illinois
State Rep. Brad Halbrook introduced a bill this year, HB1500, that would create a commission to consider relocating the Illinois/Indiana state line to allow conservative counties of Illinois to join Indiana, if Indiana’s bill passes (see above). It is languishing in the Rules Committee.
Texas
Although 11 members of the Texas Legislature signed the Texas First Pledge, it’s a pledge to vote for the Texas Independence Referendum Act (TIRA), not to file it (introduce it). It hasn’t been filed yet. Maybe they’re waiting for Republicans to grow pessimistic about the federal government again. Maybe it’s because the Texas House has a RINO speaker of the House (the Senate doesn’t though).
The good news is that there’s a ton of bills in the Texas Legislature that would improve Texas’ sovereignty and its ability to secede. To learn easy ways to help, visit the Legislative Activist Campaign Page of the Texas Nationalist Movement. The Texas Legislature only has one regular session every two years, so now is the time to act.
Other News
The list of Trump’s actions blocked by federal judges has grown to 12. Apparently, judges won the presidential election. California is planning to file hundreds (no exaggeration) of lawsuits to block Trump. Secession is the answer.
The Libertarian Party of Louisiana overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for their state to hold a referendum on whether Louisiana should be independent of Washington DC, last month. Follow and join the Louisiana independence movement Free Louisiana.
A state in Mexico is very likely to vote on independence next year, as wealthy Gilberto Lozano can afford to get the signatures necessary & the state already authorized signature collection on his plebiscite question. Nuevo Leon's population is 6.2M & shares a short border with Texas. Northern Mexico is more wealthy and Spanish than other parts of Mexico.
Christian) Republika Srpska is using Trump's term to try to obtain independence from (Muslim) Bosnia, its president declared last week.
N-VA, a party that works for Flanders to be autonomous or possibly independent of Belgium agreed on a coalition of parties to rule Belgium last month, with the N-VA leader as PM. They excluded the anti-immigration, anti-EU @vlbelang, the true secessionist party, from the coalition, colluding with Walloon socialists instead, even though Vlaams Belang won an impressive 2nd-place (almost 1st place) in elections.
UPDATE:
"Greater Indiana" bill passes Indiana House
INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana House of Representatives passed a bill 69-25 today that, if Illinois takes action, would create a commission to study the possibility of a relocation of the Illinois/Indiana state line. The bill, HB 1008 “Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission,” now goes to the Indiana Senate.
Illinois Representative Brad Halbrook has introduced HB 1500, a bill that would complement HB 1008 by supplying Illinois representatives to the bi-state commission. HB 1500 is languishing in the Rules Committee of the Illinois House.
So far, since early 2020, 33 counties of Illinois have passed non-binding referendums calling for separation from Illinois. The election results in those referendums average 74%, and none has failed to pass. The counties are in central and southern Illinois, and most are rural. Central and southern Illinois, with a population of 2.8 million, gave 1.7 votes to President Trump for every 1 vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016, which is even more than Indiana did. Illinois currently has 102 counties.
Illinois’ state budget is primarily dependent on personal income tax, and so would benefit from the loss of rural southern and central Illinois, according to an analysis published at RedStateSecession.org. However, the analysis shows that certain groups of counties would be a financial benefit to Indiana, such as the eastern half of central Illinois with 1.1 million people, because they have a higher average income than Indiana does. The analysis also proposes that, if Indiana wanted to take a larger group of counties, then Indiana might want to design legislation that would require the whole group of counties to pay their share of Indiana’s state’s taxes.
Speaker Todd Huston, who authored HB 1008, has repeatedly said that the economy of downstate Illinois would flourish under Indiana’s “low taxes, low regulatory environment, a ton of economic development already taking place.”
Moving a state line might be more palatable to Congress and to Illinois than creating a new state, which would add two Republicans to the US Senate. Although Illinois leaders dismissed the idea last month, a debt crisis could force Illinois to consider the option.
