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Texas state Rep. Kyle Biedermann, a Republican, says he will introduce the bill for a referendum as early as this week on whether Texas should assert its independence from the United States.
The notion, which has been batted around Texas for generations, looms much larger now in the wake of the violence in the U.S. capital.
While baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election have sowed discord in the country, advocates of a Texit insist the effort is not about Trump. It s being dismissed as a fringe phenomena, until the moment where it surprises everybody and becomes mainstream, said Richard Kreitner, a secession expert. I think it s going to be the story of the 2020s.