Texas Republican Party chairman Allen West falsely suggested that Texas could secede from the United States and become an independent country, a CNN KFile review of his comments in recent months shows ...

For two weeks in April, the top movie in America explored what would happen if Texas and California seceded from the United States. The answer, as foreshadowed in the title Civil War, was brutal ...

Texas seceding from the United States is "closer than pretty much anyone else thinks" according to a leading Lone Star independence campaigner who argued a series of triggers, such as the reelection ...

Texas secessionists haven’t been this giddy since Edward Clark was governor and the first shot of the Civil War was fired in Fort Sumter, S.C. In the wake of the Nov. 5 elections, Daniel Miller — ...

Andrew Stanton is a Newsweek weekend reporter based in Maine. His role is reporting on U.S. politics and social issues. Andrew joined Newsweek in 2021 from The Boston Globe. He is a graduate of ...

Daniel Miller felt encouraged last week, as fears of a new civil war trended online and a coalition of powerful Republicans coalesced behind Gov. Greg Abbott’s standoff with the Biden administration.

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott introduced his fellow governor from Tennessee this week at a border press conference, his words made reference to a bedrock piece of Lone State lore. "Now, I'm going to ...