A new candidate for sheriff in Texas has pledged to support the state's secession from the union. In Bexar County, Sheriff Javier Salazar is facing competition from Nathan Buchanan. The challenger, a ...

Following the election, there’s been a petition on the White House website for Texas’ secession. On his show Tuesday night, Sean Hannity spoke with the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, ...

TEXAS, USA — The concept of Texas seceding from the United States has been around since statehood. But this time, it feels a bit different. More than 150 Republican candidates and officeholders signed ...

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 — ...

Can Texas really break away and become its own country? ⠀ It’s a question that resurfaces every few years—and every time, ...

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 ...

Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America It’s beginning to feel a lot like the 1860s — and not just because Steven Spielberg ...

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 ...

A group that advocates for Texas to declare independence from the United States celebrated the election of several Republicans to the state House this week. The Texas Nationalist Movement said 190 ...

In a meeting of secession-enthusiasts inside a Moscow hotel over the weekend, separatists agreed that “Texit” would be beneficial to the Kremlin. “The more the West is disunited, the more beneficial ...

HOUSTON — In the two weeks since President Barack Obama's re-election, Republicans around the country have been wondering how to proceed. Some conservatives in Texas have been asking a far more ...