Texas Nationalist Movement

The newly elected chair and vice-chair of the Texas Republican Party each signed a "Texas First" pledge put forward by a group advocating for secession. Its president says that's "invaluable."

A question over Texas seceding from the U.S. was kept off the GOP primary ballot. But this is the closest the Texas Nationalist Movement has come to putting “Texit” up for a vote in the group’s nearly two decades of trying — and it could signal a shift in state politics.

Texas already seceded once — in 1861, by popular vote in a statewide election. But the Texas Nationalist Movement wants a repeat a century and a half…