‘TEXIT’: Lawmaker wants voters to decide Texas secession from U.S.

A Texas state lawmaker wants the Lone Star state to secede from the United States — and he’s putting it to a vote. If passed in the state Legislature, the Texas Independence Referendum Act, or TEXIT, would allow Texans to vote on whether the state “should reassert its status as an independent nation’ during the next general election. “The Texas Constitution is clear that all political power resides in the people,” State Rep. Bryan Slaton (R) said in a statement. “After decades of continuous abuse of our rights and liberties...