, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.In June 2022, the adopted a platform urging the Legislature to put a referendum before the people of Texas in November 2023 “to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”Secession and independence have been perennial themes throughout the history of Texas, which in 1836 and was an independent republic before it was in 1845. As the United States was torn apart by divisions over whether slavery could expand into the nation’s western territories, Texas...…, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.In June 2022, the adopted a platform urging the Legislature to put a referendum before the people of Texas in November 2023 “to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”Secession and independence have been perennial themes throughout the history of Texas, which in 1836 and was an independent republic before it was in 1845. As the United States was torn apart by divisions over whether slavery could expand into the nation’s western territories, Texas...WW…