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Texas secessionist reveals the FIVE states he's working with to break up America
Texas' top secessionist has revealed he's working with pro-independence groups in five US states to break up the union.
Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), says he's hatching plans with self-rule activists in California, New Hampshire, Alaska, Florida, and Louisiana.
Miller insists he's not 'stirring up trouble.'
He just wants residents of the six states to vote on whether they should continue being led by Washington DC, he says.
His comments come in a divisive election year, and amid the runaway success of Civil War, a dark thriller about the US spiraling into conflict between the capital and breakaway states.
Daniel Miller, center right, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, says he's coordinating with five state independence groups
Louisiana and Florida have recently jumped on the independence bandwagon, says Dan Miller
'We do communicate. We do coordinate,' Miller said about his fellow secessionists on the Late Night Coffee Talk podcast.
Miller, who heads perhaps the most cohesive independence group in the US, says he's helping other group leaders 'rationalize' their plans and 'debate the issue and how to organize.'
'We want to encourage them,' he says.
'But ultimately, it's about helping them organize and ask the question in the right way, so their people can vote and make a determination of what's best for them.'.
Miller says he has for some time had an 'interface' with Carla Gericke, who leads New Hampshire's independence movement.
He's also coordinated with Marcus Evans, who runs the Golden State's 'Calexit' campaign, and with members of the decades-old Alaskan Independence Party.
But Miller has 'just made contact with a group in Florida' and the Louisiana movement is 'spinning up' right now, he adds.
Miller has since 1996 pushed for the Lone Star state to exit the union, in what's known as 'Texit.'
It's getting more popular thanks to the influx of asylum seekers at the border with Mexico, he says.
Texans feel they'd do a better job of managing the frontier without the federal government tying their hands, he says.
The group has never been so close to achieving its goal, he says.
Across the US, about 23 percent of people want their state to bust out of the union.
Those sentiments are felt strongest in Alaska, Texas, California, New York, and Oklahoma, recent YouGov polling showed.
A vintage illustration of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, fought during the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War on June 27, 1864.
Marcus Ruiz Evans of the Yes California Independence Campaign has reportedly been talking with like-minded splitters in Texas.
Kirsten Dunst, right, plays a news photographer trying to reach the capital before it falls to rebels in the movie Civil War.
Alaska is the most secessionist-leaning state in the US. It joined the country in 1867
The survey showed that 31 percent of Texans want out — though Miller says it's an undercount.
Alaska is the most pro-independence state, with 36 percent of residents wanting the Last Frontier to call it a day and leave the union.
Democrat-run California and New York are next in line to abandon ship, with 29 percent and 28 percent of residents favoring secession, respectively.
Oklahomans (28 percent), Nebraskans (25 percent), Georgians (25 percent), Floridians (24 percent) and Washingtonians (24 percent) are also eyeing the door.
At the other end of the spectrum is Connecticut, with just 9 percent of its relatively content residents seeking an out.
But popular support alone is not enough for states to secede — as was demonstrated by the secession of Southern states including Texas in 1861, which led to the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in US history.
Many legal scholars say the US Constitution does not allow states to opt out.
The interest in secession has been showcased by the success of the movie Civil War, which grossed $69 million in the US, according to Box Office Mojo.
The tense thriller sees a nation that's collapsed into full-blown armed conflict.
The military powers of Texas and California have united as Western Forces, which are descending on Washington, DC.
They seek to overthrow an authoritarian US president, played by Nick Offerman.
Meanwhile, fictional Reuters photographer Lee (Kirsten Dunst) and reporter Joel (Wagner Moura) take to the road with the aim of reaching the capital before it falls to rebels.
The movie is vague about how America descended into a second civil conflict.
The president has ripped up the rule book — bombing civilians, cancelling elections and granting himself a third term.
Miller calls the movie a '100 percent plausible' account of America tearing itself apart.