The commitment
Four sentences. Nothing in the fine print.
A public commitment any candidate or officeholder can make. It never expires, it is never quietly removed, and in March about 1.6 million Texans voted for someone who signed it.
I pledge to place the interests of Texas and Texans before any other nation, state, political entity, organization, or individual.
I further pledge to uphold the right of Texans under Article 1 Section 2 of the Texas Constitution "to alter, reform or abolish their government."
If it is within the powers of my office, I will vote for legislation and resolutions to call for a vote on Texas reasserting its status as an independent nation in every term that I am elected until such a referendum is held.
If a majority of the people of Texas vote in support of Texas reasserting its status as an independent nation, I pledge to work toward a fair and expedient separation of Texas from the federal government placing the interests of Texans first.
That is the whole thing. Four sentences, in plain language, signed in public. The first commits an officeholder to Texas First, the interests of Texas and Texans before any other nation, state, political entity, organization, or individual. The three that follow put a spine behind it.
The right it defends is older than the pledge
The second sentence invents nothing. It affirms a right Texans wrote into their own constitution in 1876, after they had lived through what Washington does to a people that tries to leave. Here it is, in full:
All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit. The faith of the people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient.
Texas Constitution, Article I, Section 2
Signing is not a vote for independence
This is the part people miss. A signer does not promise to support TEXIT. A signer who holds office promises two things: to vote to put independence on the ballot, and to honor the result once Texans vote. The vote belongs to Texans. The pledge makes sure they get to hold it.
Fig. 1 · The 2026 primary
Putting Texas first is the mainstream position
Texans voted for a Texas First Pledge signer in the March 2026 Republican primary, roughly three in four primary voters.
A signature that stays on the record
A signature on the Texas First Pledge never expires, and it is never quietly removed. Once a person signs, the record stands, so voters can see it and hold them to it. If a signer later disavows the pledge, that is recorded too. The history stays honest.
Open to every party
The Texas Nationalist Movement does not endorse candidates through this pledge. Signing is open to any candidate or officeholder, of any party, who will put Texas first. The pledge measures one commitment, and names it in public.