Secession

Social media users suggested Puerto Rico should replace Texas as a state after the Texas GOP called for a referendum on possible secession from the U.S.

Newsweek asked experts about the likelihood of Texas breaking away from the U.S. after the Texas GOP's proposed platform called for a 2023 referendum on secession.

In 1868, the Supreme Court ruled on a case about Texas and secession from the United States, saying that union was "indissoluble."

The Texas GOP's platform calls for a referendum so Texans can vote on "whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation."

The constitutional amendment that would have led to the state's secession from the rest of the country was defeated 323-13, with 13 Republicans supporting it.

"Has secession ever succeeded?" Massie asked on Twitter Thursday.

The senator said he wasn't ready to secede yet, and that Texas has a "responsibility" to keep the nation from "going off a cliff."

Support for secession has been rising dramatically among Republicans in the South, jumping 16 percent in only five months.

Jeremy Munson said the proposed changes will allow Minnesota counties to join a "State that respects Freedom and Liberty."

Cheney was one of just 10 Republican members of the House to join Democrats in voting to impeach Donald Trump.

On Fox News, Rivera responded forcefully to Limbaugh's comments that political division could lead to a Civil War-style break-up of the U.S.

"This can't work" is a different claim than "this won't be attempted."

A Seattle-based radio host explains what is happening in Seattle's anarchist/secessionist "CHAZ," or "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone."

Under the new proposal, if California were to secede from the U.S., Native Americans would receive about 47 percent of the state's land to create their own nation.

The state was the first to secede from the Union over the right to own slaves, and a modern threat is over the right to own guns.

"The Republican Party is dead in California. They killed themselves by backing Donald Trump," the Yes California leader told Newsweek.

"It doesn't matter if you're liberal or conservative," an independence movement leader said. "If you're Californian, everyone is concerned about the nature of the state."

His departure would lead to the Third Spanish Republic, new governments in Madrid and Barcelona, and to a constitutional assembly.

90 percent of Catalans voted for independence on October 1, but the turnout was only 43 percent.

The referendum revealed a deeply divided society, and the lack of a clear and legal path to secession from Spain.

'Yes California' envisions an independent republic made up of its own states.

Brexit guarantees that a Europe already consumed with problems at home will turn even more inward. That's not good news for Washington.

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Exit poll shows separatists have won a clear majority of seats in Catalonia's parliament.

But it's unlikely to happen.