Is Texas About to Remind America Who Actually Runs This Country?
Written by Peter Boykin on November 16, 2025
Is Texas About to Remind America Who Actually Runs This Country?
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Is Texas About to Remind America Who Actually Runs This Country?
Once upon a time, long before microphones, cable news, and political branding, the power of the United States lived closest to the people. States were not background players. They were not regional branches. They were sovereign governments that agreed to create a Constitutional Republic to protect liberty, not surrender it.
Today that old truth is resurfacing. A single state is standing up again and forcing the nation to revisit a reality many in Washington would rather everyone forget. The federal government was never designed to rule over the states. It was designed to serve them. And when that balance breaks, the Republic begins to fracture.
Right now, Texas is stepping into a role the Founders expected every state to embrace when Washington fails to do its job.
States Are Not Subjects. They Are Partners in the Republic.
Texas has reached a point where federal inaction has become a direct threat to its citizens. From border chaos to national security breakdowns to unconstitutional pressure campaigns, the pattern is clear. Washington creates the problem. The states absorb the consequences. The people suffer.
Texas decided to stop accepting that arrangement.
Under the Constitution, states retain the authority to act when the federal government refuses to fulfill its responsibilities. That is not defiance. That is the design of the Republic. The Founders knew centralized power becomes dangerous the moment it is left unchecked. They expected the states to act as guardrails.
Texas is simply doing what the Constitution already allows it to do.
The Real Panic Is Coming from Washington
There is a reason the political establishment becomes uneasy whenever a state stands up for itself. It is not because the action is unlawful. It is because it reveals the truth Washington wants people to forget.
The federal government is not the supreme power in the country. The Constitution is. And the Constitution gives the states authority that cannot be erased, redefined, or intimidated out of existence.
When Texas asserts its powers, it exposes a weakness in the federal system. Washington is strong only when the states comply. It is powerful only when the states remain silent. It is dominant only when the people forget that their states were never meant to be obedient.
If Texas succeeds, others will follow. That is what Washington fears most.
The Founders Built a Balance. Washington Broke It
The balance of the Republic is simple. The federal government handles national responsibilities. The states handle local governance. Each side has limits. Each side is accountable. Each side prevents the other from drifting into tyranny.
That balance created freedom.
But over time, Washington inflated itself into a national command center. Federal agencies grew. Executive power expanded. Accountability faded. And states were pressured to act like mere branches of a centrally controlled system.
Now one state is pushing the scale back into place. Texas is not breaking the system. Texas is restoring it.
This is not rebellion. This is the Republic doing exactly what it was built to do.
First Commentary Section: Texas Changed the Conversation
Here is the simple truth. Texas is acting because the federal government refuses to. That alone is enough to shake the political class, because it means the system still works even when Washington collapses into dysfunction.
Texas is reminding America that sovereignty does not come from politicians. It does not come from federal agencies. It does not come from bureaucrats who hide behind regulations. Sovereignty comes from the people, through their states, into the Republic.
Every time Texas acts within its constitutional authority, it pulls the country back toward the balance the Founders created. And every time Washington resists, it reveals how far the federal government has drifted from the limits placed on it.
Texas has revived a conversation that should never have been allowed to disappear. Who holds the true power in America? Washington wants you to forget the answer. Texas just reminded everyone.
A Rising Speech for a Republic That Forgot It Has Fifty Guardians
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Let me speak plainly, because the age of polite whispering is over. What we are witnessing right now is not chaos. It is not rebellion. It is not extremism. It is the first spark of something America has not seen in a long time. It is a state remembering the power it actually has. And the country is nervous because deep down we all know the truth. States were never meant to kneel. They were never meant to obey. They were never meant to wait for permission from Washington before protecting their own people.
For too long we have allowed the federal government to pretend it is the master of this Republic. It is not. The states created it. The states empowered it. And the states can check it anytime they choose. That is not radical. That is the blueprint of the nation. That is the design the Founders wrote with quills dipped in rebellion and sealed with the belief that no centralized authority should ever be trusted with absolute power.
People say Texas is pushing the boundaries. No. Texas is doing what the Constitution allows. The real boundary pushers are sitting in Washington, growing agencies that never answer to the people and enforcing policies that break the very rights they swore to protect. They expand their reach every year. They take more authority every year. And they expect the states to sit quietly while the Republic tilts further and further away from the balance that protects freedom.
Texas simply stopped pretending.
And now the political class is afraid, because when one state remembers who it is, the others start to wake up too. That is how revolutions begin. Not with violence, but with a question. Not with weapons, but with memory. Not with force, but with courage. When one state stands, the rest see that they can stand. When one state pushes back, the rest realize they were allowed to push back all along.
This is the moment Washington fears most. A population that remembers the federal government is not a king. A state that remembers the Tenth Amendment is not decorative poetry. A Republic that remembers its power does not flow downward from elites, it flows upward from the people through their states.
The truth no one in Washington wants to admit is this. The federal government is powerful only because the states allow it to be powerful. The balance can shift anytime a state decides it is done being used. Anytime a state decides the Constitution matters more than political pressure. Anytime a state decides the safety of its citizens comes before the feelings of bureaucrats.
This is not about Texas alone. This is about the soul of the entire Republic.
Because if one state can reclaim its authority, it proves the rest can too. And if the rest do, then Washington loses the ability to rule by fear, by threats, by funding manipulation, by weaponized agencies, and by pretending its power is absolute. It never was. It never will be. And it is time the American people remembered that.
This is a crossroads moment. One road leads to a nation where fifty states become fifty obedient districts run by one city with one voice and one agenda. The other road leads back to the Constitutional Republic the Founders built, where states defend their people, guard their borders, and stand firm when Washington fails or overreaches.
Texas has chosen its road. Texas stepped into the role the Constitution created for it. And now every state must decide whether to follow or continue surrendering authority to a federal machine that has forgotten the limits placed upon it.
This is not a stunt. This is not a headline. This is a reminder. A reminder that the Constitution still works when the states choose to use it. A reminder that liberty survives when people refuse to hand their power to Washington. A reminder that the future of this nation depends not on federal dominance, but on states willing to rise, act, and lead.
Texas stood up. The question is whether the rest of the country still has the courage to rise with it.
Because history always remembers the first one to say enough. And history always follows those who refuse to kneel.
This is the moment we rediscover the Republic we were meant to be.
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