We here at TPOL completely skipped it last month, as we remembered the 188th anniversary of the Fall of the Alamo in 1836.

Yes, a 200-year-old flag. See below for its story! Meanwhile read on about why we remember that now, a month later.

An article about the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) telling AMLO (Obrador, el Presidente of the United Mexican States) that they intend to start actively working to end the “United” part of Estados Unidos Mexicanos. The TNM intends to publicly and actively support secession from Ciudad Mexico of any and all of the 31 States that make up that wartorn nation.

Why? Because Mexico not just refuses to help stem the tide of border jumpers (most not Mexicans) flowing across Mexico to engulf Texas. It actively encourages and supports what is more and more likely to be accurately described as an invasion. Yes, there are and have been people from around the world (including Mexico itself) swarming across the border. Unarmed, for the most part, but still with many of the aspects of aggressive and unfriendly invaders. True, they do contain some people who are legitimate refugees to be pitied and shown compassion. But more and more we hear reports of young, unaccompanied and healthy men. Men who usually are not seen as refugees from combat or persecution but rather the thugs who cause the refugees to flee.

Until very recently, the Federales tried to prevent refugees from jumping either the borders to the south or coming ashore. Now, the major tactic appears to be letting them come in and pass through to the United States as swiftly as possible. And Mexico still has strong border controls on anyone trying to go south from California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Try it and see.

(Once upon a time, the major concern of Mexico border guards, at El Paso or Laredo or MexiCali or Tijuana was whether or not the Gringos had enough money in their pockets (US dollars preferred to Mexico pesos) to buy souvenirs or booze or food before they went home for the night. No more.}

Texas is fed up with it, no matter how much California and its politicians welcome anyone who is not white and conservative. So Texas (good or bad) wants to put pressure of AMLO and the Federales to stop letting tens of thousands wade across the Rio Grande.

This may not be a great idea, but pushing secession of various Mexican States is both a lesson learned from history and certain to trigger a reaction.

The story of Texas’ successful secession from Mexico starts well before the beginning of the War of Independence in 1835. Until 1810, Nuevo Espana (New Spain – Mexico) was the crown of the Spanish Empire, ruled from Madrid. The Mexican War of Independence lasted 11 years (1810-1821), an effort aided by the fact that Spain itself was a bloodsoaked theatre of war in the Napoleonic wars in Europe. It ended with a Declaration of Independence and founding of the (First) Mexican Empire. This didn’t last as long as the Confederation in the United States, and a Mexican federal republic was declared and codified in the 1824 Constitution. Indeed, Spain did not official recognize the independence of Mexico until 1836, same year as Mexico reluctantly agreed to Texas’ independence.

Mexico in its first two decades of independence was, at best, chaotic: a hideous parody of the Norte Americano federal republic. Coups, corruption, contested elections, and internal struggles finally resulted in one of the many generals, the well-known Santa Anna replacing the federal republic with a unitary state in 1835 – still called a “republic” (shades of Marxism).

This actual dictatorship was not particularly popular with much of Mexico: not just Texas, but the Yucatan successfully revolted. Other states, Zacatecas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas, seceded for most of the same reasons: to force reinstatement of the 1824 federal constitution, to object to Santa Anna’s de facto dictatorship. Ultimately all of them failed. (We can argue that Texas’ also ultimately failed after nearly a decade when it was annexed (of its own free will) as a State of the United States of America. Courtesy of the misguided efforts of President Sam Houston.)

This all created chaos in Mexico, capped off by Santa Anna’s defeat in the Mexican(-American) War of 1845-1848 which finally confirmed Texas’ border on the Rio Grande and caused Mexico to lose what is now New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, and parts of Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming.

So the plan of Austin to put pressure on Ciudad Mexico is based on historical evidence and even history past 1845, as Mexico has frequently suffered internal strife and war (coups, rebellions, revolts, and revolutions) and had numerous external interventions.

Let us contemplate that this might not be the only steps Texas is considering. Texas in the 1840s supported the three-state Republica del Rio Grande as a buffer between Texas and the Mexican “centralist republic” dictatorship. Now nearly 200 years later, not just those States but States further west (particularly Chihuahua and Sonora) could form a new, Texas-backed Republic of the Rio Grande to block off Mexico and the cartels and migrants to the south. And to strengthen Texas in its disputes with DC. And even California and New Mexico.

The world may get much different soon.

Given what is happening in DC with Uncle Joe’s regime may also result in a new flag.