Texas Declaration of Independence

And then their goal is to destroy our republic from within, to create people that don't look at our country as the greatest country in the history of humanity.

And so what I fe- when I, when I heard the nomination speech that James Talerico gave at the state convention, the Democrat state convention, he mentioned Elijah Stapp, and I said, "Why did he mention him?" And I f- I found out that Elijah Stapp actually signed the Texas Declaration of Independence.

But in doing more research, I also found out that Elijah Stapp was absolutely a slave master.

So was his father, his grandfather, and his great-grandfather.

Sometimes maybe lawyers aren't the best ones to do that.

Uh, otherwise, we'd have had a different Constitution and Bill of Rights and Texas Declaration of Independence.

Rocky, I don't think I've had, like I say, in 17 years, I've never had a personal injury trial go to the bench.

But I have had a lot of, uh, family law, obviously.

Yeah.

"Lost in the Talarico-has-a-lobbyist-girlfriend-and-she's-vegan story is a detail that apparently Brianna Menard is descended from Michael Branamore Menard, the Canadian fur trader who founded Galveston, Texas, and signed the Teclas- Texas Declaration of Independence, and who Menard County is named after, LOL."

So that's kinda sick.

Yeah.

Uh, Richard, "My great-grandfather was known as the Paul Revere of Texas.

He was a scout for Sam Houston and a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

His name was Matthew Caldwell."

That is so cool.

That, that's right, yeah.

My whatever, however many greats needs to be uncle [laughs] Albert Hamilton Latimer was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, so that's, that's what, uh, especially my dad, who [laughs] uh, has always taken a lot of pride in as he reminds people that the Latimers have been in Texas since before Texas.

So [laughs] that's, that's a, a big point of pride in our family.

Right.

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The Texas Declaration of Independence.

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Republic of Texas.

The language is the language of the Tennessee hills, the Mohawk Valley, the farmlands, the old frontiers, the places you and I know.

Although until four days ago, when the Texas Declaration of Independence was signed, this land had been politically foreign, it has long been culturally and physically allied to the United States.

These people, these Texans, are the cousins and the brothers and the husbands of our own families.

They are our kin.

The language is the language of the Tennessee hills, the Mohawk Valley, the farmlands, the old frontiers, the places you and I know.

Although until four days ago, when the Texas Declaration of Independence was signed, this land had been politically foreign, it has long been culturally and physically allied to the United States.

These people, these Texans, are the cousins and the brothers and the husbands of our own families.

They are our kin.

I've been digging into how a word like maverick, which everyone knows as shorthand for being an outsider, actually came about, and it turns out the roots are surprisingly grounded in Texas ranching history.

Samuel Augustus Maverick was born in 1803, made his mark as a lawyer and land baron, and signed the Texas Declaration of Independence.

But the story really starts with how he handled his herd.

Maverick's connection to cattle is what makes this story so grounded in real life.