Video from This Month @ The TNM

This Month @ the TNM - July 2026

For the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, host Will Kacy looks past the familiar opening lines to the document's operational heart, its declaration that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states. Not state, he points out. States, plural. The Declaration is not just a founding myth, Kacy argues, but a blueprint for self-government, and its core principle, that a people may govern themselves, is the same one that animates the Texas independence movement today.