A blunt, one-voice case for Texas going its own way.
Leave The Swamp argues for Texas independence in one host's voice, mixing anti-war talk and small-government reasoning with a flat insistence that Texas comes first. Washington goes by 'Mordor', 'America first' slogans are waved off as too late, and the goal is a peaceful divorce, not a fight.
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Leave The Swamp is a Texas secession podcast, and it never pretends otherwise. One host carries it, opening with a 'Howdy' and coming back again and again to a single goal: a peaceful divorce between Texas and the United States. The delivery is loose, repetitive and heated. It sounds like someone thinking out loud about a cause they care about. The host even suggests listening at one and a half times speed, having been told the pace runs slow. Washington is 'Mordor' throughout, and the federal government is cast as an abusive spouse that Texas should leave rather than try to reform. Some of the sharpest material is about foreign policy. The host asks what bombing campaigns on the far side of the world have to do with anyone in Texas, and answers that they only make Texans targets for blowback. Another stretch imagines what the country might have saved since World War II with a military one tenth the size, no bases abroad and a strictly home defense. The domestic arguments follow the same small-government line. Tax season brings complaints about a federal government that, in the host's view, fails to keep its end of the bargain. The reversal of Roe v. Wade becomes an argument that such questions belong to the states, followed by a pitch to people on the left that power should be pushed down even further. The optimism comes from economics. The host predicts that a Texas free of federal taxes, exporting its energy and securing its own grid, would be the most prosperous country in the world within five years. By that logic, national elections cannot change anything for Texas. Some episodes are more structured. A multi-part series reads through Daniel Miller's book Texit with commentary, and one installment includes passages of the U.S. Constitution read aloud. 'Essential podcasts to broaden your horizons' works as a listening list, pointing to the Scott Horton show and Judging Freedom with Judge Andrew Napolitano for foreign policy, and to Doug Casey for an outlook the host calls almost exactly their own. 'Repost: TEXAS FIRST - Hopes & Dreams on Texas Independence Day' comes from the host's sister show, The Feed Bandit Podcast, which is billed as a Texas First outdoors program, and there are plugs for a Texas First Gear website as well. What sets the show apart is that it refuses national slogans: 'America first' and 'make America great again' are dismissed as ideas whose time has passed. The loyalty is to Texas, stated bluntly and without apology.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants the argument for Texas independence made at full volume, with anti-war foreign policy, small-government reasoning and a read-through of the book Texit mixed in. It is a poor fit for anyone looking for a balanced debate on secession.
What sets it apart: Instead of rallying around national slogans, the show rejects 'America first' outright and puts Texas above everything, alongside a sharp critique of overseas military action. Its read-through of Daniel Miller's Texit, which includes constitutional text read aloud, gives the advocacy a study-group side.
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A Texas Independence Day repost ties Texas identity, federal power, and the risks of distant military action.
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A personal podcast queue for following the host's libertarian view of government, media, and public life.
Leave the Swamp organizes a set of podcast recommendations around a libertarian case for peaceful separation and a politics rooted in philosophy. The path moves through secession, independence, foreign policy, constitutional questions, investing, economics, and finance.
A forceful Texit reading that weighs union against the constitutional machinery behind it.
Leave The Swamp turns a reading of Daniel Miller's Texit into a focused look at how political arrangements come to feel fixed once they are repeated long enough.
A Texas secession case shaped by tax frustration, local services, and distrust of federal power.
The episode frames Texas secession as a question of scale. The host starts with the irritation of paying taxes, then widens the argument to daily services: counties and cities handle much of what people actually touch, while the federal government taxes, regulates, pressures…
A forceful Texit case connecting federal overreach to Texas control of taxes, energy, and political direction.
Leave the Swamp frames President Brandon's State of the Union 2024 speech as a direct brief for Texit. Its Government angle is plain: the host treats the federal agenda as unconstitutional, harmful to Texans' rights, and proof that the state should reclaim control of its future.
A Texit chapter widens into regional independence movements, cartel policy, and the broader case being built around secession.
A Texit-focused podcast chapter broadens into a survey of regional independence arguments, placing Texas secession alongside movements or proposals tied to Alberta, the Atlantic provinces, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and northern Mexico.
A Texit argument that links war, Union, taxes, and self-reliance to an independent Texas identity.
Leave the Swamp treats Texit as a fight over who gets to control Texas, reaching the question through war, taxation, and self-reliance. The host pushes back on Nikki Haley's wording about running for children who do not want more wars, then ties that critique to her comments on…
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Jonah Goldberg's literate, dry-witted arguments about politics and ideas.
Leave The Swamp's "Operation Epic Stupidity & No Holds Barred TEXAS FIRST" ties the Iran war to a Texas-separatist argument.
The Feed Bandit Podcast reposts a Texas First Outdoors monologue about March 2, Texas Independence Day, and why the date should matter more in Texas.
Leave The Swamp's 'Essential podcasts to broaden your horizons' is a solo recommendation list built around Texit, libertarianism, foreign policy, finance, and esoteric shows.
Leave The Swamp's "Texit: A book review and commentary part 4" spends most of its time on chapter two of Daniel Miller's Texit, using the European Union, the Articles of Confederation, and the Tenth Amendment to argue that Texas belongs to a federal compact rather than one nation.
Leave The Swamp's "It wouldn't take much, just a peacefull divorce" opens with a tax-season complaint that TaxAct and CPA fees can leave ordinary filers guessing about obscure code references like "694(b).1".
Leave The Swamp analyzes President Biden's 2024 State of the Union speech through the host's case for Texas independence.
Leave The Swamp continues its review of Daniel Miller's Texit by presenting Texas independence as part of a wider 20th-century movement toward self-determination.
Leave The Swamp argues that Texas should leave the United States because the host sees Washington, D.C.
Leave the Swamp continues its reading of Daniel Miller’s Texit by tracing the labels Grexit and Brexit into Texas’s independence movement.
Leave the Swamp examines a Texas Monthly article titled "Is the Texas Secession Movement Getting Serious?" through Mal's arguments about Texas sovereignty, federal power, and peaceful separation.
Leave the Swamp begins a commentary reading of Daniel Miller's Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave the Union, starting with its foreword and preface.
Leave The Swamp returns after a September 2022 recording hiatus with an argument that Texas should peacefully secede from a U.S.
On Leave the Swamp’s “Emperor Brandon and the Abyss,” James Malcontent Byrne interprets President Brandon’s September speech as an imperial display and a warning against dissent.
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Leave the Swamp argues that the United States cannot govern 330 million people effectively through one-size-fits-all federal policies.
The host discusses his family's trip to Mexico and contrasts the two countries' handling of COVID, while promoting his cause for Texas independence.