being chased out by the new president of mexico was also a general of the army is there and they had to defend themselves against santa ana as armies that lasted for about a year but finally general sam houston leading these volunteers defeated santa ana at a place called sandhya sento and in defeating the president and general of mexico they were able to force him to sign a treaty the treaty formed a new nation said that he would never again come across the rio grande river to bother of the people in texas any more tree he also said that the land of texas belonged to the people who lived on the land of texas for ever and that's a treaty that is perpetual it doesn't go away so what is the republic of texas now it is the land of texas one of texas does not belong to the us doesn't belong to the federal government that last of the people who live here and there is no oh yeah what the republic of texas is today in the early to thousands the number of people got together and said you know what the farm land is still ours and if there's a perpetual treaty that says we are a nation let's just be a nation as so they elected but with a vote from the people a president vice president secretary of state a congress supreme court that's what it is today the purpose the goal of the republic of texas and what we're doing is to restore and to preserve all the freedoms and all the  when that treaty was signed in other words we're here to make sure that the people get to exercise those rights even though an overreaching federal government of the u s keeps trying to take away more and more of the rights and freedoms we're here to restore them and to make sure they're preserved to have i drove here from lake jackson texas two hundred forty miles i had to wake up early but i wanted to come i went last month to this meeting and what i see are some people that are concerned about where the country's heading and then they they look for the alternative but there's a lot of talk about secession in this country because we see tyranny in washington we see even our own elected representatives wind up getting elected because there are people with wealth that are paying for their elections the lamb for the people original boundaries from eighteen thirty six of the nation called the republic of texas here's a map of the state of texas today and all of the mountains all the way up to here which is wyoming colorado new mexico kansas and oklahoma that we're part of the nation then have been stripped away because this is the northern limit of texas which is somewhere and sheer you can see our four have served these papers to all the different governors to the washington the united states declared them the vote and the constitution null and void with the what the people didn't understand is texas never see that it's millions in they were and they were taken sites on trees government has become a parasite and there are as many people dependent on my government in the united states as there are that are not depend other things now so people keep the food so of their labor they keep the work of their hands on the down low they can start businesses they can hire more people the other people have jobs everything works fine grid it's got all the wall and gas and everything it needs it's got all the end everything it made it can survive by itself without the rest of the united states which is to say the rest united states country or around the whole world are thinking oil wells when they hear about texas well that was true a long time ago but now two thousand and thirteen there is more energy coming out of the ground from natural gas than there is from liquid petroleum and there's enough natural gas discovered already to fuel texas for the next hundred years or longer this plant behind us is one of the plants that's capable of burning gas now because there is so much gas and oil and coal and wind and solar available in texas meaning we have a lot more sunny days  texas is a stand alone area as far as energy resources it does not need to import energy from other states or from the federal government it can export energy that the resources are here and the cost of energy per b t u for whatever you measure it is usually almost always lower in texas that is in the rest of the  states which is very good for us but that's because with the independent texas power grid texas does not have to let the us regulate the costs the price of energy the people who work at the mint are not employees they're partners and they've agreed that when they get paid for their work that they will be paid in silver that is produced from them and it makes sense because they're producing real money and they want to be paid in real money everything is part of their exchanging their labor hours of their life for a commodity and the commodity is silver it's like paying people in bags or bacon since they're being paid in a commodity according to the us government and they are us this is not money this is a commodity so since they're not being paid nanny state now where we are being watched almost everywhere we go by security cameras and satellites and drones flying over us we've got our military now to to extend democracy out there to the rest of the world and as long as we're sleeping we're just watching and the people here believe very strongly in peace we're pacifists we are anti war we believe at the same time though that very strong defense and being able to protect your life your i think this poster here really sums up who we are better than anything else in this building ron paul is certainly one of our personal heroes and probably the by far the most legitimate person that's ever served in government  wrote a book called end the fed and it's a great book but we took a little bit of a different approach and said why don't we just stop the revolution and start the evolution and ignore the fed stead of trying to compete against them instead of trying to put them out of business or wave a sign to get them to change what they're doing let's just ignore them pretend as if they don't exist and will watch the effect that they have over our lives and our finances disappear almost to nothing so we like to ignore the fed you know people often ask what would it take for us to have the authority to govern the land area and the people of texas and there are several possibilities or probabilities that would bring out about one is a complete economic collapse when the monetary system of the united states stops working and it's inevitable that it will and then you have anarchy then you have chaos then you have disorder and the thing that's needed is to have  government in place that works on a volunteer basis instead of having to be paid huge salaries as the people in austin texas are the psionic that's why you see what they're hanging  the news articles are starting to reveal what we've known for a long time here and that is that there are more jobs in texas than just about any place else and in fact governor perry has said texas is open for business which is another way of saying we have jobs here and we do and the question is why does texas have plenty of jobs when there are whole states that just can't create jobs and have so many people more people going on unemployment than ever and there are several reasons for that one is a lot more texas people are personally entrepreneur they think in terms of how can i organize people together to provide a product or provide a service which people want the worst not to get them to want something but if they already want something how can i provide it to them and show the biggest part of it is there's just a whole lot less government interference over regulation you have to get a permit you have to wait six months or a year before you do something while they go and think about whether it's good for the people or not if it isn't good for the people the people want by the darn thing  says republic of texas and that seal was a dog did in eighteen thirty seven and is still in the capitol building today right here in the very center of the building which is just another evidence that the republic of texas has not gone away there's just a different form of government covering it but the land the people and the culture and the spirit of texas are still the reasons i have children and grandchildren and i guess pretty soon i'll have great grandchildren and i want them to grow up and live in a place that's truly free and that requires a nation that's independent where the government is limited it's limited in the amount of money it can spend or borrow or print or coin or whatever