Publisher’s Note: As most decentralists know, the idea of secession makes for strange political bedfellows in the US of Empire. Exhibit A: the Atlantic’s new feature article on Daniel Miller, who is helping lead the secessionist cause in the former Lone Star Republic. We’ve talked with Mr. Miller on occasion over the past decade plus, and have read his Texit: Why And How Texas Will Leave The Union book, which, other than the heavy reliance on Lincoln’ian “Union” framing, makes a reasoned constitutional case for the peaceable dissolution of the United States as an imperial project. Take a read, and bless our emerging 2nd Vermont republic!