Texas Was Born in Defiance. If you can be taxed out of your home you are not free -- Will You Hold the Line?
- Dewey R. Collier
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Texas Was Born in Defiance.
We Will Not Die in Submission.
Life. Liberty. Property. Structurally Protected.
Texas was not born from permission.
It was born from refusal.
On March 2, 1836, Texans declared that concentrated power had violated its compact, trampled local authority, and reduced liberty to a condition granted by rulers.
The 1836 Declaration listed grievances: centralized power, unchecked authority, disregard for local self-government.
Sound familiar?
Government exists by delegation. The People are sovereign. Representatives are servants. When officeholders forget that, Texans hold the line.
I served 26 years under oath. That oath does not expire. Public office is not a stepping stone, not a marketing platform, not a PAC pipeline.
It is stewardship.
Today, March 2, 2026, the Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas has endorsed me for HD-5.
That is not symbolic.
It is directional.
This campaign is not about replacing personalities.
It is about restoring structure.
LIFE. LIBERTY. PROPERTY. — STRUCTURALLY PROTECTED.
The Sword and Shield Acts are not rhetoric. They are architecture.
The Shield protects:
• Life from arbitrary state power.
• Liberty from bureaucratic compulsion.
• Property from perpetual extraction.
The Sword restrains:
• Government acting beyond enumerated authority.
• Taxation that converts ownership into tenancy.
• Delegated servants who behave like ruling class managers.
If government can tax your home until you lose it, you do not own it.
If agencies can create power not delegated, you do not govern yourself.
If life, liberty, and property are subject to administrative discretion, then rights have become privileges.
That is not Texas.
“IT IS NOT THEIRS TO GIVE.”
Congressman Davy Crockett stood in Congress and said public funds were not theirs to distribute.
He was right.
What is ours is not theirs to give.
It is not theirs to trade.
It is not theirs to leverage for endorsements.
It is not theirs to use as campaign currency.
Your money belongs to you.
If you can be taxed out of your home: you are not free.
Government power belongs to the People.
Government office belongs to the People.
Representatives are temporary stewards of the authority the People allow them to have.
When they forget that, Texans hold the line.
THE SPIRIT OF A TEXAN
Being born here does not make you a Texan.
Conviction does.
A Texan is someone who:
• Refuses concentrated power.
• Defends life, liberty, and property.
• Rejects political aristocracy.
• Demands structural limits on government.
• Holds the line when others retreat.
That spirit is not geographic.
It is principled.
Life.
Liberty.
Property.
Not as talking points — but as inheritance.
As a father of 9th-generation Texians, living on generational land, I do not speak about Texas as an idea.
I live it.
Fence lines matter.
Land deeds matter.
Ownership matters.
Oaths matter.
When you stand on ground your ancestors cleared, defended, and refused to surrender, you understand something modern politics forgets:
This is not theirs to give away.
Not our land.
Not our liberty.
Not our children.
Not our children’s future.
Being a Texan Is Not a Birth Certificate
It is a conviction.
Davy Crockett was not born here.
But he died here — defending our independence, holding the line.
That is the standard.
You are not a Texan because you arrived early.
You are a Texan if you refuse to surrender what belongs to the People.
You are a Texan if you:
• Defend life as sacred.
• Guard liberty as non-negotiable.
• Protect property as rightful ownership.
• Reject political aristocracy.
• Stand when others retreat.
That spirit is open to anyone willing to live it.
You do not inherit it automatically.
You embody it deliberately.
What Makes You a Texan
If you were born in California, New York, Florida, or anywhere else — and you believe government is limited, power is delegated, property is yours to keep, and liberty is not conditional —
Stand with us.
Proudly call yourself a Texan.
Not because of geography: because of conviction.
Texas has always been a place where people came to live free — not to manage decline.
The Spirit of a Texan is simple:
We keep what is ours.
We defend what is ours.
We pass it down intact.
And when those in power forget who owns it —
We hold the line.
THIS IS THE MOMENT
The endorsement confirms alignment.
But endorsements do not restore liberty.
Voters do.
On March 3, HD-5 chooses:
• Branding, or governing.
• Political choreography, or structural reform.
• Managed decline of property rights, or restoration of ownership.
• Consultant politics, or oath-bound stewardship.
The Sword and Shield Acts restore constitutional boundaries.
They reassert that sovereignty rests with the People.
They place life, liberty, and property back on equal structural footing.
This is bigger than one race.
It is about whether Texas continues as a self-governing republic in spirit, not just in history.
March 2, 1836, declared independence from overreach.
March 3, 2026, 190 years later, we can again declare independence from political aristocracy.
Stand up.
Vote.
Send a Soldier, not a brand.
Hold the line with us.
Texans First.
Texas Forever.
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