The new Texas Republican Party platform called President Joe Biden's win illegitimate, urged a repeal of the Voting Rights Act and demanded a statewide vote on seceding from the union.
The Texas GOP at its convention this weekend adopted a far-right platform as attendees repeatedly harangued Republicans like Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, as insufficiently loyal to the extremist GOP base. Along with a full embrace of the "Big Lie" and secessionist rhetoric, the platform called for the abolition of the Federal Reserve, federal taxation powers and gun control laws. It also described homosexuality as an "abnormal lifestyle choice" as the party outright excluded the Log Cabin Republicans, an LGBT Republican group, from its proceedings.
