Texas Nationalist Movement warns Civil War film could become reality in near future | San Antonio [Video]

The leader of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) this week claimed the events in director Alex Garland’s new movie Civil War are “highly plausible,” adding that Texans would have no choice but to take up arms if the federal government failed to recognize a legitimate ‘TEXIT’ vote.

The comments made by TNM President Daniel Miller came during a nearly hour-long YouTube video posted Wednesday. In it, Miller tried to present the hypothetical U.S. civil war depicted in Garland’s film as something tied to the his group’s fight to make Texas an independent nation.

“There is a clear nexus between what is portrayed in that movie and current political discourse around this issue of Texas independence,” Miller says at one point in his video.

For context, Garland’s film doesn’t provide much in the way of details about what led to the violent …