NSA spying, unprotected borders, militarized police, discriminatory federal tax policy, among other issues one might describe as oppressive.
Yes, but these are things that are policies of an elected (but idiotic) government and can be reversed through the same process that got these people into position to put them there in the first place.
It’s what happens when you lose an election. Not when a dictator stages a coup and then points a gun at your head and tells you to do it.
Texas will not get any support from where it needs it until all avenues short of secession and war are exhausted reversing them.
The founders of the U.S. didnt just leave because they were ticked even with all of the heavy-handed actions of the royal government. They kept trying to get the British government to see their side until they found out that the king was ready to hang them all for trying.