Kentucky · Self-Determination
Asked plainly, nearly half of Kentucky votes to leave the union.
There is no organized movement for it in the Commonwealth yet. That is what we are here to change.
Kentuckyadults in Kentucky would back independence when the question is asked the way a ballot asks it: calm, binary, and peaceful. That's about 49% of the state.
Even the understated abstract poll counts 661,000 (19%). How we get this number →
Kentucky, if it stood alone
largest economy on Earth
$293 billion, ahead of Iraq.
people
More than the whole of Croatia. A nation-sized population, governed from elsewhere.
seats in Congress
The other 527 are chosen by people who don't live here.
The only question that matters
Kentucky is already a nation in all but name.
If Kentucky were already a self-governing nation, with its own border, its own money, its own defense, everything two hundred other nations control, and the vote in front of you was not whether to leave, but whether to join the United States on the terms it offers today, would you vote yes?
Cast your vote
Kentucky wrote its own way into being. Before it was a state it held its own conventions, separated from Virginia, and entered the union in 1792 as a commonwealth that answered to itself. Governing your own affairs is not a new idea here. It is the founding one. So it should land plainly that close to half of Kentucky, about 1.7 million adults, would already vote to leave if the question were put fairly.
That 49% is the honest number, and here is why. A real vote is calm, binary, and peaceful, nothing like the loaded way pollsters usually ask. When the question is put the way it would actually appear on a ballot, support runs about 30 points above the abstract poll in state after state. That lift is what carries Kentucky from a raw floor of 19% up to within reach of a majority. Kentucky went for the Republican in 2020, and none of that changes the arithmetic. Governing yourself has never been a red thing or a blue thing.
What is missing is not the will. It is each other. We bring the same playbook that built the largest independence movement in the country, and we introduce you to the Kentuckians near you who already agree. We do not run your group. We do not take your money. You build what Kentucky's movement looks like.
Cast your vote
Count Me In, Kentucky
Be findable. When the next person from Kentucky reaches out, we connect you. That is how it starts.
We don't run your group. We don't take your money. We bring the playbook, the standard, and the connections. What you build is yours.
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