In this episode, we explore the midnight loophole that annexed texas. So when you look at a map of North America today, Those solid black lines separating the countries, like from the Rio Grande all the way up to the 49th parallel, they look incredibly permanent. Well, absolutely. They feel totally inevitable, right? Yeah. They look like they were just drawn by geology or, I don't know, some grand unified national destiny that everyone just agreed upon. We're definitely conditioned to think of national borders as these settled, preordained facts of history. Like they were forged by massive public consensus. Right. But then you look at the stack of primary sources we have for today's Deep Dive detailing how Texas actually became part of the United States. And suddenly those solid black lines start looking a lot less like destiny and a lot more like,  ...