Nullification, Secession or Rebellion?

REFLECTION. In truth, constitutional order throughout the land can be fully restored IF IF IF the routinely cowed states would simply assert their 10th Amendment authority to NULLIFY unconstitutional fed laws, judicial opinions, bureaucratic regulations and Executive orders, this in accordance with the foundational principle of "dual state-federal sovereignty", Art VI Cl 2, and Madison's and Jefferson's Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions of 1798.

Routine and ruinous unconstitutional actions on the part of the feds have been painfully--and unpardonably--plentiful and virtually unopposed. They have become so commonplace as to have become tolerable and often unnoticed. IF, as has been the case for a century or more, States fail in their 10th Amendment duty to nullify/interpose, then the only recourse is secession or rebellion. And since State governments have been so completely subservient to the federal Leviathan, only a mobilized and incensed State citizenry can compel their respective legislatures to appropriately act in the citizens' defense. And if legislatures continue to fail to resist federal overreach, which is likely, then it is the duty of the People in those States to compel such legislative resistance. (Note: despite what the revisionists and propagandists have asserted over the years, secession and rebellion are not one and the same. Secession is lawful and intentionally peaceful, and recognizes a State's authority to withdraw from this voluntary union of States. Only if a State (or States) is forcibly denied its residual right to secede, then as independent nations it is duty-bound to defend its sovereignty. A simple matter of defense v rebellion. And, of course, to garner domestic support for its lawless & reckless action, the federal tyrant will label that defensive war as rebellion. Thus, Lincoln's cynical and errant "rebel" epithet hurdled against the Confederate States of America.)

The short of it is that Nullification is sooooooo much simpler. But, alas, until a State understands its duty to assert its legitimate authority in this regard and is willing to act accordingly, it may retreat ti grovelling until the federal usurpation becomes so injurious or oppressive as to compel the State to withdraw. But, to be clear, secession should be tried only if nullification fails or is otherwise impossible to pull off. In any event, in the face of overreach and/or tyranny both secession and rebellion are perfectly legitimate remedies.

My understanding is that the founders implied a logical series of resistance steps: civil disobedience, State Nullification/Interposition, rebellion OR secession. My lingering question remains: at what point will Texas--and every other red or purple State-- properly and aggressively NULLIFY unconstitutional federal actions, without which there can be no constitutional order or Rule of Law?!?!? Ignorance of their constitutional authority? Or, what is more likely, their menial acceptance of their vassalage and their fear of losing federal handouts?