the moon - Is the Earth Really Spinning? (honest question)

You are already starting to get it.

That would make sense at the poles

What about one meter from the poles?
Or a kilometre?

As long as you can see the celestial pole in the sky, you can see the stars revolve around it at night.

Let us see if you are able to see the celestial pole.

Texas was about 30 degrees north last time I checked:

That explains the circular movement of the stars, the Sun and the Moon.

This is true for all locations on the Earth, except for the equator:

Is the Earth spinning? That depends, you can always choose a frame of reference that suits you. However, only one of them are non-rotating, the Inertial frame. In all the others we have fictitious forces acting, like centrifugal or Coriolis forces.

We can test if the Earth rotates by watching a pendulum throughout a day. The pendulum would then seem to slowly rotate during this period of time, meaning some fictitious "force" is acting on it. That means that we are located in a rotating frame of reference, and thus the Earth rotates.