The Texas Agriculture Commissioner is for every single Texan who eats food, drinks water, or sends a kid to school.
The Texas Department of Agriculture oversees everything from food safety and school lunches to rural development to pesticide regulations. It certifies organic products, a movement launched by former Ag Commissioner and populist Jim Hightower.
This role affects your kitchen table, your grocery bill, and your community’s health. It protects working families and supports Texas farmers, not just big corporations.
Right now, a handful of giant corporations control nearly everything we eat, from the seeds in the ground to the products on grocery store shelves. These monopolies rig the rules. They limit competition, inflate prices, and squeeze both ends of the food chain, the farmers who grow our food and the families who buy it.
This isn’t a free market. It's not a fair market. It’s a monopoly market.
We need an Ag Commissioner who fights for fair markets and Texas farmers. Clayton Tucker is the only candidate in this race who has a long history of fighting for fairness.
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Freedom requires affordable food, healthy land, and plentiful water.
But right now, corrupt bigshots are hoarding the very resources every Texan needs to survive. They are monopolizing our food system to price gouge farmers and consumers alike. They're taking our water and leaving rural communities bone-dry. They are dumping toxic chemicals into our soil and pretending it's someone else’s problem.
Texas once grew most of our own food. But now we are dangerously dependent on others. We need to rebuild our local food system to keep Texas free. Clayton Tucker is the only candidate in this race who has been fighting to return agriculture to Texas, unlike his opponent who undercut American farmers by importing cheap foreign foods.
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Food is supposed to nourish us, not bankrupt us. Giant food corporations are calling all the shots. These monopolies control everything from farm to shelf, jacking up prices while cutting corners on quality. That is why your grocery bill keeps going up, and your food keeps getting loaded with harmful chemicals.
While Texans struggle to afford a bag of groceries, the political elite is protecting the profits of multinational CEOs.
We need an Ag Commissioner who fights to lower food prices, remove harmful chemicals, and put real, healthy food back on our tables, not just on the menus of billionaires. Clayton Tucker is the only candidate in this race who is not bought by Big Chem or Big Food, unlike his opponent who owns hundreds of thousands in stocks of the monopolies who are corrupting our food system
Texas was built by family farmers, folks who rise before dawn, work the land, and feed the nation. But today, they are under attack. The majority of Texas's 200,000+ farms are family-owned or operated. Since 2017, over 18,000 family farms have disappeared, squeezed out by mega-corporations and rigged markets.
While family farmers scrape by, Wall Street-owned facilities rake in the lion’s share of public support, with the top 10% of corporate Wall Street "farms" are getting nearly 70% of taxpayer subsidies. That is not farming. That is welfare for Wall Street.
To make matters worse, monopolies set the prices, not just for what we buy, but for what family farmers can sell. This means family farms are being price-gouged at both ends: when they grow, and when they buy.
We need an Agriculture Commissioner who fights for Texas farmers, not the investors trying to own them. Clayton Tucker is the only candidate in this race who has held leadership positions in leading family farm organizations, unlike his opponent who has never lead a farm organization.
One in five Texas children goes hungry, in the richest country on Earth, in the state with the 8th largest economy. That is not a statistic. That is a moral failure.
No child should go to school hungry. No parent should wonder if there will be food on their kid’s lunch tray. Food is more than just calories. We also must ensure that the food is healthy, free of harmful chemicals, and provides all the nutrition growing children need.
We need an Ag Commissioner who will fight to ensure our Texas kids are both fed and nourished. Clayton Tucker is the only candidate in this race who has been a teacher, started community gardens that fed kids in food deserts, and who has seen firsthand the important of healthy food in our schools.
Families are the heart of Texas. They give our lives meaning, our communities strength, and our future hope. But right now, families across Texas are being left behind, especially in rural areas, as hospitals shut their doors and healthcare disappears.
The Texas Agriculture Commissioner oversees the State Office of Rural Health, a critical agency tasked with making sure our communities have access to affordable, timely care. But with the upcoming Trump Big Beautiful Bill Medicaid cuts and corporate indifference on the rise, more rural hospitals will close on top of the 25 rural hospitals that have already closed. That is the most in the country. And when a hospital goes, so do the ambulances, the paramedics, the prenatal care, the cancer screenings, everything.
We need an Ag Commissioner who understands that supporting families means fighting to keep rural healthcare alive, because no family should have to drive 90 miles just to have a baby or survive a heart attack. Clayton Tucker is the only candidate in this race who has a history of fighting to stop hospital closures and to make our healthcare system work for the people, not Big Insurance.
As Commissioner Jim Hightower said, “Everybody does better when everybody does better.” But for too long, rural Texans have been getting the short end of the stick, bad trade deals, shuttered factories, slow internet, and a government more interested in Wall Street profits than Main Street survival.
The Agriculture Commissioner is supposed to be the champion of rural economic development. But just take a drive down any country road, and you will see what has happened: farms abandoned, businesses closed, and young people forced to leave the communities they love because the jobs and support just are not there.
We need an Ag Commissioner who actually fights for you. Someone who stands up to corporate greed, fights for good-paying rural jobs, invests in local farms and broadband, and helps bring life back to the heart of Texas. Clayton Tucker is the only candidate in this race who has not accepted campaign contributions from organized money. Clayton is on the side of organized people.