The Texas Agriculture Commissioner isn’t just for farmers and ranchers, it 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 and pesticide regulations. It even certifies organic products, a movement jump-started by former Ag Commissioner and proud populist Jim Hightower.
This role affects your kitchen table, your grocery bill, and your community’s health. When done right, 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 so-called "Shared 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 a monopoly market dressed up like capitalism.
And our current Agriculture Commissioner? He’s not fighting it; he’s funded by it. While Texas family farms struggle to stay afloat, he stays cozy with corporate donors.
We need an Ag Commissioner who fights for fair prices, open markets, and Texas producers, not the multinational monopolies gobbling up our land, our food system, and our future.
If you are ready to take on corporate consolidation, join us. Sign the petition.
Real freedom is not about being left alone. It’s about having the tools to stand on your own, access to clean water, healthy soil, and the power to feed your community without begging corporations or billionaires for permission.
But right now, a greedy few are trying to hoard the very resources every Texan needs to survive. They're monopolizing water rights and leaving rural communities bone-dry. They are dumping toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” into our soil and pretending it's someone else’s problem. And our current Agriculture Commissioner? He won’t lift a finger, not when polluters pad his campaign account.
We believe in a different kind of freedom. One where communities can grow their own food, protect their own land, and build their own futures, without having to bow to monopolists and polluters.
If you're ready to fight for clean water, safe soil, and long-term self-reliance, join us. Sign the petitions.
Food is supposed to nourish us, not bankrupt us. But right now, giant food corporations are calling all the shots. They have formed "Shared Monopolies" that 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 chemicals no one can pronounce.
This is not just bad luck; it is bad leadership.
Our current Agriculture Commissioner refuses to stand up to these corporate bullies because they bankroll his campaign. While Texans struggle to afford a bag of groceries, he is protecting the profits of multinational CEOs.
We need an Ag Commissioner who works for us. Someone who will fight to lower food prices, remove harmful chemicals, and put real, healthy food back on our tables, not just on the menus of billionaires.
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, investor-owned factory farms rake in the lion’s share of public support, with the top 10% of corporate ag giants getting nearly 70% of taxpayer subsidies. That is not farming. That is welfare for Wall Street.
To make matters worse, monopolies and “Shared Monopolies” in agriculture 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.
And our current Ag Commissioner? He is not fighting for family farms. He is fighting for the donors who want to buy them out.
If we want to protect our food supply, our land, and our rural way of life, we need an Agriculture Commissioner who fights for Texas farmers, not the investors trying to own them.
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. And it is happening under the watch of the Texas Agriculture Commissioner, whose job includes ensuring that over 5 million schoolchildren get fed.
But instead of fighting for fully funded school meal programs and healthy food for every child, our current Ag Commissioner plays politics and protects his mega-donors, while Texas children skip meals.
No child should go to school hungry. No parent should wonder if there will be food on their kid’s lunch tray. Ending childhood hunger should be the bare minimum, not a debate.
We need an Ag Commissioner who believes feeding children is a responsibility, not a photo op.
Families are the heart of Texas, whether by blood or by bond. 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.
Our current Ag Commissioner is not fighting to stop the bleeding; he is pretending it is not his problem.
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.
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.
Our current Ag Commissioner? He talks a big game but delivers nothing. Rural Texans are being left behind, again.
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.