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McKennon for Texas

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Invented Here, Profited Elsewhere: The Texas Innovation Drain and McKennon's Strategy to Reclaim Our Economic Future
Policy Analysis

Invented Here, Profited Elsewhere: The Texas Innovation Drain and McKennon's Strategy to Reclaim Our Economic Future

Texas has long served as the seedbed for transformative technologies and business models that now generate billions in global revenue—yet an alarming share of those profits, headquarters, and high-wage jobs have migrated to other states and foreign markets. McKennon's emerging policy framework confronts this export of prosperity head-on, proposing targeted incentives designed to ensure that what is conceived in Texas continues to grow in Texas.
Frozen in Place: The $2 Billion Annual Toll of Legislative Paralysis on Texas Families and Commerce
Policy Analysis

Frozen in Place: The $2 Billion Annual Toll of Legislative Paralysis on Texas Families and Commerce

Every session that ends without resolution carries a price tag measured not in political points but in shuttered opportunities, delayed infrastructure, and families left without relief. A rigorous examination of stalled Texas initiatives reveals a staggering $2 billion annual cost that falls squarely on the shoulders of working Texans. McKennon's campaign is built on the conviction that decisive governance is not a luxury — it is an obligation.
Stalled, Delayed, and Left Behind: The Billion-Dollar Cost of Texas Infrastructure Inaction
Policy Analysis

Stalled, Delayed, and Left Behind: The Billion-Dollar Cost of Texas Infrastructure Inaction

Bureaucratic gridlock and chronic federal-state coordination failures have quietly strangled some of Texas's most critical infrastructure projects, costing the state billions in lost economic growth and driving business investment toward competitor states. From incomplete highway corridors to underutilized port expansions, the pattern is the same: delay, defer, repeat. McKennon's platform offers a decisive departure from the paralysis that has become the status quo.
When Texas Minds Leave Texas: The Hidden Economic Toll of Talent Flight
Policy Analysis

When Texas Minds Leave Texas: The Hidden Economic Toll of Talent Flight

Every time a highly educated Texan accepts a job offer in another state, the costs extend far beyond one family's departure. From eroding tax revenue to weakened innovation pipelines, the quiet exodus of skilled professionals threatens the very foundations of Texas prosperity—and McKennon's retention-focused agenda offers a concrete path forward.
Losing Ground in the Field We Built: McKennon's Plan to Anchor Texas Energy Talent
Policy Analysis

Losing Ground in the Field We Built: McKennon's Plan to Anchor Texas Energy Talent

Texas dominates global energy production, yet the engineers and innovators who power that industry are quietly leaving for opportunities elsewhere. McKennon's workforce strategy confronts this contradiction head-on, offering a concrete roadmap to keep Texas-trained technical talent where it belongs—in the Lone Star State.
Wasted Potential: Why Texas Must Stop Settling for Half-Used Talent
Policy Analysis

Wasted Potential: Why Texas Must Stop Settling for Half-Used Talent

The unemployment rate tells only half the story. Across Texas, skilled workers are trapped in roles far beneath their capabilities, and outdated workforce policies are largely to blame. McKennon's plan confronts this hidden crisis head-on, proposing a framework that connects ambitious Texans with careers worthy of their training and drive.
Homegrown and Gone: The Silent Departure of Texas-Born Talent and McKennon's Plan to Reverse It
Policy Analysis

Homegrown and Gone: The Silent Departure of Texas-Born Talent and McKennon's Plan to Reverse It

Texas celebrates its reputation as a destination state, but beneath the headline numbers lies a troubling countertrend: thousands of young professionals born and raised in the Lone Star State are quietly packing their bags. McKennon for Texas examines the forces pushing native Texans toward the exits and outlines a concrete policy agenda to reclaim and retain the state's homegrown talent.
Rules Written in Washington, Paid for in Texas: The Federal Regulatory Burden Crushing Our Small Businesses
Policy Analysis

Rules Written in Washington, Paid for in Texas: The Federal Regulatory Burden Crushing Our Small Businesses

Federal regulations crafted thousands of miles from Texas are quietly dismantling the entrepreneurial spirit that built this state. From Lubbock to Laredo, small business owners are spending more time navigating Washington's paperwork than growing their companies—and McKennon believes it is time that changed.
Retirement Left Behind: How Broken Pension Policy Is Costing Texas Its Best Workers
Policy Analysis

Retirement Left Behind: How Broken Pension Policy Is Costing Texas Its Best Workers

Across Texas, skilled professionals are quietly making a calculation that has nothing to do with salary: whether their retirement future is secure enough to stay. McKennon's plan to modernize public retirement benefits could reverse a slow exodus of talent that most elected officials have refused to acknowledge.
Healing on Their Own Terms: How Texas Communities Are Reinventing Healthcare From the Ground Up
Policy Analysis

Healing on Their Own Terms: How Texas Communities Are Reinventing Healthcare From the Ground Up

Across Texas, physicians, entrepreneurs, and community leaders are building healthcare models that deliver genuine affordability and patient-centered care—without waiting for Washington's permission. These homegrown solutions offer a compelling preview of the reforms McKennon has championed as a cornerstone of his platform.
The Great Resettlement: What Arriving Families Reveal About Texas—and What McKennon Plans to Protect
Policy Analysis

The Great Resettlement: What Arriving Families Reveal About Texas—and What McKennon Plans to Protect

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are voting with their moving trucks, trading California coastlines and New York boroughs for Texas suburbs and small towns. The data behind this migration tells a powerful story—and McKennon's policy platform speaks directly to the values that brought these families here.
Minds Under Pressure: Restoring Intellectual Courage to Texas Higher Education
Policy Analysis

Minds Under Pressure: Restoring Intellectual Courage to Texas Higher Education

Texas universities once stood as beacons of rigorous inquiry and open debate. Today, a creeping culture of ideological conformity is driving talented students and faculty out of state — and McKennon believes it is past time for Texas to reclaim its campuses as true marketplaces of ideas.
Roughnecks, Refiners, and the Road to the Middle Class: Texas Energy's Untold Jobs Story
Policy Analysis

Roughnecks, Refiners, and the Road to the Middle Class: Texas Energy's Untold Jobs Story

Behind every barrel of Texas crude and every cubic foot of natural gas lies a workforce of skilled men and women building durable, well-compensated careers. As federal mandates threaten to upend the energy economy that sustains hundreds of thousands of Texas families, McKennon is making the case that energy independence and middle-class prosperity are inseparable.
Bearing Arms, Bearing Responsibility: How Texas Can Anchor the Nation's Constitutional Future
Opinion

Bearing Arms, Bearing Responsibility: How Texas Can Anchor the Nation's Constitutional Future

As federal courts and national legislators continue to test the boundaries of the Second Amendment, Texas has both the authority and the obligation to stand firm. McKennon believes that protecting Texans' right to self-defense is not a political convenience — it is a constitutional imperative. Here is why Texas must lead, and how we intend to do it.
Opinion

Governing from the Ground Up: The Texas Local Leaders Who Aren't Waiting on Washington

Across Texas, county commissioners, city council members, and local officials are quietly solving the problems that federal bureaucracies have failed to address for decades. Their successes offer a powerful blueprint for the kind of principled, results-driven governance that McKennon champions at every level of public life.
Policy Analysis

Rooted and Rising: Why Texas Is Winning the War for Young American Talent

National pundits have long predicted a mass exodus of young professionals from Texas, yet the data tells a strikingly different story. Texas continues to attract and retain ambitious Americans at rates that outpace nearly every competing state. McKennon's forward-looking policy agenda is designed to turn that advantage into a permanent, generational commitment.
Opinion

Built by Texans, Freed by Policy: The Entrepreneurs Driving a New Era of Opportunity

Across Texas, small business owners are building remarkable enterprises — not because government helped them, but largely because it stayed out of their way. McKennon's vision for economic freedom takes that reality seriously, proposing concrete reforms to occupational licensing, compliance burdens, and regulatory overhead that currently cost Texas entrepreneurs billions in lost time and capital. The stories of those who have thrived point toward a policy agenda that could unlock opportunity for
Texans Don't Wait for Permission: A Ground-Up Strategy for Reclaiming Border Safety
Policy Analysis

Texans Don't Wait for Permission: A Ground-Up Strategy for Reclaiming Border Safety

With Washington gridlocked and federal agencies stretched thin, Texas communities are discovering that the most effective border security solutions begin at the local level. McKennon's approach puts sheriffs, city councils, and engaged citizens at the center of a coherent, state-driven safety strategy. This is not a plan that waits for bureaucratic permission — it is a blueprint for decisive action.
Powering Texas on Texas Terms: The Case Against Federal Energy Mandates
Opinion

Powering Texas on Texas Terms: The Case Against Federal Energy Mandates

Washington's push to impose green energy mandates on Texas is not an environmental policy — it is an assault on the state's sovereignty, its economy, and the working families who depend on affordable, reliable power. McKennon believes Texas must chart its own energy course, guided by innovation and practicality rather than federal ideology.
Policy Analysis

Education Belongs to Parents: McKennon's Vision for Expanding Learning Freedom Across Texas

Texas parents are demanding — and deserve — a meaningful voice in how, where, and by whom their children are educated. McKennon's education platform offers a detailed roadmap for expanding school choice, strengthening homeschooling protections, and restoring local community control over public schools that have drifted from the values families hold dear.