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McKennon for Texas

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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.
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.
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.
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

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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Opinion

The Capital's Cautionary Tale: How Progressive Governance Hollowed Out Austin's Promise

Once celebrated as a vibrant hub of Texas entrepreneurship and culture, Austin has become a cautionary tale about what happens when ideological ambition overrides practical governance. As affordability collapses, homelessness spreads, and businesses quietly pack up and leave, the rest of Texas must ask itself a pointed question: Is this the future we want?
Policy Analysis

Drought, Growth, and Grit: McKennon's Comprehensive Vision for Texas Water Security

Texas faces a water crisis that touches every corner of the state—from parched West Texas ranches to rapidly expanding suburban communities straining aging infrastructure. McKennon's water management strategy offers a distinctly Texan solution: bold, state-led action that protects agricultural heritage, fuels urban growth, and keeps federal bureaucrats out of the equation.
The Texas Way: Seven Pillars of Our Identity That Austin Must Never Abandon
Opinion

The Texas Way: Seven Pillars of Our Identity That Austin Must Never Abandon

Texas is not simply a state on a map — it is a way of life built on hard-won principles that generations of Texans have defended, cultivated, and passed down. As Austin faces mounting pressure from outside ideological forces, McKennon is drawing a clear line in the sand. This is what we are fighting for, and this is why it matters now more than ever.
Forgotten No More: McKennon's Blueprint for an Economic Renaissance in Rural Texas
Policy Analysis

Forgotten No More: McKennon's Blueprint for an Economic Renaissance in Rural Texas

From the rolling plains of West Texas to the pine forests of the Piney Woods, rural communities across the state have watched opportunity slowly drain away over the past two decades. McKennon's comprehensive rural economic strategy offers a data-backed, community-centered roadmap to reverse that trend — through targeted tax incentives, infrastructure investment, and unwavering support for agriculture and energy. Here is how it works.