McKennon for Texas Strong Leadership. Real Texas Values.

McKennon for Texas

Strong Leadership. Real Texas Values.

Latest Articles

Boardrooms Headed South: How Texas Is Becoming the Nation's Leadership Factory
Policy Analysis

Boardrooms Headed South: How Texas Is Becoming the Nation's Leadership Factory

Fortune 500 companies are not simply relocating their headquarters to Texas — they are rebuilding their entire leadership pipelines here. McKennon's vision for Texas as the premier training ground for American business leaders is gaining momentum as corporate migration data reveals a profound shift in where the nation's next generation of executives will be forged.
Six-Figure Jobs, Empty Chairs: How Texas Is Losing the Workforce Battle It Should Be Winning
Policy Analysis

Six-Figure Jobs, Empty Chairs: How Texas Is Losing the Workforce Battle It Should Be Winning

Texas employers are posting competitive, high-paying positions in energy, advanced manufacturing, and technology—yet thousands of those roles remain unfilled for months, sometimes years. Meanwhile, young Texans with ambition but without the right credentials are leaving the state in search of opportunity. McKennon's workforce alignment strategy confronts this paradox head-on.
From Silicon Valley to the Lone Star State: How Texas Became America's Business Capital—and How McKennon Plans to Keep It That Way
Policy Analysis

From Silicon Valley to the Lone Star State: How Texas Became America's Business Capital—and How McKennon Plans to Keep It That Way

Corporate America is voting with its feet, and Texas is winning by a wide margin. As Fortune 500 companies, technology firms, and manufacturing operations continue to relocate their headquarters to the Lone Star State, the policy decisions made in Austin will determine whether this momentum endures or stalls. McKennon's pro-business platform offers a clear and disciplined roadmap for sustaining Texas's competitive dominance.
Staying Put and Moving In: How McKennon's Vision Is Making Texas the Nation's Premier Destination for Ambitious Americans
Policy Analysis

Staying Put and Moving In: How McKennon's Vision Is Making Texas the Nation's Premier Destination for Ambitious Americans

For decades, Texas watched its most talented young minds pack their bags for coastal cities promising higher salaries and broader horizons. That tide is turning—and the policy framework McKennon is championing may be the single greatest reason why.
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.