Clayton Tucker
Clayton Tucker (Democratic Party) is running for election for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture. He is on the ballot in the Democratic primary on March 3, 2026.[source]
Biography
Clayton Tucker was born in Texas. He attended Southwestern University, Fudan University, and National Chengchi University. Tucker has been associated with Our Revolution Texas.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: Texas Agriculture Commissioner election, 2026
General election
The primary will occur on April 11, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Democratic primary
Democratic primary for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture
Clayton Tucker (D) is running in the Democratic primary for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture on March 3, 2026.
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Republican primary
Republican primary for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture
Incumbent Sid Miller (R) and Nate Sheets (R) are running in the Republican primary for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture on March 3, 2026.
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2020
State Senate
See also: Texas State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for Texas State Senate District 24
Incumbent Dawn Buckingham defeated Clayton Tucker in the general election for Texas State Senate District 24 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Dawn Buckingham (R) | 69.5 | 264,517 |
| Clayton Tucker (D) | 30.5 | 115,853 | |
| Total votes: 380,370 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas State Senate District 24
Clayton Tucker advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas State Senate District 24 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Clayton Tucker | 100.0 | 39,280 |
| Total votes: 39,280 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas State Senate District 24
Incumbent Dawn Buckingham advanced from the Republican primary for Texas State Senate District 24 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dawn Buckingham | 100.0 | 90,605 |
| Total votes: 90,605 | |||
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Campaign finance
State House
Clayton Tucker filed to run for Texas House of Representatives District 54 but withdrew before the filing deadline on December 9, 2019.
Campaign themes
2026
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Campaign website
Tucker's campaign website stated the following:
Stop AI Data Centers
Data centers, including those for AI, are cropping up across Texas. If we are not exceedingly smart with their design, placement, and purpose, they will cause higher water and power bills, run water wells dry, and may hurt jobs.
Data centers caused electricity prices to rise by 70% in some cases.
Does not create long-term jobs. If anything, it is net negative for job creation, as however many jobs are "created," even more are "destroyed" by automation.
Modernizing our infrastructure, busting monopolies, and investing in small businesses are better uses of our talent.
The TX Ag Commissioner can stop, or at the very least buy time for locals and other officials to find different ways to stop, these irresponsible AI data centers from causing mass water/power inflation. On Day 1 of the job, Clayton will issue "Ag Impact Studies" to stop irresponsible AI data centers from messing with Texas.
Data centers, including those for AI, are coming to mess with Texas. With them will come higher water and power bills, dry water wells, and no real jobs. These data centers are of, by, and for Wall Street. They will harm both Main Street families and County Road farms. We need an Agriculture Commissioner who will fight to stop all irresponsible AI data centers from causing mass utility inflation and who will put Texans first, not Wall Street or Big Tech.
Bust Monopolies
Monopolies have rigged prices to harm Texas families from the countryside to the city. Just a handful of corporations control our food system.
Four corporations control 60% of our coffee, cookies, and bread market.
Four corporations control 70% of our yogurt, beer, and soybean seeds.
Four corporations control 80% of our meat industry, two of which aren't even American.
Instead of living in a free market, we now live in a monopoly market.
This level of domination inevitably leads to abuse both towards consumers and farmers.
We are not against big farms or ranches, or against family-owned companies owning farms. We are greatly concerned about the transnational corporations that have and continue to rewrite the rules to enlarge themselves at the expense of everyone else.
Monopolies are devouring America. They destroy small businesses, they price-gouge Americans, they rewrite our trade rules to ship our jobs overseas, they allow toxins to be in our food, they turn free markets into monopoly markets, and more. We broke up monopolies in the past. We must do it again.
Stop Microplastics
Our grandparents lived through the age of asbestos, our parents the age of lead, and now we are in the age of microplastics.
It's estimated that about 80% of Americans have microplastics in their bodies, with many having a credit card's worth of plastic. They have been found in saliva, blood, breast milk, liver, kidneys, spleen, brain, bones, and even in the placentas of babies.
Microplastics is in our water, our Gulf, and elsewhere
Check out a short video by More Perfect Union to learn more.
While studies are still being done, early evidence points to microplastics causing "inflammation, an impaired immune system, deteriorated tissues, altered metabolic function, abnormal organ development, cell damage and harm reproductive, digestive and respiratory health... possibly linked to colon and lung cancer."
This trend is too dangerous for us to allow. We must control and begin reversing the levels of micro- and nanoplastics in our soil, water, and bodies.
Microplastics are polluting our water, food, soil, and even our bones and brains. This must be stopped to protect our health and the future of our families. We support measures to prevent the introduction of micro- and nanoplastics and to reverse the accumulation of micro- and nanoplastics in our food, water, and bodies.
As Ag Commissioner, Clayton Tucker will use every tool at his disposal to limit, stop, and reverse the growth of microplastics.
Fight for Family Farms
Transnational corporations and other monopolies are killing family farms and ranches. If we don't stop them, there won't be any family farms left in Texas. We need to break up the monopolies, lower input prices for farmers, and increase revenue for family farms.
Conservation and Responsible Soil Management
Agriculture, and thus the rest of civilization, depends on good soil. Soil erosion and degradation are a significant concern for securing our food supply. We must further research and promote sustainable and restorative practices to protect our soil.
Make Food Affordable Again
While corporate profits are sky-high, family farmers are paid pennies on the dollar of what they are owed, and consumers are being price-gouged. Corporate middlemen are both suppressing farm income and raising prices for consumers. We can have cheaper, healthier, and more local foods that pay farmers their fair share while also ensuring food remains affordable -- but only if we limit the ability of the greedy few corporate middlemen from monopolizing our food system.
Remove Harmful Chemicals from Foods
When growing up, Clayton never had a food allergy. After living abroad for a few years, Clayton returned to his family farm to find out he developed a mild food allergy to many processed foods. This caused Clayton to start researching processed foods. This is what he learned:
Many food processors were formerly Big Tobacco, who applied several tactics they learned to foods.
One of these tactics used by food manufacturers is adding sugar, sometimes secretly, to foods. Sugar has many addictive properties, leading to higher food consumption.
Some of the ingredients in US foods are derived from oil, including food dyes.
Eating highly processed foods lead to insulin resistance, which causes a number of health issues including but not limited to diabetes, dementia, cancer, etc.
No Kid Left Hungry
The Texas Department of Agriculture, responsible for providing food to Texas school children, must do more to ensure that no Texas children are left hungry or undernourished.
Regulate PFAS
What are PFAS
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) are part of a large group of lab-made chemicals known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Some of these chemicals have been in commercial use since the 1940s. They are also known as "forever chemicals."
These forever chemicals cannot be broken down. Once they are in the soil or the human body, it is nearly impossible for them to be removed.
They can be found in many products, including plastics, asphalt, fertilizers, and sludge. Because of their underregulation, PFAS contamination is a growing problem.
PFAS have a history of causing various kinds of cancer and killing cattle.
There are many different kinds of PFAS. The Texas Department of Agriculture refuses to assist in testing which fertilizers have PFAS, destroying family farms in the process.
Ranchers and farmers across Texas and other parts of the U.S. have had their land contaminated with PFAS. This continuation has killed both livestock and livelihoods. We have to protect our farmers, ranchers, and ourselves from these toxic forever chemicals.
Water
All things depend on water. Many aquifers in Texas are shrinking. This is due to excessive water loss caused by leaky pipes, inefficient irrigation methods, and the efforts of a few billionaires to privatize our water. We need greater investments in and implementation of water conservation programs and more efficient irrigation. While desalination is promising, we must lower the cost of desalination plants as well as determine what to do with the brine (without sacrificing the Texas fishing and/or shrimping industry).
We must come together to ensure all Texans have access to affordable, clean water.
Rural Economy
The rural economy has suffered for decades. From the 1980s farm crisis to Reagan's offshoring of East Texas steel to NAFTA's destruction of rural jobs, rural Texans have long suffered under a stagnant economy. We need significant investments in rural infrastructure, healthcare, broadband connectivity, and other incentives to attract jobs back to rural Texas.
Healthcare
The Texas Department of Agriculture oversees the "State Office of Rural Health," which provides services, programs and grants for rural health in the amount of approximately $3.5 million per year.
With the passage of the Big Bullshit Bill cutting healthcare funding to give more kickbacks to the billionaire funders, many rural hospitals are at greater risk of closing. According to a CHQPR study, 76 rural Texas hospitals are at risk of closure and 12 rural Texas hospitals are at immediate risk of closing.
As these hospitals close, so too will ambulance services in rural communities. This could create a death spiral, harming a large number of Texans.
All Texans deserve affordable, timely healthcare. With looming healthcare cuts, we need a government that fights to increase access to affordable, timely healthcare for all Texans -- not one that defunds healthcare to send kickbacks to the greedy few.
— Clayton Tucker's campaign website (January 16, 2026)
2020
Clayton Tucker completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Tucker's responses.
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- Healthcare is a human right
- 100% renewable energy by 2030
- End the School-to-Prison pipeline
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See also
2026 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on November 3, 2019
