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Tucker is 28, runs his family's cattle-and-goat ranch outside Lampasas, and is running to be the first Democrat to hold this office since Jim Hightower left it in 1991 — Hightower's protégé, in Hightower's old job.
He researched water for the National Science Foundation, taught school, and organized farmers before coming home to the ranch; he's secretary of the Texas Farmers Union. His fight is against the companies squeezing small farms — he names Tyson, Cargill and John Deere — and, this year, against the AI data centers lining up to drink the water and burn the power that farms depend on; he wants a moratorium until someone studies what they'll cost. His opponent, Nate Sheets, built a honey brand and knocked off Sid Miller in the primary with Abbott's backing.
