Sid Miller says Texas Republicans ignored his warnings

Houston Chronicle · Haajrah Gilani · 2026-11-05 19:36 UTC

Sid Miller says Texas Republicans ignored rural voters’ concerns about data centers before Democrats’ 2026 statewide sweep.

As Texas Republicans were left stunned by their losses in Tuesday’s midterms, one of them, who had been warning party leaders of possible Democratic victory for months, felt vindicated.

Sid Miller, Texas’ outgoing Agriculture Commissioner, wasn’t on Tuesday’s ballot. But for months he had urged Republican leaders’ to crack down harder on the data center boom — particularly zeroing in on Gov. Greg Abbott and, ultimately, not voting for him. A Stephenville rancher, Miller said a GOP loss — especially among rural voters — became clear to him a year and a half ago.

“I saw how upset they were over vouchers, how upset they were over THC, and then the data centers came along, and it was just, ‘oh my God, this is, maybe, the final nail in the coffin,’” Miller said in an interview.

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