What is Rep. Ronny Jackson fighting for this week? Not lower grocery prices. Not rural hospitals. Not the farmers and families of his sprawling Texas Panhandle district. No — Jackson's big cause is going after two Wall Street firms he says are too "woke."

The "corporate terrorism" letter

On July 17, Jackson sent a letter to the acting U.S. Attorney General and the head of the Federal Trade Commission demanding they investigate two proxy-advisory firms, ISS and Glass Lewis. These are companies that advise big investors on how to vote their shares. Jackson's complaint is that they're too liberal.

His language wasn't subtle, according to the Daily Signal:

"Two foreign-owned proxy advisory firms have used their 90% market share to impose radical diversity quotas and net-zero mandates on American companies."

They "have become socialist political activists, putting woke DEI and Green New Scam policies ahead of shareholder returns."

"Americans want capitalism, not corporate terrorism."

"Corporate terrorism." That's how a sitting congressman describes firms that recommend shareholders consider climate risk and board diversity.

Who he's actually working for

Here's the part Jackson doesn't advertise. One of his specific grievances is that ISS and Glass Lewis recommended shareholders oppose ExxonMobil's move to reincorporate in Texas. In other words, Jackson is going to bat for one of the largest oil companies on Earth in a corporate-governance squabble.

That's the real story. This isn't Jackson standing up for the little guy against Wall Street. It's Jackson using his seat in Congress to carry water for a fossil-fuel giant and to attack the idea that companies should think about their pollution at all. The "net-zero mandates" he's raging against are just investors asking whether a company is prepared for a changing climate.

Meanwhile, back in TX-13

Jackson represents Texas's 13th District — a huge, largely rural stretch of the Panhandle. It has some of the highest rates of people without health insurance in the country. Its towns depend on hospitals that are stretched thin. Its economy runs on farming and ranching that get hammered by high input costs.

Those are the problems a representative is supposed to work on. Instead, Jackson spent his energy this week firing off a letter about "woke DEI" and the "Green New Scam" — a fight cooked up in Washington and cable-news studios that does absolutely nothing for a single family back home.

This is the same congressman who was handcuffed at a rodeo after cursing at a state trooper who was trying to reach a teenager in a medical emergency. Picking fights is a pattern with Ronny Jackson. Helping his constituents is not.

The bottom line

Every hour Jackson spends chasing "woke" shareholder advisors is an hour he's not spending on the actual needs of the Texas Panhandle. He's got the time and the platform to fight for lower costs and better health care. He's using them to defend ExxonMobil and rage about diversity quotas instead.

That's the choice. And it tells his constituents exactly where they rank on his list of priorities.

Source

• "Ronny Jackson Targets Proxy Giants Accused of Pushing 'Woke DEI and Green New Scam' Policies," The Daily Signal, July 17, 2026.