Before running for Congress, Jackson's eligibility to even be on the ballot for a 2025 DeSoto City Council runoff was publicly challenged after the city said he hadn't filed the paperwork required of a candidate with a past felony conviction — he wasn't disqualified and stayed in the race.
Jackson is a Dallas-area small business owner and community organizer who studied data processing at Amarillo College and had never held office before entering politics. After an unsuccessful 2025 run for DeSoto City Council, he won the Republican nomination for Texas's heavily Democratic 30th Congressional District (Jasmine Crockett's old Dallas-area seat) by beating Sholdon Daniels in a May 2026 primary runoff, campaigning on job growth, border security against cartels, and making DOGE spending cuts permanent.
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Jackson’s take on Texas values
Jackson's campaign platform calls for confronting drug cartels, including the death penalty for traffickers, and reducing immigration levels to protect American interests. [Ballotpedia; branch.vote]