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This may be the only thing Texas politicians can hear

Originally Posted By u/NekkedMoleRat At 2025-08-08 04:15:32 PM | Source

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This graphic is paltry. Here's a list of just the Fortune 500 companies based in Texas. The number of brands beyond this you'd recognize is difficult to quantify:

        Exxon Mobil (The Woodlands, previously Irving)

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        McKesson (Irving)
  
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        AT&T (Dallas)
  
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        Phillips 66 (Houston)
  
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        Valero Energy (San Antonio)
  
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        Dell Technologies (Round Rock)

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        Energy Transfer (Dallas)
  
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        Tesla (Austin)
  
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        Sysco (Houston)
  
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        Caterpillar (coming to Irving)

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        ConocoPhillips (Houston)
  
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        Plains GP Holdings (Houston)

        Enterprise Products Partners (Houston)

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        Oracle (Austin)
  
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        USAA (San Antonio)
  
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        American Airlines (Fort Worth)

        Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Houston)

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        D.R. Horton (Arlington)
  
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        CBRE Group (Dallas)
  
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        NRG Energy (Houston)
  
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        Occidental Petroleum (Houston)

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        Baker Hughes (Houston)
  
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        Builders FirstSource (Dallas)

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        Tenet Healthcare (Dallas)
  
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        Kimberly-Clark (Irving)
  
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        Charles Schwab (Westlake)
  
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        EOG Resources (Houston)
  
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        HF Sinclair (Dallas)
  
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        Texas Instruments (Dallas)
  
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        Waste Management (Houston)
  
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        Targa Resources (Houston)
  
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        Kinder Morgan (Houston)
  
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        Cheniere Energy (Houston)
  
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        Southwest Airlines (Dallas)
  
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        Halliburton (Houston)
  
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        Pioneer Natural Resources (Irving)

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        Fluour (Irving)
  
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        AECOM (Irving)
  
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        Jacobs Engineering Group (Dallas)

        Group 1 Automotive (Houston)

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        Quanta Services (Houston)
  
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        Vistra (Irving)
  
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        Westlake (Houston)
  
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        Yum China Holdings (Plano)
  
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        Celanese (Irving)
  
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        Huntsman (The Woodlands)
  
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        CenterPoint Energy (Houston)

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        APA (Houston)
  
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        KBR (Houston)
  
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        Diamondback Energy (Midland)

        Academy Sports and Outdoors (Katy)

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        Commercial Metals (Irving)
  
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        Enlink Midstream (Dallas)
  
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        Southwestern Energy (Spring)

Texas instruments came to mind as being quite difficult to boycott.

Does anyone ever get bummed when the big boycott of the time happens and you can't participate because you already don't buy their products? Chick-Fil-A, McDonald's, Walmart, Target, Facebook, HP...
I'd feel good about never supporting them in the first place but then I'm equally as non-supportive of the companies the Right boycotts too. Budweiser, Goya, Disney, ... oddly, also Target and Chick-Fil-A...
So it feels like I'm either not supporting left wing causes or I'm also equally supporting right wing causes by default. Any way, like i said, it gets me bummed.
As a texan, a boycott would hurt me but I understand. I'd likely not see any benefits during so called good times but I volunteer to sacrifice to suffer with the rest of those awful fucks around me during the bad times. Remember though, we suffer together regardless of whether or not we're progressive or bass ackwards hicks and racists.
Uh...why are we boycotting Texas? Not that our state government hasn't been dogshit for decades now, but I'm not aware of it being meaningfully worse than other deep red states or even the federal government under Trump II.
- Probably in response to the Texas GOP current push for redistricting (gerrymandering) at behest of Trump
  
  Probably should be noted that they were already planning to do this and then Trump jumped on board to try and take credit for it. I don't think he's smart enough to come up with it.
  
  Ah, ty. I wasn't aware it was that big of a deal nationally. It may be a particularly egregious example, but gerrymandering is extremely common in the US so I figured it was business as usually for everyone outside the state.
Whole Foods is owned by Amazon. An equally good reason to boycott them...
I'm gonna miss Dr. Pepper.
- He's out of network now.
I'm gonna continue ignoring Texas' existence

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