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On the first day of early voting, outgoing Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller escalated his beef with Republican candidate Nate Sheets, posting an essay discouraging people from voting for him.

In the essay, posted to his own website, Miller repeated the claim that Sheets isn't qualified to serve as the agriculture commissioner and dogged him for not taking a tougher stand against data centers.