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The Beacon Center’s vision is to ensure that Tennessee is truly a land of opportunity for all its residents. Our work will ensure that Tennessee is a place where parents can access the best education for their child, where property rights are preserved and Tennesseans can achieve the dream of homeownership, where quality healthcare is just around the corner no matter where you live, where taxes are low and anyone with a vision can start and grow a business, and where government is accountable to the people it serves.

This vision is the result of a statewide listening tour conducted in 2024. We spent months listening to Tennesseans from all corners of the state to hear their biggest challenges. The listening tour was composed of individual and small group discussions, online focus groups, and poll testing of issues.

We took what we learned and turned it into an agenda to make Tennessee a land of opportunity by focusing on the following core issue areas in 2025 and 2026:

• Education Freedom: We will make Tennessee a place where parents can access the best education for their child.
• Property Rights & Housing: We will make Tennessee a place where property rights are preserved, and where Tennesseans can achieve the dream of homeownership.
• Quality Healthcare: We will make Tennessee a place where quality healthcare is just around the corner no matter where you live.
• Economic Opportunity: We will make Tennessee a place where taxes are low and anyone with a vision can start and grow a business.
• Government Accountability: We will make Tennessee a place where government is accountable to the people it serves.

By addressing our fellow Tennesseans’ biggest challenges, we can make our state the best pace in America to live, work, and raise a family. Tennessee can be known as the ideal place for parents to provide their children with the best education, where property rights are preserved and homeownership is in reach for more people, where quality and affordable healthcare is readily available, where taxpayers are allowed to keep their hard-earned money thanks to low taxes, and where government is no bigger than it should be. By working with Tennesseans from one corner of the state to the other, we can make this bold vision a reality and make Tennessee the land of opportunity.