A Washington Post review found five organizations with business before Ken Paxton's office gave to his campaigns. A game maker's executives gave more than $100,000 while his office reviewed whether their machines were gambling. A donor gave $10,000 two months after an opinion that helped his rock-crushing plant.
Texas's top law-enforcement officer watched New Year's fireworks in Dubai with two Americans who had skipped federal fraud charges. One of them had donated $190,000 to Paxton, including $25,000 days after he was indicted. Paxton's campaign won't talk about the trip.
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Brandon Herrera turned the Uvalde massacre into gun content.
Texas Monthly obtained the nine-page, unsigned document Abbott's lawyers walked the state securities commissioner through, laying out ways to bring government power against the East Plano Islamic Center. His team concluded there was no securities case. Paxton filed one, and the commissioner says he was told to resign.
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Brandon Herrera is running for Congress to represent San Antonio, but he has nothing but contempt for the people who live there.
On national TV at the State Fair of Texas, Rep. Keith Self wouldn't commit to debating Democrat Evan Hunt, who says he has been asking for a debate for over a year. Instead Self called the 3rd District 'my seat,' and said Republicans need more time to fix inflation.
Under a 3% budget-cut order from Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick and Dustin Burrows, Texas's health agency has asked to eliminate the Children's Autism Program, which paid for therapy for 583 kids last year with 1,000 more waiting. The same order exempted Abbott's private school voucher program.
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Monica De La Cruz was caught on leaked audio admitting her poll numbers are dangerously low because voters just don't know her.
A leaked deposition from the SEC's 2014 fraud investigation shows Ken Paxton accepting 100,000 free shares in a company he brought investors into, losing track of the certificates, and pointing federal lawyers to his wife when asked about $100,000 on his tax return.