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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Mario Diaz-Balart is a powerful leader on the House Appropriations Committee, where he personally controls the billions of dollars that fund U.S. foreign policy and defense.
A Hutchinson bakery owner says Roger Marshall's 2020 campaign never paid a $678 bill for his primary-night watch party, despite a year of calls and emails. He paid only after her post went viral. As a doctor, The Kansas City Star found, he charged patients the highest interest rate of about 150 Kansas practices it reviewed.
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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Mario Diaz-Balart stayed silent as 3,000 working-class and elderly South Floridians were evicted from their mobile home park so a developer could build high-end apartments.
Darline Graham campaigns on getting tough on China. Her husband, Larry Nordone, has management roles at two South Carolina companies: one whose shipping containers appear to be more than 97% Chinese, and one that imports toy guns from a Chinese maker that, until The Washington Post asked, advertised ties to China's state weapons giants.
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Carlos Gimenez never said a single public word to defend the 3,000 working-class South Floridians evicted from their homes so a wealthy developer could build expensive new apartments.
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.
Texts, calendars and video from Roger Marshall's 2020 Senate run show his office using taxpayer money and congressional staff for campaign work. Ethics experts call it 'breathtaking.'