Adam Hoffman, a Waco attorney, was indicted in 2024 on a first-degree felony charge of continuous sexual abuse of a young child — an offense punishable by 25 years to life in prison. The indictment alleged he abused his son's friend over a three-year period, beginning when the boy was 7 years old.

The case was prosecuted by Ken Paxton's own Attorney General's office. After the trial ended in a hung jury, Paxton's prosecutors offered Hoffman a plea deal: drop the felony, let him plead guilty to two misdemeanors, serve a single day in jail, and never register as a sex offender. A man accused of raping a child would have walked away with a record no worse than a bar fight.

Ken Paxton praised DOGE and called Elon Musk "incredible." He applauded the slashing of federal spending as "necessary" and attacked his own fellow Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn for daring to question DOGE's cuts. Then those cuts came for the programs protecting Texas cattle.

DOGE eliminated approximately $382 million in funding for programs run by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization — including programs that had spent decades monitoring the New World screwworm as it moved through Central America toward the U.S. border. At the same time, the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which leads domestic screwworm response, lost nearly a quarter of its workforce.

On June 3, 2026, the USDA confirmed the country's first New World screwworm case — a three-week-old calf in La Pryor, Zavala County, after decades of eradication. The screwworm is a parasitic fly whose larvae feed on the living flesh of warm-blooded animals. Untreated, it kills. Texas has a $15 billion cattle industry.

While serving as a Texas state legislator, Ken Paxton persuaded fellow lawmakers and investors to put money into a tech company called Servergy. He did not tell them he was not investing his own money. He did not tell them he was being paid in company stock. In 2015, he was indicted on three felony counts of securities fraud and failure to register as an investment advisor. He was booked and photographed in a mug shot — seven months into his term as Texas's top law enforcement officer.

Rather than face trial, Paxton delayed the case for nearly 9 years. It changed venues. Judges recused themselves. The case never reached a jury. In 2024, he cut a deal — community service, ethics courses, and restitution payments in exchange for the charges being dropped. There was no acquittal.

Public records show that Ken Paxton has claimed three different properties as his primary residence on mortgage documents — while renting them out. A home in College Station has been listed for rent on real estate websites on and off since at least 2022, even though its mortgage says the property is for the Paxtons' exclusive use and cannot be rented. A "5 bedroom luxury cabin" in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, carrying a $1.2 million mortgage that also bars renting, is let out on Airbnb.

Falsely claiming a home is your primary residence on a mortgage is a federal crime. Ken Paxton is the chief law enforcement officer of Texas — the office responsible for prosecuting mortgage fraud.

In 2020, eight of Ken Paxton's most senior deputies — conservative lawyers he hired himself — reported him to the FBI for bribery and abuse of office. Their allegation: Paxton had used the power of the AG's office to benefit his friend and donor, Austin real estate developer Nate Paul, who was under FBI investigation. In exchange, Paul employed a woman with whom Paxton was having an extramarital affair. Within weeks of reporting him to the FBI, all eight whistleblowers were fired or forced out.

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Ken Paxton closed his office, sent staff home early to celebrate, and made the day an annual agency holiday. He has sued out-of-state providers who sent abortion medication to Texas patients. He has threatened to prosecute doctors who provided abortions under Texas's own medical exception law. He prosecuted a midwife who served low-income Houstonians, in a case critics called a political power grab.

Ken Paxton has spent his career claiming to stand for family values, traditional marriage, and Christian principles. His personal life tells a different story.

In 2018, Paxton began an extramarital affair. The relationship disrupted the AG's office and required intervention by senior staff. He confessed to his wife Angela — a Texas state senator — and asked for forgiveness. Staff believed the affair had ended. It had not. Paxton later told his chief of staff the relationship had resumed.

The woman was then hired by Nate Paul — the same donor whose businesses were under federal investigation and who received favorable treatment from Paxton's office. The connection between Paxton's affair, his donor's generosity, and his official actions was central to the House impeachment articles.

Then came a second affair. The Daily Mail reported in September 2025 that since 2024 Paxton had been involved with Tracy Duhon, a married Christian influencer and mother of seven. They reportedly met at the 2024 Kentucky Derby. Two months later, Duhon filed for divorce from her husband.

Our elected officials should work for us, the people.

Ken Paxton is bought and owned by billionaires. A handful of very rich Texans have funded this campaign almost by themselves. He has raised $9,248,699, 78% of it from large individual donors, plus another $7.5 million through joint fundraising committees - vehicles that let one person hand over many times the $3,500 the law allows them to give a campaign directly - and hundreds of thousands more spent on his behalf by super PACs, which face no limit at all. The broader Republican donor class has largely kept its distance - after winning the nomination he was cold-calling wealthy Republicans who did not want to be associated with him.

That matters more for Paxton than for most candidates, because he is not a legislator asking for a vote - he is the Attorney General of Texas, and he decides which side the state's lawyers take. At least once, a very large check and a very helpful legal intervention arrived one day apart.

Look at who is funding him:

When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts launched a climate change investigation into ExxonMobil, Ken Paxton sided with the company and tried to block the investigation. When the U.S. Virgin Islands issued a subpoena for decades of ExxonMobil records, Paxton filed a brief to stop it. Paxton has called climate change "a matter of opinion."

And the industry he protected is now funding his Senate campaign. Among the largest donors to Lone Star Liberty PAC, the main pro-Paxton super PAC, is Douglas Scharbauer, a Midland oilman, who gave $750,000 — a longtime Paxton supporter who has given him six-figure sums before. Ahead of him sits Preserve Texas Inc. at $950,000, a Virginia-based dark money group that was formed shortly after Paxton launched his Senate bid and whose donors are hidden from the public. Another $500,000 came from Chelsey Milton, an Arizona Trump donor whose husband received a presidential pardon.

The NRA has given Ken Paxton its highest possible "A+" rating — and he has earned it. He defended campus carry, calling a lawsuit against it "frivolous." He sued the City of Austin to force it to allow open carry in city buildings. He threatened to sue the State Fair of Texas for banning guns on its grounds. He has never supported a single gun safety measure.

Meanwhile, in Texas:

Ken Paxton lied, cheated, stole, committed adultery, bullied whistleblowers, fled a subpoena, was indicted, was impeached, tried to overturn an election, celebrated the fall of Roe, called LGBTQ+ Texans predators, sided with Big Oil polluters, opposed every gun safety measure, offered a man accused of child sexual abuse a plea deal carrying a single day in jail, and cheered the DOGE cuts that gutted the programs guarding against flesh-eating screwworm.

This man doesn't deserve anything, and certainly not our vote.