Wealthy oil and gas interests getting politicians to do their bidding: coming to a federal government near you.
Ken Paxton
Posted inLaw and Justice
America’s Judicial Divisions
Every major policy issue is now also a courtroom battle, decided in increasingly partisan settings. And there’s no end in sight.
Posted inPolitics
Texas Will Mess With You
The state is a national incubator for bad ideas, which it then seeks to project across the nation.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Company You Keep
Ken and Angela Paxton have ties to a jet-setting lobbyist-turned-CEO caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud involving a powerful business clan and a commercial shipping giant.
Posted inPolitics
Josh Shapiro Mans the Electoral Fort in Pennsylvania
Can the former vice-presidential contender hold off Republican attempts to undermine voting in the Keystone State?
Posted inPolitics
Fascist State
There are degrees of political insanity. After its recent Republican primary elections, Texas approaches a psychotic break.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Ken Paxton, America First Legal, and Premonitions of Project 2025
Texas today is what America will look like if Trump wins. It’s not pretty.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Republicans Want to Ban All Abortions, Even if It Kills Mothers
The anti-choice mask comes off in Texas.
Posted inTAP
Texas Republicans: Maniacs and Megalomaniacs
Today on TAP: The legislature already stopped cities from passing laws they don’t like; now they’re claiming they can supersede federal law, too.
Posted inPolitics
The GOP Is the Party of Corrupt Oligarchy
In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton escaped conviction after being impeached.