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25 Jul, 2026

Our Fascist Idiocracy: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Crimes and Scandals

June 17, 2026June 18, 2026 Jon Ponder

With his rise to the presidency, criminal conman Donald Trump inaugurated a nrew era of right-wing corruption. It would appear to be an ideal environment for elevating another corrupt politician, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, to the U.S. Senate. He’ll be facing Democrat James Talarico in November, and the rest of teh country will find out just how much criminality and corruption Texas voters can tolerate from their leaders.

Here’s his (alleged) rap sheet:

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Tillis Tells It on Paxton

May 28, 2026 Buck Banks

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Our Fascist Idiocracy: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Crimes and Scandals

Tillis Tells It on Paxton

“To call Ken Paxton ethically challenged is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder.”

— Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), quoted by the New York Times, on the new Republican nominee for Senate in Texas.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.