A settlement in Paxton's lawsuit wiped out the dunes sagebrush lizard's endangered status. More than 95% of its habitat is already gone — and oil money is a very large part of Paxton's Senate campaign.
Texas Monthly reviewed 1,300 pages of emails and found Abbott's CAIR proclamation tracks a report written by a fellow at a think tank the SPLC lists as an anti-Muslim hate group — including a claim about the FBI that appears to be false.
Senate Republicans subpoenaed an 85-year-old scientist, read his diary out loud, threw his lawyer out of the room, and swore at him. Meanwhile 2,318 Americans have caught measles this year and Congress has done nothing about it.
Finstad kept promising farmers the pain was temporary — from April 2025 through February 2026. Then he voted twice to protect the tariffs causing it, and China bought zero American soybeans.
As Ohio House speaker, Husted stripped the one-year window that would have let survivors of clergy sexual abuse sue. Survivors filled the Statehouse halls. He took a side door into the chamber, and they sued him for meeting behind closed doors.
Steube sued to stop proxy voting and promised in writing never to use it. Nine months later he filed a false letter with the House clerk so he could go speak at a political conference in Orlando.
Salazar posed with oversized checks for a children's hospital, a university, an airport and a road project — all paid for by bills she voted no on. Caught on camera, she said she forgot. She is still counting that money as hers today.
Eight days into Trump's second term, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna filed a bill to add his face to Mount Rushmore. Eighteen months later it has zero cosponsors, zero action, and geologists say it was never physically possible.
Chemours' PAC gave Michael Whatley $5,000 — the first time it has ever spent in a North Carolina Senate race. WUNC asked him three questions about PFAS. His campaign didn't answer an email or a text.