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Ken Paxton

Attorney General of Texas since January 5, 2015; previously Texas House District 70 and Texas Senate District 8. Campaign affiliation: Republican.

Voter guide

Background, stated goals, record, and money

Goals come from the campaign's own platform. Record lines are official actions.

How this guide is built

Background comes from official records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so; goals are summarized from the campaign's own platform and stay attributed; the record lines are official actions with the government source attached; money is shown as filed, with the filings it covers in the note under the table, and is not evidence of why any position was taken.

Ken Paxton

Background

  • Attorney General of Texas since January 5, 2015; his office's own biography records him as the state's 51st attorney general, elected on November 4, 2014 and re-elected in 2018 and 2022, leading more than 4,000 employees in 38 divisions.
  • Before that he sat in the Texas Legislature for twelve years: the Legislative Reference Library records him in House District 70 from January 14, 2003 to January 8, 2013, across the 78th to 82nd Legislatures, and in Senate District 8 from January 8, 2013 to January 13, 2015, in the 83rd, with McKinney in Collin County as his home city throughout.

What they say they want to do

  • Carry President Trump's legislative programme in the Senate, naming tax cuts, border security and deportations, ending what he calls the weaponization of government, and draining the swamp.
  • Take on pharmaceutical and food companies and widen transparency in food and health care.
  • Finish the border wall and deport people he describes as criminal illegal aliens.
  • Pass a regulatory framework for digital assets, naming the CLARITY Act.

What the official record shows

  • Sworn in as attorney general on January 5, 2015, the 51st holder of the office; his office's biography records the human-trafficking unit as his first major initiative.
  • Authored 280 bills and resolutions in the Texas Legislature across the 78th to 83rd Legislatures and their called sessions, of which 46 carry a last action recording that they took effect; he sponsored a further 37 as the other chamber's sponsor, 25 of which took effect.
  • The attorney general's numbered opinion series under his name runs KP-0001 to KP-0526, the most recent issued August 26, 2026. An attorney general opinion is a written interpretation of existing law and, in the office's own words, cannot create new provisions in the law and cannot resolve factual disputes.
  • Announced a settlement of over $1 billion with Meta Platforms on August 26, 2026, which his office records as the third settlement over $1 billion it has reached with a technology company, after $1.4 billion from Meta over facial-recognition data and $1.375 billion from Google. A settlement is official action by the office; it is not a vote.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Leadership PACs 13 committees$70,000
Party committees 1 committee$62,000
Corporation-connected PACs 8 committees$38,500
Membership organization PACs 4 committees$20,000
Hybrid PACs 2 committees$13,500
Other PACs (no organization type recorded) 1 committee$5,000
Trade association PACs 1 committee$5,000
Other candidates' committees 1 committee$4,000
Committees listed without an FEC id in the filing 2 committees$1,500

Source: Federal Election Commission

Itemized receipts from political committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings through June 30, 2026, grouped by the FEC's recorded organization type or designation of the contributing committee. The rows sum to $219,500.00, equal to the FEC summary's other-committee contributions of $157,500.00 plus its party contributions of $62,000.00. Not in the table: $6,597.58 of itemized line-12 transfers from two joint fundraising committees, against $6,632.58 on the summary; $83,600.00 of itemized line-11AI receipts from partnerships and limited liability companies, which the filing records as individual contributions; $2,358.55 of itemized line-14 offsets to operating expenditures; and 456 memo entries totalling $3,242,577.43, almost all of them the campaign's own fundraising platform attributing donors above the itemization threshold. A memo entry restates money the report already counts elsewhere, so adding one would count it twice.

Words and record

What they say, and what the record shows

Each card gets one label from a fixed list and states its own limit.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign account says he secured a settlement of $1 billion with Meta in the week before the post, and separately that he secured $1.4 billion from the same company in 2024 over personal data.

What the record shows ·

His office's August 2026 release says he secured over $1 billion from Meta and, earlier, $1.4 billion; the court filings were not read.

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What they say

His campaign account says he secured a settlement of $1 billion with Meta in the week before the post, and separately that he secured $1.4 billion from the same company in 2024 over personal data.

“Kids are being exposed to harmful content on social media every day. My mission has always been to protect children and put parents back in control. Last week, I secured a $1 billion settlement with Meta and I’ll keep delivering wins for Texas families as your U.S. Senator. Help me keep fighting for Texas families. Donate today:”

What the record shows ·

The office's own release of August 26, 2026 says it: "Attorney General Ken Paxton secured over $1 billion as part of a historic settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) to protect Texas children online." The same release records the earlier figure he cites and a third: it calls this "the third settlement worth over $1 billion that Attorney General Paxton has secured from Big Tech companies" and states that he previously secured a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta over facial-recognition data and a $1.375 billion settlement with Google. It also records what the settlement requires of the company beyond money, including age assurance, a daily two-hour limit for teenage users and notifications disabled by default during school hours. This is official action by the office he heads, and it is a settlement, not a vote, a sponsorship or a cosponsorship.

Limit: Both figures he gives are in his office's own release, and the release is the office's account of its own work rather than a court record: this desk did not read the settlement agreement, any court filing, or any docket. What kind of action this was matters for how it is read here. A settlement is an exercise of the attorney general's litigating authority, not a recorded vote or a sponsorship, so it cannot be set beside a roll call the way a legislator's record can. Whether Texas has received any of the money, and whether the safeguards have been put in place, are questions about administration that this card does not assess.

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign pledges action against food and drug companies and greater transparency in food and health care.

What the record shows ·

Paxton pledges action against food and drug companies. His office reports a Kellogg's cereal-dye agreement, supporting the food-company part of that pledge. Health effects were not checked.

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What they say

His campaign pledges action against food and drug companies and greater transparency in food and health care.

What the record shows ·

Paxton pledges action against food and drug companies. His office reports a Kellogg's cereal-dye agreement, supporting the food-company part of that pledge. Health effects were not checked.

Limit: The August 13, 2025 office release reports a signed Assurance of Voluntary Compliance requiring WK Kellogg Co. to remove artificial cereal colorings by the end of 2027. The signed agreement and any court docket were not read. This executive action supports the food-company part of the pledge; it does not establish pharmaceutical action, completed rollout or health effects, and is not a Senate vote or enacted law.

No assessment

What they say

His campaign's issues page and its biography page both give a number for the suits he brought against the Biden administration.

What the record shows ·

His office publishes no docket or count of its lawsuits, and this desk did not read federal court dockets, so the number has not been checked.

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What they say

His campaign's issues page and its biography page both give a number for the suits he brought against the Biden administration.

“Attorney General Paxton led the national legal charge against Biden’s radical agenda and sued the lawless Biden Administration over 100 times, including to put an end to disastrous open borders policies.”

What the record shows ·

The Office of the Attorney General publishes no docket and no ledger of the suits it has filed. Its newsroom is the only list it offers and it is a paginated index of press releases, ten to a page, which returned page one unchanged whether a search term or a larger page size was requested, so it cannot be filtered to suits against one administration and is not a count of filings in any case. The office's own biography carries two related numbers and neither is this one: it says he filed 27 lawsuits against the Obama administration during a two-year stretch, and that he has "obtained an injunction or other winning ruling in more than 75 percent of the cases he's brought against the federal government". The one countable ledger the office does publish is its opinion series, which counts written opinions and not suits. His own account of the litigation is on his campaign account in general terms: "When the Corrupt Biden Administration came for us, I took them to court and I won."

Why there is no assessment here

Suits by Texas against the federal government plainly exist, and the office's own biography, cited here, describes them, so there is nothing missing from the record in the way "not comparable" would mean. What is missing is a count. The office publishes no docket and no ledger of its filings, and its newsroom is a paginated press-release index that cannot be filtered to one administration and would not be a count of filings if it could. Every label on the methodology page would therefore say something untrue about why this claim is not judged, so this card carries none.

Limit: What would settle it is a docket: a list of cases filed by the State of Texas against federal defendants over a stated period, from the courts rather than from the office's press releases. This desk did not read federal court dockets, and it is recording that it did not, rather than counting press releases and calling the result a check. Nothing here says the claim is wrong, and nothing here says it is right.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign biography sums up his time in the Legislature in one sentence.

What the record shows ·

He served in the Texas House from 2003 to 2013 and the Senate from 2013 to 2015; the ranking as one of the most conservative lawmakers was not checked.

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What they say

His campaign biography sums up his time in the Legislature in one sentence.

“Before becoming Attorney General, Paxton served in the Texas House and Senate, where he was consistently ranked among the most conservative lawmakers.”

What the record shows ·

The service half is exact. The Legislative Reference Library records him in House District 70 from January 14, 2003 to January 8, 2013, in the 78th, 79th, 80th, 81st and 82nd Legislatures, and in Senate District 8 from January 8, 2013 to January 13, 2015, in the 83rd, where a footnote records that he drew a two-year term in the January 23, 2013 drawing. What he did there is countable too: the library's bill search records 280 bills and resolutions with him as author across those six legislatures and their called sessions, 46 of which carry a last action recording that they took effect, and a further 37 he carried as the other chamber's sponsor, 25 of which took effect. The ranking half is not in any official record. It is an assessment by organisations outside the Legislature, and no Texas legislative source scores a member.

Limit: The label attaches to the half a record can settle: he served in both chambers, for the districts and across the years the sentence implies, and the legislative record of that service is substantial. The other half, that he was consistently ranked among the most conservative lawmakers, is a third-party rating and this desk checked no rating publication, so it is neither confirmed nor doubted here. Counts of authored bills are as the library records them and include resolutions; a bill that took effect is not necessarily one he carried alone.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign biography says the political establishment has repeatedly tried to silence him and that he never yielded to it; his issues page puts the same claim as a politically motivated investigation of him and of President Trump.

What the record shows ·

The Republican-held House impeached him in 2023, suspending him for 108 days; the Republican-held Senate acquitted him on all 16 articles it tried. The motive behind it is not judged here.

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What they say

His campaign biography says the political establishment has repeatedly tried to silence him and that he never yielded to it; his issues page puts the same claim as a politically motivated investigation of him and of President Trump.

“He’s never bent a knee — not against the Biden administration, not against corporate overreach, and certainly not against the corrupt political establishment that’s tried to silence him time and time again.”

What the record shows ·

Both chambers acted on him in 2023 and both were Republican-held. On May 27, 2023 the Texas House adopted H.R. 2377, impeaching him and preferring 20 articles, by 121 yeas to 23 nays with 2 present and not voting (Record 2191); the Journal accounts for 149 members, 85 Republicans and 64 Democrats, and of the 121 yeas 60 were Republicans and 61 Democrats, while all 23 nays were Republicans. He was then out of the office: the attorney general's own opinion index records John Scott serving as provisional attorney general from May 31 to July 14, 2023 and Angela Colmenero from July 14 to September 16, 2023, in each case "Pursuant to article 15, section 5 of the Texas Constitution". The Senate tried 16 of the 20 articles and acquitted on every one on September 16, 2023. The presiding officer stated on the record that conviction on a single article would remove him and that the threshold was 21 votes; no article drew more than 14. The Senate then had 31 members, 19 Republicans and 12 Democrats, and 30 votes were recorded on each article; Senator Angela Paxton, the respondent's wife, is not among the members whose votes the record carries. On each of the twelve articles that drew 14 yeas those yeas were the chamber's 12 Democrats and 2 Republicans and all 16 nays were Republicans; Article IV drew 2 yeas to 28 nays, Article VIII 8 to 22, Article IX 12 to 18 and Article V 13 to 17. The four articles held in abeyance, XI to XIV, were dismissed 19 to 11 on Senator Birdwell's motion, and the judgment records that "A dismissal of these articles of impeachment does not constitute an acquittal of any charge contained in the articles of impeachment". The judgment reinstated him the same day and he holds the office now.

Limit: What the record bears out is the checkable part of the sentence: formal proceedings were brought against him, they kept him out of the office for the 108 days between May 31 and September 16, 2023, he contested them rather than resigning, and they ended in acquittal on every article tried. The record calls that a suspension, not a removal, and this desk uses the same word on both cards that touch it. What no record can settle is the rest of the sentence, whether the proceedings were corrupt or were an attempt to silence him. That is a claim about motive and this site does not assess motive, in either direction. Two things are stated here so the record is not read as an argument: the chamber that brought the articles and the chamber that acquitted were both Republican-held, and the party split of each vote is given above. The dismissal of the four remaining articles is carried in the words of the judgment because the judgment itself says a dismissal is not an acquittal. This desk read the trial rules only as the record of proceedings quotes them, and did not read the articles' underlying allegations or any evidence.

Issues in this record

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Costs and the economyHealth careImmigration and the borderGovernment accountabilityEnergy and the environmentEducation

Evidence timeline

Dated records, with sources attached.

  1. race event

    Final ballot certification

    The Texas Secretary of State's final ballot certification for the November 3, 2026 general election, signed by the Deputy Secretary of State on August 28, 2026, lists three candidates for United States Senator: Ken Paxton (Republican), James Talarico (Democratic) and Ted Brown (Libertarian), in that order, which is the ballot order this desk follows.

  2. finance

    FEC filing snapshot

    July Quarterly 2026, principal campaign committee KEN PAXTON FOR SENATE.

  3. race event

    Paxton sworn in as attorney general

    The Office of the Attorney General records Ken Paxton as the 51st attorney general of Texas, elected on November 4, 2014 and sworn into office on January 5, 2015, and re-elected in 2018 and 2022.

  4. race event

    Paxton's legislative service begins

    The Legislative Reference Library records Ken Paxton taking House District 70 on January 14, 2003, at the start of the 78th Legislature; he held that seat through the 82nd and then Senate District 8 in the 83rd, to January 13, 2015.

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Sources23 source records

How we use sources

  1. About the Attorney Generalhttps://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/about-office

    Office of the Attorney General of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The office's own biography of the officeholder: 51st attorney general, elected November 4, 2014, sworn in January 5, 2015, re-elected 2018 and 2022; more than 4,000 employees in 38 divisions and 117 offices; 27 lawsuits against the Obama administration in a two-year stretch, and an injunction or other winning ruling in more than 75 percent of cases brought against the federal government. The page is dated in its own content: its collections figure is for fiscal year 2020 and its litigation examples end before 2021. The address www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/about-office/attorney-general-ken-paxton, which an earlier pass recorded as answering HTTP 402, answered HTTP 404 on 2026-09-14; this page is where the biography is served.

    official office record

    For: Current role; Background, goals, record and campaign money; Federal litigation: how many suits against the Biden administration; Paxton sworn in as attorney general

  2. Member profile for Ken Paxtonhttps://lrl.texas.gov/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=5556

    Legislative Reference Library of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Terms of service: House District 70 for the 78th to 82nd Legislatures, January 14, 2003 to January 8, 2013, home city McKinney in Collin County; Senate District 8 for the 83rd, January 8, 2013 to January 13, 2015, covering Collin and Dallas counties, with a footnote recording that he drew a two-year term in the drawing of January 23, 2013. The profile's biographical section lists him as Texas Attorney General from 2015.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Before the office: twelve years in the Texas Legislature; Paxton's legislative service begins

  3. The Fight Is Now. Paxton's All In For Texas.https://www.kenpaxton.com/issues

    Ken Paxton for Senate · Reviewed Oct 12, 2026

    Health-care pledge re-read October 12, 2026; no visible statement date. The campaign's whole platform, in seven sections: carrying President Trump's agenda, taking on food and pharmaceutical companies, the border, conservative principles including gun rights and transgender policy, an America-first foreign policy, fiscal restraint and energy, the case against the Democratic candidate, and support for cryptocurrency naming the CLARITY Act. It proposes no ethics, disclosure, term-limit or stock-trading measure, and the words ethics, term limits, campaign finance and disclosure appear nowhere on it.

    candidate statement

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Health care: action against food companies; Federal litigation: how many suits against the Biden administration; Record in office: the 2023 impeachment and trial

  4. Legislative Archive System bill search, Ken Paxton as authorhttps://lrl.texas.gov/legis/billsearch/searchresults.cfm?authors=Paxton_Ken:AU

    Legislative Reference Library of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    280 distinct bills and resolutions with Ken Paxton as author, across the 78th to 83rd Legislatures and their called sessions; he is the first-named author on every one. 46 carry a last action recording that they took effect, one of them as a placeholder effective date. The result count in the page header is rendered in the browser and is empty in the served page, so the rows were counted instead. Pulled 2026-09-14.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Before the office: twelve years in the Texas Legislature

  5. Legislative Archive System bill search, Ken Paxton as sponsorhttps://lrl.texas.gov/legis/billsearch/searchresults.cfm?authors=Paxton_Ken:SP

    Legislative Reference Library of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    37 bills he carried as the other chamber's sponsor, 28 of them in the 83rd Legislature, of which 25 carry a last action recording that they took effect. Pulled 2026-09-14.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Before the office: twelve years in the Texas Legislature

  6. Opinionshttps://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/opinions

    Office of the Attorney General of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The office's own index of every attorney general's numbered opinion series. Ken Paxton, 2015 to present, KP-0001 to KP-0526, the most recent listed being KP-0526 of August 26, 2026. The same index lists John Scott, 2023, provisional attorney general, JS-0001 to JS-0007, and Angela Colmenero, 2023, provisional attorney general, AC-0001 to AC-0005. This is the only countable ledger the office publishes; it counts opinions and not lawsuits.

    official office record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Federal litigation: how many suits against the Biden administration

  7. Attorney General Opinionshttps://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/attorney-general-opinions

    Office of the Attorney General of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The office's own statement of what an opinion is: a written interpretation of existing law which cannot create new provisions in the law or correct unintended effects, does not necessarily reflect the attorney general's personal views, and cannot resolve factual disputes. Cited so that an opinion count on this desk is read as what the office says it is.

    official office record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money

  8. Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Over $1 Billion from Meta in Historic Settlement that Protects Texas Kids Onlinehttps://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-secures-over-1-billion-meta-historic-settlement-protects-texas-kids

    Office of the Attorney General of Texas · Published Aug 26, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The office's release on the settlement: over $1 billion to the State of Texas, plus stricter age assurance, a daily two-hour limit for teenage users, notifications disabled by default during school hours, likes and reactions hidden by default and a nighttime access mode. It calls this the third settlement worth over $1 billion the office has secured from a technology company and names the other two, $1.4 billion from Meta over facial-recognition data and $1.375 billion from Google. It records a trial against TikTok scheduled for the autumn of 2026. The release is the office's account of its own work, not a court record.

    official office record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Record in office: the settlements with Meta

  9. KEN PAXTON FOR SENATE, itemized receipts, 2025-2026https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00901918&two_year_transaction_period=2026&is_individual=false

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Itemized non-individual receipts for the 2025-2026 cycle through June 30, 2026, read from the OpenFEC schedule A endpoint on 2026-09-14 and grouped by the recorded organization type or designation of each contributing committee. Line 11C contributions from other political committees total $157,500.00 across 35 non-memo rows and line 11B party contributions $62,000.00 in one, together $219,500.00, exactly the FEC summary's other-committee plus party contributions.

    fec filing

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money

  10. Post of August 31, 2026 on the Meta settlementhttps://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/2094448530563702809

    X · Published Aug 31, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Collected from his declared campaign account and re-read against the platform on 2026-09-14, when it came back unchanged, by the same author, at the same publication time, with a single-entry edit history. A post is the candidate's own words and is not a record of any official action; the official action it describes is cited separately.

    social profile

    For: Record in office: the settlements with Meta

  11. Post of August 31, 2026 on the 2024 Meta privacy settlementhttps://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/2094553570234282264

    X · Published Aug 31, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Collected from his declared campaign account and re-read against the platform on 2026-09-14, when it came back unchanged, by the same author, at the same publication time, with a single-entry edit history. A post is the candidate's own words and is not a record of any official action. The post carries a link this desk did not follow.

    social profile

    For: Record in office: the settlements with Meta

  12. Kellogg's cereal-dye agreement, August 13, 2025https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-paxton-secures-historic-legal-agreement-kelloggs-remove-toxic-artificial-dyes-its

    Office of the Attorney General of Texas · Published Aug 13, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 12, 2026

    The office reports a signed Assurance of Voluntary Compliance with WK Kellogg Co. to remove artificial cereal colorings by the end of 2027. The release was read; the signed agreement and any court docket were not. It supports an office-reported formal action, not a measured health benefit or completed rollout.

    official office record

    For: Health care: action against food companies

  13. Built For This Fighthttps://www.kenpaxton.com/about

    Ken Paxton for Senate · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The campaign biography. It carries the claim of over 100 suits against the Biden administration, the account of the opioid and Big Tech litigation, the description of the establishment having tried to silence him, his degrees from Baylor and the University of Virginia, fourteen years in his own law firm in McKinney, and the sentence on his service in the Texas House and Senate.

    candidate statement

    For: Federal litigation: how many suits against the Biden administration; Before the office: twelve years in the Texas Legislature; Record in office: the 2023 impeachment and trial

  14. News Releaseshttps://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases

    Office of the Attorney General of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The office's only public list of its own actions, paginated ten releases to a page. It ignores a full-text search parameter and a page-size parameter, returning the first page either way, so it cannot be filtered or enlarged by an automated reader. The first page on 2026-09-14 ran from the TikTok liability verdict of September 10, 2026 back to a Houston County sentence of August 18, 2026, and included the Meta settlement, an Amazon suit, investigations of an insurer and of avocado-oil labelling, and settlements on synthetic dyes in cereals. Cited for what the office has published and for the fact that it publishes no docket or count of suits filed.

    official office record

    For: Federal litigation: how many suits against the Biden administration

  15. Post of September 10, 2026 on suing the previous federal administrationhttps://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/2097858631161057557

    X · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Collected from his declared campaign account and re-read against the platform on 2026-09-14, when it came back unchanged, by the same author, at the same publication time, with a single-entry edit history. A post is the candidate's own words and is not a record of any official action. The post carries a link this desk did not follow.

    social profile

    For: Federal litigation: how many suits against the Biden administration

  16. 88(R) HR 2377, articles of impeachmenthttps://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&Bill=HR2377

    Texas Legislature Online · Published May 27, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Caption: impeaching Warren Kenneth Paxton, Attorney General of the State of Texas, and preferring articles of impeachment against him. Authors: Murr, Ann Johnson, Geren, Longoria and Spiller. Laid before the House and adopted on May 27, 2023 on record vote 2191, at Journal page 5958; reported enrolled the same day and signed in the House on May 29. The page links the Journal for that day at the page carrying the vote.

    official legislative record

    For: Record in office: the 2023 impeachment and trial

  17. House Journal, 88th Legislature Regular Session, 73rd day (document)

    Texas House of Representatives · Published May 27, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Saturday, May 27, 2023. At page 5958: HR 2377 was adopted by record vote 2191, 121 yeas, 23 nays, 2 present not voting, with one member absent excused and two absent. The Journal prints every name and no party. Mapped against the library's 88th House rosters the 121 yeas are 61 Democrats and 60 Republicans, the 23 nays are all Republicans, the two present-not-voting are one of each, and the 149 members accounted for are 85 Republicans and 64 Democrats. The server closes the connection part-way through this PDF; it was fetched with a resuming request until the whole 574,311 bytes arrived.

    official legislative record

    For: Record in office: the 2023 impeachment and trial

  18. Member search, 88th Legislature House members by partyhttps://lrl.texas.gov/legeLeaders/members/lrlhome.cfm

    Legislative Reference Library of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Two POST searches of the member index, one for Republican and one for Democrat, each with the 88th Legislature and the House selected, returned 89 and 64 members; the rosters cover everyone who served in that legislature rather than the seats filled on one day. They were used only to give the May 27, 2023 roll call its party split: each name in the Journal was mapped onto a roster entry, the surname initials the Journal uses to separate members of the same name were resolved by hand, and the resulting party counts were required to add back to the Journal's own printed totals before being used. They do. The party value must be the full word; party=R returns a no-records answer that reads exactly like a real negative.

    official legislative record

    Member search, 88th Legislature Senate members by party

    Legislative Reference Library of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The same two POST searches for the Senate returned 19 Republicans and 13 Democrats for the 88th Legislature. One of the 13, Molly Cook, took her seat in 2024, after the September 2023 trial, and appears in none of its roll calls; the 31 members sitting at the trial were 19 Republicans and 12 Democrats. Used only to give the Court of Impeachment's roll calls their party split, with the same requirement that the party counts add back to the printed totals.

    official legislative record

    For: Record in office: the 2023 impeachment and trial

  19. John Scott Opinionshttps://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/opinions/john-scott

    Office of the Attorney General of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The page states in the office's own words: pursuant to article 15, section 5 of the Texas Constitution, John Scott served as Provisional Attorney General from May 31, 2023 to July 14, 2023, and it carries his series JS-0001 to JS-0007. An official, non-editorial record of who held the office in that period.

    official office record

    For: Record in office: the 2023 impeachment and trial

  20. Angela Colmenero Opinionshttps://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/opinions/angela-colmenero

    Office of the Attorney General of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The page states in the office's own words: pursuant to article 15, section 5 of the Texas Constitution, Angela Colmenero served as Provisional Attorney General from July 14, 2023 to September 16, 2023, and it carries her series AC-0001 to AC-0005.

    official office record

    For: Record in office: the 2023 impeachment and trial

  21. Record of proceedings of the High Court of Impeachment, tenth day, and the judgment (document)

    Texas Senate · Published Sep 16, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Saturday, September 16, 2023. A verbatim transcript: each article is read, the clerk reads the ballots in a random order, and the presiding officer then confirms every member's vote by name, so each roll call appears twice and the two agree. Sixteen articles were tried and every one drew a finding of acquittal: twelve at 14 yeas to 16 nays, Article V at 13 to 17, Article IX at 12 to 18, Article VIII at 8 to 22 and Article IV at 2 to 28. Thirty votes are recorded on each; Senator Angela Paxton is not among them. The presiding officer states that conviction on one article removes him, and, on the later motion, that it is a simple 16 vote and not 21. Articles XI to XIV, held in abeyance, were dismissed 19 to 11 on Senator Birdwell's motion. The judgment is printed at the end of the same document and reinstates him the same day. The Senate journal site is a browser application whose document list comes from a separate service; this file is served directly.

    official legislative record

    For: Record in office: the 2023 impeachment and trial

  22. Ballot Certification Report, 2026 November General Election (document)

    Texas Secretary of State · Published Aug 28, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The final ballot certification for the November 3, 2026 general election, signed by Deputy Secretary of State Dave Nelson on August 28, 2026 under sections 142.010 and 161.008 of the Election Code. Its U. S. SENATOR block lists KEN PAXTON (REP), JAMES TALARICO (DEM) and TED BROWN (LIB), in that order, which is the ballot order this desk follows. The document is served slowly and closes the connection part-way; it was fetched with a resuming request until the whole 5,919,631 bytes arrived, because a truncated copy reads as a corrupt PDF rather than as a failed download.

    official election record

    For: Final ballot certification

  23. KEN PAXTON FOR SENATE, July Quarterly 2026 (document)

    Federal Election Commission · Published Jul 15, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Committee C00901918, file number 1996198, beginning image 202607159875888624, the current non-superseded version. Coverage May 7 to June 30, 2026: receipts $1,640,065.57, disbursements $2,227,721.59, cash on hand $1,755,294.47, no debts owed by or to the committee. The period starts later than the other two because the committee also filed a pre-runoff report covering April 1 to May 6, 2026.

    fec filing

    For: FEC filing snapshot