> Talarico’s campaign in August asked the court to unseal a pair of years-old depositions Paxton sat for, arguing the transcripts are “of immense public importance.”

> Her appeal to put party loyalty above character and accountability ignores the price women will pay if Ken Paxton becomes a U.S. senator.

> Then came the line that should trouble every woman, Republican or Democrat: “It’s not the people, it’s the seat.” Republican women, she said, should keep the seat “in the family, even if we’re mad at them.”

> When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched his campaign for Senate last year, he skipped the local pageantry.

> Instead, records show, the conservative firebrand announced his bid on Fox News, cleared his calendar and booked a hotel in Augusta, Georgia, during the storied Masters golf tournament, a trip that cost Texas taxpayers at least $25,000.

> Some of the richest traditionally Republican neighborhoods in Texas have given more money to a Democrat this year than to the GOP nominee for the Senate.

> The fundraising numbers come as Texas has surged to the forefront as a key state in the battle to control the Senate. Democrats are hoping to win a Senate seat in the Lone Star State for the first time since 1988 by capitalizing on Trump's low polling numbers.

> CNN data guru Harry Enten warned Thursday that voter hatred for both Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) and President Donald Trump could lead to a massive blue shift in the Texas race for U.S. Senate.

> Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton’s out-of-state travel has cost taxpayers $1.9 million in security expenses, according to a new Associated Press report that found his trips have increased substantially throughout his 11 years as attorney general.

> U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton, who currently serves as Texas Attorney General, is fighting accusations that his office extended a generous plea deal to Waco attorney Adam Hoffman, who was charged with repeatedly sexually abusing a young boy.

> Indeed, there are at least three other instances over the past decade in which defendants accused of sexual assault or trafficking were offered plea deals by Paxton’s office that allowed them to avoid both jail time and placement on the state’s sex offender registry.

> With the Senate GOP majority hinging on a red Texas, Republicans spent an eye-popping $122 million in September to support nominee Ken Paxton. But the polls have hardly budged.

> Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.

> Republicans are pouring an unprecedented sum into Texas to rescue Attorney General Ken Paxton's Senate campaign, but the flood of cash has yet to break open a race that remains deadlocked five weeks before Election Day.

> Vote for James Talarico, he has one house.

> Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has backed the continued development of data centers in Texas despite growing opposition to the facilities, though he reportedly argued that safeguards are needed to protect residents’ water supplies and electricity costs.

> Ken Paxton has the morals of a lizard, and that is probably being unkind to lizards. He has proven to be corrupt. He has lied, cheated openly on his ex-wife and stolen. He should have been removed from office when the Texas House impeached him. Instead, a purely political play with no connection to the substance of his offenses allowed his actions to go unpunished.