Elections 2020

Guy Reffitt, a 49-year-old Wylie resident, never entered the Capitol but helped ignite the crowd “into an unstoppable force,” a prosecutor at his trial said. His sentence is the longest given out so far from the Jan. 6 riot.

The bar, which licenses lawyers and offers training sessions, is suing Paxton in an attempt to sanction him for trying block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump.

After Paxton said the lawsuit was politically motivated, the attorney general announced his office is investigating a state bar’s non-profit arm for allegedly aiding “a mass influx” of undocumented immigrants.

CNN on Friday published the Austin congressman’s text messages with President Donald Trump’s chief of staff in the aftermath of the election.

Paxton is accused of professional misconduct for suing to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

An initial review of four counties’ election results — launched after pressure from former President Donald Trump and touted by GOP leaders — showed few discrepancies between electronic and hand counts of ballots in a sample of voting precincts.

Longtime Dallas businessman J. Hutton Pulitzer once promoted triple-edged wiper blades and a device called the CueCat that found a spot in the Museum of Failure. More recently, he’s tried to sell something else – allegations of election fraud.

Auditors are now asking for information from four urban counties, including one that went for Trump. Trump won the state in 2020.

At the same time, in Texas, an increasing number of counties are rethinking who should run elections altogether.

The agency did not explain why it was auditing results in Collin, Dallas, Harris and Tarrant counties. Its announcement came hours after former President Donald Trump asked that an election audit bill be added to a special legislative session agenda.

The plaintiffs argue the Trump supporters engaged in political intimidation when they surrounded the Biden campaign bus in October, in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, and that police "turned a blind eye to the attack."

New Census data shows Texas' electorate was less white in 2020.