A Dallas philanthropist says Gooden and Matt Gaetz branded him a criminal on One America News over a charity fund Gaetz put at $270 million — a month after a court had found no serious issue to be tried. The defamation suit landed the same day Gooden's ethics investigation was announced.
Two-thirds of MAGA voters say they'd stick with a Republican accused of sexual assault. Ken Paxton is what that looks like on an actual ballot.
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 a Midland oilman is one of the top donors to the super PAC backing Paxton's Senate run.
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.
AIPAC and its allies spent $8 million to take out a sitting Republican congressman who wouldn't fall in line. Here's how a lobby funded by a few billionaires came to own both parties' votes on war and peace.
Texas Republicans literally ran away from reporters rather than answer for the Trump-endorsed candidate's remarks about mothers who advocate against gun violence.
The House Ethics Committee is reviewing a matter referred by the independent Office of Congressional Conduct. It won't say what it's about; Gooden says it's spending. His answer was to attack the investigators.
There's more: he sat on the DOGE subcommittee and cosponsored a bill to make DOGE permanent after it claimed $1.8 billion in cuts to Texas, and he signed on to an abortion ban with no exception for rape, incest or the life of the mother.
He's the lead sponsor of a federal abortion bill in a state where the ban already drove sepsis rates up more than 50%, and his lifetime environmental score is 1% in one of the country's smoggiest metros.