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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s article in The Guardian, “Ken Paxton’s Christian identity politics obscure a history of scandal,” going deep into the origins of the religious righ movement founded by sexual abusers that created Paxton.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/30/ken-paxton-christian-scandal

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