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On the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, hours before the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took the stage at Donald Trump’s rally and told the crowd, “We will not quit fighting.” Now he’s running for the U.S. Senate.
Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias walks through Paxton’s record of attacking free and fair elections. He sued to throw out the results in four states at the U.S. Supreme Court. His office spent more than 22,000 hours hunting for voter fraud and produced 16 prosecutions. He went after election officials, campaign volunteers and Beto O’Rourke. With Senate control on the line and Election Day less than two weeks away, Marc explains what’s at stake in Texas and why we all need to be paying attention if the race is close.