Ken Paxton is absolutely ridiculous. It’s because he’s losing | Opinion
Big Brother Paxton is coming to your town.
He’s spying on you. He wants to know where you go, what you do and whom you hang around with.
Normally, we only have to worry about Ken Paxton hitting on married women.
But now, he is invading every social circle in Texas, if you know a “radical leftist,” or anyone who advocates for transgender people, or anyone else who did not suitably grieve Charlie Kirk’s death.
You think I’m kidding.
When I posted Paxton’s Oct. 7 press release on social media, commenters replied, “This is fake.”
It’s not.
Paxton announced that in response to political violence such as the addled or anarchist attacks on Kirk and ICE, he has assigned investigators to “identify, investigate and infiltrate ... corrupted ideologies.”
He listed the ideologies: “transgenderism” and far-left “antifa” resisters.
Specifically, Paxton wrote that investigators for his office — primarily a state litigation practice, not a crime-fighting agency — will search out lefty activists who are “deranged and drugged-up.”
He even called transgender advocacy and far-left resistance a “cancer on our culture.”
Look, nothing in the U.S. Constitution allows investigating anyone who is not involved in a crime.
As the FBI wrote in 2022 in its very good report on domestic terrorism — both left- and right-wing — “mere advocacy of political or social positions, political activism, use of strong rhetoric, or generalized philosophic embrace of violent tactics does not constitute violent extremism .... No investigative activity may be based solely on activity protected by the First Amendment.”
The FBI emphasizes strongly that only violent criminal behavior is against the law.
Obviously, Paxton is not reading the same Constitution.
His announcement said he is targeting groups “affiliated” with violence and “corrupted ideologies.”
Like transgender rights?
He described transgender advocates as “leftist terror cells.”
If he were to arrest someone simply for associating with transgender people, the first question a defense attorney would ask is: “How did you know this person was going to commit a crime? May I see your mindreader license? What unique ability do you have to predict the future? Please tell us.”
There is only one reason Paxton is publishing almost daily missives about how he’s going to crack down on liberals and Democrats or anyone who doesn’t worship the fundamentalist Christian way.
He is losing the 2026 race for the U.S. Senate.
Paxton and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn are now tied in a poll for the March 3 Republican primary.
That means Paxton has lost an 8-point lead since five months ago.
Thank a flurry of Cornyn ads about how the Texas senator carries out President Donald Trump’s policies in the U.S. Senate. Trump has not endorsed in the race, which now also includes U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt of Houston.
Paxton, a low-profile McKinney Republican until he attached himself to Trump, is issuing a flurry of wild-eyed announcements almost daily as he begs for attention.
Before he announced his campaign to “infiltrate and uproot” those dang lefties, he was criticizing a New Braunfels gay pride event as “outrageous.”
The previous week, he was promising an investigation about TCU canceling a Turning Point USA event.
Except the whole story was made up.
The TCU Turning Point USA chapter and the Fort Worth-based Forge Room Foundation never booked an event at TCU at all. The university had offered locations but never heard back after TCU let Turning Point know that the room it wanted was rented.
The Turning Point USA chapter and the Forge Room ghosted TCU. Then, a Dallas-based political website and speaker Chloe Cole of California blamed the university.
It was all a mistake, the president of TCU’s Turning Point USA chapter told the nonprofit local Fort Worth Report news site.
Annie Cellar confirmed that the event was never officially scheduled. According to the Report, she faulted social media attacks by people who did not know the whole story.
I have no idea why it took a week to tell the truth.
But Paxton hasn’t told it yet.
This story was originally published October 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM.
