What Ken Paxton claims, rated against what he has actually done. Each claim gets a rating and the lawsuits, votes and court records behind it.
Paxton claims he brings the full force of the law against child predators, citing hundreds of convictions and arrests by his office.
In cases his own office ran, accused child abusers and traffickers of minors got misdemeanors, probation and no sex-offender registration, and he kept taking money from a man accused of abusing a boy.
Paxton claims he leads the fight against human trafficking, pointing to the trafficking unit he created in 2016 and the shutdown of Backpage.com.
He did create a trafficking unit, but its pandemic-era output was minimal, and in a case his office prosecuted, men charged with trafficking minors walked away with probation and no sex-offender registration.
Paxton’s campaign claims he will lower costs for Texas families.
His plan is federal tax deductions, not lower prices; he backs the Iran war that has driven gas up 69%, and as a legislator he voted against regulating payday lenders.
Paxton’s campaign claims he will help Texans raise a family without struggling to make ends meet.
He sued to stop overtime pay for about 4 million workers, fought city paid-sick-leave rules, tried to strike down the Affordable Care Act and voted against the Texas equal-pay bill.
Paxton’s campaign claims he takes on big corporations, naming food, drug and tech companies.
He did sue big companies, but the largest settlements went to the state treasury, not consumers, and $97 million in fees went to a firm employing his former aide.
Paxton claims his office is defending Texas women’s health against toxic chemicals in feminine-care products.
The feminine-care investigation was announced in July 2026 with no lawsuit or findings since, and his Tylenol suit rests on an autism link medical groups dispute.
Paxton claims his lawsuits against large tech companies protect kids from harmful, addictive material.
Several suits were timed before his May 2026 runoff and most are unresolved; courts blocked most challenged parts of the SCOPE Act, and his biggest tech settlements went to the treasury.
An outside group backing Paxton claims he protects women and children, pointing to a sex-trafficking prosecution.
He sued to strike down the Affordable Care Act, fought a woman’s court-approved abortion, voted against children’s CHIP coverage, and his office offered one day in jail in a child sex-abuse case.
Paxton claims he will rein in data centers and put Texas first.
He voted for the data-center tax exemption now costing billions, took at least $448,000 from data-center-linked donors, and his office stalled a county’s question about pausing them.
Paxton claims noncitizen voting is widespread in Texas.
By August 2026 Paxton had charged three people, NBC News found. In September, a joint federal-state effort charged seven people in one county, while the state confirmed 578 voters it had flagged as possible noncitizens were citizens.
His campaign says he will protect Social Security and that Washington has no business cutting seniors’ earned benefits.
His campaign says Washington has no business cutting earned benefits, but on a leaked recording he said cuts to mandatory spending, three-quarters of which is Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, are coming.
Paxton’s campaign says he is an outsider taking a sledgehammer to the Washington establishment.
Senate GOP leadership’s super PAC, Washington lobbyists and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are carrying his campaign, and he said himself that “it’s all coming” from D.C.
Paxton says he has been the target of politically motivated witch hunts and promises to end the weaponization of government.
The impeachment he calls a witch hunt began with his own aides and a Republican House, while judges found his office targeted a newsroom, a Latino voter group and his opponent’s donation platform.
Paxton says he is a strong fiscal conservative who will stop wasteful spending.
Taxpayers are also paying $6.6 million for his office’s illegal firings, and his office answered a 3% cut order by asking for $58 million more.
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