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’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.
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