You may be focused on Donald Trump’s guilty verdict –– but what do you know about TX Attorney General Ken Paxton, the man Trump said he’d consider as the nation’s attorney general if he wins back the presidency?

My latest story digs into how Paxton wields his government power.🧵 2/When Paxton announced an investigation into an org called Annunciation House in February, I noticed something — although this El Paso nonprofit serves immigrants, the AG was using his Consumer Protection Division to go after the org.

This was part of a pattern.

For a long time, I’ve been curious how TX AG Ken Paxton’s legal
troubles — his impeachment, his securities fraud case, the whistleblower case against him — might have affected staffing at the state agency.

So I made a spreadsheet of resignations in 2023. One unit stood out. 🧵 2/The state’s Civil Medicaid Fraud Division has gone toe to toe with some of the biggest pharma companies in the world and won, helping to recover around $1 billion for TX taxpayers.

But nearly 2/3 of the employees in the unit on Jan. 1, 2023, had quit by the end of the year.