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Ken Paxton, 2025, courtesy of WikiMedia (DALLAS-FORT WORTH AREA, TEXAS) -- Democratic optimism is rising across Texas this spring, and not without reason. The state’s Senate race is increasingly orbiting around Ken Paxton: a figure who, for many voters, has come to represent not just the Republican Party’s rightward shift, but a broader tolerance for scandal, extremism, and constant political conflict. Paxton still commands real loyalty among Republican primary voters. But b

In the politics of the modern Republican Party, there has been a view that loyalty to Trump has been of utmost importance, especially since 2020. After his loss in the 2020 election The Republican Party, now more than ever, has become a cut of personality, and with his reentry into the White House, there has been the view that you must remain 100% loyal to the President to hold your position, be that in the Cabinet, Congress, or at the state level with the Republican Party Go