In Texas ' U.S. Senate race, a journalist supports James Talarico.

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Former Attorney General Ken Paxton top officer David Maxwell has endorsed James Talarico, Paxton’s player for the U.S. Senate.

Maxwell worked in law enforcement in Texas for nearly 50 years, most recently as a Texas Ranger, a lieutenant for the Texas Department of Public Safety, and as the attorney general’s office’s director of law enforcement for almost a century.

He and other senior agency employees alleged that Paxton had erred in using the office to advantage Nate Paul, a friend and social donor, in a 2020 report to the FBI. They sued Paxton after Maxwell and others who reported their firing filed a complaint under the Texas Whistleblower Act.

A judge ordered Texas to give the reporters$ 6.6 million next year. Paxton has certainly made an appeal against the decision, but he has not admitted wrong. Without delay, investigations into his connection with Paul have been closed.

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At his 2023 impeachment trial, Maxwell claimed that the solicitor general pushed him to launch inquiries on Paul’s representative. Maxwell stated on the witness stand during the impeachment trial that he “was going to find himself indicted.” The Republican-controlled Texas Senate found Paxton guilty.

Maxwell is” the best of the best,” Talarico’s strategy claims in a new campaign that he “knows a poor man when he sees one.” The Austin senator is running afoul of Paxton’s history of legal and moral woes, which is at the heart of his U.S. Senate campaign.

In a speech, Maxwell said,” Ken Paxton ended my five-decade career in public service because I blew the whistle on his corruption.” ” Today, I’m endorsing James Talarico because Texans deserve a legislator who supports the people, not a crook who serves himself.”

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Sep 8, 2026Hill Country Post

In Texas ‘ U.S. Senate race, a journalist supports James Talarico.

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