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Even by his own craven standards, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had a hell of a run in 2025. Here are ten lowlights.

Here it is, our annual roundup of the many dozens of Texans—rich and poor, famous and obscure, drug-addled and stone-cold sober—who disgraced our great state over the past twelve months.

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Evangelist Lester Roloff drew a line in the dirt to keep the State of Texas from regulating his Rebekah Home for Girls. Years later, then-govenor George W. Bush handed Roloff's disciples a long-sought ...

Never put the cartel before the horse.