The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas is trying to turn a key talking point of his Republican opponent against him - alleging Attorney General Ken Paxton is guilty of the same type of voter fraud he has spent years trying to eliminate.


 As our state's attorney general, Ken Paxton has gone on a voter fraud witch hunt,  state Rep. James Talarico, who is challenging Paxton in the race to replace U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, said during a campaign event in Houston.  Turns out, he was committing voter fraud the whole time, voting illegally in six elections in a row from the wrong address. 

Talarico's comments come after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that Paxton moved out of the home he shared with his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, in 2024 but continued to vote using that address, including during the March Republican primary in which he beat Cornyn. Three election experts told the news organizations that Paxton may have broken state law.

Last week, the Collin County Democratic Party filed a complaint with the Texas secretary of state, urging that office to investigate Paxton for election fraud.

Paxton has repeatedly declined to answer the newsrooms' questions about his voter registration and residency. On Tuesday, he held a rare news conference to tout the endorsement of nearly two dozen sheriffs and attacked Talarico as soft on crime. Talarico denied the charge at his own news conference Wednesday, saying he'd voted for billions of dollars in law enforcement funding as a member of the Legislature.

When a Dallas Morning News political writer asked Paxton why he voted in Collin County, the attorney general shook his head as a campaign aide interceded.

 We're just going to answer questions on law enforcement today,  the aide said.

Paxton's office and campaign did not respond to similar questions on Thursday from ProPublica and

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