Texans elected a Democrat to serve as the state’s top lawyer for the first time in decades on Tuesday, flipping an attorney general’s office that had become a reliable conservative stronghold under outgoing Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. Nathan Johnson, a Texas state senator from Dallas, is poised to become Texas’s first Democratic attorney general…
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Democrat Nathan Johnson flips Texas attorney general’s office
The Hill
November 4, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Texans elected a Democrat to serve as the state’s top lawyer for the first time in decades on Tuesday, flipping an attorney general’s office that had become a reliable conservative stronghold under outgoing Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. Nathan Johnson, a Texas state senator from Dallas, is poised to become Texas’s first Democratic attorney general…