Let's kick some midterm fun off with the great state of Texas and a super PAC that didn’t exist before September. But in its 17 days of existence has spent $131 million to save one man. That works out to more than $7.7 million a day. It is called "Texas PAC", it was set up by Senate Republican leadership in Washington, and the man it is trying to save is Ken Paxton. Let's follow the money on some of the candidates in the top races this midterm season. Starting with, Texas. Senate Race: Paxton tells Texans his wealth sits in a blind trust he doesn’t control. I pulled the deeds from five states. He buys each property in his own name, signs the mortgage himself, and then deeds it to the trust, sometimes in the same minute. Turns out the trustee is Charles Loper III, a donor who gave money toward Paxton’s criminal defense and spent years suing the two men set to testify against Paxton in his securities fraud case. Four county tax offices now mail that trust’s bills to a $1.5 million Frisco house bought in February through a trust created the same day. And Paxton votes from a different county. He earns $153,000 a year. He and his trusts hold at least 15 properties worth about $9 million. He paid $1.6 million for an Oklahoma lodge that rents for up to $1,200 a night, listed it at $100,000 to $250,000 on his federal disclosure, and reported no rental income. And this week the Wall Street Journal published video of him ringing in 2025 in Dubai with men who had been federally charged six months earlier in a $15 million hospital fraud. One of them had given Paxton’s campaign $165,000. Texas voters gave James Talarico more than $68 million, mostly in small checks. Washington answered with nine figures for Paxton. Just looking at the money, it is pretty clear that Washington is buying Paxton. House Races: Now let's look at some House races, starting with Laredo, because Texas Democrats have their own problem, and his name is Henry Cueller. Not only did Cueller cross to party lines to vote yes to warrantless spying on Americans at 2am, but he is top 5 worst Congressmen currently (IMO). Let's look at why. In 2022 the FBI raided his home and campaign office. In 2024 federal prosecutors charged him and his wife with taking about $600,000 in bribes from an oil company owned by the government of Azerbaijan and a bank based in Mexico City. Prosecutors said the money moved through sham consulting contracts into shell companies in his wife’s name, and that in return he agreed to push U.S. foreign policy for Azerbaijan and pressure federal officials on behalf of the bank. He co-chaired the Congressional Azerbaijan Caucus. Before his trial, three people pleaded guilty: his former campaign manager, a longtime consultant, and a Houston woman who admitted acting as an unregistered agent of Azerbaijan. The first two admitted helping launder more than $200,000 in bribes from the Mexican bank to the Cuellars. He never went to trial. Why you ask? Well because in December 2025 "his daughters wrote to Trump asking for a pardon", and Trump pardoned him and his wife. Yep, Trump pardoned a corrupt Democrat. House Democrats gave Cuellar his Appropriations seat back, and the House Ethics investigation into him has never been closed. He denies everything, and he is leading in the polls. Pretty insane honestly. The rest of the Texas House map is no cleaner, honestly. In TX-35, a seat redrawn to flip red, the Republican nominee is a sitting congresswoman’s brother, and outside PACs are outspending both candidates. In TX-23, the seat is open because the congressman resigned after an affair with an aide who later died. In TX-15 and TX-34, two incumbents are fighting in districts Republicans redrew specifically to take them out. Basically, both parties are asking Texans to look away. Texas may be one of the clearest instances of the "uniparty" I've seen yet. So, you should pay attention to the candidate, not the party. Find every candidate, every donor, and everything you need to know about your candidates at midterms.theleahfiles.com