Far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating whether power companies' diversity and climate policies were responsible for wildfires, Newsweek reported Friday. Paxton "has launched an investigation into several utility companies linked to last year's destructive Smokehouse Creek and Windy Deuce fires,

AG Paxton filed an amended petition and is pursuing action in the Tarrant County District Court to end O'Rourke's group Powered by People's ability to do business in Texas due to legal violations.

Newsweek contacted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, who filed the legal petition, for comment via online inquiry forms on Thursday, outside of regular office hours.

Tarrant County District Judge Megan Fahey said she has not had a chance to read relevant court filings made in the middle of the night.

Beto O’Rourke on Tuesday called Ken Paxton a “corrupt, lying thug,” after the attorney general said O’Rourke should be “locked up” for defying a judge’s order.

Paxton sued O’Rourke and his political group, Powered by People, last week, arguing that the group was deceptively fundraising for and illegally supporting Texas Democrats’ walkout.

Texas AG Paxton supports a wounded veteran in a lawsuit against military contractor Fluor over a Taliban-related attack.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is looking to revoke the charter of former Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D-Texas) political organization, Powered by People, over its fundraising for Texas House

Illinois law enforcement officers cannot arrest Texas House Democrats who have been staying in the northern state in protest of a congressional redistricting map, a state judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling,

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is escalating the partisan redistricting fight by asking a judge to hold progressive activist Beto O'Rourke in contempt.