Zach Despart
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first heard Jul 2026
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Yeah, well, first of all, thanks, Jen, for having me and the valiant effort in summarizing the reporting so far.
I mean, this came out from I was reading the divorce filing that Mrs. Paxson had filed in which she had said that AG Paxson had moved out of their shared home two years ago.
I had pulled his voting records, which are public in most states, and it showed that he had voted six times in the past two years since he had moved out from that home, including in the Republican primary, which he won and is now the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas.
Now, it is permissible under Texas law.
to temporarily leave a home where you are registered to vote so long as you intend to return to that home.
That's a provision that is often used by college students and members of the military.
Here, it's a little bit murkier, according to election lawyers I had talked to, in part because we don't know where Ken Paxton has been living the last two years, but our reporting shows that he appears to be living at a home in Denton County.
We knew that because we had
established that he was receiving mail there because we had talked to some neighbors who had seen him in the neighborhood and because he had changed the address on some forms to that new property.
That suggests, according to the election lawyers, that he may not have the intent to return to the home he shared with Mrs. Paxton.
Sure.
It was a bit of a challenge in part because the home in Denton County is owned by a trust with a vague name.
The trust does not disclose its ownership to the county.
It's not required to under Texas law.
We want to do the best that we can to make sure the sources that we're writing about know that we're writing about them.
So that, in this case, is trying to establish that Ken Paxton lives there and he has the opportunity to explain why.
So in this case, it included actually going out to the neighborhood, knocking on the door.
There wasn't anybody there.
But when I left a letter that I had written for Mr. Paxton in the mailbox, there was mail addressed to him there.
And again, yeah, talking to the neighbors was helpful as well because they said they had seen him in the neighborhood.
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