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Mobile billboard targets Paxton outside D.C. fundraiser

8/21/2026

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Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General, was targeted by a mobile billboard truck outside his Washington, D.C., fundraiser.
The billboard listed Paxton’s securities-fraud indictment, impeachment in Texas, and a stolen $1,000 Montblanc pen.
Supporters of Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico funded the mobile-billboard campaign.
Pens were confiscated from attendees at a Paxton rally in Houston earlier this month.

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Story summary

Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General, was targeted by a mobile billboard truck outside his Washington, D.C., fundraiser.
The billboard listed Paxton’s securities-fraud indictment, impeachment in Texas, and a stolen $1,000 Montblanc pen.
Supporters of Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico funded the mobile-billboard campaign.
Pens were confiscated from attendees at a Paxton rally in Houston earlier this month.