Hey, everybody. My name is Nick Houselman and welcome to the Muck Wreck podcast. My co-host, Jared Y. Sexton, is out for today, so I have a chance to have the run of the place. And I decided, let's look at the Ken Paxton affair. Because if you missed it, he was able to avoid being impeached as attorney general of Texas.

And Texas is a very fascinating place.

Obviously, they have an independent streak, and they pride themselves on that.

That said, the local house was able to get the impeachment process going in a very bipartisan

manner, and everyone seemed to be on board with getting Ken Paxton out of there.

Normally, you'd think that the attorney general of all people would stick to the law pretty

closely, but the facts of these cases and of the issues they had with them were pretty much

not disputed that much. It was really just a question of whether they felt it rose to the level

of impeachment and getting him out of there.

And what happened from the House would seem like a slam dunk impeachment, no problem, let's move on, turns into a Senate that does not vote to impeach and he gets off.

So I brought in two local reporters from Texas who are on the ground covering this every day to give us a lot more

insight and details because I feel like you might have missed some of these things and it's

truly fascinating with lots of intrigue and a little bit of risque behavior as well thrown in there,

which always makes for some good coverage. So stay tuned as we bring this up. I'll have two

really great interviews coming up.

And don't forget, on Fridays, we release our Weekender episode, which is on our Patreon.

You can get 10 or 12 minutes of that for free here on wherever you get your podcasts.

But don't forget, it's a great show. It's about an hour, if not longer. You also get a chance

to join our Discord and have a daily conversation

with everybody involved, which is a terrific part of it. We also have live shows. So if you're not

a Patreon subscriber yet, what are you waiting for? I'm sure you would really, really enjoy it,

and head over to Patreon.com slash muckrake podcast to sign up. Ken Paxton will be looming large

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