Justin Nelson

In Philadelphia, 224 years ago: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal....,” that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” In Philadelphia, 213 years ago: “We the People of the United States, ....”

Good.

.@JohnCornyn, don’t forget that Indicted Ken Paxton is also a pen thief! m.youtube.com/watch?v=gKX1Y5…

Over two decades ago, I had the great honor of clerking for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. I wrote this remembrance for those interested in reading it: dorfonlaw.org/2023/12/justic…

Ken Paxton’s acquittal is shocking but not surprising. The way forward for Texas and our country is to bring together people across the political spectrum who are committed to protecting democracy.

Does Tony Buzbee care to address that when Paxton told his staff about the affair “during his hard-fought 2018 re-election campaign” and falsely said it was over, he did so “out of concern that it would become public”? He suppressed it and barely won. apnews.com/article/us-new…

You’ve heard the story about indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stealing a $1,000 pen from the metal-detector tray at the Collin County Courthouse. But have you seen the video?

@steve_vladeck I was hoping for Tacoization.

Zoonotic doesn’t count?!? Boo.

Hey Ken Paxton (@TXAG), by blocking me, you've made this video by @JustinNelson_TX go viral. 😂😂😂

@markmobility Thanks!

@justinnelsontx1 Great ad!

@NormOrnstein @BrendanNyhan Hmmm.... Let’s go to the videotape. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gKX1Y5…

@BrendanNyhan I wonder if Ken Paxton used his stolen $1,000 pen to draft it.

OMG

In Philadelphia, 224 years ago: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal....,” that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” In Philadelphia, 213 years ago: “We the People of the United States, ....”

@izzymax585 With statistics like this, sure seems like Texas is in play folks!

@dbryanjones @jamesrhenson @SUR_Texas Don’t take @jamesrhenson’s polls for the @TexasTribune to the bank. I’m surprised he’s citing them here to show how the electorate performed. In 2018, for example, he vastly underestimated support for Beto and me. In my case he was off by 9 points 2 weeks away from the election.

Swing in Texas independents’ preferences in statewide races 2016-2020 texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/after-yea… #tx2020 #txlege

@mkoplow Great game. Still not 2017 Game 5.

If you don’t like baseball, I don’t understand you. There’s nothing in sports that matches a playoff game like this.

@Nate_Cohn For example, the margin in my race for Texas Attorney General in 2018 (-3.5%) was closer than the margins in the Attorney General races in Florida, Arizona, and Ohio.

Trump's approval rating in the 2018 exit poll was.... worse in TX than AZ/FL/OH. It's been highly competitive the whole time and the major reason it's treated differently is cost and an erroneous assumption that there was something special about Beto/Cruz twitter.com/JacobRubashkin…

@jordanprutkin @astros Ouch. Went further than the Yankees and As. And the Red Sox and Nationals didn't even make the playoffs so.....

Hey @NelsonForTexas. Texas is in play! But the @astros aren’t.

@JoshShapiroPA @Wawa @sheetz I can assure you that the Texas equivalent--@Whataburger and @tacopalenque--does not cause any grief and in fact brings joy to any day.

It’s a @Wawa for breakfast, @Sheetz for lunch-kind of day traveling across Pennsylvania. Don’t give me any grief.

@evanasmith I think you mean, “Turns out the race for Texas Attorney General was really close, contrary to conventional wisdom. And we should have covered it more because not only was it close, it’s a really important office and the current occupant is indicted!”

i liked you better when you were 12 points down in our poll

@evanasmith @TexasTribAbby @evanasmith is that your way of saying, “Texas is in play folks”?

A fantastic piece by @TexasTribAbby: How down-ballot candidates could — *could* — help the Democrats flip Texas texastribune.org/2020/10/08/tex… #txlege #tx2020