Crystal Mason

And he released an ad that targets voter suppression fears.

And the ad features Crystal Mason, who is a Texas woman, you might recall, everyone, who faced a decade-long battle.

and a five-year prison sentence for filing a provisional ballot in 2016.

Watch.

So my constituents can't hear about litigation.

Updates to the Crystal Mason case until it's finished? Are you nuts? No.

Or this jail death case or that one? No.

So that kind of stuff goes away immediately.

His office went after voters, and at least 72% of those prosecutions targeted Black and Latino Texans.

Crystal Mason spent years fighting a prison sentence over a ballot that was never even counted.

Paxson went to the Supreme Court to defend a congressional map that a federal panel said diluted Black and Hispanic votes in Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth.

He declared DEI and more than 100 state laws unconstitutional.

All right.

Crystal Mason cleared.

Crystal Mason voted in 2016 while still on supervised release for a felony.

And she says she never knew she wasn't allowed to.

After almost 10 years in court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals acquitted her five to four.

It does kind of stretch the imagination.

I mean, we just, I think two weeks ago, came to the end of the Crystal Mason saga down in Texas, which was really this kind of terrifying Kafkaesque situation where a woman who believed that she had the right to vote, that her right to vote had been restored, after a criminal conviction, cast a provisional ballot and was ultimately sentenced to five years in prison because of that and has for the past decade been embroiled in a legal process that only just finally concluded when the Texas High Criminal Court dismissed the state's appeal to continue to try and prosecute her.

So I don't know why anyone would willingly or knowingly put themselves at that kind of elevated risk to Nathan's point.

Yeah.