ANgela Paxton

Fully grown adult, or innocent smol bean?

Since the Paxtons are more in the spotlight these days—in particular because of their ongoing divorce proceedings—there are a lot of people who don’t know much about Angela Paxton and are finding out about her for the first time. Both Paxtons have found it politically expedient to claim that they are very religious, so first-time observers often buy into the notion that Angela (who is in her 60s, has been a state senator for seven years, and holds leadership positions) is some brainwashed fundie tradwife/puppet who has only ever done what her husband tells her to do and is not responsible for her own actions.

While in the past Angela certainly made a big show of standing by her man, any examination of her record disproves the notion that she is not capable of acting in her own self-interest—particularly when her interests come at the expense of the people of Texas.

angela paxton is a millionaire

While Ken Paxton was a lousy husband in many respects, he was an excellent provider who seems to have been more than happy to share his ill-gotten gains with his wife, who was apparently just as happy to receive them! Angela has benefited from the couples’ multi-million dollar real-estate buying spree (which included property in Utah, which the two visited earlier in the year during winter storm Uri, a disaster that killed hundreds of Texans). Angela as well as Ken engaged in mortgage fraud with their many properties. And according to a witness at Ken’s impeachment trial, when Nate Paul (a nightclub owner who employed Ken’s mistress at the time) paid for renovations at the Paxton’s Austin home, Angela asked for expensive granite countertops.

Angela accompanied Ken on a secret trip to China as well as a tour of Europe. Angela and Ken charged Texas taxpayers $80,000 for—ahem—“security” during their European tour, which included Italy, Greece, Malta, and other places not exactly known for danger.

angela paxton is a clout chaser

While in Europe, Angela was named as board director of a company that promptly went under. The company ran a telecom firm in Kosovo. Why did Angela think she was qualified to run a Kosovar telecom firm? Who knows!

That’s pretty typical for Angela, though, who loves to present herself as an expert on…whatever, really. She regularly speaks at conservative women’s conferences about leadership—and somehow her expertise on women’s leadership coexists with the notion that she mindlessly does whatever her husband tells her to. Angela was previously a teacher, a fact that she has inflated into being an expert on educational policy. She was a major backer of the state’s controversial new school voucher law—although considering what’s going on in the world of school funding in Texas these days, she’ll probably revert to being a helpless innocent who knows nothing about money or schooling soon enough.

You might wonder what Angela has been up to since she announced she was filing for divorce in July 2025. Now that Anglea is her own woman, making her own choices, free of the pernicious influence of her husband, has she broken out of her shell and emerged as a decent human being?

Nope!

Angela Paxton is a gutter bigot

In April 2026, reporter Bud Kennedy revealed a program for a gala event by the hate group True Texas Project that listed supporters. Guess whose name appears?

Yes, innocent angelic Angela Paxton saw a group whose founders were highly sympathetic with a lunatic who shot up a shopping mall because the people he murdered and maimed were Latino, and she thought, “Sign me up! Great Replacement Theory is my bag!”

Do you think it’s possible that Ken was actually a good influence?