The nation’s oldest Latino civil rights organization, LULAC, is one of several entities in Texas targeted in voter fraud raids led by state Attorney General Ken Paxton, CBS News has learned.

In a letter first obtained by CBS News, LULAC requested that the Justice Department investigate Paxton’s office for Voting Rights Act violations. The organization is accusing Paxton’s office of carrying out illegal searches premised on voter fraud.

“These actions echo a troubling history of voter suppression and intimidation that has long targeted both Black and Latino communities, particularly in states like Texas, where demographic changes have increasingly shifted the political landscape,” LULAC CEO Juan Proaño and the group’s national president, Roman Palomares, said in the letter.

  • @[email protected]
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    432 months ago

    As someone who lives in TX, I can assure you there wouldn’t be any stars on the flag if the rating system allowed it.

    • @Zombiepirate
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      152 months ago

      I live here too. I’m counting the days until I can move.

      • @Fredselfish
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        42 months ago

        Born and raised and sad to say I prefer Oklahoma over Texas.

        • @reddig33
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          32 months ago

          Why? Oklahoma is just East Texas with a Native American reservation bolted onto it.