Ken Paxton hammered for 'chilling' move to investigate group that exposed neo-Nazi

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Friday that he is opening an investigation into the Houston-area Screwston Anti-Fascist Committee because the group exposed the identity of a local white supremacist affiliated with the neo-Nazi Goyim Defense League, who had been spreading antisemitic and transphobic propaganda leaflets throughout the area.

In the announcement on X, Paxton, a far-right MAGA ally currently running for Senate, claimed that this "doxing" was a criminal violation and even part of a campaign of "terrorism." This comes as he is also moving to try to shut down the Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights organization.

"I'm taking legal action against a Houston-based Antifa organization engaged in doxing and the commission of terrorism," wrote Paxton. "These deranged traitors will face the full force of law. No stone will be left unturned, and no tool will be left unused."

This didn't go over as well on social media as the attorney general may have hoped.

"The attempt to recast doxxing as terrorism is as ludicrous as it is chilling," wrote Cal Poly Pomona assistant professor Philippe Duhart.

"Ken Paxton: Protecting Nazis from being doxxed," wrote former congressional candidate Russell Foster. "Ken wants to be elected to be a Senator to protect a pedo President, Texas billionaires like Musk, and many GOP donors from being doxxed from the Epstein files."

"Anyone who dares dissent or voice their opposition to the regeime [sic] is a terrorist," wrote the account for the Classical Liberal Caucus of Texas.

"Mr. Paxton, do you define this as 'doxing'?" asked Texas Observer special correspondent Steven Monacelli, linking to a report about an Immigration and Customs Enforcement prosecutor in Dallas being exposed for running a white supremacist social media account.