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Nathan Johnson wins Texas attorney general race.

Texas’s attorney general’s office had become a reliable conservative stronghold. On Tuesday, voters elected Democrat Nathan Johnson, a state senator from Dallas, over Republican Mayes Middleton, a state senator from Galveston. Johnson is poised to become the state’s first Democratic attorney general in decades. So this isn’t just a change in who won the race: a Democrat is set to lead an office long associated with conservative control.

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