TPPF’s Long Love Affair with Ken Paxton

It’s hard—or impossible—to know these days who funds TPPF as the organization does not disclose its donors; the most-recent publicly available lists of its financial backers are now more than a decade old. That, of course, makes the process of holding public officials accountable for their relationships to the organization (and the organization’s own motivations) more difficult to identify. Historically, its donors have included a “‘Who’s Who of Texas polluters, giant utilities and big insurance companies’” such as ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and the Koch Foundation, and Luminant Energy, as well as conservative megafunds such as the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Coors Foundation, and the Donors Capital Fund (nicknamed the “dark-money ATM of the right,”) and Donors Trust Fund.