Johnson is a physics major turned lawyer who flipped a Dallas Senate seat from a Tea Party Republican in 2018 — and now he's running for the office Ken Paxton ran for a decade.
In the Senate he pushed to widen Medicaid coverage, worked on shoring up the power grid after the 2021 freeze, and took on big businesses on behalf of taxpayers; before politics he was a business and bankruptcy lawyer who did pro bono work for immigrants' rights. The Attorney General is the state's lawyer — child support, consumer fraud, defending Texas laws in court — and Johnson's pitch is to run it as a law office again, not a political one.
Johnson’s take on Texas values
Johnson supports campaign finance reform, and won his 2018 Senate race with grassroots fundraising against a self-funding opponent.