TX-AG: Democratic state Sen. Nathan Johnson announces run for attorney general
State Sen. Nathan Johnson is running for Texas attorney general, the three-term Dallas Democrat announced Tuesday.
He told The Texas Tribune that, if elected, he would look to restore “faith and confidence” in an agency he believes has been stained by scandal and spectacle.
“It’s been so long since people, broadly speaking, thought of the attorney general’s office as a place where they have an attorney, an elected official on their side,” he said. “And that’s wrong.”
Johnson, a business litigator at Thompson Coburn in Dallas, is the first major Democrat to enter the race. Two other state senators, Joan Huffman of Houston and Mayes Middleton of Galveston, are running in the Republican primary, alongside former Department of Justice lawyer Aaron Reitz.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/15/nathan-johnson-texas-attorney-general-democrat-2026-midterms/