AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says his office has launched an investigation into Beto O’Rourke’s political group, Powered by People, and whether any laws are being broken into their funding of House Democrats who have fled the state.

“Any Democrat coward breaking the law by taking a Beto Bribe will be held accountable,” Paxton stated in a press release. “Texas cannot be bought. I look forward to thoroughly reviewing all of the documents and communications obtained throughout this investigation. These jet-setting runaways have already lost public trust by abandoning our state, and Texans deserve to know if they received illegal bribes to do it.”

Paxton alleges Powered by People may have violated bribery laws, among other laws.

House Democrats fled the state to

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