How an election about affordability became a referendum on corruption
Mother Jones reports on how Democrats, led in Texas by Gina Hinojosa's underdog challenge to Governor Greg Abbott, are reframing the affordability issue as a corruption issue, citing her accusations that Abbott gave donors no-bid contracts, took $12 million from voucher activist Jeff Yass, and ceded over $1 billion a year on data center tax breaks. The piece casts data centers—now built in Texas more than any other state—as the defining image of this "corruption election."
