Texas Scorecard by Brandon Waltens January 28, 2026
State leaders are fighting a foreign terrorist organization on multiple fronts. Gov. Greg Abbott is pressing Attorney General Ken Paxton to take direct action against the Council on American-Islamic Relations, arguing the organization should lose its nonprofit status under Texas law.
In a letter sent to Paxton, Abbott said “voluminous documents detail the dangers posed to Texans by the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and their affiliates,” and urged the attorney general to use his statutory authority to investigate CAIR’s records and, if warranted, seek forfeiture of its corporate charter.
“Regardless of the façade CAIR attempts to portray in press releases, CAIR cannot be allowed to use its ‘nonprofit’ status as a shield for sponsoring terror, advancing radical Islamism in Texas, or fronting for the Muslim Brotherhood,” Abbott wrote.
He stated that Texas law vests the attorney general with exclusive authority to regulate nonprofits that may be violating the law.
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