Lone Star Left Endorses Joe Jaworski For Texas Attorney General

This race is about how Texas uses power.

When most Texans hear “Attorney General,” they think it’s basically the state’s super-lawyer. The top cop and litigator, who files all the lawsuits. However, in Texas, the Attorney General is a discretionary constitutional authority, which is a fancy way of saying that person gets to choose which cases Texas gets to argue.

They decide what the State of Texas will defend. They decide what the State of Texas will stop defending. They decide whether the state escalates the conflict or backs off. They decide whether the law gets used like a tool… or like a weapon.

That’s why this job matters so much right now. That’s why we must take this office back from Republicans. And that’s why a progressive Democrat must hold this seat.

This is why Lone Star Left is endorsing Joe Jaworski for Texas Attorney General.

For most of Texas history, the Attorney General defended the state when conflicts arose. Currently, under Ken Paxton, the office often creates the conflict first. Lawsuits are engineered to provoke a reaction, force a court fight, test a boundary, generate a headline, and move a political argument into a courtroom.

You can see the pattern. Pass a law designed to collide with federal precedent, file aggressively, dare the courts to intervene, then campaign on the confrontation itself.

Whether you like the outcomes or hate them, the structural shift is obvious. The office is no longer primarily defending Texas. It’s actively shaping national political fights through legal provocation.

And that matters, because the next Attorney General is inheriting a posture.

Which means the real decision in this race is returning Texas to sane governance.

So when I interviewed Joe Jaworski, I was listening for the operating philosophy.

Because this job is mostly invisible to voters, what matters is the judgment and governing philosophy. I was trying to answer three questions.

1. Does he understand discretion?

Jaworski kept returning to the power, not to defend the state. He discussed reversing the pleadings in ongoing cases. He talked about refusing to defend laws just because they were passed blindly. He cited Rule 3.01, the ethical obligation not to bring or continue frivolous litigation. And he repeatedly framed the office as the “people’s lawyer,” not the governor’s lawyer, and not the legislature’s lawyer.

That’s a very specific view of the job.

He’s describing the Attorney General as a constitutional fiduciary, not a partisan sword meant to swing at whatever the political moment demands.

2. Does he understand the harm caused by legal theater?

Jaworski talked about procedural consequences. He discussed the standing problems in the bounty-style abortion enforcement scheme. He said he would withdraw lawsuits designed to chase political headlines rather than resolve disputes. He emphasized enforcing the existing voter registration law for graduating seniors to make participation routine.

He kept describing ways to lower the temperature of civic life, which is very different from winning the next culture war skirmish.

3. Does he understand institutional power?

He talked about respecting local control unless there is a clear constitutional violation. He talked about shifting the office back toward consumer protection enforcement instead of political litigation. He talked about reviewing emergency powers instead of automatically defending them. He talked about staffing the office with experienced litigators rather than ideological hunters.

That’s structural thinking. He was describing how the machinery should behave.

And I want to be clear about this, my endorsement isn’t about whether Joe Jaworski is the most progressive candidate in the race.

It isn’t because he has a “D” next to his name. And it isn’t because I agree with every policy position he holds. It’s because of how he thinks about power.

Throughout the interview and in his record as former Galveston mayor, he kept returning to the same instincts. Use discretion, not reflex. Don’t defend something just because you can. Don’t escalate something just because it scores points. Protect the legitimacy of the system even when your side might benefit from pushing it further.

He prioritizes credibility over spectacle. He talks about consequences several steps down the line, rather than the next news cycle. He treats the Attorney General as a steward of a legal framework that has to keep functioning after he leaves.

In other words, he’s not trying to win a moment. He’s trying to preserve a system.

That’s why Lone Star Left is Endorsing Joe Jaworski for Texas Attorney General.

You can learn more about Joe Jaworski on his website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Bluesky, and Threads.

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