In the long arc of American political money, the moment a war chest moves is often the moment a race becomes real. President Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC has directed $10 million toward Ken Paxton's Texas Senate campaign — its first major midterm expenditure from a reserve of roughly $400 million — signaling that a state untouched by Democratic Senate victories for 33 years has, in Trump's calculus, become genuinely contested. The investment is as much a declaration of strategic intent as it is a financial transaction, revealing which battlegrounds Trump considers worth defending and which cand