The G.O.P. Won It All in Texas. Then It Turned on Itself. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/magazine/texas-republicans.html Credit...Illustration by Andrew Rae The G.O.P. Won It All in Texas. Then It Turned on Itself. The Republican Party trounced the Democrats at every level in Texas in November, only to see its politicians turn on one another over the pandemic and voter-fraud conspiracy theories. Credit...Illustration by Andrew Rae Listen to This ArticleAudio Recording by Audm To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, . Early on the morning of Oct. 19, an air-conditioner repairman named David Lopez was driving his small box truck in Houston, Texas, when a black S.U.V. slammed into him from behind and forced him off the road. After the vehicles came to a stop, Lopez heard the S.U.V.’s driver scream for help. He approached the vehicle, whereupon the driver, a man named Mark Aguirre, jumped out and ordered him to the ground at gunpoint. Aguirre had been surveilling Lopez for four days, convinced that he was the mastermind of a scheme to steal the election from President Trump.