To learn more about Republican nominee Mayes Middleton, read our profile of him from the GOP primary.

In 2018, a little-known Dallas lawyer named Nathan Johnson took on a well-funded, far-right state senator and won, flipping a district that had been in GOP hands for 30 years.

Eight years later, Johnson is trying again, this time on a statewide stage, as he vies to be Texas' next attorney general.