🧩 BND Motif Index · M946
The company he keeps
A kind of guilt by association wherein a person is spending time with particularly trashy people.
- 2claims filed under it
- 2claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Guilt by association
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Ken Paxton attended Dubai party with U.S. fugitives 2026-10-13 to 2026-10-14
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-14 “Ken Paxton partied in Dubai with his mistress and two fugitives who had donated to his campaign.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-13 “Ken Paxton partied in Dubai with a woman who was not his wife and two fugitives charged with healthcare fraud.” 🧶 people online
M946 · first seen 2026-10-18 · what this is · how the index works