# State Officials Hub Notable **non-gubernatorial state executives** — attorneys general, secretaries of state, and lieutenant governors who have been consequential in the 2025–2026 cycle. Records live in `/People/` (`type: person`, tag `state-official` plus a specific role tag: `attorney-general`, `secretary-of-state`, `lieutenant-governor`). Every official listed below now has a page. Organized around two storylines driving state-executive relevance this cycle. ## Storyline 1 — Attorneys general as the litigation front State AGs have become the primary legal battleground over federal authority. A coordinated bloc of Democratic AGs (22 states + D.C., meeting daily in the first 90 days) has filed the bulk of the resistance — **71 suits in the first year, the 100th by April 2026, winning 55 of the first 67 cases to reach a ruling** — while Republican AGs defend the administration and press their own multistate agenda. This is where much of the second-term federal-power fight is actually adjudicated. ### Democratic coalition (multistate litigation) | Attorney General | State | Note | |---|---|---| | [[Rob Bonta]] | CA | Lead coordinator; co-led the elections-EO challenge | | [[Letitia James]] | NY | Leads the CFPB-funding coalition; Trump civil fraud judgment | | [[Dan Rayfield]] | OR | Most prolific — 50+ suits led or joined | | [[Aaron Ford]] | NV | Co-led the elections executive-order challenge | | [[Matt Platkin]] | NJ | Immigration, funding conditions, Guard deployments | | [[Kwame Raoul]] | IL | Immigration, health, environment | | [[Kris Mayes]] | AZ | Swing-state AG; 2020 fake-electors prosecution | | [[Andrea Joy Campbell]] | MA | | | [[William Tong]] | CT | | | [[Keith Ellison]] | MN | Ex-congressman; led the George Floyd prosecution | | [[Phil Weiser]] | CO | Running for Colorado governor 2026 | | [[Dana Nessel]] | MI | Swing-state AG | | [[Jay Jones]] | VA | Sworn in January 2026 after the November 2025 sweep | ### Republican coalition (defense + counter-litigation) | Attorney General | State | Note | |---|---|---| | [[Ken Paxton]] | TX | Running for US Senate 2026 (primary vs. Cornyn) | | [[Jonathan Skrmetti]] | TN | Named defendant in *U.S. v. Skrmetti* (SCOTUS, gender-affirming-care ban upheld) | | [[Chris Carr]] | GA | Running for Georgia governor 2026 | | [[Alan Wilson]] | SC | Running for South Carolina governor 2026 | | [[Raúl Labrador]] | ID | Movement-conservative litigation posture | | [[Liz Murrill]] | LA | First woman elected LA AG; Ten Commandments defense | ## Storyline 2 — Secretaries of state and election administration Secretaries of state run elections in most states, making them central to the 2026 administration fight and to election-integrity narratives carried over from 2020. > **Deep layer:** for the seven presidential battlegrounds — chief election officers, marquee county officials, and the denier-challenger slate who ran to control the count — see **[[Battleground Election Officials Hub]]**. | Secretary of State | State | Party | Note | |---|---|---|---| | [[Brad Raffensperger]] | GA | R | The 2020 "find the votes" refusal; statewide 2026 candidate | | [[Jocelyn Benson]] | MI | D | Running for Michigan governor 2026 | | [[Frank LaRose]] | OH | R | Led 2023 Issue 1 threshold effort | | [[Steve Simon]] | MN | D | Voter-access expansion | | [[Cisco Aguilar]] | NV | D | Won 2022 over an election denier; faces [[Jim Marchant]] again Nov 3, 2026 | ## Lieutenant governors of note | Lt. Governor | State | Party | Note | |---|---|---|---| | [[Dan Patrick]] | TX | R | Long-running power center to the governor's right | | [[Burt Jones]] | GA | R | Running for Georgia governor 2026; 2020 fake elector | | [[Ghazala Hashmi]] | VA | D | Sworn in January 2026; first Muslim woman statewide in VA | > Up-ballot movement is the dominant 2026 pattern here: a striking number of sitting state officials — [[Ken Paxton]] (Senate), [[Chris Carr]], [[Burt Jones]], and [[Jocelyn Benson]] (governor) — are running for higher office, which is why several appear in [[2026 Midterms Hub]] as candidates as well as here as current officeholders. Winsome Earle-Sears (former VA Lt. Gov.) and Mark Robinson (former NC Lt. Gov.) left office after losing 2024–2025 statewide races and are not sitting officials. ## Coverage All officials rostered above now have `/People/` records (completed 2026-06-10). Two deliberately held back pending status confirmation: Andrew Bailey (MO-AG) and Dave Yost (OH-AG) — verify current roles before adding. ## Related - [[US Governors Hub]] · [[Members of Congress Hub]] · [[Elected Officials]] - [[2026 Midterms Hub]] · [[Federal Government]]