Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, long at the forefront of efforts to prevent any expansion of voter access in America’s second-largest state, is under fire after the state sent law enforcement to search and intimidate Latino activists, including a candidate for state House, as part of an investigation into “ballot harvesting.” History is repeating itself here, wrote Karen Tumulty for The Washington Post. A similar unfounded panic over illegal voting happened in southern Texas in 1880. “My forebears would have recognized what it is going on. Then and now, officials in Texas employed heavy-han…