@jamestalarico.bsky.social: True democracy is nonviolent self-governance of thy neighbor, by thy neighbor, for thy neighbor.

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@jamestalarico.bsky.social held a townhall with students at the oldest public HBCU in Texas — Prairie View A&M!

James Talarico: HBCUs like Prairie View A&M receive thousands of dollars per student less than similar institutions. We have a maternal mortality crisis that is three times deadlier for Black women. These are the issues that are at stake in this election.

Why this Prairie View A&M student is voting for James Talarico 👏

James Talarico: John Cornyn said my plan to lower taxes for working Americans would ’explode the deficit.’ My question to Senator Cornyn is, were you worried about the deficit when you gave $1 trillion in tax cuts to the top 1 percent?

You need to hear why this young Texan is voting for James Talarico 🙌 Great event at Prairie View A&M 🥹

Q: Ken Paxton said requiring the Ten Commandments in public classrooms is a ‘major victory for our moral values.’ Your response? Talarico: I’m not sure if Ken Paxton is in a place to lecture us on moral values. The only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they’re on a mission from God.

James Talarico: It doesn’t matter who wins the Republican runoff, we’re running against the billionaire megadonors who have taken over our state and our country. We are building a movement here in Texas across all these divides to take power back from those at the very top.

James Talarico: Working Texans are paying more in taxes than they did last year, and they are paying about twice what billionaires are paying. I think we should close these loopholes — and we should ensure that next time tax day rolls around, the average Texan is paying less than a billionaire.

"Texas labor is all-in for Talarico" 🥹

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You need to see this.

Damarcus Offord on James Talarico: We have an opportunity to elect the next U.S. Senator, someone who's compassionate, who keeps God first, who loves their neighbor.

James Talarico campaigning for local candidates 🙌 Vote Damarcus Offord for Dallas County Clerk!

James Talarico campaigning for local candidates 🙌

James Talarico visits seniors in DeSoto 👏

Republicans say they’re voting for James Talarico: “He knows what working people want.” “I like him because he’s anti-big money in politics.” “He’s not left and right. He supports everybody.” “He seems to just be a truth teller."

@jamestalarico.bsky.social spent time hearing from community leaders in the heart of Dallas last week 💙

James Talarico: People are ready for a politics of love. A radical love — especially for our neighbors who are the most different from us. That kind of politics could transform this country. This kind of politics is not what we've had, but I think people are searching for it.

James Talarico: The kind of religion that says you can treat people however you want as long as you have a personal relationship with Jesus is an abomination. We spend so much time looking for God out there, that we miss God in the person sitting right next to us.

Stephen A. Smith: You’re down in Texas and as a right-winger, you're about to go left because of what you're seeing? Voter: I'm gonna vote for Mr. Talarico, man, 100%. I haven't voted Democratic since I was 20 years old. James Talarico is a different deal. He speaks from the heart.

James Talarico: The most revolutionary teaching in my religion is the teaching to love your enemy. If you’re going to stand up to entrenched power, you're going to get some opponents — but the revolutionary part is that you are called to love your enemies just as you love yourself.

Q: Why do so many on the Christian right seem obsessed with James Talarico? Journalist: The kind of Christianity he’s espousing is a threat to the cultural monopoly that the GOP wants to project over Christianity.

Reporter: There is something about James Talarico that is sending Christian nationalists and MAGA allies into a total spiral. Talarico does something that very few Democrats do — he speaks openly and unapologetically about how his Christian faith informs his moral and political views.

@JamesTalarico.bsky.social at the Dallas County Democratic Party Convention!

James Talarico: The reason Democrats lost support in South Texas and among Hispanic voters is because we took them for granted. We assumed they were a part of our base and we stopped showing up. We stopped competing for their votes.

James Talarico: Republicans have been attacking me by taking something I say about the border and cutting it off mid-sentence. I have said throughout the whole campaign that our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front AND a lock on the door.

James Talarico: As a millennial, I saw how military disasters like the Iraq war robbed this nation of young lives, of billions of dollars, and of our moral standing in the world. Every dollar we are spending bombing people in the Middle East is a dollar that we are not spending in our communities.

James Talarico: This is a very serious allegation to make in Texas, so I want to say this definitively and categorically: I deny all accusations of veganism. I will give a shout out to the best barbecue joint in Texas, Louie Mueller Barbecue in Taylor, Texas. Check it out.

James Talarico: There was a promise made by the president during his campaign that he wasn't gonna start any more wars, and now he's started multiple wars just in the first year of his administration. I can sympathize with the disillusionment that some of the folks in the MAGA movement are feeling.

Tim Miller: Would you vote against Markwayne Mullin for a cabinet position? James Talarico: I would. I would be a no on any potential secretary who is not willing to tear down this secret police force and replace it with an agency that's actually focused on public safety.

@JamesTalarico.bsky.social worshipped with Mt. Zion Baptist Church this Sunday 💙

"We are a threat" 💯

James Talarico: Donald Trump sounds like he’s worried we’re about to flip Texas. The reason these attacks are coming is they are afraid of the movement that we’re building in Texas—working people coming together across all these divisions to take on this broken, corrupt political system.

James Talarico: I have no problem sharing hard truths and disagreeing with the powers that be in my own party. I’m a Democrat because I feel like it’s the best vehicle to unite working people — but if the party is not doing that, I have no problem calling it out.

James Talarico: We’re told there’s not enough money for schools, healthcare, or veterans, but there always seems to be enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world. The president said this was going to be short-term pain, but you tell that to the parents of those fallen soldiers.

James Talarico: There is bipartisan opposition to this new forever war. It’s Democrats, it’s independents, it’s Republicans who don’t want to be sending money to bombs that are killing people in Iran. They want that money spent right here in our communities where it’s needed most.

James Talarico on MAGA’s desperate attacks against him: “Here’s why they’re doing this: There’s another war in the Middle East. There’s a secret pedophile ring and no one has been prosecuted. So the people responsible are trying to distract us with the same old culture wars.

James Talarico on the Trump administration calling the war in Iran “short-term pain for long-term gain”: “I’d like them to tell that to the parents of the American troops who have lost their lives. That is not short-term pain. That is pain that will last forever.

James Talarico: Neither John Cornyn nor Ken Paxton deserve the honor of representing this great state. Both of them are far more interested in serving their billionaire megadonors than serving the people of Texas.

Analyst: The Texas Democratic primary turnout was the highest EVER in history. Democrats are REALLY enthusiastic. This is tremendous. More people voted in the Democratic primary than the Republican primary. This is extremely, extremely unusual. This is tremendous for Democrats.

James Talarico: They’re scared of the movement we are building. They’re gonna throw everything they have at us. They’re gonna call me a ‘radical leftist.’ They’re going to call me a ‘fake Christian.’ They’ll call us a threat. The only truth is — we are a threat to their corrupt system.

Q: What does your win signal about what voters want? James Talarico: I think people are really sick of the politics we’ve had for the last ten years. The first words out of my mouth on the campaign trail was that the real fight in this country is not left versus right — it's top versus bottom.

James Talarico: No matter what happens in the Republican runoff, we know who we are running against — the billionaire mega-donors and their corrupt political system.

James Talarico: As a millennial, I saw how military disasters like the Iraq war robbed this nation of young lives, billions of dollars, and our moral standing. We are always told we don’t have enough money for schools but there’s always enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world.

No more forever wars.

James Talarico: No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes. The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.

Texans are ready for a new kind of politics.

James Talarico in first interview since his primary victory: My faith teaches me to love my neighbor as myself. Texas has a deep hunger for a different kind of politics rooted in love. The old politics of total war is dying, and we are building a movement to take on this broken system.