I decided to make a separate thread for James Talarico due to:
-his uniqueness of being a devout and proud Christian Democrat who quotes the Bible often
-the combo of his charisma, perceived sincerity, Norman Vincent Peale-ish level of positive thinking, and high energy youth (he’s only 37)
-his chances of being the first Dem to win a statewide TX race since 1988 increased when AG Paxton, who’s riddled with a not so good background (putting it mildly) and thus has the opposite look to Talarico, won the GOP Primary.
-his winning in Nov will be almost a necessity for the Dems to get to 52 seats in the Senate in Nov. note that I said 52 because Dem Senator Fetterman is largely a RINO these days.
Oh the irony! I have no words (see below). I predict a very nasty reaction to him from the hypocritical MAGA wing of the GOP. They treat the horribly immoral and unethical DT like a Messiah and yet they call Talarico a fake Christian?!? Are people really that stupid to fall for this extreme double standard?
I predict with very high confidence that DT is going to make multiple nasty posts about Talarico between now and Nov. Mark my words…5/27/26!
Texas Democrat James Talarico is under attack by the right for his faith, with right-wing media figures particularly zeroing in on his views on abortion and LGBTQ issues to claim he is a “fake Christian” whose beliefs are “straight up demonic.”
Right-wing media figures have taken up the hostility toward Talarico’s religious views, calling him “blasphemous” and “straight up demonic." Other examples of commentary from right-wing media figures about include:
Tonight’s The Last Word starts with a portion of corrupt impeached Paxton’s victory speech. During this, Paxton takes the juvenile Trump route of name calling with ~5 nicknames being given to Talarico.. This is immediately followed by Lawrence interviewing Talarico to see what his response would be:
This is a wonderful thread, Larry!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Talarico
Born in Round Rock, Texas, Talarico graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Arts in government in 2011, and from Harvard University with a Master of Education degree in education policy in 2016. Before entering politics, Talarico was a middle-school English teacher and an executive director for an education nonprofit. He is serving his fourth term in the Texas House of Representatives, having first been elected in 2018. While serving in the Texas House, Talarico earned his Master of Divinity at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
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Interesting that the far right calls him fake on religion but he earned a MASTER OF DIVINITY from a theological seminary school, which is about as VALIDATING as it gets!!!!
Their attacks on him are absurd, while supporting the biggest religious fake president in history,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Big_and_Kick_Ass
Direct quote from Donald Trump from that book:
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Now that Donald Trump is the founder of MAGA's FAKE religion, following Donald Trump, he makes tweets like this on Truth Social:
Straight from their God's(leader's) Truth Social account to his 10s of millions of MAGA worshipers late last month. He created an image of himself as a God/Jesus like leader.
Then he responded to the outrage, while battling for control of his religion with the leader of the most populated Christian religion(Catholic Church) by showing another image of Jesus ENDORSING HIM!!!!!!
The words below are MY words using the 2nd meme as a comical parody of Donald Trump's thoughts, actions/words to maintain the brainwash of his MAGA religion followers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Talarico
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This is also a wonderful profession that usually attracts the type of people that want to make the world a better place by educating our young people for not always the biggest salary's.
As a chess coach at 5 different schools for almost 3 decades, I know many more teachers than most people and have nothing but great things to say about them.
i just listened to the 40+ minutes from your audio link, Larry.
It's interesting that they started with the mention of the last 2 D candidates to win seats in the Senate were also on the ballot for VP.
Talarico communicates extraordinarily well but he's anything but a fake. He sounds VERY credible and likeable. His opponent, appears to be one of the most, if not THE most corrupt politician(outside of Donald Trump) in history.
Not just the word "corrupt" but the facts based on authentic evidence corrupt.
Thanks for pointing this out, Larry because most of us had no idea who this guy was before last night! James Talarico is the rising star that we need in our country right now!!!!
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Started by metmike - May 11, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
Hey Mike,
Lawrence gave him a good interview. I agree strongly with Talarico’s refreshing general positive message and the idea of not letting billionaires have so much power. He’s also against Christian nationalism despite his being a devout Christian as he strongly believes in separation of church and state. I will, of course, be strongly rooting for him over the very corrupt and already impeached (by Republicans!) Paxton.
I did notice that JT avoided answering all of Lawrence’s Qs, however. He never addressed Lawrence’s Qs about transgender stuff that Paxton brought up in his victory speech. It will be important how JT handles this as that’s one of the issues MAGA is and will continue to be very tough on.
Is JT really in favor of children getting trans surgery? He will need to address that issue. Or is Paxton just lying or misleading like he did on saying JT favored open borders. He favors legal immigration and letting in good folks, not illegal immigration and letting in criminals as he said to Lawrence.
By the way, if JT really were a vegan, who cares? Why is that important, especially since there’s nothing bad about it? MAGA loves to overemphasize uber-masculinity. Why is that important? If a woman were running, would she have to be uber-feminine? This stuff is so tiring!