Talarico is trying to hide his far left past

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James Talarico Still Can't Escape His Past

James Talarico faces scrutiny over past progressive stances as he runs for Texas Senate in 2026.

townhall.com

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Ever since Talarico won the Democratic Senate nomination, his past statements on gender ideology and progressive policy have dogged his campaign. But he didn’t do it fast enough to keep the Washington Free Beacon from noticing.

The outlet reported that his homepage used to say he was “not afraid to stand up to Republican extremism” and boasted about leading “the fight against their efforts to bully trans kids, ban books, whitewash our history curriculum, gut public education with a private school voucher scam, and force their Christian nationalist agenda onto the people of Texas.”

He also scrubbed the section where he is presented as a champion of “Bold, Progressive Legislation.”

"I'm committed to building momentum for bold, progressive ideas—no matter how long it takes," he wrote. "I've introduced ambitious legislation to give every Texas teacher a $15,000 raise, legalize marijuana, combat climate change, and repeal anti-union laws that keep workers from organizing."

Now, Talarico has pivoted away from the trans topic to issues Americans actually care about. He recently dropped a campaign ad discussing how Texans are “drowning” in rising costs for groceries, gas, and healthcare. But, as his opponent Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton pointed out, he has voted against major tax relief for residents, showing he’s more concerned about government welfare than the public’s wellbeing.

Comment:
Talarico is being dishonest about how far left that he really is.
He is copying the VA governor Abigail Spanberger method of campaigning in the center, but hiding his far left extremism.
He is for open borders, he is a transgender activist, he is a climate change doomsdayer, and he is a woke bigot who condemns White culture.

 

[Failzero]

He is all Fap & no cattle

 

[Robert W]

James Talarico Still Can't Escape His Past

James Talarico faces scrutiny over past progressive stances as he runs for Texas Senate in 2026.

townhall.com

(snippet)
Ever since Talarico won the Democratic Senate nomination, his past statements on gender ideology and progressive policy have dogged his campaign. But he didn’t do it fast enough to keep the Washington Free Beacon from noticing.

The outlet reported that his homepage used to say he was “not afraid to stand up to Republican extremism” and boasted about leading “the fight against their efforts to bully trans kids, ban books, whitewash our history curriculum, gut public education with a private school voucher scam, and force their Christian nationalist agenda onto the people of Texas.”

He also scrubbed the section where he is presented as a champion of “Bold, Progressive Legislation.”

"I'm committed to building momentum for bold, progressive ideas—no matter how long it takes," he wrote. "I've introduced ambitious legislation to give every Texas teacher a $15,000 raise, legalize marijuana, combat climate change, and repeal anti-union laws that keep workers from organizing."

Now, Talarico has pivoted away from the trans topic to issues Americans actually care about. He recently dropped a campaign ad discussing how Texans are “drowning” in rising costs for groceries, gas, and healthcare. But, as his opponent Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton pointed out, he has voted against major tax relief for residents, showing he’s more concerned about government welfare than the public’s wellbeing.

Comment:
Talarico is being dishonest about how far left that he really is.
He is copying the VA governor Abigail Spanberger method of campaigning in the center, but hiding his far left extremism.
He is for open borders, he is a transgender activist, he is a climate change doomsdayer, and he is a woke bigot who condemns White culture.

The revisions reflect the challenges Talarico faces as he attempts to swap a State House seat in the liberal enclave of Austin for a U.S. Senate seat in a state that has not sent a Democrat to the upper chamber since 1988, when Lloyd Bentsen was elected to serve a fourth term. Kamala Harris won Talarico's Austin district by nearly 50 points in 2024, when President Donald Trump won Texas by nearly 14 points. In his earlier races, Talarico presented himself as a "Democrat," with endorsements from left-wing groups like "Liberal Austin Democrats," who's "fighting back against Republican extremism." Now, he says he's an "eighth-generation Texan, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian" running to "take his fight against corruption to Washington."

Talarico, whose campaign did not respond to a request for comment, secured the Democratic nomination in March, when he defeated congresswoman Jasmine Crockett by 6 points. He has spent much of the campaign since then repudiating the left-wing positions that catapulted him to national prominence.



Last month, for example, he walked back a controversial comment in which he argued that "God is non-binary," telling CBS News that the "cringey" statement "missed the mark." He went on to tell a Texas attorney and podcast host that he "oppose gender-reassignment surgeries for minors." As a state representative, Talarico voted against a bill that would have banned the procedures and argued in a floor speech that it was "about discriminating against people who are transgender," though Talarico has not said where he stands on hormone treatment for children. He has also said he supports Texas's enormous oil and gas industry, though he introduced bills in the State House that would have required climate change lessons in Texas public schools and implemented statewide green energy mandates, the Free Beacon reported.

There are other elements of Talarico's campaign site that contradict his rhetoric on the trail. During a February interview with the New Yorker, Talarico swore off super PACs, saying he would not accept their support even if they guaranteed his victory and comparing his doing so to Jesus Christ's resisting the Devil's temptation while fasting in the wilderness. Talarico's updated website, however, includes a buried page that tacitly coordinates with super PACs by laying out instructions about what media markets to run ads in and what messages to include in them, the Free Beacon reported. A billionaire-funded super PAC led by Talarico's first chief of staff has run ads that are perfectly aligned with the page's instructions.

Talarico has served in the State Legislature since 2018. During that time, he also worked as an "equitable education" consultant for a firm, MAYA Consulting, that develops DEI plans for public schools in Texas and describes its work as "rooted in our diversity, equity, and inclusion philosophy," the Free Beacon reported. Though Talarico says he has never supported defunding police, the firm contributed $5,000 to a group working to defund the Austin Police Department while Talarico worked there.

 

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James Talarico Still Can't Escape His Past

James Talarico faces scrutiny over past progressive stances as he runs for Texas Senate in 2026.

townhall.com

(snippet)
Ever since Talarico won the Democratic Senate nomination, his past statements on gender ideology and progressive policy have dogged his campaign. But he didn’t do it fast enough to keep the Washington Free Beacon from noticing.

The outlet reported that his homepage used to say he was “not afraid to stand up to Republican extremism” and boasted about leading “the fight against their efforts to bully trans kids, ban books, whitewash our history curriculum, gut public education with a private school voucher scam, and force their Christian nationalist agenda onto the people of Texas.”

He also scrubbed the section where he is presented as a champion of “Bold, Progressive Legislation.”

"I'm committed to building momentum for bold, progressive ideas—no matter how long it takes," he wrote. "I've introduced ambitious legislation to give every Texas teacher a $15,000 raise, legalize marijuana, combat climate change, and repeal anti-union laws that keep workers from organizing."

Now, Talarico has pivoted away from the trans topic to issues Americans actually care about. He recently dropped a campaign ad discussing how Texans are “drowning” in rising costs for groceries, gas, and healthcare. But, as his opponent Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton pointed out, he has voted against major tax relief for residents, showing he’s more concerned about government welfare than the public’s wellbeing.

Comment:
Talarico is being dishonest about how far left that he really is.
He is copying the VA governor Abigail Spanberger method of campaigning in the center, but hiding his far left extremism.
He is for open borders, he is a transgender activist, he is a climate change doomsdayer, and he is a woke bigot who condemns White culture.

Oh, he's "far-left" because, as you put it, he doesn't want the right to bully trans kids....?

Wow. If you're far-left because you don't like bullying, then put me down for being far-left.

 

[Robert W]

Oh, he's "far-left" because, as you put it, he doesn't want the right to bully trans kids....?

Wow. If you're far-left because you don't like bullying, then put me down for being far-left.

You painted yourself as being far left.

 

[Lockback]

You painted yourself as being far left.

That's because he IS Far Left.