Member of the Texas House of Representatives
Member of the Texas House of Representatives (2018–)
| Born | 1989-05-17 · Round Rock, Texas |
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| Party | Democratic |
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| Education | University of Texas at Austin (BA) Harvard University (MEd) Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (MA) |
Portrait: Antonioaesparza · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
What this person said on the record, as reported, newest first.
James Talarico, the Democrat who won Texas’s Senate race last week, said Trump could achieve glory comparable to Lyndon B. Johnson by working with Democrats. He spoke Thursday at the What’s Next conference in Denver, where Democrats are discussing how to use their new congressional majorities.
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The Associated Press
Texas senator-elect James Talarico told Democrats at a Denver gathering Thursday that voters expect immediate results. He said they should make Donald Trump’s final two years in office the most productive of any presidency in American history.
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NBC News
The campaign of Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico says it raised $64 million in the third quarter of 2026, a total that would set a new record.
NNBC News
James Talarico said he had the flu and again challenged his Republican opponent, Ken Paxton, to debate in the Texas Senate race.
NNBC News
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico says the Trump administration is engaging in “the most dangerous form of cancel culture” by pressuring television stations over their content.
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CNN
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James Talarico has been off the campaign trail for 12 days with the flu. Democrats believe the fight for a Texas Senate seat is within reach for the first time in decades, and the campaign should be intensifying now.
NNBC NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-10-08 19:53
Political texts funded by a conservative PAC ask Texas voters, “Are you white?” before directing them to a website that claims Democratic candidate James Talarico called white men “America’s top terror threat.” The messages cite remarks he made after a mass shooting, when he said radicalized white men were the country’s greatest domestic terror threat.
NNBC NewsOriginal★★★☆☆2026-10-06 21:01
Fox News host Laura Ingraham asks Texans what they think of Senate candidate James Talarico on “The Ingraham Angle.”
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Fox NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-15 08:00
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico says the Trump administration is engaging in “the most dangerous form of cancel culture” by pressuring television stations over their content.
CCNNOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-11 02:01
Jimmy Kimmel says threats from the FCC forced his show to move an interview with James Talarico to YouTube, a claim the agency disputes. An FCC commissioner nevertheless told CNN that the administration is using threats to intimidate media companies, raising serious questions about late-night television and the equal-time rule.
CCNNOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-11 01:43
Jimmy Kimmel said his show will not broadcast an upcoming interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on television, citing threats from the Trump administration against ABC. He said the interview will instead be posted on the show’s YouTube channel.
NNBC NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-10 22:22
Jimmy Kimmel said Wednesday night that his show would not broadcast its upcoming television interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, attributing the decision to threats from the Trump administration against ABC.
NNBC NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-10 14:38
Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will be posted on YouTube instead of airing on television because he fears retaliation from the Trump administration’s FCC. ABC has sued the FCC, accusing it of waging a retaliatory campaign and threatening its broadcast licenses.
TThe VergeOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-10 14:34
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said he chose not to broadcast a scheduled interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico because of unspecified alleged threats from the Federal Communications Commission.
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Bloomberg NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-10 14:30
Former Trump 2016 campaign manager Paul Manafort discusses on “The Ingraham Angle” how political spending could affect the midterms and says Talarico is not a candidate for Texas.
FFox NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-08-30 04:15
