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Billionaires have taken over Texas and taken over America — but together, we can take power back for working people.
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James Talarico
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James Talarico
@jamestalarico
Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people.
Joined September 2009
- 3 years ago I almost slipped into a coma and died. I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I paid $684 for my first 30-day supply of insulin. Some pay $1000+ a month. Many die without it. Today I introduced legislation to cap the price of insulin at $50 a month. #txlege
- “I think if Donald Trump and JD Vance met Jesus today, they would ridicule him as a single, childless hippie.”
00:00 - WE DID IT!! We capped the out-of-pocket cost of insulin in Texas! Our bill is headed to the Governor’s desk for a signature! #txlege3 years ago I almost slipped into a coma and died. I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I paid $684 for my first 30-day supply of insulin. Some pay $1000+ a month. Many die without it. Today I introduced legislation to cap the price of insulin at $50 a month. #txlege
- I’m going viral in Brazil right now... Apparently “talarico” is Brazilian slang for “wife-stealer.” 😂 Olá, Brazil! 🇧🇷 I’m just making good public policy here in Texas — I promise I won’t steal your girl.
- I just went on Fox News to tell the truth about the redistricting power grab in Texas. I asked a simple question: “If Republican policies are so popular, why do they need to redraw these maps; why not run on their policies?” He refused to answer — and cut the interview early.
00:00 - “You can’t be the party of freedom and control women’s bodies. You can’t be the party of family and love your guns more than our kids. You can’t be the party of faith and worship at the feet of Donald Trump.”
00:00 - UPDATE: Thousands of Texans called their local school boards demanding they say NO to school chaplains—and it worked. The 25 largest school districts in Texas all rejected replacing counselors with chaplains. This is a big win in the fight against Christian Nationalism.Texas Republicans passed legislation to replace school counselors with untrained religious chaplains. But you can stop them at the local level. Tell your school board to say NO to chaplains in our public schools.
00:00 - Greg Abbott is pushing the “FURRIES Act” claiming schools are giving litter boxes to students who act like cats. But when I asked the bill author, he couldn’t name one school providing litter boxes to kids. This is all part of Abbott’s smear campaign against our public schools.
00:00 - “Christian Nationalists walk around with a mouth full of scripture and a heart full of hate…”
00:00 - Texas Republicans are trying to force public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. I told the bill author: “This bill is not only un-constitutional and un-American, it’s deeply un-Christian.” #txlege
00:00 - My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab. Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us. It’s time to fight back.
00:00 - I voted for freedom. The freedom to read. The freedom to learn. The freedom to marry. The freedom to choose. The freedom to vote. I voted for Kamala Harris and Colin Allred.
- My Democratic colleagues and I are leaving the state to break quorum and kill the Texas voter suppression bill. We’re flying to DC to demand Congress pass the For The People Act and save our democracy. Good trouble. #txlege
