James Talarico

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4,239 appearances 18 recordings 14 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard 3 Jun

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The Jamie Kern Lima Show · James Talarico The Interview: Fighting to Flip Tables + Take Texas, Christianity & the Country Back · 14 May 2026 podcast

And I want to take those skills, take those fights to where they're needed most on behalf of the people in my state.

Well, and you and I have talked about this a lot because I know we're both people of faith and our faith is very important to both of us.

And so the message that I'm trying to share, either on the campaign trail or from pulpits across the state when I'm preaching as a seminarian, it's the same message of love thy neighbor.

And that's a very old message that comes from all the major world leaders

religions that has been championed by some of our heroes throughout American history.

And I think every generation we have to remind ourselves of the importance of loving our neighbors.

And it feels like in this moment when democracy is in trouble, both here and abroad,

We have to figure out how to love our neighbors again, especially our neighbors who are different from us, our neighbors who disagree with us.

We've got to find a way to love each other through those disagreements and those differences.

Otherwise, this American experiment won't last.

And so I'm trying to bring some of those teachings from our tradition into the political sphere, because I think they're needed now more than ever before.

Yeah.

So my granddad was a Baptist preacher in South Texas, and I was named after him.

So when I was growing up, he was always Big Jimmy and I was Little Jimmy.

That was at family gatherings, how they were able to tell us apart when one of us was getting called out for something.

And

He always told me that Christianity is a simple religion, not an easy religion, he would always clarify, but a simple religion, because Jesus gave us these two commandments to follow, love God and love neighbor.

And that second commandment is really what set me on the course I'm on now.

The reason I signed up to be a public school teacher on the west side of San Antonio was that commandment to love my neighbor as myself.

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