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

Certainly don't want it coming from a government, from a state.

So why would I do that to anyone else?

I think that's the basic test we have to apply.

And so...

Again, I think we have to have a real conversation within the church, within Christian communities, about what is our relationship with power.

Because in my mind, as a Christian, power that is not shared is...

is also domination.

And in a democracy, it's all about sharing power.

We acknowledge that power is real and that it has consequences.

And we commit to sharing that together as a nation, as communities.

And I think that's where we have to strive.

Theocracy,

in my mind, is the most dangerous form of government, because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

And that's why our faith in Jesus should lead us away from theocracy, away from tyranny, away from Christian nationalism, and toward a multiracial, multicultural democracy where we can all freely love God and fully love our neighbors.

So in my very first campaign back in 2018, I was running for the state house, and I decided to walk the entire length of my district from Round Rock, Texas to Taylor, Texas.

And, well, I wanted to – you know, so much of politics now is –

filtered, sometimes literally, but also just there's so many layers between me and the people that I seek to represent.

There's the traditional media, there's social media, there's algorithms, platforms, there's staff, campaign staff, and interviewers.

There's all these layers in between a person running for office and the people they seek to represent.

And so I was trying to figure out how could we

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