James Talarico

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

James Talarico’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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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

I think it's because I grew up with Republicans.

Every one of my teachers growing up was a card-carrying Republican.

They loved me deeply.

I loved them.

I have so many family members who vote Republican, so many friends who I grew up with who voted for Donald Trump in the last election.

And I love these people.

These people are such...

integral parts of my life and a part of me as a person.

And so I can't cancel them.

I can't write them off because they're a part of my life.

And I just feel like that is a blessing because it helps me to...

to see my political opponents as human beings first.

It allows me to connect with them and then allows us to find common ground and actually make some progress.

And I feel like that's what our politics needs at every level in both political parties.

And it's why...

competitive elections, why breaking one-party rule in Texas is so important because one-party rule always leads to extremism and corruption, whether it's the Republican Party in Texas or the Democratic Party elsewhere.

You need that competition.

So it forces lawmakers in both parties to work together, to talk to one another, to compromise.

We don't have that in Texas right now because we've had one party rule for 30 years.

So you see a lot of extremism.

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