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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You see a lot of corruption in our state.

And I think it's why people are hungry for a change.

Yeah.

Well, one, I detest this need that we have in our politics to put us all in containers.

Yes.

And it is strong.

I've had so many people trying to figure out where to, how to label me.

And we do that to each other.

And we do it as a shorthand.

And I think it's part of what flattens us because the honest truth is, and I'm sure your family members would agree,

We have all these things inside of us, right?

There are some issues where I'm a little more conservative, some issues where I'm a little moderate, some issues where I'm a little more progressive.

And I always try to do what I think is best, even if it's bucking my own party to do it.

And I've done that a bunch of times in the Texas legislature.

And so I think about in our faith tradition, the...

The tree that Adam and Eve ate from was the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

And it's that dualistic thinking.

It's the trying to make things black or white, this or that, that gets us in so much trouble in our politics.

And it's what I'm trying to avoid as much as I can in this campaign, because I think these are oftentimes false choices.

And it allows us to...

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