James Talarico

I'll have the same policy as a US Senator.

I want to work with our business leaders to make sure we support Texas businesses, big and small.

I just don't think that corporate influences should have

that much sway with a elected official.

So it's why I've tried to limit the influence in my campaign and hopefully in my Senate office.

Right, of course.

Yeah, I mean, I really see this campaign as on a mission to revitalize that American dream that you lived, that a lot of people have had the privilege to live, but it's slipping out of reach for a lot of people.

I saw a stat that 90% of baby boomers went on to earn more money than their parents, which I think is a pretty fair definition of the American dream, right?

Being more successful than the generation before you.

For millennials, it's 50%.

For Gen Z, it's even lower than that.

So the American dream that was a reality for the vast majority of people in that generation is now slipping out of reach for millennials and Gen Zers.

And that is not because our generations are lazier.

It's because the structure of the economy itself has changed over the last 50 years and the structure of our political system.

Both of those systems, our economic and political systems, over the last 50 years were corrupted by the wealthiest people in this country.

Billionaires, billionaire mega donors, Elon Musk is now on track to become the world's first trillionaire.

And they have rigged through their donations to politicians

by buying politicians.

They have rigged the economic system to benefit them at our expense through a whole bunch of different ways, taxes, regulation, jobs and industries and unions, the power to organize.

All of these things in concert have led us to this moment where