Talarico at a Capitol news conference in Austin on 1-13-25. (Wikipeida Commons)

Conventional wisdom tells us that the loopy congresswoman Jasmine Crockett would have been easier to defeat in the general election for a Texas U.S. Senate seat than James Talarico.  But Talarico won the nomination, and that thought is beginning to fade.

Even a quick look at where Talarico stands show us a far-left, ultra-progressive, totally woke, and frankly, dangerous candidate who makes Crockett look almost normal.

Talarico believes God is binary, and there are six “genders” in the Bible.  He would provide abortion care to the trans community.  He says Jesus would be anti-Trump and he does not support Israel.

He wants to legalize cannabis, regulate it and tax it, and pack the Supreme Court.  Talarico told Joe Rogan the Bible is pro-abortion.

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Who is James Talarico?

Talarico was born James Dell Causey to a single mother in Round Rock, and later took the name of his adoptive father, Mark Talarico.  He’s a Presbyterian seminarian and former English teacher.  He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, and holds a Masters of Education degree from Harvard in education policy.  He’s been a member of the Texas House of Representatives since 2018.

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More recently, he’s become a darling of the left-wing media, including down-the-center NewsNation.  He’s been called “a candidate from Central Casting,” and a rising star in the Democratic Party.

Video: Some of Talarico’s most outrageous comments came from his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience.

But is he Beto O’Rourke 2.0?

O’Rourke was the darling a few years ago.  Like Talarico, he was the Democrats’ great hope to turn Texas blue.  The party celebrated when he came somewhat close to defeating Senator Ted Cruz.  Just the same, Beto never could break through the Red Wall for either the office of senator or governor.

Now, Democrats think Talarico can do it, and maybe he can.  It comes down to what will decide the outcome?  If it’s a hip, youthful, photogenic candidate that gets invited on the Joe Rogan Experience, then Talarico will win.  If policy is what matters, he will lose.

The insanity that emanates from Talarico’s mouth.

Seemingly, there is no left-wing lunacy that Talarico does not support and expand.  The Daily Caller has done a nice job of compiling some of his more outrageous statements, and even Wikipedia has an extensive list.  Note that this column is just a brief history of this whack-job and we can’t cover all the weirdness here.  But here’s a start.

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We’ve noted that Talarico is a seminarian and preaches from actual church pulpits.  But his version of the Bible is like nothing you’ve ever heard.  Talarico told Joe Rogan that the Bible, when it comes to abortion, is pro-choice, citing the Annunciation in the book of Luke.  Talarico said:

And then the last story I would go to is the story of Mary. Mary is probably my favorite figure in the Bible, the mother of Jesus and, you know, she is, she’s an oppressed peasant teenage girl living in poverty under an oppressive empire as a Jew and she, she has a vision from God that she’s going to give birth to a baby who’s going to bring the powerful down from their thrones, going to scatter the, the proud, who’s going to send the rich away empty. I mean, this this revolutionary song that she sings, it’s called the Magnificat. It’s actually been banned by certain authoritarian regimes because it is so radical.

Talarico goes on to say that God asked for Mary’s consent before preparing her for the virgin birth:

I say all this in terms of in context of abortion because before God comes over Mary and, and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent, which is remarkable. I mean, go back and read this in Luke. I mean, the, the angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do, and she says, ‘If it is God’s will, let it be done. Let it be, let it happen.’ So, to me that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create. Creation is one of the most sacred acts that that, that we engage in as human beings. But that has to be done with consent. It has to be done with freedom.

Talarico made this bizarre comment about a late Pope who was decidedly pro-life:

If Pope Francis, you know, were to come back and sit at this table and tell me, you know, ‘James, I’m pro-life and anti-abortion, here’s my theological argument,’ I am here to listen and respect that opinion. I have, I have dear friends who are anti-abortion.

 During the Biden administration, Talarico attacked Republicans for “stealing the Supreme Court and for “stealing our rights.”   He wrote on X that federal buildings in red states such as Texas should be used as abortion mills:

We can’t just stand by and watch. I’m calling on @JoeBiden to use federal buildings to provide abortion care to women in red states.

 In a sermon at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, Talarico claimed that the transgender community (in which the Left seems to think that men can get pregnant) should be given abortion “care”:

I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care, too.  Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state Capitol.

Perhaps Talarico’s most outrageous contention is that the Bible supports six “genders” during that 2019 sermon at St. Andrews.

Video:  Talarico as preacher at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.

“Gender” is a left-wing made-up word used by progressives to dispute the reality of two sexes. He also claimed to know what Jesus thinks about Donald Trump:

The antithesis of Trump is not Biden or Warren or Harris or Castro. It’s not even President Obama. The clearest anti-Trump we have is Jesus of Nazareth. His teachings—and those delivered by other prophetic voices throughout history—show us the way to defeat Trumpism in our world and in ourselves.

Of course, as a good liberal, Talarico is big on “queer theory” and such.  This excerpt is from Wikipedia and refers to what the on-line encyclopedia calls “progressive Christianity”:

Talarico is a supporter of the LGBTQ community, and appeals to progressive Christianity and queer theology. He has said he believes that God is non-binary.  He opposes gender hierarchies and said in a sermon, “gender equality is essential to the Kingdom of God,” paraphrasing Logion 114 of the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas: “when you make the male and the female one and the same, when the male is not male, the female is not female, then you will enter the Kingdom of God.”

Following the events of October 7, 2023, not to mention the Holocaust, you’d think someone with an Ivy League degree might have a sensible opinion on Israel.  But no.  Also from Wikipedia, we learn that, like Hillary Clinton and most of the Left, we’re supposed to believe that the mythical and nonsensical “two-state solution” is the way to peace in the Middle East.  In fact, Talarico seems to walk the line of antisemitism.

Talarico supports a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He has condemned what he called Israel’s “atrocities in Palestine” and “war crimes” and has criticized its role in the Gaza Strip famine. He opposes offensive U.S. aid to Israel and supports banning the sale of offensive weapons to Israel. Talarico is a critic of the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC.  He criticized Democrats for supporting Israel’s war in Gaza during the 2024 presidential election. He called the war “the moral test of our time.”

Talarico supports most of the wacky idea the Left has for taking total control of American politics such as packing the Supreme Court. In a series of posts on X, Talarico said that his white skin pigment gives him and every white American immunity from “the virus of racism.”  He said:

We spread it wherever we go.

He went on to say that radicalized white men are the greatest domestic threat to our country.  Yet, he ran against a black woman.  If he meant what he had said, wouldn’t he have supported her, you know, since he spreads racism wherever he goes?

Does Talarico have any good ideas?

In a classic case of a blind hog finding an acorn, Talarico does support a few things that are reasonable.  He’s for congressional terms limits.  He says he wants to ban congressional stock trading.  He opposes partisan gerrymandering.

However, not one of those three things have a snowball’s chance of passage, and Talarico will likely change his tune if he gets elected.  They all do.

What does his candidacy say about the Presbyterian Churches in Austin?  And about Joe Rogan? 

I’ve long been a critic of the dumb signs that Austin’s Central Presbyterian Church puts up on Brazos Street saying “protect trans kids.”   How can a church say something that harmful to children who should never be encouraged to undergo the atrocities and mutilations of a sex-change regimen?  But, hey, they can paint their steps in rainbow colors if they want to.

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I just wonder if anyone walked out of that sermon at St. Andrew’s.  I can tell you I would have.

And, from Wikipedia:

In July 2025, Talarico appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience and discussed the influence of faith on his political career, after which Rogan recommended he run for president in 2028.

Let me get this straight.  After Talarico appeared on one of Rogan’s lengthy podcasts and after spouting a great deal of the political gibberish we’ve documented in this brief history, Rogan thought Talarico would make an excellent presidential candidate?  Joe, say it isn’t so!

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