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The Daily — James Talarico on the Rage Economy, Billionaires and Flipping Texas

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James Talarico
James Talarico
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Texas removed Martin Luther King Jr. from its civics curriculum.

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James Talarico
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Texas removed Frederick Douglass from its civics curriculum.

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James Talarico
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A Texas law enacted after the 2021 legislative session imposed a blanket ban on trans athletes playing sports in all cases.

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James Talarico
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James Talarico has never taken corporate PAC money.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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In Times polling, nine percent of Republicans favored James Talarico.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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People’s wages have been stagnant for five decades.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Suspending the federal gas tax would drop the price of gas by eighteen cents a gallon for Texans.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Suspending the federal diesel tax would save diesel users about two hundred dollars a year.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Republicans have held one-party rule in Texas for three decades.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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More than a year into President Trump's administration, everything is more expensive because of tariffs.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Texas passed a permitless-carry law that allows people to carry a weapon without a permit.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Ken Paxton’s backers had already poured two hundred million dollars into the Texas Senate race as of October twentieth.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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In Times polling, eleven percent of Trump voters favored James Talarico.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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James Talarico's campaign has been endorsed by more than 20 current and former Republican officials across Texas.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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The protests in France began as peaceful demonstrations over the cost of living.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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James Talarico had been leading in the polls for weeks as of October twentieth.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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Republicans claimed James Talarico was checked into an Ohio mental institution.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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Vice President JD Vance doubled down on a claim about James Talarico having a problematic online search history.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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James Talarico won his first Texas House race with fifty one percent of the vote.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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The war in the Middle East is driving up gas and diesel prices.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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More than a year into President Trump's administration, the Epstein files had still not been fully released.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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France Unbowed's presidential candidate supported the protests.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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The protests in France began as peaceful demonstrations over school conditions.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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Masked agitators broke into stores during the protests in France.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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No Democrat has been elected to the United States Senate from Texas in nearly forty years as of October twentieth.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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President Trump won Texas in 2024 by fourteen points.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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President Trump and Elon Musk are backing Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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The Texas state legislature cut more than five billion dollars from public education in 2011.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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James Talarico was in his fourth term in the Texas House as of October twentieth.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Twelve Democrats, including James Talarico, flipped Republican districts in Texas in 2018.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Tariffs are raising prices at the checkout line.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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James Talarico pledged to serve only two terms in the United States Senate.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Under the U.S. Constitution, Congress has the authority to declare war.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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The Senate filibuster is not in the U.S. Constitution.

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James Talarico
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James Talarico voted to impeach Ken Paxton as a Texas state lawmaker.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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France's government ordered curfews in some towns and neighborhoods amid riots and looting.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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France's interior minister said he had offered his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron amid criticism of the government's handling of riots.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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President Emmanuel Macron had not accepted the French interior minister's offered resignation.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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France's National Rally sought to portray the violence as a failure of its left-wing rivals, especially France Unbowed.

Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro
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Masked agitators attacked government buildings during the protests in France.

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