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James Talarico Debates Texas Voters: Jubilee x CNN Townhall

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James Talarico
James Talarico
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Texas’s current abortion ban prohibits abortion when the life of the mother is in danger.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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The bill James Talarico called the “big ugly bill” gave three trillion dollars in tax cuts to the top one percent.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Wall Street buyers are buying most of the properties in Texas.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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James Talarico has never taken corporate PAC money.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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James Talarico has never called for abolishing ICE.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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The war in Iran is costing the United States a billion dollars a day.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Ken Paxton has increased his net worth by twenty-seven million dollars since taking office.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Ken Paxton has taken half a million dollars in bribes from data center companies.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Ken Paxton has taken bribes from wealthy special interests.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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More than a million voter registrations have been suspended in Texas during James Talarico’s U.S. Senate election cycle.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Ninety-three percent of the fentanyl that comes into Texas comes through ports of entry.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Women in Texas are dying in emergency room parking lots from sepsis because doctors are too afraid to provide lifesaving care.

Rabbi Holly Levin Cohn
Rabbi Holly Levin Cohn
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Hamas takes humanitarian resources brought into Gaza.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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The three companies that control the global insulin market set their prices together.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Texas has the second-lowest voter turnout rate in the country.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Billionaires can write off mega yachts as business expenses on their taxes.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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James Talarico passed sixty bipartisan bills during his time in the Texas legislature.

Jasmine Carter
Jasmine Carter
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Texas's average home price is three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Ken Paxton owns fifteen homes.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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The richest man in the world is spending hundreds of millions of dollars in Texas to defeat James Talarico's US Senate campaign.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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The ninety-three polling locations closed in Tarrant County represent a third of the county’s polling locations.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Texas capped insulin copays at twenty five dollars per prescription.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Cuts to the Affordable Care Act are driving up premiums for Texans, sometimes by a thousand dollars a month.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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The US tax system taxes work more than it taxes wealth.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Ninety-three polling locations have been closed in Tarrant County, Texas, during James Talarico’s U.S. Senate election cycle.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Texas ranks 43rd in the United States in per-student education funding.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Girls as young as ten years old who need abortion care cannot get it in Texas.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Billionaires can write off private jet flights as business expenses on their taxes.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Three giant data centers are being built in Abilene.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Politicians are giving data center companies sweetheart tax deals.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Three companies control the global insulin market.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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James Talarico’s border security plan was endorsed by Democratic and Republican law enforcement officials along the southern border.

Jerry
Jerry
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Texas’s basic allotment for students has been around $6,100 since 2019.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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The last time the United States balanced its federal budget was during President Clinton’s term in the 1990s.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Private Isabella Gonzalez was killed by an Iranian airstrike in Jordan.

Paul Willer
Paul Willer
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Donald Trump announced that he wants to start buying Russian oil again.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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The Republican majority rejected James Talarico’s amendment to limit a Texas bill on health care for transgender youth to banning surgeries for people under eighteen.

Rodrigo
Rodrigo
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Seventy-one percent of Democrats agree with voter ID.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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James Talarico passed a bipartisan bill to allow single-stair housing to be built in Texas.

Rodrigo
Rodrigo
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Eighty-three percent of Americans agree with voter ID.

Erin Burnett
Erin Burnett
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A Democrat has not won statewide office in Texas in thirty two years.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Texas passed its first cap on insulin copays during James Talarico's time in the state House.

Erin Burnett
Erin Burnett
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At a Sierra Club event in 2020, James Talarico called capitalism an oppressive system.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Texas officials tried to redraw political districts in the middle of the decade.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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As a Texas state representative, James Talarico authored a bill to modernize ports of entry.

Erin Burnett
Erin Burnett
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In a January U.S. Senate primary debate, James Talarico said of ICE, “it is time to tear down this secret police force and replace it.”

James Talarico
James Talarico
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The Texas state legislature cut more than $5 billion from public education before fall 2011.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Texas’s current abortion ban includes no exception for rape or incest.

Matthew
Matthew
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The U.S. national debt recently passed $40 trillion.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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The war in Iran is driving up gas prices in the United States.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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The war in Iran is driving up diesel prices in the United States.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Private Isabella Gonzalez was nineteen years old when she was killed.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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James Talarico supported an amendment to limit a Texas bill on health care for transgender youth to banning surgeries for people under eighteen.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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James Talarico voted against the Texas bill restricting health care for transgender youth.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Texas accepts a concealed carry license as identification for voting.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Texas does not accept a public college or university student ID as identification for voting.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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October seventh was the deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust.

Jasmine Carter
Jasmine Carter
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Texas's minimum wage is seven dollars and twenty-five cents.

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James Talarico
James Talarico
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The Bible is silent on the issue of abortion.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Texas has thirty-one million residents.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Around a thousand neural connections form every second during the first thousand days of a child’s life.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Health care can reduce the number of abortions.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Sex education can reduce the number of abortions.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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Private Isabella Gonzalez graduated from Hebron High School.

James Talarico
James Talarico
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James Talarico has rolled out a plan to crack down on giant data center companies.