The Only Free Advice James Talarico’s Gonna Get | NLP Replay
Native Land Pod
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🗓️ 31 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Folks are saying that Texas senate candidate James Talarico has the best chance in decades to flip a Texas senate seat blue; his opponent, Ken Paxton, was impeached by his own party in 2023 and is mired in scandals. Our hosts are less optimistic about James’ chances and have some advice for Mr. Talarico…
Join hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers for this segment from episode #133 that aired on 05-28-26
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Native Lampod is a production of IHeart Radio and partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:13.8 | In the state of Texas, we saw the Republican primary, which was a hard fought contested race between incumbent |
| 0:22.9 | Senator John Cornyn, Cornyn, and the state of Texas Republican senator, who I believe, |
| 0:30.0 | served for 40 years. |
| 0:31.5 | Somebody correct me of them wrong? |
| 0:32.7 | I mean, he's been elected about that long. |
| 0:34.4 | A thousand. |
| 0:35.7 | He's been there. |
| 0:36.5 | Wow. |
| 0:36.8 | And he's raised $100 million for Senate Republicans. |
| 0:40.4 | Incredible amount of money. |
| 0:42.6 | But also seen in this age of Trumpism and MAGA as too moderate, too reasonable, too willing to compromise and work with the other side when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, uh, to represent for the Republican Party of today, of Donald Trump's Republican Party. He was bested by almost, almost 30 points, 28 points, uh, by state attorney general Ken Paxton. Um, and he's a get, Paxton is another one of these guys, y'all, who, uh, carries the title of state attorney general Ken Paxton. And he's again, Paxton is another one of these guys, y'all, |
| 1:12.4 | who carries the title of state attorney general, |
| 1:15.0 | which we associate with law enforcement, |
| 1:17.1 | and it's the complete antithetical embodiment |
| 1:21.2 | of what it means to be unjust, against justice, |
| 1:25.7 | and absolutely a breaker of the law. Just to give you a sense of... Oh, you can run them down. I didn't know if you had it up, but go ahead and run it down. No, no, no. Actually, they're tired of my boys. You run him down. Tell us what this man is known for, man. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. He paid $300,000 to settle his felony fraud charges. |
| 1:45.6 | He had multiple extramarital affairs. |
| 1:47.7 | He's under investigation for mortgage fraud. |
| 1:50.1 | He stole a $1,000 pen from another lawyer and was sued. |
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