Texas Senate Candidate Used a Four Word Replacement for Women and X Is Having a Field Day

Democrats got wiped out in 2024 because they stopped calling women women.

James Talarico just got caught on video doing exactly that – and the phrase he used instead is something else entirely.

X has been lighting him up for 48 hours straight – and once you hear what he said, you'll understand why.

The Four Words That Sank a Senate Candidate

Talarico, the 36-year-old former teacher running against Ken Paxton for a Texas Senate seat, was caught on multiple video clips using a phrase no normal human being has ever uttered at a dinner table: "neighbors with a uterus."

The Lone Star Liberty PAC – which supports Paxton – dropped the clips on X Wednesday.

In the first clip, Talarico addresses a church audience.

"Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state," he says.

In the second, he's making an abortion argument: "Our neighbors with a uterus need to be able to control their own bodies."

A third clip, surfaced separately, shows him catching himself mid-sentence – accidentally saying "women" – and quickly correcting to the approved terminology.

The internet responded accordingly.

"If you set out with the express goal to be as offensive as humanly possible to women, I'm not sure you could do a better job than James Talarico," one X user wrote.

Fox News host Lawrence Jones was blunt: "Our next senator from Texas? Yeah no."

Conservative commentator Josh Holmes called it on the spot: "I've seen enough. Paxton wins Texas Senate."

Siraj Hashmi on X announced he was going home to call his wife his "cohabitator with a uterus" – and wished himself luck.

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This Is Exactly What Killed Democrats in 2024

This isn't new.

After Kamala Harris lost in November 2024, Democrats' own strategists issued emergency memos demanding the party abandon woke language immediately.

Third Way – a center-left think tank – warned that terms like "birthing person" and "chest feeding" made the party sound like the "extreme, divisive, elitist, and obfuscatory enforcers of wokeness."

Talarico never got the memo.

Gretchen Whitmer used "menstruating people" instead of women at a Michigan event.

AOC used "menstruating person" in official House testimony.

The ACLU edited a Ruth Bader Ginsburg quote to erase the word "women" entirely.

Voters noticed – and punished Democrats for it up and down the ballot.

James Talarico just volunteered to run the same play in Texas.

The Mockery Tells You Everything You Need to Know

The responses weren't angry – they were gleeful.

That's the tell.

When X users start joking about calling their wives "cohabitators with a uterus," the candidate isn't just losing the argument.

He's becoming a punchline.

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One woman on X delivered the verdict plainly: "The word 'woman' only escapes their mouths when they want to pander and need our votes."

James Talarico is running in Texas – not Portland, not San Francisco, not a faculty lounge in Austin.

He is asking real Texans – women who raised families, buried husbands, built businesses, and taught Sunday school – to send him to the United States Senate.

And he cannot bring himself to call them women.

Ken Paxton has baggage, and nobody in Texas is pretending otherwise.

But there is no universe in which a Texas voter looks at a man who catches himself accidentally saying "women" and rushes to correct the mistake – and decides that man represents her.

November just got a lot easier to call.

Sources:

• Lone Star Liberty PAC, "What does James Talarico call women?" X (formerly Twitter), May 28, 2026.
• Amy Curtis, "James Talarico Respects Women So Much He's Come Up With a New Woke Euphemism for Them," Townhall, May 29, 2026.
• Stephen Kruiser, "James Talarico Is Playing to a National Audience That Won't Be Voting for Him," PJ Media, May 28, 2026.
• Justmindy, "Keep the Kids Away from Creepy Uncle Jimmy: Talarico Calls Women 'Neighbors with a Uterus,'" Twitchy, May 28, 2026.
• Fox News, "The 'Woke' Language Democrats Have Been Told to Stop Using," 2025.