The left has a habit of saying the quiet part loud – then blaming you for hearing it.
Now Texas Democrats have handed their Senate nomination to a man who told a Fox News contributor his tweets calling white Americans a walking "virus" are nothing to apologize for.
James Talarico looked a national audience in the eye and said the values behind those tweets are still his values today – and you need to find out exactly what that means for November.
Texas Democrats Pick the Most Radical Senate Candidate in 33 Years
James Talarico is the Democratic nominee to flip John Cornyn's Texas Senate seat – the first serious Democratic challenge in over three decades.
He didn't win it quietly.
In 2020, Talarico posted a tweet thread comparing white Americans to a viral pathogen. His words: white skin gives every white American "immunity from the virus" of racism, but they "spread it wherever we go – through our words, our actions, and our systems."
It gets worse.
"We don't have to be showing symptoms – like a white hood or a Confederate flag – to be contagious," he wrote.
Translation: every white American is a disease carrier. No exceptions. No trial. No evidence required.
When Fox News contributor Jessica Tarlov confronted Talarico about the tweets at South by Southwest last Saturday, he didn't retreat. He accused MAGA voters of taking his words "out of context" and said the attacks "depend on cutting some of the quotes before they end."
Then came the tell.
"Would I word it differently? Would I use a different metaphor? Maybe," Talarico told Tarlov. "But the values that I hold are still the same."
He's not sorry. He's not embarrassed. He thinks you're the problem for being "triggered" by it.
The Playbook Texas Voters Have Seen Before
This isn't Talarico's only entry in the radical leftist hall of fame.
On the Texas House floor in 2021, Talarico declared – from a legislative podium, on camera – that "God is non-binary." His exact words: "God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between."
He's used the Bible to defend abortion. He told Joe Rogan that the story of Mary's consent in the Incarnation justifies terminating pregnancies.
In the same 2020 tweet thread, Talarico wrote that "radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country" – a line the National Republican Senatorial Committee has since turned into a digital ad playing across Texas.
When pressed on his border positions, Talarico called for the southern border to be treated "like our front porch" with "a giant welcome mat out front."
And he's called ICE officers terrorists for enforcing federal law against families in the country illegally.
This is the man Texas Democrats chose – over Jasmine Crockett – to represent their party in the most watched Senate race in the country.
Greg Abbott had the right read the moment these tweets surfaced. "If this is a real Talarico post, he is toast," the governor said. "This is Tim Walz clone territory."
Abbott was right about Walz. He's right about this.
Democrats Are Betting Texas Has Forgotten Who They Are
The left's strategy here is not complicated: dress Talarico up in faith language, call him a bipartisan moderate, and hope Texas voters don't look too closely.
It's the same play Democrats ran with Tim Walz in Minnesota – project Midwestern normalcy while holding views that would disqualify a candidate in any competitive state.
The difference is Texas.
Walz got to govern Minnesota for years before most Americans figured out who he was. Talarico is telling Texas exactly who he is right now – in his own words, on a national platform, without apology.
He believes your skin color makes you a contagious carrier of a social disease. He believes God is non-binary. He believes ICE officers are terrorists. He believes the Bible justifies abortion. And when a Fox News contributor gave him a national platform to walk any of it back, he said the values behind those tweets are still his values today.
That's not a gaffe. That's a platform.
Texas hasn't sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1988 because Texas voters understand something the national media never will: ideas have consequences. A senator who thinks your neighbors are infected doesn't fight for your community. He manages it. He monitors it. He treats the people he represents as a public health problem to be contained.
Talarico just told you that to your face. The only question left is whether Texas believes him.
Sources:
- Harold Hutchison, "James Talarico Refuses To Apologize For Tweets Saying White People Spread Racism Virus," The Daily Caller, March 16, 2026.
- Peter Pinedo, "God is non-binary: Texas Dem nominee Talarico's past remarks on abortion, race and gender draw scrutiny," Fox News, March 5, 2026.
- "Talarico leads both Cornyn and Paxton," Public Policy Polling, March 2026.
- Alex Miller, "Texas Democrat preaches civility after calling radicalized White men top terror threat," Fox News, September 22, 2025.
- "Talarico's own words rock Texas Senate race as GOP says he is radically out of touch," The Daily Caller via BlabberBuzz, March 16, 2026.
