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James Talarico Regrets Going Full Woke

Also, can Stephen and Katie Miller stop whining?

Robby Soave | 5.28.2026 12:50 PM

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With the backlash to wokeness in full swing, it was probably inevitable that some political figures would come to regret the things they said and tweeted back when progressive cultural signaling felt necessary, roughly from 2014 to 2024. Republicans are out to destroy James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Texas's Senate seat, by resurfacing his most eye roll inducing takes from that time period, like when he said god was "non-binary" or when he promised to run a "non-meat" campaign in Texas in order to fight climate change. (For good measure, he was wearing a COVID-19 mask; this was in April 2022.)

Talarico now says he wishes he hadn't phrased those things like that.

"There are some statements that I've made that I certainly regret," he told CBS News. "Ken Paxton is intentionally clipping my cringey comments to distract from his career of corruption."

Talarico's acknowledgement that the........

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