As the great Ella Langley once <a href="https://youtu.be/hLOheGDwD_0?si=xqXiZQc1dig3-s1X">said</a>, &#8220;He&#8217;s choosin&#8217; Texas, I can tell by the way he&#8217;s two-steppin&#8217; &#8217;round the room. And judgin&#8217; by the smile she&#8217;s putting on his face, there&#8217;s nothing I can do.&#8221;
A perfect song. A perfect melody. A perfect metaphor.
Will Texas choose Texas? The tried and true, the Texas they know and love, the Texas they always fall back on because she&#8217;s stable, shares the same values, and abides by the same laws of the land?
In the song, both Texas and Tennessee were great options. In this scenario, however, Attorney General Ken Paxton is Texas. And State Representative James Talarico is Tennessee, with a whole lot more estrogen than Ella Langley and a whole lot fewer attractive characteristics.
Actually, that would be doing an injustice to Tennessee. He&#8217;s more like Seattle, Washington.
Democrats are trying for the millionth time to &#8220;take Texas,&#8221; but they continue to forget who actually lives there and keep putting up candidates who represent the opposite of the Lone Star State. Texas ain&#8217;t choosin&#8217; Talarico, and here&#8217;s why.
This week, Texans chose their fighters for November. Trump-backed Attorney General Ken Paxton decisively beat incumbent Senator John Cornyn for the Republican ticket. In March, on the Democrat side, State Representative James Talarico, to our chagrin, beat the lovely Representative Jasmine Crockett, who would&#8217;ve been quite entertaining to watch flail about.
But Talarico is already getting dragged through the media, and not without good reason. He&#8217;s a nutcase. He&#8217;s everything wrong with the woke religious Left jammed into a small, feminine <a href="https://x.com/realBrandonGill/status/2059624531837231475">body</a>.
His latest blemish, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-book-is-gay-read-the-sexually-explicit-volumes-james-talaricos-church-gives-kids?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=29&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=%E2%80%98God+Is+Queer%E2%80%99%3A+See+The+Sexually+Explicit+Books+James+Talarico%E2%80%99s+Church+Gives+Kids">reported</a> exclusively by the Daily Wire, is that the church the former pastor preached at is pushing radical gender ideology on children through libraries stocked with &#8220;banned books&#8221; containing descriptions of anal rape, incest, and oral sex.
He was asked on a podcast to name something he loved that wasn&#8217;t family or friends. He answered, &#8220;trans children.&#8221; He thinks the Bible is pro-abortion. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-the-bible-still-doesnt-advocate-for-abortion">It’s not.</a> He believes God is &#8220;non-binary.&#8221; He declared Jesus a &#8220;radical feminist.&#8221; He said atheists are &#8220;more Christ-like&#8221; than Christians. He thinks illegal aliens are &#8220;more patriotic&#8221; than Americans. He believes there are six biological sexes. He called America&#8217;s border a &#8220;giant welcome mat.&#8221; He posts guidelines for evading ICE. He wants to abolish prisons.
In an ominous sign of what we&#8217;re seeing now, he announced in 2022 (and resurfaced in 2026) that his campaign, in one of the biggest cattle-ranching states in America, had &#8220;officially become a non-meat campaign&#8221; to combat climate change.
This, among a myriad of other reasons, including that Talarico is fully on board with red-flag gun confiscation laws and killing constitutional carry in the state where the Second Amendment isn&#8217;t just a right but damn near a religion, is precisely why real Texas is going to cattle-stomp this guy come November.
Texas is the conservative stronghold of beef, barbecue, border security, family, fossil fuels, cowboys, firearms, patriotism, and unapologetic faith. Not Seattle soy-boy progressivism wrapped in a fake clerical collar.
James Talarico doesn&#8217;t just disagree with Texas values. He is the walking, talking rejection of everything that makes this state the envy of the country.
That&#8217;s exactly why it&#8217;s so insulting and alarming that Democrats would even try to run him. At least when they tried this last time with Robert &#8220;Beto&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke (say that with a surfer-dude accent for maximum impact), he was slightly less feminine and slightly less woke. Still a slap in the face to Texans, and he was crushed in rural Texas and conservative strongholds where the margins are simply too big to overcome. Republicans carried Texas statewide by double digits in 2022, and no Democrat has won a statewide race here since 1994. That wall hasn&#8217;t moved. It&#8217;s gotten taller.
Here&#8217;s what the radical Left isn&#8217;t doing a good job of hiding: Talarico isn&#8217;t a miscalculation. He&#8217;s a business decision. Democrats know he can&#8217;t win Texas. They&#8217;re running him to light up coastal donors and build a progressive media presence, using the Lone Star State as a stage rather than a target. Which is actually more cynical than simply being wrong about the electorate. They&#8217;re not trying to represent Texans. They&#8217;re performing for people who&#8217;ve never been there.
The vehicle they&#8217;ve chosen for this performance is faith. Democrats are deliberately propping up progressive &#8220;Christian&#8221; voices to launder their most extreme agenda through the language of the pulpit. It&#8217;s the same playbook that turned mainline Protestant churches into rainbow-flag social-justice factories. They know they can&#8217;t sell open borders, child gender mutilation, and abolishing prisons on the merits, so they&#8217;re hijacking Jesus Himself to move the product. This isn&#8217;t tolerance; it&#8217;s ideological conquest dressed up in piety. If they can ever flip the biggest, baddest red state in America with this not-so-Trojan horse, the GOP will have a massive problem on its hands.
Ken Paxton, on the other hand, is from Texas. You can tell.
Tuesday night, the Trump-backed AG didn&#8217;t just win a primary. He toppled John Cornyn, the Senate&#8217;s number-two Republican and the living definition of the establishment old guard, which tells you exactly where the Texas GOP actually stands. Paxton earned it. He&#8217;s spent years suing the Biden administration to lock down the border, defend the unborn, protect the Second Amendment, and beat back woke indoctrination in schools and courts, winning more than three out of every four of those lawsuits. He&#8217;s a battle-tested bulldog who stands for beef, borders, Bibles, and bold Lone Star independence. The exact opposite of what Democrats are trying to peddle.
Texas isn&#8217;t just choosing a senator in November. They&#8217;re choosing between two entirely different theories of what Texans are. Talarico&#8217;s entire platform is built on the premise that Texans need to be managed, corrected, and guided toward someone else&#8217;s values. Paxton&#8217;s is built on the premise that they don&#8217;t. That&#8217;s the whole election in one sentence.
Conservatives are a simple folk who don&#8217;t require much. Stay out of our way. Protect our private property. Cut the regulations so we can flourish, and stop taxing away the money we work hard for. Small government. Big families. A listening ear, not a lecture.
Talarico is just too much. We&#8217;ve gotten the ick.
So choose right, Texas. Choose Texas. Choose Paxton. You know the way you&#8217;re leaning. I can tell by the way you&#8217;re two-stepping.

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