The GOP Is Already Painting James Talarico as a Gay Vegan Pagan

GOP panic over James Talarico descends into full-on homophobic breakfast taco meltdown

James Talarico is already driving Republicans to be their most homophobic, and the midterms aren’t for another six months. With the scandal-plagued Ken Paxton winning the GOP Senate nomination over incumbent John Cronyn, a Texas flip now seems all but inevitable. Already, the landscape appears to be in Talarico’s favor: he’s led Paxton in every head-to-head poll since January. An ascending political star, the 36-year-old Talarico rankles Republi…

The Democrats’ Greatest Fear: The GOP Will Turn James Talarico Into a Creepy, Unmanly Weirdo

The GOP targets James Talarico’s masculinity in the 2026 Texas Senate race to divide Democrats.

The GOP’s Attacks on James Talarico Are Straight Out of the Incel Handbook

Claims about low testosterone and false accusations of veganism might play well to the online far-right, but will they win an election?

The GOP Is Already Painting James Talarico as a Gay Vegan Pagan

Republicans are trying to define James Talarico as not just a phony Christian but a phony man.- Start a free trial today for full access.

The GOP’s actual strategy against James Talarico? Call him a fa**ot

The corrupt Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, won the GOP primary runoff for a U.S. Senate seat this week, making him the official candidate and opening the general election season, where he will face off against Democratic state Rep. James Talarico. The GOP isn’t very popular right now, and they’re stuck with a polarizing Senate candidate in Texas (Paxton’s own very Christian ex-wife publicly shamed him by saying she was leaving him for “bibl…

GOP gets creepy in weak effort to smear James Talarico

Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters appeared on Newsmax Wednesday to stump for Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton by launching a bizarre attack on…