Candidate briefing
James Talarico is a Texas state representative from the Austin area and Texas’s U.S. senator-elect. A Presbyterian seminarian, he won the March primary over Rep. Jasmine Crockett and defeated Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton on November 3, according to NBC News projections, flipping a Texas Senate seat for Democrats.
Talarico has been one of the Texas House’s most visible progressives on public education, reproductive freedom, and the state’s hard-right turn. Texas had not sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1988.
Why Political Revolution supports him: a working-class, values-driven Senate campaign in Texas is a national fight — and Talarico won it in the open.