“Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico is running from his past because he knows he can’t get elected in Texas if he tells the truth. Prior to his run, his website read: “I’m not afraid to stand up to Republican extremism. “You’ll notice he says, he mentions that Republican extremists are 'bullying trans kids and banning books,'” Gonzales says. “And then curiously in early September 2025 as he was announcing his Senate run, these sentences just poof, vanished, out of nowhere,” Gonzales says. “There’s nothing in there about trans kids anymore.