James Talarico Is Facing Serious Questions About His Creepy Conduct With Kids
Matt Margolis | 9:11 AM on May 05, 2026
While Democrats in Maine are busy nominating someone with a Nazi sympathizer problem, Texas Democrats have already settled on their own gift to Republican opposition researchers: a state representative whose old Facebook posts are raising some very uncomfortable questions about how he conducted himself around children.
Talarico, who won the Democratic nomination for the Senate earlier this year, has made his time as a Teach For America middle school teacher a key part of his political identity. He talks about it constantly — fighting for school funding, mental health resources, working families, yada, yada, yada. The classroom, in his telling, is where his moral authority was forged. So his old social media activity from those teaching days is certainly relevant.
And apparently, kinda creepy.
The RNC flagged several Facebook posts from Talarico's time teaching sixth-grade language arts in San Antonio. One 2012 post announced, "Looking forward to spending my birthday with the 6th grade boys at UT tomorrow!" A commenter apparently thought he should have reread that before hitting publish. Hard to argue with that. When you're a grown man posting publicly about spending your birthday with middle school boys, maybe have someone proofread that first.
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