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The most dangerous thing about power might be becoming afraid to lose it.

James Talarico raised an interesting point about what happens when people stay in positions of power for too long.

He claims that over time, their title can become part of who they are. And when their identity depends on keeping that position, they may start making decisions to protect it, even at the expense of the values that brought them there.

It’s one reason James says he’ll serve no more than two terms if elected to the US Senate in Texas.

Whatever your political views, it raises a question worth thinking about: How much of what we do is driven by what we believe in, and how much is driven by what we’re afraid to lose?

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Brief Summary

James Talarico links Texas inequality and political corruption to a warning about how fear of losing power can change politicians.

Key points

A crib in her closet. James Talarico describes his mother leaving an abusive relationship and raising him in a tiny apartment. He says her fighting spirit stayed with him.
Faith in public service. Talarico says faith has been the foundation of his life and that public policy is a way to love his neighbors.
Promises and the economy. Asked why Democrats lost to Trump, Talarico says many Texans hoped Trump would improve the economy, lower costs, end the Forever Wars, and release the Epstein files. He argues those promises have not been kept.

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for one of our own residents to become the world's first trillionaire while one in five Texas children live in poverty. To me, that is a spiritual sickness. Right now, it's three men who now own more wealth than the entire middle class. As someone who cares about the people in my state, that's not the future I want. We have to have a government of by and for the people. And we have to clean up the corruption in our political system. >> Is the Texas governor corrupt? >> Yes. That's a strong thing to say. >> Well, I'm an eighth generation Texan. Was born to a single mother, a preacher's daughter. She worked overtime to provide for me. My birth father

became abusive, so she packed all our stuff into her little Ford Escort. We found a little apartment. There wasn't room for a nursery, so I slept in a crib in her closet. And that fighting spirit, I feel like she passed that along to me. But also, faith has really been the foundation of my life. It's why I ran for office. And I'm trying to love my neighbor through public policy. >> You're on the verge of potentially becoming the first Democratic senator in Texas since 1988. So change is what we need most right now because everywhere I go, people are struggling to survive, struggling to afford necessities, and people are working harder than they've

ever worked. And it's because the system itself has been rigged against working people. We don't have capitalism. We have crony capitalism. Why did the Democrats lose to Trump in your view? >> I talked with a lot of Texans who thought he could get the economy back on track. They thought he was going to lower cost and the Forever Wars, release the Epstein files, but more than a year into this administration, those promises have not been kept. that he was right that the Biden administration failed us on our southern border. >> So what would you do about that though? And how do you reverse this change? And

do you have an opinion on who you think should be president in the next cycle? We should start with Donald

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