Wilber came to this country legally. He has no criminal record.
An ICE agent shot him anyway.
He slept on a prison cell floor with a bullet still lodged in his back. He can’t move the left side of his body.
This isn’t law enforcement. It’s lawlessness.
Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2026: $719 billion
Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2026: $255 billion
Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2026: $212 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2026: $7.25
Obscene. We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.
.@JamesTalarico: We are living in an era of corruption. I don’t just mean illegal activity. I mean corruption in the deeper sense — the rotting of something from the inside. Politicians serving billionaire megadonors instead of their constituents. The top 1% owning more wealth than the entire middle class. For-profit social media algorithms sowing division and turning neighbor against neighbor.
Our systems are rotting from the inside out. The most powerful people in this country are profiting off our pain, our division, and our disconnection from one another.
This is, at its root, a spiritual crisis. And it will require a spiritual solution.
If you paid $1 in federal income taxes this year, you paid more than:
Walt Disney
Citigroup
CVS
Kohl's
Ticketmaster
Tesla
United Airlines
GoDaddy
Paypal
Palantir
Roku
HP
3M
PG&E
Halliburton
That’s absurd. We need real and progressive tax reform.
.@jamestalarico: I've had a lot of interviews with national media. No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. No one's asked me about the cost of prescription drugs. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.
The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare. Undocumented people aren't defunding our schools. It's the billionaires and their puppet politicians
.@JamesTalarico: The richest 1% of Americans now own more wealth than the entire middle class. And they aren't just buying yachts and jets—they’re buying power.
Our schools are being defunded, our healthcare premiums are going up, and our Social Security benefits are under threat so billionaires can get another tax break. With this kind of corruption, it's easy to be cynical. But inside every cynic is a wounded idealist.
The system is rigged and the deck is stacked, but these are man-made systems. We, the people, can take them back.
.@JamesTalarico: The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on Earth is not because we can't feed the poor. It's because we can't satisfy the rich.
Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire. He's about to make more money than every elementary school teacher in America combined. Do we really believe one man is worth more than every elementary school teacher?
Why do we have a trillionaire when there are kids without enough to eat, cancer patients going bankrupt, and veterans sleeping on the street?
I'm all for success, but this is not success. This is hoarding. What leads a person to accumulate more money than they could possibly spend in 100 lifetimes when there are people starving in this one?
What we can do is tax trillionaires out of existence and use that money to guarantee food, healthcare, and housing for every single American.
.@jamestalarico: I frankly am tired of the "thoughts and prayers" rhetoric from our leaders here in Texas and in our nation's capital.
I believe in the power of prayer. I believe prayer changes lives. I believe prayer changes the world. But there is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem that we're not willing to solve ourselves.
Scripture reminds us that faith without works is dead — the time for thoughts and prayers is over. It's time for us to act.
.@JamesTalarico: When did pedophilia become a partisan issue?
The American people deserve to know the whole truth about Jeffrey Epstein and every single powerful person who enabled him — every name, every flight log, every cover-up, all of it.
The White House and congressional Republicans are hiding the Epstein files. These are the same politicians who call librarians groomers and call their political opponents pedophiles.
To be clear, if there is a Democrat on that list, I will be the first to call for their prosecution. If there's one thing we should all be able to agree on, it's that no one, including the President of the United States, should be able to cover up crimes against children.
.@JamesTalarico: The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. Muslims are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare. Muslims aren't defunding our schools. Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends. It’s the billionaires and their puppet politicians.
The culture wars are a smokescreen. They want us looking left and right at our neighbors instead of looking up at them. The biggest divide in our politics is not left versus right, it’s top versus bottom.
.@JamesTalarico: If you read the New Testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching. He spends most of his time healing the sick.
Right now we have politicians in Congress with ‘Christ follower’ in their Twitter bios, but they are kicking the sick off their healthcare.
It is estimated that 51,000 Americans will die needlessly because of Republicans’ health care cuts. That's 51,000 flesh and blood human beings. That's a moral crime.
In the wealthiest country in human history, no one should die because they can't afford their health insurance. We as lawmakers have a special obligation to heal people, not make them sicker.