Ken Hart

Roman Catholic, small government conservative. I believe that government is a necessary evil and that minimum government equals maximum liberty. no DMs

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

I truly don't mean to sound like a reactionary right-winger, but if you genuinely hate the United States and think it's the worst most evil country on earth but you are a wealthy person with a job you can do from anywhere... why do you live there?

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

CAUGHT ON TAPE: Talarico’s Own Church Minister Says His Sudden “Moderation” Is A Con – “Once He Gets Elected, He’ll Change His Tune Back to Where He Was” | Jim Hoft, The Gateway Pundit

An undercover video obtained by The Daily Wire has blown a hole in Texas Democrat James Talarico’s latest campaign makeover.

Rev. Babs Miller, the “Minister to the Parish” at Talarico’s longtime Austin congregation, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, was recorded telling an undercover journalist that the Senate candidate’s new talking points on transgender ideology are political theater, and that the old Talarico will be back the minute the votes are counted.

“I can guarantee you that once he gets elected, he’ll change his tune back to where he was,” Miller said.

That is not a Republican talking point. That is Talarico’s own minister.

Miller did not stop there. When the journalist noted that Republicans were hammering Talarico over his infamous “God is non-binary” line, she answered, “Duh.” She then complained that Talarico is “getting some advice that I don’t think he should be following.”

“That’s what his campaign has convinced him of,” Miller said. “The Democratic Party is backing off on their stances on trans and all of this, and so his staff is encouraging him to kind of do the same thing, just for the next 50 weeks, whatever days.”

Then the tell: “I think it’s bad advice personally, but if it helps him win, okay…”

In other words: hold the radical line in private, sell a milder version in public, and snap back after Election Day.

Miller has been part of St. Andrew’s since the mid-1990s and was ordained there in 2014 as an “out” lesbian chaplain. She retired just before COVID and came back in 2022. Talarico has preached from that same pulpit, including a sermon declaring “God is not a Christian.”

More from The Daily Wire:

The Daily Wire recently obtained additional undercover footage in which Texas Democratic Party organizer Jennifer Miranda described Talarico’s shift as a misleading campaign to flip disgruntled conservative Texans not thrilled about Paxton at the top of the ticket.

“I would say right now he’s trying to target a wider net, which unfortunately means being more palatable to Republicans here in Texas,” Miranda, a manager with Texas Together and the Texas Democratic Party, said. “He really needs to win those Texans over.”

The footage was published after Talarico appeared on FOX News to whitewash his most extreme past positions as Republicans flood the airwaves with attacks seeking to define him as a radical in a culturally conservative state.

Talarico is running against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate and has spent recent weeks trying to sand off the edges of a record that Texas voters have already seen.

On Fox News, he suddenly said he would “absolutely” support a national ban on gender-transition surgeries for minors and would oppose males in girls’ sports if it threatens “safety or fairness.” That is a long way from the lawmaker who voted against Texas bills to keep boys out of girls’ sports and to restrict sex-change procedures on children.

Gateway Pundit readers have watched this act before.

As The Gateway Pundit reported in June, Talarico once described himself as “a Christian who hates Christianity” on a podcast hosted by a self-described “TransQueer” activist theologian. The same candidate has said God is “non-binary” and that there are six biological sexes.

As The Gateway Pundit later reported, he even credited Islamic mystics and the poet Rumi with shaping his faith as much as Christian writers.

This is also the candidate who, without hesitation, named Alyssa Edwards, a drag performer who has described himself as working with children, as his favorite drag queen in Texas.

And this is the candidate who campaigned alongside a surgeon who previously performed so-called “top” surgeries on minors, even after claiming he opposed those procedures.

https://t.co/Gz1hgiskOj

[🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia]

President Trump issued a rule, implementing a federal statute, making it harder for those likely to take U.S. welfare to obtain green cards.

22 Democrat governors and the DC mayor sued.

Democrats demand more foreigners on welfare.

Let that sink in.

https://t.co/c4FjEbmSXH

[Meg Kinnard @MegKinnardAP]

Some personal news:

FIVE YEARS without evidence of disease! 🎉🪅🥳

God is good - and so are the incredible doctors and staff at @UTMDAnderson.

Get a second (or third or fourth) opinion, folks. It literally saved my life.

Self-exam. Get a mammogram. ADVOCATE for yourself.

(Because often, those first two things aren't enough)

#BeatCancer 👠👊

[Attorney General Ken Paxton @KenPaxtonTX]

This is absolutely DISGUSTING. 

James Talarico said parents who don’t transition their kids are “abusive” and thinks they should have their kids taken from them.

[Ken Hart @Hoghart1]

@JohnCornyn @greg_ip @WSJ Just here for the ratio

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

Nothing says ‘Never forget’ like 2 Communists laughing through the 9/11 Memorial…

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

When Mamdani talks Tomorrow Remember this picture.

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

I don’t want $5,000. I want the SAVE Act passed.

[Ken Hart @Hoghart1]

@ProfRobAnderson You wouldn’t want to violate your chicken’s privacy.

[Fenix Ammunition @FenixAmmunition]

The judge said he exercised "poor judgement" by conceal carrying a firearm in a mall, where he was subsequently attacked and thus used his firearm in self defense.

There can be no quarter for people in our society with a suicidal mindset.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

We’d be better off without TSA.

[Kenny Webster @KennethRWebster]

Normalize shaming commies

[Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel]

Both parties engage in giveaways of some sort 6 months leading up to an election. There are elections every two years. This is why our deficit is so bad.

[Brian Fagan @bdfagan]

Remarkable statistic:

Prior to Western Michigan, college football teams were 110,352 - 0 when leading after the end of regulation, dating back to 1869.

[EllyKayUSA @EllyKayUSA]

No! They need to cut spending, and any money they've recouped they need to apply to the 40 Trillion dollar debt.

What are they doing to the Republican party?

I'm officially done with Vance. 😤

[Adam Urato, MD @AdamUrato1]

Now that the second Pennsylvania death has been revealed, it is clear that Gov. Shapiro's press conference (& the media coverage) was misleading.

1. Gov. Shapiro used the term "unvaccinated" to describe the two. But neither child was eligible for the MMR vaccine. The boy died right after birth, and the girl at 6 weeks.

2. Gov. Shapiro stated that the deaths were preventable. This does not appear to be the case. All the facts are not known, but the best current evidence suggests the boy likely died from trauma from delivery or resuscitation, not measles. The girl had Amish Lethal Microcephaly, a condition that virtually always results in death in the first months of life. Calling her death “preventable” was misleading in that it strongly implied she would otherwise have survived infancy (and, again, she wouldn't have been vaccinated at that age.)

When Gov. Shapiro mentioned two "unvaccinated" individuals whose deaths were "completely preventable," how many listeners thought one would be a newborn with a traumatic rupture of the spleen & the other a six-week-old with a severe genetic condition that's lethal in the first few months of life?

The natural impression was that Gov. Shapiro was referring to two vaccine-eligible people who died from measles because they declined vaccination.

Gov. Shapiro (and the media) should apologize & publicly correct the record. The public has lost trust in health officials & the press because of misleading announcements and news coverage. This incident has only heightened that loss of trust. https://t.co/z4XuhH1NR0

[Not Important @nothingEvrHppns]

@SuzanneCitere @jasonbrodeur You're the perfect example of the the New Yorker who escapes the blue shithole but then is so diluted mentally that you try to turn the place you moved to into another blue shithole.

[Ken Hart @Hoghart1]

@BoSnerdley Must have been a pretty great parking spot.

[Meara @MillennialOther]

In which Hank Johnson fails to update us on when Guam is going to tip over and instead smears Clarence Thomas and The Federalist Society as racist. 🤡

Cc @MarkPaoletta @JCNSeverino @mrddmia @ComfortablySmug @HolmesJosh @MichaelDuncan @JohnAshbrook @RuthlessPodcast @FedSoc