Jimmy Kimmel Live sat down with James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas — and the interview never aired on television because of threats from the FCC. So they posted it online instead.
This is what government intimidation of the media actually looks like: not a law, not a ruling — just pressure, and a candidate interview quietly spiked. The right response is to watch it and share it. It’s a genuinely good conversation about faith, populism, and the fight against Ken Paxton in Texas.
Four nights gone wrong: a small-town bag of cash, an all-night race against eviction, a kidnapping that reopens an old case, and a freelancer who treats other people’s tragedies as inventory.
A rookie cop’s first day in a sleepy island town goes sideways when his reckless partner’s bad call leaves a woman dead and a bag of cash up for grabs. Himesh Patel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt anchor a dark comedy where nearly everyone turns out to be one payday away from something ugly, and the body count climbs in proportion to the greed.
Lynette has one night to raise $25,000 before her family loses the only home they can afford in a city being priced out from under them. Vanessa Kirby drives a thriller that plays like a tour of American precarity, where every favor, scam, and humiliation gets measured against what a person owes her family — and herself.
When widowed Tom’s young son vanishes, the abduction echoes an old serial-killer case — the one his estranged father, a retired detective, put away years ago. Adam Scott and Robert De Niro turn a kidnapping thriller into a story about grief, damaged fathers and sons, and the fear that the worst things run in the family.
Lou Bloom parlays a police scanner and a cheap camcorder into a career filming LA’s bloodiest nights for a ratings-hungry news producer — then starts improving the footage. Jake Gyllenhaal’s hollow-eyed stringer is the logical endpoint of “if it bleeds, it leads”: an economy that pays for spectacle and never asks who got hurt producing it.
James Talarico sits down with The Breakfast Club to talk about his Texas Senate race against Ken Paxton, the primary against Jasmine Crockett, Black voters and businesses, and more.
This is exactly the kind of room more Democrats should walk into — and Talarico holds his own, talking faith, populism, and corruption in plain language instead of consultant-speak. Worth a watch if you want to understand why this race is suddenly competitive.
I’m endorsing Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate in Maine.
Troy is a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, a former Maine Senate President, and Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Maine political director — a guy who punched a clock for 80-hour weeks in the woods before spending twenty years in the legislature fighting for universal school meals, lower prescription drug prices, rural health care, and union jobs, all while winning a district that went for Trump three times.
His agenda is a contract with working Mainers: stop the CMP rate hikes, free child care for working families, a public option, a Department of Housing Affordability, and stopping Wall Street from buying up Maine. It’s exactly the politics to retire Susan Collins once and for all.
I’m proud to endorse Troy Jackson. Please donate, volunteer, and spread the word before November 3.
