Texas Democrats Chant ‘We’re All Going To Hell’ In Solidarity With James Talarico

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (LifeSiteNews) – A roomful of Texas Democrats chanted “we’re all going to hell” in solidarity with left-wing US Senate nominee James Talarico, in a moment ostensibly meant to express defiance of recent criticism he received but which critics would argue is more fitting than the party intended.

Democrats initially framed Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian and current Texas state representative, as a mainstream figure and rising political talent capable of appealing across partisan lines due in part to his ostensible faith background, which was swiftly quashed not only by his strident left-wing stances on abortion, sexuality, and more, but by claiming Christianity endorses them.

LifeSiteNews reported earlier this month that, while addressing the Republican Party of Texas’s 2026 State Convention on June 12, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick gave Talarico a grave warning: “I’ve never seen so much blasphemy from anyone running for office. Let me tell you what, I’m going to pray for that guy, because when he loses the Senate race, if he campaigns against God as he’s been doing, he’s going to Hell, for sure.”

Now, the Christian Post reports that over 5,000 Democrats gathered this past weekend for the Texas Democratic Party’s 2026 State Convention, where the party’s state Land Commissioner nominee Benjamin Flores took the opportunity to rebuke Patrick.

“They say that James is trans, we’re all trans. When they say James is a gay, tofu-eating vegan, we’re all gay, tofu-eating vegans,” he declared. “And when they say James is going to Hell, we’ll say we’re all going to Hell.” In a viral clip, the audience responds “we’re all going to hell” before Flores completes the pattern.

Since rising to national prominence, an extensive array of past “woke” statements have come back to haunt Talarico.

He has falsely claimed that the Bible “doesn’t mention abortion or gay marriage,” while asserting the “closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people.” In 2022, he urged former President Joe Biden to establish abortion centers on federal property across the country, to counter what he called an “anti-choice” threat to “our most basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

“God is both masculine and feminine, and everything in between. God is nonbinary,” Talarico declared in 2021. This week, he explained to CBS News that he “was being intentionally provocative with that statement but what it means is that God can’t be defined by human categories,” while acknowledging there were “some statements that I’ve made that I certainly regret,” and complaining that Paxton was “intentionally clipping my cringey comments to distract from his career of corruption.”

Talarico will face Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn for the GOP nomination to the seat, overcoming fears of his electability and accusations of corruption and infidelity thanks to a combination of his proactive record as AG, discontent with Cornyn’s more moderate record, and a late-breaking endorsement from President Donald Trump.

Some GOP analysts continue to fear trading Cornyn for Paxton gives Democrats an opportunity to pick up a critical Senate seat in the red state, or at least force the party to spend more to hold onto it than they otherwise would have, potentially at the expense of other races. Others maintain that Talarico’s radicalism squanders whatever hopes Democrats might have had.

RaceToTheWH currently projects Republicans to just barely hold the Senate and Democrats to take the House of Representatives.