Texas Democrat James Talarico has amassed a huge war chest in his bid to flip a Lone Star State’s Senate seat in November.

Talarico, a member of the state House who beat U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett for his party’s nomination in March, raised $27 million in the first three months of 2026, his campaign announced on Wednesday.

The Democrat’s haul makes him one of the biggest fundraisers in the history of Senate campaigns.

Jaime Harrison, also a Democrat, holds the Senate fundraising record for a quarter, having raised $57 million in one quarter of his unsuccessful 2020 bid to unseat Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

Harrison’s record beat that of Democrat Beto O’Rourke, who raised $38.1 million in one quarter during his unsuccessful 2018 race against Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

Texas Republican primary voters have yet to make a final decision on their candidate to run against Talarico, as incumbent Sen. John Cornyn is advancing to a runoff against his challenger, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

President Donald Trump has not endorsed in the Republican primary.

“James is proud to be the only candidate in this race not taking a dime of corporate PAC money, shattering grassroots fundraising records with donations from 246 Texas counties and the help of over 500,000 small dollar contributors — unlike John Cornyn and Ken Paxton, who have raked in millions of dollars from special interests and fought to enrich their billionaire donors while working Texans struggle,” JT Ennis, a Talarico spokesman, told The Daily Signal in a statement.

“Our people-powered campaign is going to change this broken political system by defeating corrupt politicians like John Cornyn and Ken Paxton this November,” Ennis added.

Cornyn’s campaign said a statement Wednesday that he raised $9 million dollars in the first quarter of 2026 — a number referring to the over $7.2 million given to his authorized fundraising committee and $1.7 million to the campaign itself.

In a statement to The Daily Signal, Cornyn campaign senior advisor Matt Mackowiak argued Talarico’s numbers are inflated by out-of-state money.

“James Talarico is raising massive amounts of money through Act Blue and major donors in New York and California,” said Mackowiak.

Talarico’s campaign said in their announcement that many of the “grassroots fundraising” donations came form “working Texans,” mentioning that “97% of contributions to the campaign were $100 or less.”

Mackowiak also argued Cornyn’s numbers position him well in the Republican primary.

“To date, Senator Cornyn has raised over $20 million for the race, more than four times what Ken Paxton has raised,” said Mackowiak.

“Democrats nominated their strongest candidate for U.S. Senate, and Republicans must nominate John Cornyn, their strongest candidate for U.S. Senate to ensure Texas stays red and we maximize the chances to win the five new Congressional seats.”

The Paxton campaign’s report, which must be filed Wednesday, has yet to be published. Paxton’s and Talarico’s campaigns did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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AUSTIN, TX — Local couple Tyler and Madison Hansen expressed grave concerns this week that having a baby might significantly disrupt the many hours a day they currently spend sitting three inches apart on the sofa staring at their respective iPhones in total silence.

In a new twist on the epidemic of teacher sexual misconduct in the U.S, a Florida music teacher has been charged with terrifying a teenage student by kissing her between the breasts — and showing her a tattoo on his chest to reflect his love for her.

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LIV Golf executives have called an "emergency summit" in New York as rumors swirl that the whole venture is about to shut down.

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We might want to listen to what the farmers are telling us, because if they don’t grow our food we do not eat. Coming into this year, we were already facing the worst farming crisis in America in at least 50 years. Farmers all over the nation are drowning in debt, and farm bankruptcies have been soaring. In all my years, I have never seen America’s farmers so angry, and now the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has made things much worse. Spring planting season is here and there is a global scramble for whatever supplies of nitrogen fertilizer that happen to be available. As a result, prices have skyrocketed and farmers all over the planet are facing some incredibly tough choices.

That is even true here in the United States.

According to a brand new survey that was just conducted by the American Farm Bureau Federation, 70 percent of U.S. farmers say that they will not be able to purchase all of the fertilizer that they need in 2026 because it has become so expensive…

Conducted by the American Farm Bureau Federation April 3-11, the survey shows 70% of respondents say fertilizer is so expensive that they will not be able to buy all the fertilizer they need.

More than 5,700 farmers, both Farm Bureau members and non-members, from every state and Puerto Rico took the survey. Farm Bureau economists analyzed the results in the latest Market Intel.

The analysis reveals that almost 8 in 10 farmers in the southern U.S. say they can’t afford all needed supplies this year, followed by the Northeast and West at 69% and 66%, respectively, compared to 48% of the farmers in the Midwest.

Fertilizer prices were already at frighteningly high levels even before the war with Iran started, and since that time they have surged dramatically…

Nitrogen fertilizer prices have gone up more than 30 percent since the start of the conflict on Feb. 28, according to Market Intel. Combined fuel and fertilizer costs have also risen between 20 and 40 percent, with urea prices jumping 47 percent since late February.

Many people out there don’t seem to understand this yet, but this is going to affect all of us.

If 70 percent of U.S. farmers use less fertilizer this year, those farmers will grow less food.

If there is less food available, prices will go up.

Needless to say, food prices are already at ridiculous levels, but they are going to go even higher.

In impoverished countries, conditions will be even worse.

Due to a historic lack of nitrogen fertilizer, hundreds of millions of families that are currently barely existing “may soon find they are only able to afford little or no food”…

In many parts of the world, vulnerable families who today are currently managing to put some food on the table may soon find they are only able to afford little or no food.

“If this conflict continues, it will send shockwaves across the globe, and families who already cannot afford their next meal will be hit the hardest,” said WFP Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer Carl Skau.

I wish that I could get people to understand how serious this is.

Goldman Sachs is publicly admitting that the global fertilizer crisis is spreading a lot faster than they were originally projecting.

We desperately need the Strait of Hormuz to be reopened immediately, but that simply isn’t going to happen.

The Iranians continue to strangle commercial traffic through the Strait, and the U.S. has now “completely” cut off traffic to Iranian ports…

The U.S. blockade of Iranian ports is now fully into effect, “completely” cutting off Tehran’s international sea trade that powers about 90% of its economy, the U.S. Central Command said late Tuesday stateside.

The announcement comes at a time when the White House has been signaling a diplomatic solution to the conflict in the Middle East, as discussions around continuing negotiations with Iran are underway.

“A blockade of Iranian ports has been fully implemented as U.S. forces maintain maritime superiority in the Middle East,” said Brad Cooper, Centcom commander, highlighting that it was achieved under 36 hours of President Donald Trump’s order.

The Trump administration is convinced that this blockade will force the Iranians to give in.

According to U.S. Central Command, the first 48 hours of the blockade have been a resounding success…

But the Iranians are showing no signs of backing down.

On Wednesday, an official with the IRGC warned of severe consequences if the U.S. does not end the blockade…

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announced Wednesday that Tehran would not allow the import or export of goods through the Persian Gulf, the nearby Gulf of Oman and the Red Sea unless the United States lifts the blockade it imposed earlier this week around the Strait of Hormuz.

Ali Abdollahi, commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya emergency headquarters, said the measures would be “firm and decisive” steps to protect Iran’s national interests and sovereignty.

According to Abdollahi, if the U.S. continues the blockade Iran has decided that it “will not allow any exports or imports to continue in the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman, and the Red Sea”…

In his statement broadcast by Iranian state television, Abdollahi said Iran would move to disrupt shipping routes in the Red Sea and elsewhere if the U.S. continued its blockade, initiated by President Donald Trump.

“The powerful armed forces of the Islamic Republic will not allow any exports or imports to continue in the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman, and the Red Sea,” the commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said.

If Iran is able to successfully stop commercial traffic from traveling through all of those waterways, it will greatly intensify the economic problems that we are starting to witness all over the globe.

In California, the average price of a gallon of gasoline has already almost reached 6 dollars…

Gas prices are soaring across the country, but especially in California. The Golden State average is now nearly $6 per gallon — 40 percent above the national figure. That gap is likely to widen: UC Davis economists estimate that Californians could soon be paying more than $2.50 a gallon above the national average.

In the United Kingdom, officials are bracing for widespread fuel shortages in “two or three weeks”…

Sources told ITV News that the UK is ‘two or three weeks away’ from shortages of diesel and jet fuel, although petrol supplies are healthier.

The Government is said to be facing ‘difficult decisions’ over how to allot fuel supplies, including how to keep ‘ancillary power’ going for NHS hospitals.

If the war with Iran is not resolved quickly, this will only be the tip of the iceberg.

The Iranians are holding the global economy hostage, and they fully realize that this gives them a tremendous amount of leverage.

But there is no way that the U.S. and Israel will ever agree to their demands.

So for now we seem to have an unsolvable problem on our hands, and meanwhile the damage that is being done to the global economy is getting worse with each passing day.

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A book by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar promoting her immigration legislation simply recycles old ideas and relies on some center-left sources, a conservative watchdog group says.

The Florida Republican member’s book, “Dignity Not Citizenship: The Truth About Immigration No One Is Telling You,” is an argument for her bill called the DIGNIDAD Act, short for Dignity for Immigrants while Guarding our Nation to Ignite and Deliver the American Dream Act. The bill—which mixes tough immigration enforcement with granting some legal status to illegal aliens—has 20 Republican and 20 Democrat cosponsors.

However, the sources used to back up Salazar’s case in the book are not conservative, according to an analysis of the text by the Oversight Project, a watchdog group.

Her book, released last November, calls out the Biden administration’s open-borders policy but also says Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids aren’t working. She opposes mass deportation, arguing it is costly and bad for the economy.

The Oversight Project analysis contends that Salazar’s book used some passages that didn’t give adequate attribution to sources such as the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Niskanen Center, and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

The Capital Research Center, a conservative investigative organization that monitors nonprofits, didn’t categorize the Peterson Institute as on the right or left, but it described the Niskanen Center as a libertarian environmental think tank and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy as left of center.

The Oversight Project analysis found that other sources for Salazar’s book were fully attributed. Yet those were not conservative sources.

One example is the Brookings Institution, which has employed members of past Democrat and Republican administrations, though many Brookings donors have been left of center, according to the Capital Research Center.

Other sources for her book include the Bipartisan Policy Center, which CRC describes as a center-left think tank, and the National Bureau of Economic Research, which is not associated with the right or left. Another source is the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which is clearly conservative on numerous moral and cultural issues but has been critical of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. These organizations were cited with proper attribution, according to the Oversight Project analysis.

The analysis found a “high” concern level for only passing attribution to research by Michael Clemens of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that focuses on global trade, finance, and labor.

It also found the Salazar book mentions “Michael Clemens, writing for the Peterson Institute,” but the prose in Salazar’s book, such as “incomes dropped, land values collapsed,” was similar to wording from Clemens. Her book “mirrors the structure and content” of the Peterson article, according to the Oversight Project analysis.

Salazar argues in the book that deportations were unsuccessful during the eras of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the presidencies of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, and under President Calvin Coolidge—information detailed by Clemens, the Oversight Project argues.

“It looks like Salazar is not thinking for herself. She certainly isn’t writing for herself,” Oversight Project President Mike Howell told The Daily Signal.

Howell said it wasn’t plagiarism but called it “sloppy regurgitation” of points made by the Washington establishment that has promoted amnesty for illegal aliens.

“These are old, tired ideas that the swamp has pushed for decades,” Howell said. “This lacks dignity. It would be more dignified if she would think of her own arguments.”

The Daily Signal emailed spokespersons for Salazar on Monday and Tuesday and left voicemails in both the Washington, D.C., office and the main district office in Miami.

The Daily Signal also contacted Skyhorse Publishing, which owns Regnery Publishing, the publisher of the book, for comment by email and phone on Tuesday.

Other examples were labeled in the analysis as moderate or low with regard to attribution.

The analysis asserted Salazar “underattributed” tax data from a 2024 report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

A book passage from Chapter 5 says, “In 2022 alone, undocumented immigrants paid an estimated $96 billion in federal, state, and local taxes. That breaks down to roughly $15 billion in sales and excise taxes, $10 billion in property taxes, and $7 billion in personal income and business taxes.”

The Oversight Project says these specific breakdown figures come directly from the institute’s analysis, but the book doesn’t cite the institute study that gained news coverage when it was released.

It further says the book has “close paraphrasing” of a Niskanen Center article in Chapter 1 that describes labor shortages. The specific sequence of examples—such as pharmacies, shipping hubs, and delivery—was close to the sequence in the Niskanen report, the Oversight Project says. However, its analysis says the “Niskanen Center is named once in passing” but contends this was a “lightly reworded version of the original article’s argument structure.”

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WILMINGTON, DE — Secret Service agents reportedly looked at each other and shook their heads on Wednesday, as former President Joe Biden committed an unfortunate act of mistaken identity while his motorcade passed a house with a lawn jockey.

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is applauding the Kentucky Legislature for overriding Governor Andy Beshear’s vetoes of two pro-Second Amendment bills, sending a message that the rights of law-abiding citizens outweigh the stroke of a prejudiced, partisan pen.

Democrat Beshear had vetoed House Bill 78 and House Bill 312, following an anti-gun-rights party line rather than principle. HB 78 establishes liability protections from frivolous lawsuits against firearms manufacturers, distributors and retailers involving specified legal actions arising from criminal or unlawful use of firearms or ammunition. HB 312 authorizes the Kentucky State Police (KSP) to issue provisional licenses to young adults in the 18-to-20-year age group so they may carry concealed firearms and other deadly weapons for personal protection.

“We are both delighted and proud of the Kentucky legislators who returned to Frankfort for these important votes,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “By overriding Gov. Beshear’s vetoes, lawmakers in the Bluegrass State have exercised common sense by rejecting political nonsense, which prefers to penalize a lawful industry for criminal misuse of its products, while also practicing age discrimination against young adults by denying them their full rights of citizenship.

“What happened in Kentucky should be considered a signal to the anti-rights extremists to stop blaming an entire industry for the country’s violent crime problem,” he continued, “and to also stop restricting the rights of an entire age class, which can serve in the military, start businesses, get married and run for office.

“We chastised Gov. Beshear for following his party’s anti-gun-rights dogma when he vetoed House Bill 312 earlier this month,” Gottlieb said, “and we’re grateful the legislature responded to our call to override that veto. While the governor has opposed a ban on so-called ‘assault weapons’ and believes in reforming current law to allow medical marijuana users to retain their Second Amendment rights, he was wrong on these vetoes. We congratulate Kentucky legislators for making things right.”

Conservative former Mayor of Lima Rafael López Aliaga on Tuesday demanded the annulment of Peru's yet-to-be-decided presidential elections.

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Anthropic has publicly come out against a proposed Illinois law supported by OpenAI that would protect AI companies from legal responsibility if their systems are used to inflict large-scale harm, such as mass casualties or property damage exceeding $1 billion.

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Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters at the White House on Wednesday, April 15.

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Sandro Castro, the “influencer” grandson of late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, released a new video this week criticizing the worsening shortages of fuel and water in Cuba — two of the many consequences of the disastrous communist regime forcefully imposed by his family.

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