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Thanks Paul! Keep doing amazing things!

Please Superman….if you’re up there….allow both of them to get elected

It’s also worth reading what @therealdanrather.bsky wrote: open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

I wish Talarico were running in my state, because I would vote for him in a heartbeat! Can we clone him? 😎

And at 8pm EST YouTube goes down worldwide. Interesting.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I didn't realize until this interview that Talarico and Crockett are running for the same seat. Wow tough choice both would be great Senators.

Republicans are scared to death of Talarico because he’s so good at messaging and working a crowd. The oligarchs have taken complete control of social and traditional media.

They all dug their own grave and now have nothing except groveling for scraps of the Fox audience. Colbert is literally the only thing I will watch on CBS. ABC? Kimmel. These network idiots haven't figured out that everything Rump touches dies.

MSM can’t be trusted and are paying the price for subservience to the Trump oligarchy. The viewers they have lost will not come back. Thankful to Colbert (and Talarico) for speaking truth to power.

Not a fan of late night talk shows, so I never would have seen this if it had.

This man is the real deal!

Thank you Texas Paul.

Thank you!!

But she should be on Colbert and there should be a big ruckus so that more people tune in than would’ve ordinarily.

What’s your thoughts? I must admit TX is growing some impressive young leaders down there.

They don't hate Jasmine Crockett, but Texas Republicans were doing something to silence her but it backfire on them hugely

Just read Colbert’s usual nightly audience numbers around 2 million, but 10.5 MILLION have viewed this interview on YouTube…trying to censor ended up not working out again for this “gang that can’t shoot straight!”

This was a great interview. As a Texas resident, I felt more hope after watching that. Of course...30 mins later, YouTube went down. Hopefully, it's not related. 😬

Hey at least Bari Weiss pulled an interview with *their guy* Attia too? Same thing, right?

Dude's got IT!

Steven Colbert / Jimmy Kimmel 2028! 🇺🇸🧨🇺🇸🧨🇺🇸🧨🇺🇸🧨🇺🇸 (with a competent cabinet) Along with Zelensky, the whole world could launch the Democratic Socialist Revenge of the Comedians!!

“Don’t tell me what you think, show me what you do and I’ll tell you what you think” Or something like that 😉

Nice Streisand effect on this one.

Boycott See BS.

The U.S. Constitution and the Rule of Law should have been invoked to defend the right to exercise free expression and freedom of the press & yet CBS capitulated in anticipation. It’s that behavior that led to Nazi and fascist rule in the 1930s & 40s. SAD to see in USA @colbertlateshow.bsky.social 🇺🇸

A terrific interview. Thanks!

Anyone other than myself wonder if they deliberately created all this fuss about Talarico so that people would stop paying attention to Jasmine Crockett?

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Another sefl-imploding BS by then Trump admin lol

@CBS taught the American people this week that we don’t need them. We don’t have to watch CBS (or any of its advertisements) to get the content we want. The Talarico interview hit 5M views in just 24 hours on YouTube- AD FREE. Goodbye CBS!

Let’s use the money we save from cancelling subscriptions to support independent journalists. These people are literally putting their lives on the line.

Maybe this was the setup all along. Talarico needs to win. Why?

It says something. The Republicans must really fear this man., cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/02/when...

2,980,000 views as of 02/17/2026 6:47pm EST.

I didn't like him

Thanks for sharing! Watched and loved and made a donation! Yall need to be sooooo blue again 💙💙💙

Holy crap. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQIl...

appreciate the link Texas Paul !!

I don’t like the way this was released. This Talarico story coming out during early voting seems like a ploy of powerful men to put their thumbs on the scale to make sure Jasmine Crockett does not win. Why Colbert held his story to the morning of early voting?

Ok @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, time to book Crockett.

Loved both videos. Colbert is not getting enough credit for the way he's sticking his neck out for democracy and freedom of speech.

That doesn’t even take it to consideration the number of people who listen to it on Colbert‘s podcast channel.

The regime is scared. Good.

Thanks TP

Fantastic interview. Watched it this morning on you tube.

People need to understand that despite Talarico's sweet talk and demwashing, he's still a rabid fundie evangelical Christian, committed to turning the USA into a hallucinating theocracy where non-conforming views, beliefs, and behaviour will be outlawed, setting the country back a century or more.

I had never heard him interviewed before. How refreshing to hear 2 people who can speak in complete sentences!

2.98 million views. Streisand effect.

I forgot about the litter box in classrooms thing. 😂

Thanks @realtexaspaul.com !

Colbert's censored interview with Talarico is more than a late-night flap; it’s a window into FCC hypocrisy, corporate cowardice, and how suppression backfires in the digital age. Be careful what you wish for. open.substack.com/pub/brucemai...

I think it's hilarious that CBS banning this episode from being released resulted in it being seen by more people on Colbert's You Tube channel than would have seen in on CBS. 😂

I like him

So much to think about in the context of Australia’s ‘social cohesion’ crisis.

Aside from all of Constitutional violations presented by what Paramount did, at its core it shows how frightened Trump & the GOP are about what's coming in November. A bit of advice to the GOP. Restricting who can appear on late night TV isn't going to help you. It only motivates us more.

watching it as I type!

From Australia. My wife told me about about a politician from Texas that was turning Texas Republicans on their heads. I only started watching Talarico in the last 2 weeks and there's only two things I can take away from it. • He's a deeply Christian person • He's as honest as the day is long

Love how the censorship blew up in their faces and turned into a giant fundraiser!! I donated!!

Views of the Talarico Colbert interview are above 5 million, doubling the viewership of the Colbert show on CBS. Thanks to Trump censorship abetted by CBS and FCC,Talarico might flip Texas! What a great candidate! Shout out to Stephen Colbert for always standing up to GOPEDO oligarch bullies.

It's gotta be one or the other in the primary, and blue no matter who in the general. #Talarico

Stephen Colbert’s Unaired James Talarico Interview Hits 5.3 Million YouTube Views and Results in $2.5 Million Raised for Talarico’s Campaign in 24 Hours variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Thanks for sharing

Wait, what about the First Amendment? Does Fox News have fair and balanced news? I don't think so.

Thanks man

Agreed!

We thank you for the link. But Texas Paul, we still furious with CBS and it's time we need to do something about that network. Because Walter Cronkite would be embarrassed on how CBS News still trying to muddy the bridge

This was done on purpose by the felon to get back at Jasmine. He does not want a black woman as a senator. Colbert was used. The felon had his people make a threat and CBS knee-jerked.

Loved the interview!

CBS is either directly (a) obeying the explicit orders from the regime of the Orange Stain or (b) is afraid of incurring their wrath, and does not want to give Jasmine Crocket a venue to criticize trump under equal time provisions.

I don’t really watch so can’t say. Do know that Houston, Austin, Dallas and Ft Worth papers have endorsed Talarico. San Antonio’s has endorsed Crocket.

Thanks! Now I know who to vote for! He's got them shaking in their boots.