The biggest divide in this country is not left vs. right. It\u2019s top vs. bottom. Billionaires want us looking left and right at each other instead of looking up at them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The people at the top work so hard to keep us angry and divided because our unity is a threat to their wealth and power. So their cable news networks and their social media algorithms tear us apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They divide us by party, by race, by gender, by religion so we don\u2019t notice they\u2019re defunding our schools, gutting our healthcare, and cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends. It\u2019s the oldest strategy in the world: divide and conquer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But we will not be conquered.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re underdogs in this fight. We\u2019re going up against these billionaire mega-donors and their puppet politicians. We\u2019re going up against a rigged system. And we\u2019re going up against a lot of money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I\u2019m a former middle school teacher \u2014 I don\u2019t scare easily. And Texans don\u2019t scare easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My granddad was a Baptist preacher in South Texas. He taught me that we follow a barefoot rabbi who gave us two commandments: love God and love neighbor. Because there is no love of God without love of neighbor. Every single person bears the image of the sacred; every single person is holy \u2014 not just the neighbors who look like me or pray like me or vote like me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Those billionaires want to keep us from seeing all that we have in common. They want to keep us from realizing there\u2019s far more that unites us than divides us. Because once we do, we\u2019ll come together \u2014 across party, across race, across gender, across religion \u2014 to fix what\u2019s broken in our country and take back power for ourselves and our communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2,000 years ago, when the powerful few rigged the system, that barefoot rabbi walked into the seat of power and flipped over the tables of injustice. To those who love our country, to those who love our neighbors: <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s time to start flipping tables.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"James](\"https:\/\/jamestalarico.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/james-signature-691x1024.png\")
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