{"id":312245,"date":"2026-05-28T11:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312245\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:13:06","slug":"senate-hopefuls-preview-energy-fights-in-oil-rich-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312245\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate hopefuls preview energy fights in oil-rich Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Democrat James Talarico is working to define himself as a moderate on energy and other issues, as Republicans escalate their plans to label him an anti-fossil fuel radical.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate \u2014 unseating longtime incumbent John Cornyn \u2014 both sides are turning their full attention to a general election contest that could help decide the balance of power in Washington next year.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton has been a defender of the state\u2019s oil and gas industry and has used his perch as attorney general to fight federal rules. Talarico, a state representative, has also spoken warmly about fossil fuel jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve called out the extremes in both parties, on the right and left, and as you know, called out President Biden for failing to secure our southern border,\u201d Talarico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/27\/talarico-exclusive-interview-paxton-fundraising-texas-00937600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told POLITICO<\/a> in an interview after Paxton\u2019s win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Democrat James Talarico is working to define himself as a moderate on energy and other issues, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-312245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}