Axios' far-left “reporter” Zachary Basu is back with another dishonest story, this one about the far-left Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico and his race with Ken Paxton, describing this as “a national laboratory for anti-‘woke’ politics.”

The Axios reporter puts the word “woke” in quotes, as if wokeness doesn’t exist. That’s because Axios is woke.

For those who don’t know, Axios is one of those “insider” publications, supposedly with influence over Beltway politicians and the media, that provide the “scoop” on national and world events. It is media bias packaged in a different way.

Axios itself glorifies transgender journalists and executives, including Ina Fried and Jess Szmajda.

When the White House announced that it would “ignore reporters whose emails contain gender pronouns in the signature,” Axios was outraged and claimed the move was “part of the Trump administration's pattern of trying to control the press,” a blatant lie.

In 2023, Axios highlighted “Trans visibility in television.”

Regarding Talarico, President Trump said, “He’s a disaster candidate. I think Ken Paxton is going to destroy him.”

Hence, the media want to save Talarico from his weird views. Like those in the legacy media, Axios wants to present Talarico as a modern Christian nice young man with a fresh face.

However, in addition to his claims that there are six biological sexes and God is non-binary, he declared in 2022, “It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect animals in all aspects of society." His campaign for the Texas House became “a non-meat campaign.” While currently denying claims of being a vegan, he said, “We are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses.”

That doesn’t fly in Texas, the leading cattle producing state.

While Democrats will exploit Paxton’s personal problems, including a divorce, his so-called corrupt practices in office that are now being publicized by the Democrats were never prosecuted by the Biden Administration, despite “a high-stakes federal investigation into whether he abused his office to aid a political donor.” One of Paxton's lawyers said, “I never thought they had a case they could make.”

Paxton, a strong Trump supporter, defeated Senator John Cornyn in the primary by a 63.8% to 36.2% margin.

Paxton’s unmarried Democrat opponent Talarico is the subject of rumors about his own sexuality. Homosexual media are calling him “a charismatic Democrat who wears his Christianity on his sleeve…,” but claims he is “straight and cis,” a term meaning a person who identifies with “the sex they were assigned at birth,” in gay parlance.

Suddenly to rebut the rumors, his “mysterious girlfriend” surfaced.

The dishonest Axios reporter says White House adviser Stephen Miller “falsely” labeled him as the Democrats' “first transgender Senate candidate.” However, we don’t know what his self-proclaimed battle with masculinity really means. Is he straight? Or is he struggling with his sexual identity?

Castrating Kids

Talarico uses the language of transgenderism and favors the practice, even on kids. Indeed, he says, “trans children are God’s children, made in God’s own image. There’s nothing wrong with them. Nothing at all. They are perfect. They are beautiful and they are sacred.”

But Axios defends him, saying the Republican strategy is to use Talarico's 2021 floor speech declaring that "God is nonbinary," along with “past comments on racism, whiteness and trans children, to cast him as a radical disguised as a Texas preacher.”

There is no such thing as a trans child, except when a kid is sexually mutilated on orders from sick parents.

Regarding whiteness, Talarico says that is a challenge, just like masculinity.

Axios writes, “Texas state Rep. James Talarico offers the dream target – a young, viral progressive whose old comments can be stripped of context and turned into a one-man museum of ‘woke’ Democratic excess.”

Watch the "Davy Crockett" video and decide for yourself. “Move over, Davy Crockett,” says the video, describing Talarico as “a new Texas trailblazer” known by the pronouns his/its/their.

Christian Communism

Claiming to be a follower of Jesus Christ, Talarico is a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) who is working toward a Master of Divinity degree at the denomination's Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Courses of the Austin Seminary include “CM.229: Theatre of the Oppressed” and “TH.219 Theologies of Gutiérrez and Moltmann.”

The latter is a reference to Gustavo Gutiérrez, founder of Latin American Liberation Theology and author of A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, Salvation. Though not an identified member of any Communist Party, Gutiérrez had said, “I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended.”

Former communist Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet bloc defector, once commented that he had “glanced through” Gutierrez’s book on liberation theology “and I had the feeling that it was written at the Lubyanka,” he said, referring to the KGB’s Moscow headquarters.

In one of our reports on communist infiltration of Christianity, William Mayer noted that Gutierrez had “cobbled together a Marxist/faux Catholic ideology, long on communism and short on Christianity,” and that he preached armed revolution of "the people."

More Extreme Than the Jesuits

But even the Catholic Church doesn’t buy Talarico’s notion that trans children were made in His image. Even under Jesuit Pope Francis, the Church did not recognize transgender “transitions” and opposed "gender theory.” The Church also affirms the right to life of the unborn.

He “respects” animals but Talarico advocates for abortion, the murder of unborn children, claiming that legally allowing a woman to kill her unborn child is a direct extension of his Christian faith and that the Bible is silent on the procedure.

Franklin Graham notes that the Bible is not silent on abortion and that God commands us, "You shall not murder" (Exodus 20:13). Graham notes, “Abortion is taking a life—it is murder.” He adds, “The Word of God tells us we are created in the image of God and consistently underscores the value of human life.” He cites Jeremiah 1:5 which says, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born, I set you apart...."

Then there is Luke 1:41-44, “When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.” The baby was John the Baptist.

In Texas, the evidence shows, Talarico is far more radical than even the advocates of communist-oriented “liberation theology,” since he breaks with Pope Francis and the Jesuits on abortion and transgenderism.

Look for the media to follow the lead of this Axios reporter in lying about the real differences. These people at Axios are as weird as Talarico.

• Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org