CBS’s Stephen Colbert hosts Texas State Rep. James Talarico for an online-exclusive interview about Talarico’s campaign for the Democratic nomination for Senate. Talarico spoke about the separation of church and state, the dangers of consolidated corporate-owned media, and the fabricated culture wars pushed by Republicans in states like Texas. Read more: Stephen Colbert says CBS didn’t air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC

REP. JAMES TALARICO: My granddad raised me to believe that the boundary between church and state doesn’t just benefit the state or our democracy – although it certainly does – but it also benefits the church. Because when the church gets too cozy with political power, it loses its prophetic voice – its ability to speak truth to power, its ability to imagine a completely different world. And so this separation between church and state is something we have to safeguard. It’s something we have to fight for. And I think we need someone in the U.S. Senate who is going to confront Christian nationalism and tell the truth, which is that there is nothing Christian about Christian nationalism. It is the worship of power in the name of Christ. And it is a betrayal of Jesus of Nazareth. .. But anyway, there is a point to this craziness. They want us talking about furries and bathrooms so we don’t realize that they are picking our pockets, that they are closing our schools, they are gutting our health care, and they are raising taxes on all of us while they cut taxes for their billionaire donors. The culture wars are a smoke screen because the real fight in this country is not left versus right – it’s top versus bottom.

Here Colbert explains why the interview didn’t air on TV, blaming Brendan Carr’s FCC:
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