James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, once dismissed public outcry around explicit material in Texas public schools as a kind of "conspiracy theory" at a July 2022 hearing on education."We’re going to spend hours hearing bills that are just kind of conspiracy theory-driven and kind of kooky stuff. And we’re going to hear some of that today, I think, in the public testimony — not the invited testimony, but the public testimony," Talarico said as a then-member of the Texas House of Representatives.The resurfaced moment adds to the pile of past statements dealing with...