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I’ve watched him for years push ambitious agendas through the statehouse, including bills where I would have bet against him.

Wiener brings substantive progressive credentials and an impressive legislative track record that positions him as a capable successor, having successfully navigated ambitious policy agendas through the statehouse including recent victories on banning masked law enforcement, increasing housing density around transit hubs, and regulating artificial intelligence.

The new 24 percent tax was the key engine and funding salve for a state budget that was smaller than prior years’ funding plans, thanks to aggressive cuts by statehouse Republicans.

Ulysses S. Grant invoked it more than half a dozen times to thwart statehouse coups, stem race massacres and smother the Ku Klux Klan in its South Carolina cradle.

But over the past seven years in the Texas statehouse, Talarico has also proven himself quite capable of facing down the hardcore right.