Another rising-star Democrat is about to leap into the Texas Senate race. State Rep. James Talarico is expected to announce his campaign Tuesday, according to outlets familiar with his plans—setting up a marquee Democratic primary between two of Texas’s fastest-rising politicians.

Talarico, now 36, first made waves in 2019 as the youngest member of the Texas House. Since then, he’s built a reputation as one of the party’s most visible fighters, especially after he was at the forefront of Democratic messaging against President Donald Trump’s mid-decade redistricting push, joining Texas Democrats who recently decamped to Illinois to delay the new map.

Politico, which first reported the news of his expected campaign, cited three people familiar with his plans.

“The Democratic Party has for

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