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Beto O'Rourke

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Beto O'Rourke is an American politician and businessman currently serving as a member of the Texas House of Representatives, a position he has held since January 2021. He previously served as a U.S. Representative for Texas's 16th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. O'Rourke is known for his progressive policies, focusing on issues such as healthcare, education, and gun control. He gained national attention during his 2018 Senate campaign against incumbent Ted Cruz, where he emphasized grassroots fundraising and mobilizing young voters.

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August 14, 2025

They’re doing all of this because they are panicked. They are scared.

Beto O'Rourke

Aug 14, 2025

This is for all the marbles. We need to show up this Saturday at 11 a.m. on the statehouse steps.

newrepublic.com
Aug 12, 2025

We’re going to fight these motherf-----s for as long as it takes, with everything we got. We’re never giving in, we’re never giving up, and we’re never bending the knee.

nbcnews.com
Aug 12, 2025

This guy thinks, Donald Trump, that he is absolutely unstoppable, he really believes he’s the king that these knee-benders tell him that he is. And so he comes to our state to grab even more power in the form of these five congressional…

nbcnews.com
Jul 20, 2025

I think it’s time that we match fire with fire.

huffpost.com
Jul 20, 2025

We have to get serious. We have to be absolutely ruthless about getting back in power.

nypost.com
Jul 20, 2025

We cannot roll over. We cannot play dead.

huffpost.com
May 20, 2025

Democrats must admit that they “fucked up, and made a terrible mistake.”

slate.com
Jul 17, 2023

There is potentially a latent one, one in the background that may become more in the foreground at one point.

congress.gov
Jul 17, 2023

Russia's sense of being diplomatically isolated... has encouraged Russia to increase its cooperation with China in the Arctic.

congress.gov
May 17, 2023

When I look at the latest data which is 18th May of this year, it shows that for the army, we are at 48 days instead of the goal of 30.

congress.gov
Mar 21, 2023

part of the problem with VA has been a severe lack of continuity in oversight due to an unwillingness of Members to serve on the VA Committees

congress.gov
Oct 2, 2022

This hateful rhetoric, this treating human beings as political pawns, talking about invasions and Texans defending themselves... that’s how people get killed at the Walmart in El Paso... this is incredibly dangerous for Texas and is not…

msnbc.com
Sep 30, 2022

I mean, the lights went out in Texas because of Greg Abbott. Our utility bills have gone out because of Greg Abbott. Highest property tax increase we have probably seen in the state, that is Greg Abbott. The single greatest driver of…

msnbc.com
Sep 30, 2022

He signed the most strict election ban in America. No exception for rape, no exception for incest. It begins at conception, and it`s taking place in a state is at the epicenter of the maternal mortality crisis, thanks to Greg Abbott. Three…

msnbc.com
Sep 30, 2022

No, there`s a lot that he`s doing well, and a lot that I`m very grateful for. But when we have the power as he does now, as Democratic and Republican presidents alike have had, and don`t use it to fix something that is so badly broken...

msnbc.com
Sep 30, 2022

They are not going to allow this total abortion ban to define us or to the stuns at the immigration border to define us, or the cruelty, the corruption, the chaos that we see in Texas right now to define.

msnbc.com
Sep 30, 2022

The reason we are seeing record energy across Texas is definitely not because of me or my party, it has to do not only what the Dobbs decision, but Greg Abbott signing the most extreme abortion ban in the United States of America, into…

msnbc.com
Sep 30, 2022

You know, who knows about his motives. My best guess is he began last year, the legislative session, where he signed an abortion bill into law, assuming that not only would he win this reelection, but that he had a chance to get the pole…

msnbc.com
Sep 30, 2022

In terms of this polling, you know, I think Texas's most accurately described, not as a red state, but as a non-voting state.

msnbc.com
Sep 30, 2022

And we`re going to win this thing on November 8th.

msnbc.com
Sep 30, 2022

All of us to a person in the state are so deeply frustrated out how broken our immigration system is.

msnbc.com
Sep 30, 2022

I`m as optimistic as I`ve ever been. And I think it has a lot to do with traveling this state constantly, and seeing so many good people.

msnbc.com
Sep 7, 2022

It is going to continue to happen unless we have change. And those families, those parents, are leading the fight to change. And when we win it`s going to be because of them.

msnbc.com

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