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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November 7, 2026
This extraordinary experiment 250 years in the making... all of us must do all that we can to keep it going.
— Beto O'Rourke
I think people will take it for what it is – it’s a gimmick, it’s a bribe. It’s another promise that the president will be unable to fulfill … It adds to the stink of desperation that is emanating from that convention centre.
This is for all the marbles. We need to show up this Saturday at 11 a.m. on the statehouse steps.
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.
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…
We have to get serious. We have to be absolutely ruthless about getting back in power.
There is potentially a latent one, one in the background that may become more in the foreground at one point.
Russia's sense of being diplomatically isolated... has encouraged Russia to increase its cooperation with China in the Arctic.
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.
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
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
All of us to a person in the state are so deeply frustrated out how broken our immigration system is.





