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Latest Fact-Checks On Beto O'Rourke

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Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on June 27, 2022 an Instagram post
"Under Abbott, Texas leads the nation in rape offenses while the rate of arrests for rape has fallen by nearly half."
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By Nusaiba Mizan • August 9, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on May 25, 2022 remarks in Uvalde County, Texas
Texas is "50th in the nation in mental health care access."
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May 25, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 23, 2022 an Instagram post
"Under Greg Abbott, property taxes have gone up $20 billion."
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By Nusaiba Mizan • May 19, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on November 19, 2021 a rally
"Right now, in the average Texas fourth grade classroom, 7 out of 10 kids cannot read at grade level."
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By Nusaiba Mizan • January 28, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on November 19, 2021 a rally
"Expanding Medicaid, which if we had done at the beginning of the Abbott administration, would have brought in $100 billion to this state's economy."
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By Nusaiba Mizan • January 10, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 11, 2019 a public forum
"We are incarcerating more children than any time ... since we interned Japanese-Americans during World War II"
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By Mica Soellner • July 26, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 29, 2019 climate change plan
"Race is the No. 1 indicator for where toxic and polluting facilities are today."
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By Miriam Valverde • May 14, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 16, 2019 a speech.
"Disparities in infant mortality between white America and black America (are) greater today, in 2019,  than in the year 1850..."
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By Warren Fiske • April 23, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on February 8, 2019 a blog post
When visa holders exit the United States and enter Mexico, "if they leave through a land port of entry we literally have no clue if they are still here or have returned to their country of origin."
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By Miriam Valverde • February 15, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 26, 2018 an ad in the Houston Defender
Says "black Americans have 10 times less wealth than white Americans."
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 23, 2018
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on March 16, 2018 remarks on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
"Texas is one of the most gerrymandered states in the union."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2018