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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."

By Nusaiba Mizan • August 9, 2022

Beto O'Rourke
stated on May 29, 2022 a tweet

"38,000 Texans had their license to carry denied, revoked, or suspended over the last five years because law enforcement deemed them too dangerous to carry a loaded gun in public. But thanks to Greg Abbott's new law, they don't need a license to carry anymore."

By Nusaiba Mizan • July 21, 2022

Beto O'Rourke
stated on May 25, 2022 remarks in Uvalde County, Texas

Texas is "50th in the nation in mental health care access."

May 25, 2022

Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 23, 2022 an Instagram post

"Under Greg Abbott, property taxes have gone up $20 billion."

By Nusaiba Mizan • May 19, 2022

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."

By Nusaiba Mizan • January 28, 2022

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."

By Nusaiba Mizan • January 10, 2022

Beto O'Rourke
stated on February 16, 2021 a tweet

“Energy experts and State House Dems, among others, were warning of this (the Texas power blackout) for years.”

By Amy Sherman • February 19, 2021

Beto O'Rourke
stated on October 16, 2019 an interview

"To be clear, I’m not talking about confiscating anybody’s guns."

October 21, 2019

Beto O'Rourke
stated on September 4, 2019 an interview

"There are 390 million guns out on the streets of a country of 329 million people."

By Madlin Mekelburg • September 9, 2019

Beto O'Rourke
stated on August 3, 2019 a press conference

Says of El Paso that some years, "in a city of almost 700,000, we had five murders the entire year. Our average over the last 10 years is 18 (murders per year). We exceeded that average just on one day" after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in the city.

By Madlin Mekelburg • August 5, 2019

Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 30, 2019 in a debate

Says "we lose nearly 40,000 people in this country to gun violence, a number that no other country comes even close to."

By Madlin Mekelburg • August 2, 2019

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"

By Mica Soellner • July 26, 2019

Beto O'Rourke
stated on June 13, 2019 an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

"The Census is predicting a 6% undercount that will be targeted against nonwhites in this country — so Hispanics, African Americans, communities of color" if a citizenship question is asked.

By Stefanie Pousoulides • July 1, 2019

Beto O'Rourke
stated on June 13, 2019 an interview with Stephen Colbert

In 2018, when he ran for senator, "young voter turnout in early voting was up 500%. We won more votes than any Democrat has in the history of the state of Texas."

By Louis Jacobson • June 24, 2019

Beto O'Rourke
stated on May 29, 2019 a television appearance

"For more than a year, I have been saying that it’s time for Congress to act and begin impeachment proceedings."

By Madlin Mekelburg • June 10, 2019

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."

By Miriam Valverde • May 14, 2019

Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 29, 2019 climate change plan

"60 million Americans live in a place where the water they drink is unsafe."

By Miriam Valverde • May 7, 2019

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..."

By Warren Fiske • April 23, 2019

Beto O'Rourke
stated on March 14, 2019 a campaign stop in Iowa

"Nearly half of public school teachers in Texas are working a second or a third job, not for kicks, not for extra spending cash, but just to make ends meet."

By Miriam Valverde • March 19, 2019

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."

By Miriam Valverde • February 15, 2019

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