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Beto O'Rourke Profile picture
@BetoORourke
Nov 29 • 7 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Texas Republicans forced these women to continue dangerous, nonviable pregnancies that almost killed them.

I hope you'll read their stories, and then commit to the work of overturning Texas' extreme abortion ban🧵: Image
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These women are sharing their stories so that we understand the true cost of the total abortion ban in Texas.

My hope is that their courage in coming forward will be matched by our resolve to change the laws so that this never happens again.
With a year before the ‘24 elections that will decide our state’s future, it’s time for each of us to decide what we’re willing to do.

There are millions of pro-choice Texans who aren’t registered to vote. Getting them on the rolls would have a seismic impact on these elections.
That’s why we’re launching a new statewide voter registration program that will build on the more than 200,000 voters that Powered by People volunteers registered in 2020.

Join us in the tough but essential work to elect pro-choice candidates in 2024: bit.ly/volunteer-kick…

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Oct 16
Don’t get sucked in. This gauntlet of cruelty — the buses, the razor wire, the walls, the drowning traps — are just his attempt to win a spot on Fox News and to distract us from his massive failures as governor. 🧵
He doesn’t want you to look at his record on public ed, reproductive rights, gun violence, minimum wage or healthcare so he tries to scare you about immigrants and then rolls out this performative BS that does nothing but waste our taxes and harm the most vulnerable among us.
Still think his stunts make a difference? The Wall Street Journal reported that after spending billions of our tax dollars on these made-for-Fox theatrics, crossing attempts actually INCREASED. Image
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Sep 12
Today marks one week since the Texas Senate began its impeachment trial against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Here’s what we’ve learned so far about Paxton’s corruption and abuse of public office:
The Paxton trial is covering 16 articles of impeachment.

He is accused of accepting bribes and favors in exchange for abusing the Attorney General’s Office to help indicted real estate investor Nate Paul avoid legal troubles and business losses. texastribune.org/2023/09/01/ken…
Since before the trial began, billionaire-funded PACs desperate to keep someone as corrupt as Paxton in office have been trying to tamper with the jury.

They've spent MILLIONS on campaign contributions to the Texas Senators who will decide Paxton's fate. kxan.com/news/texas/cas…
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Aug 12
Turns out we can improve security at the border AND stop migrants from dying.

(Spoiler: The solution isn’t razor wire traps, drowning devices, or asylum bans.)

But it will require action from President Biden.
nytimes.com/2023/08/10/opi…
It’s nearly impossible for many asylum seekers to apply for refuge at legal ports of entry right now.

That's why we see heartbreaking, chaotic images of desperate moms and babies crossing dangerous stretches of the Rio Grande.

It's why 890 migrants died at our border last year.
People fleeing violence and persecution will *always* reach the U.S. in search of safety.

After the Holocaust, we passed asylum laws to manage this type of migration in an orderly fashion.

But decades later, our asylum system doesn’t match the needs of today. (How could it?)
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Dec 16, 2022
Uvalde family members like @faithmataa continue to show the leadership missing from much of Congress & the Texas legislature. At yesterday’s hearing she showed the true cost of our failure to take common sense steps like raising the age of purchase for an AR-15 to 21.
If Congress or the Texas Legislature had raised the age of purchase for an AR-15, her sister Tess might still be alive. (The Uvalde shooter patiently waited until he turned 18-years old, after which he bought two AR-15s along with 1,600 rounds of ammunition.)
She was joined by Uvalde pediatrician Roy Guerrero who testified that kids like Tess were powerless against a man with a weapon that had the power to blast massive holes through their bodies, rendering them unrecognizable but for the shoes that they were wearing.
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Sep 30, 2022
This is the predictable result when Abbott describes asylum seekers as an “invasion," asks Texans to “defend” the state from immigrants by “taking matters into our own hands,” and treats refugees like political props instead of human beings.
We saw it 3 years ago in El Paso. We will continue to see this until we have a governor who sees migrants as human beings, and is focused on solutions instead of political stunts.
We have real problems at our border and with our immigration system. Everyone can agree on that much.

But I hope we can also agree that stunts like busing asylum seekers, and inciting hatred for and fear of those fleeing dictatorships hasn’t solved any of those problems.
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Aug 14, 2022
Just met 33 FIRST-TIME voters at our town hall meeting in Frisco yesterday!

Help me thank them for being such an important part of the campaign we’re building across Texas.
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