I am running to serve you as the next president. The challenges we face are the greatest in living memory. No one person can meet them on their own. Only this country can do that, and only if we build a movement that includes all of us. Say you're in: https://t.co/EKLdkVET2u
"O'Rourke told reporters that young people are critical to his 2020 efforts because their priorities will help set the country's political agenda. He emphasized climate change in his 20-minute speech and again in his 20-minute question-and-answer session." https://t.co/qxjKQLvxuh
"O'Rourke spoke for one hour, with more than half that time devoted to answering 12 questions. He began with an impassioned discussion about the need to stem climate change through renewable energy, then shifted to education funding and health care" https://t.co/s1y3LRbf5d
Let's sign into law paid family leave for every single family in this country. Grateful and encouraged that DeSoto is helping to take the lead in Texas tonight with a 7:00 city council meeting on paid family leave at City Hall. https://t.co/5YEIDjGMuq
"Wherever you live, whoever you love, to whomever you pray, no matter who you voted for in the last election -- that cannot define us right now. Let's agree that before we are anything else, we are Americans first." -@BetoORourke#Beto2020#BetoForPresident
An update: refugees & asylum seekers are no longer being trapped under the PDN Bridge. That cruelty has ended but questions into how we're treating our fellow human beings or why it occurred in the 1st place should not. There must be accountability for actions taken in our name.
Let's fully invest in a pre-K-12 world-class public school system. Let's pay our teachers a living wage. Let's end the school to prison pipeline and achieve equity in our classrooms. Once we do that, there's no stopping these kids and no stopping this country.
Let's adopt universal background checks. No more loopholes, no more exceptions. And then let's ensure that weapons of war are kept on the battlefield and are no longer sold into our communities where they show up in our schools, our churches, our workplaces, and our streets.
“For too long in this country the powerful have maintained their privilege at the expense of the powerless,” Beto O'Rourke says as he kicks off his presidential campaign in his hometown. Story, complete speech video, photo gallery. #OurBorderLife https://t.co/N1TmztczAh
Yesterday, over 30,000 people from across Texas, America, and the world joined forces to show the or support for @BetoORourke, because his message of unity, action, and inclusion resonates with us all. I was so lucky to be a part of that historic day!
#Beto2020#BetoForAmerica
If we believe in real justice reform in the face of the largest prison population on the face of the planet — one disproportionately comprised of people of color — let us not just end the prohibition of marijuana but expunge the record of those arrested solely for possession.
I am honored to run to serve you as President of the United States; and I am grateful to each one of you who will join this campaign and commit yourself in service to this great country of ours.