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  • Protesters Gather to Oppose Trump’s Push on Redistricting

    08/17/2025 7:13:01 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 43 replies
    New York Times ^ | 8/16/25 | J. David Goodman
    Thousands gathered in cities across the country on Saturday to protest President Trump's plan to keep control of Congress after the 2026 midterms by pushing Republican-led states to redraw their congressional maps in favor of Republicans. The president’s push for the rare and aggressively partisan redistricting, while centered on Texas so far, has set off a furious response among many Democratic state leaders and party activists. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Friday that he was moving forward with a plan to redraw his state’s lines, and allow voters to approve it in November. On Saturday, progressive activists, labor...
  • Exclusive — ‘Lock Him Up’: Texas AG Paxton Seeks to Jail Beto O’Rourke over Alleged Violation of Court Order Barring Fundraising for Statehouse Democrat Fugitives

    08/13/2025 12:11:52 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 20 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12 Aug 2025 | Matthew Boyle
    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked a state court clear the way for law enforcement officials to arrest Democrat Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke for allegedly violating a court order barring him from fundraising for the statehouse Democrats who fled Texas to delay the redistricting process for U.S. congressional seats in the state. Paxton has filed a motion for contempt in court against O’Rourke, alleging that he violated a Tarrant County, Texas, judge’s order and therefore is subject to a fine of up to $500 and jail time of up to six months behind bars. “Beto told me ‘to come...
  • Beto O’Rourke Is The Political Wart That Won’t Go Away

    08/13/2025 12:06:13 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 30 replies
    The Federalist ^ | August 13, 2025 | M.D. Kittle
    The sugar daddy of temper-tantrum-throwing Texas Democrats appears to be ramping up for another losing political campaign. Someone my family knows well — let’s just call her an old family friend to protect the subject of this, uh, sensitive story — for years battled a nasty plantar wart on the ball of her foot. Our friend and her doctors tried just about everything shy of amputation. Salicylic acid treatments. Prescription medicines. Cryotherapy. Immunotherapy. Minor surgeries (electrodesiccation and curettage). She couldn’t get rid of it. That freeloading wart just wouldn’t take the hint. The unpleasant growth hung around so long she...
  • REPORT: Plane That Carried Texas Democrats to Illinois Was Funded by Beto O’Rourke’s PAC (Prosecute Bribery)

    08/06/2025 5:12:46 AM PDT · by C210N · 42 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 8/5/2025 | Mike LaChance
    When Texas Democrats fled to Illinois a few days ago in an effort to stop the state legislature from moving forward with redistricting efforts, they traveled there by private plane. How did they afford such a thing? Beto O’Rourke’s PAC apparently paid for it.
  • Beto O’Rourke Pushes More Gun Control After Mexican Male Kills 5 People in TX

    04/30/2023 7:35:25 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 26 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/30/2023 | Awr Hawkins
    Unsuccessful Senate, presidential, and gubernatorial hopeful Beto O’Rourke responded to news a Mexican male shot and killed five people in Cleveland, Texas, by pushing for more gun control. Breitbart News reported the 38-year-old suspect, Francisco Oropeza, allegedly shot and killed five people after being asked to quit shooting his gun in the front yard. ABC News quoted San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers saying, “My understanding is that the victims, they came over to the fence and said ‘Hey could [you not do your] shooting out in the yard? We have a young baby that’s trying to go to sleep,’...
  • UChicago selects failed candidates Beto O’Rourke, Tim Ryan to teach politics

    02/05/2023 2:09:13 PM PST · by DFG · 20 replies
    The College Fix ^ | 02/03/2023 | JONATHAN DRAEGER
    Pair has lost five races in the past three cycles combined Two failed Democratic political candidates will bring their experience to the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics as fellows for winter-spring seminars. Robert O’Rourke, also known as “Beto,” recently completed a trifecta of losses — in 2018, he lost in a Texas U.S. Senate bid against Ted Cruz, in 2020 he lost in the Democratic primaries for president, and in 2022 he lost in a gubernatorial bid against Republican Greg Abbott. Fellow Democrat Tim Ryan knows something about losing as well — he lost to political outsider J.D. Vance...
  • Beto O'Rourke returned $1 million contribution from disgraced FTX crypto magnate

    11/29/2022 11:37:10 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 17 replies
    Houston Chronicle ^ | November 29, 2022 | By Michael Murney
    Beto O'Rourke returned a $1 million donation from controversial cryptocurrency magnate Sam Bankman-Fried less than a week before Election Day, the Texas Tribune's James Barragán reported Tuesday. FTX, Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency exchange, was valued at $32 billion before its abrupt collapse earlier this month sparked widespread panic amongst crypto investors and industry leaders. FTX filed for bankruptcy and Bankman-Fried stepped down as its top executive on Nov. 11, just three days after Election Day. Chris Evans, an O'Rourke campaign spokesperson, told Barragán that the decision to return Bankman-Fried's donation was not connected to the controversy now swirling around Bankman-Fried and FTX....
  • VIDEO: "Beto" O'Rourke Is Still a Punk

    08/13/2025 8:29:41 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 18 replies
    Rumble ^ | August 13, 2025 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEOPerennial LOSING candidate Robert Francis (who calls himself "Beto" for political reasons) O'Rourke continues his LOSING streak. Not content with being a LOSING punk rocker dressed like a lamb in white tights, O'Rourke went on to become a three time election LOSER in the past few years. His latest shtick is remaking himself as a leader of the resistance to redistricting in Texas by paying for the Democrat legislators of that state to split to highly Gerrymandered Illinois. Unfortunately for poor Beto this latest effort is also LOSING since those legislators are now reported to be returning to Texas where...
  • Beto O'Rourke: When Dems Take Power Back "We're Gonna Drive That Car Like We Stole It," And Legalize Every Immigrant

    08/10/2025 8:40:08 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 122 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | 08 10 2025 | Tim Hains
    Former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke called on Democrats to do more than "comprehensive immigration reform" the next time they take back the White House and Congressional majorities, at a rally on Saturday against the GOP effort to redistrict Texas congressional districts. "We absolutely failed to live up to the expectations that we set, so next time we win power, we're going to drive that car like we stole it," he said at the rally in Fort Worth called "The People vs. The Power Grab." BETO O'ROURKE: Check this out. "You know, Democrats -- present company excluded -- have talked an...
  • Judge blocks Beto O'Rourke from funding Texas Dems who fled to stop GOP redistricting vote

    08/08/2025 8:14:54 PM PDT · by Libloather · 29 replies
    Fox News ^ | 8/08/25 | Alec Schemmel
    A Texas judge ruled Friday against Beto O’Rourke and his nonprofit in a case brought by state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accused them of illegally raising funds to support Democratic lawmakers fleeing the state to block GOP redistricting legislation. Tarrant County District Judge Megan Fahey handed down a temporary restraining order Friday evening against O'Rourke, a former congressman and Democratic presidential candidate, and his group, Powered by People, over alleged "unlawful fundraising practices" tied to efforts to support Texas Democrats who fled the state — including funding air travel, lodging, logistics and daily fines. "Defendants have and will continue...
  • AOC raising money with Texas-based PAC to support Democrats breaking quorum

    08/05/2025 7:11:38 AM PDT · by DFG · 19 replies
    CNN ^ | 08/04/2025 | Elise Hammond
    Democratic US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, a key fundraiser for her party, is calling for donations to “directly” support the Texas Democrats who broke quorum to block a vote on the state’s new congressional map. In a fundraising email from her team, Ocasio-Cortez said proceeds will be split with former US Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s Texas political action committee, Powered By People. The PAC raised more than $700,000 for state House Democrats during a similar quorum break in 2021. The fundraising email said Ocasio-Cortez and Powered By People are racing money “to support these lawmakers directly as Gov. (Greg)...
  • "Democrats Need to Be Ruthless" [semi-satire]

    07/28/2025 10:04:40 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 20 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 27 July 2025 | John Semmens
    Former US Representative, US Senate candidate and 2020 Democratic presidential contender Beto O'Rourke (D-Tex) went on CNN's State of the Union to tell host Jake Tapper that "we have to be absolutely ruthless about getting back in power. So, yes, in California, in Illinois, in New York, wherever we have the trifecta of power, we have to use that to its absolute extent." "Take the California Assembly, for example," O'Rourke said, "Democrats out number Republicans 60 to 19. In the Senate it's 30 to 10. Democrats have the votes to gerrymander every state Republican out of their seats. We can...
  • Beto O'Rourke calls for Democrats to be 'ruthless' in pursuit of power, backs Newsom's gerrymandering proposal

    ...Beto O’Rourke called for Democrats to be "ruthless" in their pursuit of power and endorsed partisan gerrymandering. "We have to get serious. We have to be absolutely ruthless about getting back in power...
  • The Background on the Alleged Suspect in New Trump Assassination Attempt Is Something Else

    09/16/2024 4:42:19 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 164 replies
    Red State ^ | September 15, 2024 | Nick Arama
    Martin County Sheriff's Office via AP ========================================================= Fox News has reported that the alleged suspect in the second Trump assassination attempt is Ryan Wesley Routh, as we reported earlier. He allegedly aimed a rifle through the fence on the golf course where Trump was. He was about 300-500 yards away. Law enforcement claimed he had an AK-47 with a scope and a Go-Pro camera at the fence. He also had a bag with ceramic plates. The Secret Service fired at him and he fled in a black SUV. A citizen saw him and took a picture of his license which...
  • Beto O’Rourke: ‘Texas Could Possibly Be in Play’ for Kamala Harris

    08/12/2024 6:13:41 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 49 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 08/12/2024 | Pam Key
    Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that Vice President Kamala Harris could possibly win the state of Texas in November. Host Jen Psaki said, “I want to ask you, you’ve seen a lot of presidential candidates run. Vice President Harris and Tim Walz are clearly creating a lot of excitement out there. Do you think this is enough? Is Texas a pipe dream or should people hold their hope out for Texas in 2024 or is it going to take a little longer?”
  • VIDEO: Ken Paxton Acquitted on All EVIDENCE-FREE Impeachment Charges

    09/18/2023 10:33:48 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 18 replies
    Rumble ^ | September 18, 2023 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEO When you conduct an impeachment, it is a good idea to have EVIDENCE to back it up. Unfortunately the drunken Speaker of the Texas House rammed through an impeachment of state Attorney General Ken Paxton without any regard as to evidence. Fortunately, the Texas Senate was made aware by Paxton's defense team, notably the INCREDIBLE Tony Buzbee, that there was NO EVIDENCE. In this video we see some liberal whining over the acquittal of Ken Paxton on all EVIDENCE-FREE articles of impeachment. Of note is the reaction of the Harold Stassen of the Pecos, that perennial parasitic candidate Beto...
  • Dirty Money: Beto Clings to $100K from Sam Bankman-Fried After Pledge To Return Tainted Crypto Cash

    07/19/2023 5:49:15 AM PDT · by george76 · 17 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | July 18, 2023 | Chuck Ross
    Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke won praise last year after he pledged to return a massive campaign contribution from Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced cryptocurrency kingpin charged with defrauding customers out of billions of dollars. But campaign finance records show the failed political candidate has not lived up to that promise nearly eight months later. O'Rourke has kept $100,000 that Bankman-Fried donated to O'Rourke's failed gubernatorial campaign, according to campaign finance disclosures released this week. A spokesman for O'Rourke said in November that the campaign had returned an "unsolicited" $1 million donation from Bankman-Fried just before the Nov. 8 election. O'Rourke received...
  • Report: Beto O’Rourke Kept $100k in Sam Bankman-Fried Donations

    01/25/2023 1:18:54 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 19 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01-25-2023 | Sean Moran
    Failed Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke has claimed that he returned a $1 million donation from disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried; however, it appears that he did not return all of the money, according to a report. A spokesman for O’Rourke said in November that the campaign returned the “unsolicited” $1 million donation Bankman-Fried gave the Texas Democrat in October. An O’Rourke spokesman said that the refund was issued prior to FTX’s bankruptcy and the discovery of Bankman-Fried’s reportedly illegal business practices. However, the Washington Free Beacon found that the O’Rourke team did not return all of the money:
  • Soros Wasted $2.5M on Stacey Abrams, $1M on Beto

    11/09/2022 9:56:00 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    Frontpage Mag ^ | 11/09/2022 | Daniel Greenfield
    Congratulations to Stacey Abrams on her second term in office as president of space after her latest effort to claim victory in Georgia fell apart.For Democrats this ought to count as a win because the midterms have likely freed them from the giant money sponges of Beto O’Rourke and Stacey Abrams in one fell swoop.And both grifters seemed to have a limitless ability to promote themselves and burn money. Including from Evil Inc’s very own ATM.Soros’ Democracy PAC II sent $1 million to the committee on March 11 and another $1.5 million on June 23 for a total of $2.5...
  • Beto O’Rourke Wastes $160M To Lose Every Race: "An Austin couple gave $2 million to Beto"

    11/09/2022 9:54:10 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 57 replies
    Frontpage Mag ^ | 11/09/2022 | Daniel Greenfield
    Beto O’Rourke Raised $80 million to take on Ted Cruz. He famously raised $6 million in the first 24 hours of announcing his presidential run and blew through an estimated $17 million. After wasting nearly $100 million in two failed races, donors lined up to give him another $66 million for the final leg of the trifecta, wasting over $160 million to lose the senate, the presidency and finally the governor’s mansion. Consider the sorts of people who were willing to go on believing in him and writing him million-dollar checks. Quick hit them up with your best Brooklyn Bridge...