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Aug 13, 2020

An Open Letter on Climate to Texas

An Open Letter on Climate to Texas Dear Texas: We need state representatives who bring clean energy jobs to Texas — and tackle climate change at the same time. Three things have become clear: Texans are worried about climate change and want to see government action. Communities of color and…

Climate Change

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An Open Letter on Climate to Texas
An Open Letter on Climate to Texas
Climate Change

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Apr 18, 2020

You mean, there’s a place you can go for food?

You mean, there’s a place you can go for food? I was talking to the El Paso food bank CEO Susan Goodell this morning. She told me about an experience she’d had at a Walgreens earlier this week. “The cashier asked me why I was buying so much sunscreen. I…

Foodbanks

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You mean, there’s a place you can go for food?
You mean, there’s a place you can go for food?
Foodbanks

6 min read


Mar 27, 2020

Help The Food Banks

Best I’ve felt since we’ve been sheltering in place and keeping our social distance was today, volunteering at the food bank in El Paso. El Pasoans Fighting Hunger serves a three-county area of more than a million residents. And, as you can imagine, it is overwhelmed right now with demand…

Foodbanks

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Help The Food Banks
Help The Food Banks
Foodbanks

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Mar 3, 2020

I’m voting for Joe Biden today in the Texas primary because he can beat Donald Trump; because…

I’m voting for Joe Biden today in the Texas primary because he can beat Donald Trump; because having him at the top of the ticket will help our down-ballot candidates, especially in Texas; and because he can bring people together to reach the ambitious goals we have for our country. …

Texas

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I’m voting for Joe Biden today in the Texas primary because he can beat Donald Trump; because…
I’m voting for Joe Biden today in the Texas primary because he can beat Donald Trump; because…
Texas

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Feb 13, 2020

How to hold Texas legislators accountable for gun violence on their watch

Follow this link to use a new resource to hold Texas legislators accountable for their actions on gun violence. This powerful spreadsheet tool tabulates and compares, by name, the votes of our state representatives on gun-related bills in the last legislative session. …

Gun Safety

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How to hold Texas legislators accountable for gun violence on their watch
How to hold Texas legislators accountable for gun violence on their watch
Gun Safety

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Feb 6, 2020

Is this the end of the last best hope?

When the Constitution was adopted on June 21, 1788, it immediately became the exception to the rule of human history, announcing to the world that we would be governed by laws and not by men. To guard against human tendency to concentrate power and authority — to keep would-be kings…

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Dec 11, 2019

Washington or Trump?

There’s a painting that hangs in the Capitol rotunda depicting General George Washington in front of the Continental Congress 236 years ago, resigning his commission as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. The artist, John Trumbull, believed that it illustrated “one of the highest moral lessons ever given to the…

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Washington or Trump?
Washington or Trump?

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Nov 1, 2019

Thank you.

Our campaign has been about seeing clearly, speaking honestly and acting decisively in the best interests of America. Though it is difficult to accept, it is clear to me now that this campaign does not have the means to move forward successfully. My service to the country will not be…

Politics

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Politics

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Oct 28, 2019

Beto’s Comprehensive Plan to End Mass Incarceration and Reform Our Criminal Justice System to Prioritize Rehabilitation

The United States has, by far, the largest prison population of any country on the planet. Our 2.3 million fellow Americans behind bars are disproportionately people of color and people with disabilities — a consequence of policies that have prosecuted certain communities more than others and further perpetuated by a…

Criminal Justice Reform

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Beto’s Comprehensive Plan to End Mass Incarceration and Reform Our Criminal Justice System to…
Beto’s Comprehensive Plan to End Mass Incarceration and Reform Our Criminal Justice System to…
Criminal Justice Reform

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Oct 24, 2019

Beto’s Plan to Address Substance Use Disorders and the Opioid Epidemic

Our country knows all too well the devastating effects that opioid overdose and opioid use disorder have had on our families and our communities. Each day, more than 130 individuals die after overdosing on opioids and in 2017, the last year for which data is available, over 47,000 Americans died…

Opioids

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Beto’s Plan to Address Substance Use Disorders and the Opioid Epidemic
Beto’s Plan to Address Substance Use Disorders and the Opioid Epidemic
Opioids

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