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📷 Powered by People (poweredxpeople.org) & Beto registering voters in El Paso, TX & around the state (06/25/2026)
📷 Powered by People (poweredxpeople.org) & Beto registering voters in El Paso, TX & around the state (06/25/2026)
📷 Powered by People (poweredxpeople.org) & Beto registering voters in El Paso, TX & around the state (06/25/2026)
📷 Beto O’Rourke with his sons
📷 Beto with his oldest son, daughter, and youngest son
Flashback 2019 Beto: “I remember…going on a backpacking trip with my dad in the Lincoln National Forest…”
Excerpt from newspaper: “Pat O'Rourke died [July 3, 2001] when he was struck by a car while riding his white recumbent bike…” Flashback July 3, 2001 Beto: “He died young, but he lived life to the fullest…He found a real joy in living.”
📷 Powered by People (poweredxpeople.org) & Beto registering voters in Houston (06/2026)
📷 Powered by People (poweredxpeople.org) & Beto registering voters in Houston (06/2026)
[Excerpt from “We’ve Got to Try” by Beto O’Rourke, 2022] FLASHBACK Beto: “At the age of 89, Opal Lee decided to [walk] the fourteen hundred miles from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., to bring attention to Juneteenth. I asked her if she thought she'd be successful at the time. ‘No, not in my lifetime,’ she told me. ‘But I had to try…’” 🔊- AUDIO ⬇️
Great Podversations with NYT bestselling author Hampton Sides and former Texas Congressman Rep. Beto O'Rourke
📷 Beto’s volunteer organization, Powered by People, (poweredxpeople.org) registering voters at Alyssa Edwards' Texas tour stop in Houston (05/21/2026)
📷 Beto’s volunteer organization, Powered by People, (poweredxpeople.org) registering voters at Alyssa Edwards' Texas tour stop in Houston (05/21/2026)
Beto O'Rourke referring to Jack Sanders: "I don't get those kinds of calls at this point in my life," O'Rourke says. "Somebody saying, 'I don't want anything from you. I just want to know if you want to hang out and have some fun.’”
"Anybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
FLASHBACK May 25, 2022 Beto O’Rourke confronts Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz, Ken Paxton, Dan Patrick, etc. at Uvalde press conference
Quote (2022) Photo: 19 loving children and 2 beloved educators were killed at Robb Elementary School (Uvalde, TX) on May 24, 2022, in the deadliest school shooting in Texas history.
📷 Beto’s volunteer organization, Powered by People, (poweredxpeople.org) meeting & registering voters at Wheeler Avenue Baptist in Houston (05/17/2026)
FLASHBACK October 2024 Beto O’Rourke: “…The election judge, the poll worker know him because [he] has never missed an election before. But now, [voting is] outlawed, & they say, ‘Dr. Nixon, you know we can’t let you vote.’ & Nixon says, ‘I know you can’t, but I’ve got to try.’”
"Action is the antidote to despair and the key to victory" Beto
FLASHBACK July 20, 2025 Beto O’Rourke: “There will be a price…”
FLASHBACK July 20, 2025 “We have to be absolutely ruthless about getting back in power…”—Beto O’Rourke
FLASHBACK July 20, 2025 Beto O’Rourke: “I think it’s time that we match fire with fire…”
FLASHBACK July 20, 2025 Beto O’Rourke: “…The first order of business is winning political power…but until we are there, we have to use every lever of power that we have right now to our advantage.”
The Candidate Has to Be in the Room Digital presence is a direct reflection of a candidate’s brand. It’s how voters come to understand who a candidate is. For this to work, the candidate needs to be actively engaged in the planning and execution of their social media presence. Period. If they’re not, it won’t work. This isn’t a specific criticism of Harris or Biden—delegating social media is still standard practice in campaigns. This has to change. When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Biden in 2024, she did a whole day on the trail for us. I spoke with her about her content strategy—and she led the discussion for forty-five minutes. AOC had very specific thoughts about the story she wanted to tell, the kinds of clips she wanted, the framing of the whole thing. It was a remarkable conversation. Likewise, Beto O’Rourke, whom I worked for in 2019, had deep and strong opinions about what went on his social media. You get very different results when the candidate is completely hands-off.
FLASHBACK 2022 Beto O’Rourke: “…Now, TX legislators could basically do whatever they want—not only through redistricting, but also through old school voter suppression…more than 700 polling places in TX have closed…Most of these…in the fastest-growing Black and Latino neighborhoods…” 🔊- AUDIO ⬇️
📷 (2022) Beto hugging his mom, Melissa O’Rourke. She passed away from cancer in December 2023.
FLASHBACK May 16, 2025 Beto: “…[Pres. Johnson] says…‘I’d love to help, but I just don’t have the power to get voting rights done in America. I used it all on civil rights.’ …[Andrew Young] turns to [MLK] & asks, ‘What do we do now?’ & [MLK] says, ‘We go out there, & we get this guy some power.’”
FLASHBACK April 19, 2026 Beto O’Rourke: “…Accountability for that corruption, consequences for those crimes, A new majority that believes in peace and justice, A government of, by, and for the people. A real democracy made of us, not of money.”
FLASHBACK April 19, 2026 “We can become tempted to say… ‘Who am I against all of them?’ The real question is, ‘Who are WE in the face of this challenge?’” —Beto O’Rourke
Beto O’Rourke: The Callais ruling means we have to work harder, stay longer, push through until we reach every eligible voter... a personal conversation with each one about the stakes of this election... make sure they're registered, and stay with them through Election Day. We don't control the Supreme Court (that's Trump), but we do control how we spend our days. And the volunteers I worked with at Austin Community College today are using this time to build the political power to elect a Congress that will check this court, build a majority that will replace MAGA authoritarianism with a government of, by and for the people. Those in power want us to feel overpowered, outgunned, defeated. Fuck that!! Show them what we're made of and what we can do. Don't complain, don't wait for someone to save us, don't distract yourself with social media outrage. Nothing will get us out of this and into the next round but the work. If you want to reach, register and turn out the voters they're trying to disenfranchise by gutting the Voting Rights Act, sign up with us at poweredxpeople.org. l promise you, we'll put you to work.
📷 Beto O’Rourke and Powered by People registering voters at Austin Community College- Highland Campus (04/29/2026)
📷 Beto O’Rourke and Powered by People registering voters at Austin Community College- Highland Campus (04/29/2026)
📷 Beto O’Rourke and Powered by People registering voters at Texas State University (04/28/2026)
📷 Beto O’Rourke and Powered by People registering voters at Texas State University (04/28/2026)
📷 Beto O’Rourke and Powered by People registering voters at Texas State University (04/28/2026)
Beto O’Rourke and Powered by People registering voters at San Antonio College & the University of Texas at San Antonio (04/27/2026)
Beto O’Rourke and Powered by People registering voters at San Antonio College & the University of Texas at San Antonio (04/27/2026)
📷 Beto O’Rourke, Amy O’Rourke, and Powered by People registering voters at the University of Texas at El Paso (04/22/2026)
📷 Beto O’Rourke, Amy O’Rourke, and Powered by People registering voters at the University of Texas at El Paso (04/22/2026)
📷 Beto O’Rourke, Amy O’Rourke, and Powered by People registering voters at the University of Texas at El Paso (04/22/2026)
📷 Beto O’Rourke and Powered by People registering voters at the University of Texas at Arlington (04/20/2026)
📷 Beto O’Rourke and Powered by People registering voters at the University of Texas at Arlington (04/20/2026)
📷 Beto O’Rourke and Powered by People registering voters at the University of Texas at Arlington (04/20/2026)
Beto O’Rourke & Powered By People with Friendship-West Baptist Church yesterday
📷 Beto & Powered By People registering voters at Texas A&M University this week
📷 Beto & Powered By People registering voters at Texas A&M University this week
📷 Beto & Powered By People registering voters at Lone Star College-CyFair this week
📷 Beto & Powered By People registering voters at Lone Star College-CyFair this week
📷 Beto & Powered By People registering voters at UTRGV Edinburg this month
📷 Beto & Powered By People registering voters at UTRGV Edinburg this month
📷 Beto & Powered By People registering voters at UTRGV Edinburg this month
📷 Beto & Powered By People registering voters at UTRGV Brownsville this month
Powered by People at No Kings protest in El Paso, Texas March 28, 2026
Beto O’Rourke at No Kings protest in El Paso, Texas March 28, 2026
Beto O’Rourke registering voters with his organization Powered by People (poweredxpeople.org) at UT Austin this week
Beto O’Rourke registering voters with his organization Powered by People (poweredxpeople.org) at UT Austin this week
FLASHBACK 2022 Beto O’Rourke: “…Action, even in the face of seemingly impossible odds, can bring victory…” (We’ve Got to Try, 2022, p. 184-185)