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KY, ME, KS & IA-Sen: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D. OR) Helps These 4 Women End...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D. OR) in support of Amy McGrath (D. KY), Sara Gideon (D. ME), Barbara Bollier (D. KS) and Theresa Greenfield’s (D. IA) U.S. Senate...
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GA-Sen B: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D. OR), "Rev. Raphael Warnock (D) is a perfect...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D. OR) in support of Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaign:America is hurting.Tens of thousands of Americans are gathering every...
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OR-Sen: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) Keeps Up The Call From Trump's Corrupt Attorney...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley’s (D. OR) re-election campaign:Sen. Jeff Merkley (D. OR)Attorney General William Barr said that a president, by definition, cannot ever...
View ArticleDemocrats eye filibuster reform if they win the Senate
Momentum is building among Democrats to reform or eliminate the legislative filibuster if the party retakes the Senate in November. And about time. Sen. Jeff Merkley has been pushing filibuster reform...
View ArticleTrump's 'occupying army' in Portland critically injure peaceful protester
A Portland, Oregon peaceful protester was critically injured Saturday night by one of the federal officers Donald Trump ordered into the city to "protect" federal property. Donovan LaBella was shot in...
View ArticleOregon Gov Accuses Trump of Stirring Up Violence to Help his Reelection...
Several stories are up about what’s going on in Portland OR right now. I’m writing this to highlight what Gov. Kate Brown is saying about it: this is purely and totally a political ploy to terrorize...
View ArticleOregon officials take on Trump in his would-be civil war in Portland
The occupation of Portland by Donald Trump's and Bill Barr's goon squad has only intensified and broadened the protests against police brutality in that city after a video went viral of a Navy veteran...
View ArticleOR-Sen: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) Keeps Up The Fight To Stop Trump's Secret...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D. OR) on behalf of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee:Today, along with Sen. Ron Wyden, Sen. Chris Murphy, and other colleagues, I...
View ArticlePortland's moms and dads unite to fight Trump's storm troopers
A Wall of Moms, dressed in yellow and stretching a block long, led a march with the PDXDadPod, who were wearing orange and wielding leaf blowers to fend off tear gas. At least 2,000 Black Lives Matter...
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GA-Sen A & B: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D. OR) Keeps Up The Momentum For A...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D. OR) in support of Jon Ossoff (D. GA) & Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns:I've written to you about Jon Ossoff and Rev....
View ArticleRepublicans try to frame ‘antifa’ for protest violence, but Dems call out...
Ted Cruz organized a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing earlier this week whose primary purpose was to blame “radical leftists,”“anarchists,” and “antifa” for protest-related violence around the...
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OR-Sen: Jeff Merkley (D) Calls Out Trump For Considering Executive Order To...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley’s (D. OR) re-election campaign:Here in Oregon, we've been voting by mail for twenty years. And it's pretty common across the country—about a...
View ArticleOR-Sen: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) Keeps Up The Call To End The Filibuster When...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley’s (D. OR) U.S. Senate campaign:Here's the cold, hard truth: even if a blue wave gives us control of the Senate in November, Mitch McConnell...
View ArticleSenate Democrats slam Chad Wolf's official nomination: He 'must be held...
After having him serve in an acting capacity in the time following former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation last year, Donald Trump has finally bothered to...
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Watch Jay Inslee shred Trump's inaction on Climate Change driving Western...
ABC’s This Week invited two of my favorite progressive Northwest elected officials on today, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, and Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley. To talk about the Western Wildfire Crisis...
View ArticleDemocratic senators push for direct payments in COVID-19 relief
Senate Majority Leader McConnell has finally apparently dropped one demand for coronavirus relief, a big destructive one, in return for another. McConnell told reporters Tuesday that "We cannot leave...
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Bernie Sanders: "Senate Republican leadership turned their backs on working...
Bernie Sanders’s longshot bid to maneuver Mitch McConnell into allowing a vote on increasing pandemic relief by hamstringing the Senate’s override of Trump’s defense appropriations veto, did not garner...
View ArticleNo excuses, Democrats. Trump and his Republican enablers have to be called to...
Insurrectionist loser Donald Trump finally was forced by someone to issue a statement of concession Thursday morning. That statement, as much as anything that has transpired over the past four awful...
View ArticleSenate Democrats will force Republican vote on saving our democracy
Elections have consequences. So does the Republican enabling of the worst, most corrupt chief executive in the nation’s history. Hence, the first piece of legislation to be introduced in the new...
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AZ, GA, NH & NV-Sen: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D. OR) Wastes No Time Protecting...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D. OR) in support of U.S. Senators Mark Kelly (D. AZ), Raphael Warnock (D. GA), Maggie Hassan (D. NH), and Catherine Cortez Masto’s (D. NV)...
View ArticleThe House just gave Senate Democrats every reason to end the filibuster as we...
The House stayed in session late Wednesday to wrap up a critical week of work: passing H.R. 1, the sweeping voting and democracy reforms, and an expansive overhaul of American policing, the George...
View ArticleRep. Clyburn: 'Since when did Sinema and Manchin get to be more important...
It's on. It being the filibuster fight. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, along with Rules Committee Chair Amy Klobuchar and Sen. Jeff Merkley, introduced S. 1, the Senate version of the For the...
View ArticleLive on The Brief: Powerhouse episode with Rep. Ted Lieu and Sen. Jeff Merkley
It’s a heavy week: Anti-Asian hate and discrimination has been on full display following the massacre last week of six Asian women in the Atlanta area. That bigotry has always been there—there have...
View ArticleEnding the filibuster is the only way to stop Republicans from seizing...
Fourteen years ago, one of the most corrupt and venal Republicans to hold public office in a generation was forced to resign from his post as attorney general in the George W. Bush administration....
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NV-Sen: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D. OR) Helps Keep Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D)...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D. OR) in support of U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto’s (D. NV) re-election campaign:President Joe Biden & Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto...
View ArticleTed Cruz spends his day congressional committee-hopping, leaves trail of lies...
Apparently, most congressional committees are as boring as Texas during a devastating winter storm, because Ted Cruz doesn’t want to stick around for any of them. He just wants to be caught on camera...
View ArticleMcConnell's delaying tactics on infrastructure wear thin with Democrats who...
President Joe Biden is pursuing "multiple paths forward" on infrastructure, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Wednesday. That means a lot of congressional Democrats meeting with a...
View ArticleDemocrats draw hard line on bipartisan infrastructure negotiations, penning...
Senate Democrats, particularly the liberals, have tired of the game that President Joe Biden and their colleagues Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have been indulging in with Senate Republicans. They...
View ArticleSenate Republicans set to filibuster voting rights bill
The Senate is set to vote Tuesday on the For the People Act, but, with Republicans already enacting one vicious voter suppression bill after another in the states, a federal voting rights bill will...
View ArticleFilibuster carve-out for voting rights might be in reach with Manchin
Senate Democrats have been crafting a revised voting rights bill that Sen. Joe Manchin might deign to vote for, particularly since he is in the group that’s working on it. The Rev. Sen. Raphael Warnock...
View ArticleRolling Stone, "Biden Preparing Lobbying Blitz on Filibuster Reform, Voting...
From Rolling Stone Magazine:With a make-or-break vote looming in the Senate on a sweeping voting-rights and anti-corruption bill, President Joe Biden and his advisers have said in recent weeks that...
View ArticleSenators say unspent funds should go to aiding Afghan refugees, not 'already...
The federal government has billions in unspent funds following the official withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan—and that money should be reallocated to aid refugees who have now been...
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NV, AZ, GA & NH-Sen: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D. OR) Helps Preserve Our Senate...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D. OR) in support of U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D. NV), Mark Kelly (D. AZ), Raphael Warnock (D. GA) and Maggie Hassan’s (D. NH)...
View ArticleDemocrats flirt with ending the filibuster on the debt ceiling. Finally
The Senate is scheduled to vote Wednesday afternoon to increase the debt ceiling to allow the treasury to continue to pay the nation’s bills—including servicing foreign debt, Social Security, and...
View ArticleSchumer, Menendez lead senators in slamming 'cruel treatment' and 'summary...
A letter from a coalition of senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Foreign Relations Committee chair Bob Menendez has become the latest condemnation of the Biden administration’s...
View ArticleSenate Democrats are determined to ‘restore the Senate,’ if only Manchin will...
On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer notified Senate Democrats he is prioritizing an effort to “restore the Senate,” and do something about the filibuster in order to pass voting rights...
View ArticleThe easy trick Democrats have to save democracy, and the Senate, if Manchin...
Despite what you might be hearing from Republicans and Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, the proposal Senate Democrats will advance for reforming the filibuster to pass voting rights is carefully...
View ArticleMorning Digest: New York Democrats' new map could halve the state's GOP...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James...
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FL-Sen: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D. OR) Helps Rep. Val Demings (D) Get Us A Real...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D. OR) in support of Rep. Val Demings’ (D. FL-10) U.S. Senate campaign:Rep. Val Demings (D. FL)Hi, it's Sen. Jeff Merkley here with an...
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NC-Sen: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D. OR) Helps Cheri Beasley (D) Win Us A Real...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D. OR) in support of former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Cheri Beasley’s (D. NC) U.S. Senate campaign:I just got word...
View ArticleA major Democratic group is taking sides in a House primary, and everyone is...
In an unprecedented move that was greeted with instant fury by local and national Democrats, the House Majority PAC began spending at least $1 million this week on TV ads promoting the campaign of...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Jeff Merkley slams top super PAC's spending in House primary...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David...
View ArticleGroup of Senate Democrats urges Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to stop...
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has heard from 14 Senate Democrats urging him to stop union-busting and turn Starbucks into “the twenty-first century leader for corporations by once again setting industry...
View ArticleHonoring Katie and Sri Benson
The following poem honors two people whose personal story (common to too many in our country) became National News for a blip during the signing of the PACT Act by President Biden on August 10,...
View ArticleNew Bill Would Prevent Congressmembers, Immediate Family from Trading Stocks:...
Guest: Craig Holman of Public CitizenAlso: Ian's death toll cracks 100Biden in Puerto Rico after FionaPutin's failuresBrazil's election lessons for upcoming U.S. midterms...With unspeakable devastation...
View ArticleMaybe our elected Democrats should pay more attention to the 'most...
There’s an absolutely outstanding idea being floated right now by Democratic Sens. Jeff Merkley and Tim Kaine about how to effectively neuter Republican opposition to raising the country’s debt...
View ArticleHouse GOP disarray demands Biden be willing to use his 'least...
Two Democrats are resuscitating an old idea of Mitch McConnell’s to solve the debt ceiling fight. It’s good politics from Sens. Jeff Merkley and Tim Kaine, invoking the Senate minority leader in this...
View ArticleJ6 rioter representing himself shows zero remorse, lots of (criminal)...
They say anyone who acts as their own lawyer has a fool for a client. Very true. In fact, the only thing that could possibly be more foolish is hiring Rudy Giuliani.A fella named Brandon Fellows is...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
“He Was Nothing” Last week a jury awarded E. Jean Carroll $83,000,000 $65,000 000 of which was punitive damages, in her second defamation civil case against Donald Trump. Her first interview was with...
View ArticleEnforce Biden's "Red Line": Pass the Rafah War Powers Resolution
It is, as Joe Biden would say, a "BFD." In an interview Saturday with Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC, President Biden said that Netanyahu's threat to attack the Palestinian city of Rafah constituted a "red...
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