Category: Videos

Republicans need to get serious about beating COVID-19

(Originally posted August 5th, 2020) – Senate Republicans aren’t treating this moment like the global health crisis it is. They’re not treating it like the historic economic downturn it is. Instead of a pathetic box-checking effort, they need to get serious about beating COVID-19 and getting Americans the support they

Trump’s tactics in Portland make him a violent suppressor

(Originally posted August 4th, 2020) – Here’s what Donald Trump just doesn’t get: Using secret police tactics against peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters doesn’t make him a defender of law and order; it makes him a violent suppressor.

Merkley Questions Secretary Pompeo in Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing

(Originally posted July 31st, 2020) – Extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrest, violence against indigenous peoples and LGBTQ communities, widespread corruption and human rights abuses – this is what Honduras looks like under its current president, so I asked Sec. Pompeo why this Administration continues to cozy up to Juan Orlando

Merkley Speaks Out Against Secret Police Night 2

(Originally streamed live on July 23rd, 2020) – Last night, Senate Republicans were OFFENDED that I dared come to the Floor a second time, asking simply for a vote on my bill to end Trump’s use of secret police. Well I’m back on the Floor now, asking AGAIN. Americans’ rights

2020 Wasco County Town Hall

(Originally streamed live on July 21st, 2020) – I sat down with Oregonians in Wasco County for a virtual town hall, and we streamed our conversation right here to Facebook. Town hall begins around the 6 minute mark. Watch below to hear everything we talked about, including unmarked secret police

Every American should be terrified by what they’ve seen

(Originally posted July 20, 2020) – I’m flying back to DC right now to introduce legislation to STOP TRUMP from using his federal forces as secret military police. What he is doing in our state is the stuff of dictatorships and nightmares, and let me be clear: If he gets

A Legacy America Must Confront

(Originally posted June 19th, 1865) – On June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas, finally received the news that they were free. 155 years later, we as a nation are still struggling to understand that the legacy of slavery is systemic

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