I join people on Maui and across Hawaii in honoring the life and service of Maui Police Department officer Suzanne O, who was tragically killed in the line of duty on August 15, 2025. Over the course of her service with the Maui Police…

people voted for Donald Trump for all kinds of reasons, but the main reason was that they thought he would bring down the price of goods, groceries, food, housing, gas. Whatever his other faults, he was good for your money, people thought…

the mass starvation and death sweeping through Gaza is a moral tragedy and a strategic abomination. What started as a war with a just cause--to go after Hamas for the unspeakable atrocities it committed on October 7 and bring home the…

when it comes to one of the most basic necessities in life for people--housing--both political parties have failed. Both political parties have failed. Housing costs more than ever today, with the median home costing five times as much as…

Dr. Fredrick ``Skip'' Burkle, Jr., is a distinguished veteran, physician, and humanitarian whose service to our Nation exemplifies the highest ideals of courage and compassion. Throughout his career, Dr. Burkle has selflessly dedicated his…

But not anymore. We are causing death now. We are spreading disease now. We are deepening starvation now.

People would see the American flag, whether on the side of a truck or a sticker on a food parcel, and think, ‘The good guys are here. Help is coming.’

We used to be the indispensable nation that people around the world counted on for help.

Donald Trump, aided by a band of loyalists and ideologues, has chosen instead to inflict death and disease and starvation on the world’s most vulnerable.

it all started with the stroke of a pen. Within hours of taking office, in January, the President signed what can only be called a death sentence to millions of people all over the world. Executive Order No. 14169 simply read: It is the…

At what point are my Republican colleagues going to stand up for this branch of government? Why would you run for office?

Republicans don't actually have to do this. I understand, as well as anybody, wanting to go along with your party's President, especially in the early months. But being part of an independent and coequal branch has to mean something. Being…

2 weeks ago, Republicans passed one of the most unpopular bills in the history of the country--one of the most unpopular bills in the history of the country. Now that it is law, we don't have to imagine anymore what might happen; we know…

Our job is to point out, when kids get less to eat, when rural hospitals shutter, when the price of electricity goes up, that this is because of what your Republican elected official did.

Killing renewable energy projects will cost people ― not companies ― people, rate-payers, $60 billion in his decade alone.

This bill will kill 300,000 jobs in wind and solar per year. We are going to lose out on $450 billion in capital as thousands of projects go under. And because of that, we are going to generate about 500 gigawatts less energy in the next…

more than 16 million people are going to lose their healthcare, and tens of millions of Americans are going to pay more for healthcare every month. Hundreds of rural hospitals are going to be forced to close, and we are going to plunge the…

This is the stuff of dictatorships.

if you heard the leader of a foreign country was sending armed soldiers into his own cities, you would correctly call it authoritarian behavior. If you heard them say that the bar for unleashing troops on their own civilians is 'What I…

I guess what I’d like from you is an admission that that was too rough of a cut and you still have some work to do in untangling.

No one asked for the biggest wealth transfer in American history from the poorest people in the country to the richest people to ever exist. No one asked for the biggest ever cuts to Medicaid, to kick 14 million people off of health…

This is not just a moral question of what we owe Native people, it is also a question of the law.

there is a sort of general rule in politics, which is that if you start your meeting at 1 a.m., you are probably not proud of what you are doing. Now, there are some instances in which you start the meeting at 7 p.m. and it goes long and…

I remain flabbergasted that this thing is not going to pass. I remain completely aghast. This is the most blatant, obvious, ridiculous, gross corruption that I’ve ever seen in my entire life — by dollar amount, by symbolism, by violating…

It’s like this was designed in a lab to piss off the maximum number of people.