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On the recordOctober 21, 2025
--to save their futures and, therefore, your future. Why? Why do we have to have a world where the powerful engage in these assaults based on race or religion or ethnicity? I sometimes hear Rodney King in my head--``Why can't we just all get along?''--after he had been badly, badly beaten. The fact is, it seems like we have a long ways to go to erase prejudice from our hearts, and when people gain positions of power who carry that prejudice in their hearts, it often becomes open hatred and amplifies the ability of others to more openly discriminate or engage in provocative acts. So, anyway, I hope the generations to come will find a better path. But in your question on securing liberty, this most important message--and I will have my team put it back up--is the alarm bells are now. The authoritarian actions are not down the street. They are not around the corner. They are not something to worry about 2 months from now. They are here right now.…
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Addressing issues of prejudice and authoritarianism in society.

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