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Originally published on March 5, 2026 by the Albany Democrat Herald. On Saturday, the United States launched "Operation Epic Fury" against Iran. President Trump said its purpose was to defend democracy and American freedom. Albany will be asked to send its sons and daughters. We always do. Before
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It’s been nearly four weeks since Keizer Senator Kim Thatcher introduced Oregon’s Military Civil Rights Act, Senate Bill 1057. That same week, Albany Representative Shelly Boshart Davis curtailed my Constitutional rights to speech, assembly, and redress by illegally banning me from the state capitol in Salem. Keep reading
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After being submitted by then-Representative James Hieb 🐘, LC 2560 (the Military Civil Rights Act) fell into limbo when he was not re-elected to the Oregon Legislative Assembly. On February 13, 2025, Senator Kim Thatcher 🐘 submitted a new Legislative Concept (LC) and today LC 4669 has become Oregon Senate
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On February 13, 2025, Senator Kim Thatcher submitted a new Legislative Concept (LC) after Hieb’s LC 2560 died in limbo. *UPDATE: LC 4669 has been introduced to the Legislative Assembly, becoming Senate Bill (SB) 1057! Scroll down for the text of LC 4669. Legislative Concept 4699 Draft SUMMARY Digest:
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The following was sent to Politics Co-Editor Betsy Hammond and Vice President Therese Bottomly of The Oregonian/Oregon live on January 24, 2025 at 12:55. Betsy [Hammond] (and Therese [Bottomly]), Sen Thatcher has asked me for comments on Senate Joint Memorial 1, which will have a committee hearing
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Oregon Legislative Concept (LC) 2984 has become Senate Joint Memorial (SJM) 1! The draft Oregon Legislative Memorial urging Congress to conduct public hearings on anti-military bias and improve enforcement of hate crimes protections for military families, was introduced by Senator Kim Thatcher and is now looking for Legislative sponsors.
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Originally published on November 5, 2024 by the Albany Democrat-Herald and the Corvallis Gazette-Times. Section 4712 of the 2009 Hate Crimes Prevention Act, known as The Soldiers Amendment, created criminal enhancements for Americans targeting military families “on account of their service.” But the Department of Justice has never
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On our phone call last Thursday, you said "“we cover state issues and local Portland area issues.” Indeed, the Oregonian reported on hate crimes when a veteran attacked an Iraqi restaurant in Portland in 2017. But the paper did not apply the same standard when it reported on a
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Attached is everything the Linn County Courthouse kept from the trial. He pled out, so the DA did not get to ask him his motivation. Then he was stabbed and didn't like the sentence the judge handed him; https://democratherald.com/news/local/crime-courts/albany-stabbing-victim-
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Betsy; The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 included a section that extended protections to service members, called the Soldiers Amendment. In the Oregonian's prior reporting (including here and here), the military protections of HCPA have been ignored. Less than a year after the HCPA was passed, my
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AI Generated Transcript: BH: My name is Betsy Hammond and I'm the politics editor at the Oregonian. LMI: Okay. BH: I understand that you're an activist on behalf of yourself and other veterans trying to secure rights for for veterans and that you were the Oregonian
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The following was sent to Oregon Democratic Party staff and national committee members on Oct 22, 2024, at 2:30 PM. My name is Logan M. Isaac and I represent the Military Improvement Association. I’ve been working with Sen Ron Wyden’s office to get my rights enforced as