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The problems with the death penalty are so deep they cannot be fixed. With every execution we carry out, we violate our Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

Behind the racist rhetoric and policies from the Trump administration is the harmful message that people of color, people who speak a second language, and people who come from immigrant families are not equals in our country or are somehow less American. This is wrong and we're fighting back.

Seventy-seven years ago today, Oregon’s Minoru Yasui defied the government's curfew on Japanese Americans in a brave act of civil disobedience at the start of World War II.

Did you hear the story about the do-gooder tech company that is pushing new state “privacy” bills across the nation?The pitch by that company, Hu-manity.co — which is so effective its Oregon bill was introduced with more than 40 co-sponsors — is that patients’ health information is being sold for big money without their consent and without providing them any compensation. The solution these bills propose is to prohibit such information from being sold without patients’ permission and without giving them a cut of the profits when their information is sold. Sounds like a big win for privacy and consumers.

The energy in the Oregon Convention Center, with 700 freedom defenders and civil rights advocates in one room, was electric last Friday. Thank you to everybody who made this year's Liberty Dinner so special!

Debt-based driver’s license suspensions are a poverty penalty that punish people solely because they are poor. It is time to end this harmful practice in Oregon.