What fun to live in the Empire—with our bombs, drones, & foreign aid cuts!! Portlanders can’t always agree on whether we should care about the bombing/starvation campaign in Gaza. Taking over from Earl Blumenauer, Maxine Dexter won her primary in part with AIPAC pro-Israel funds (per The Intercept & OPB). Nonetheless, Rep. Dexter demonstrates a liberal conscience. She came out swinging for federal employees, against the staffing cuts. She visited El Salvador to show her concern about the imprisonment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Her letters, of late, to us in the Multnomah County Dems who have emailed her about Gaza, have seemed to reflect our views, yet she has not gone so far as to co-sponsor all the Gaza-related Congressional proposals. In recent years, we could count on Rep. Blumenauer to

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