Senator Merkley (OR) is pulling an all nighter on the Senate Floor.

[yellow dahlia]

The theme is Ring the Alarm Bells: AUTHORITARIANISM IS HERE NOW!

It is on C-Span2.

He has been speaking since 6:23 pm EST, this evening (Tuesday).

I just found out about it.

[Mme. Defarge]

1. God bless and protect

my senator.

[charliea]

6. Mine Too!

His proven even better than I'd hoped he be.

[Mme. Defarge]

16. Oui!

[0rganism]

2. Youtube link:

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11. Thanks for providing the link.

[electric_blue68]

3. TY

[yellow dahlia]

10. You're welcome.

I was glad I stumbled on it.

He is still going.

His fellow Dem Senators are helping by coming to the floor and asking questions.

Yay team!

[ultralite001]

4. Senator Jeff Merkley is ripping Krasnov a new a**hole...

Sen Merkley says he will speak as long as he can...

https://katu.com/news/politics/us-senator-jeff-merkley-democrat-oregon-holds-senate-floor-protest-president-donald-trump-threats-democracy

Sen Merkley is holding the floor of the US Senate to protest Trump’s attempts to push us into an authoritarian strongman state + is outlining the grave threat the Trump Administration poses to our democratic republic.

An additional Youtube link:

Besides reading "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," Merkley has also been reading excerpts from "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt -- available via the Internet Archive...

https://ia600803.us.archive.org/21/items/HowDemocraciesDieStevenLevitsky/How%20Democracies%20Die%20-...

[yellow dahlia]

14. Thanks for the links.

[markodochartaigh]

5. I think that we need to be making a list of

things like this for when people say that the Democratic politicians aren't doing anything. They are, but their actions just get no coverage.

[pat_k]

7. Ariella Elm's Daily Dems Doing the Work, Making Noise and Fighting Back Day XXX is my go to.

Wins large a small.

Some of which are people-powered actions that others can emulate.

https://ariellaelm.substack.com/

[markodochartaigh]

8. This is great!

Thank you!

[electric_blue68]

22. TY Just took a look. 👍

[yellow dahlia]

13. MSNBC that alerted me to it.

So I went over to CSpan.

I never knew I would be watching so much CSpan one day.

[malaise]

18. It's very good

Overnight all the issues

[yellow dahlia]

20. I fell asleep around 2:00 ish.

I got to hear him reading the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.

And when I woke up, I put it back on.

If he's till going at 4:00, he's gonna have to share me with Nicolle.

[demmiblue]

9. K&R

[blogslug]

12. kick!

[cliffside]

15. Kick nt

[malaise]

17. Kick - still speaking

[yellow dahlia]

19. So impressive!

Last night the banner at the bottom explained he spoke for 15 hours in opposition to Gorsuch nomination. He is well past that. He started at 6:23 last night.

Go Merkley! Go!

[electric_blue68]

21. 3:51PM Still going-just went through the Photo of the East Wing Destruction as the Reality and Meaphor for what trump..

is doing to the country.

[yellow dahlia]

24. Such a metaphor.

Destruction everywhere, all at once,

[cliffside]

23. Now speaking to the press on C-Span2. nt

[yellow dahlia]

26. I missed it switched over to Nicolle,

I watched him til he left the floor.

What a gentleman.

I was glad to get to know him better, as representative of the people.

[yellow dahlia]

25. Senator Merkley - if I could, I would give you a standing ovation!

22 hours of grace and truth and stamina.