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Jacqueline Keeler
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Diné/Dakota writer living in Portland, Oregon. My 2021 book, Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands, was called by Kirkus Reviews " an eye-opening narrative of two standoffs with the U.S. government.”
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)

They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.

The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
So, this happened. Palm Bay City Council member Chandler Langevin posted anti-Indian statements on X, including “Deport every Indian immediately.”

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Florida politician censured for urging deportation of all Indians in US
Following weeks of public pressure, the Palm Bay City Council voted 3-2 on Oct. 16 to censure Council member Chandler Langevin for posting anti-Indian statements on X, including “Deport every Indian i...
nextshark.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Frogs Together!! #HandsoffPDX Ghttps://youtube.com/shorts/H2eSVJ2R6uA?si=MWZCoHno_tV2hvz0
Meet the Portland protest frog that started a movement
YouTube video by The Oregonian
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October 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Every day Portlanders are making me fall in love with this city all over again. I'm so proud of us.
It's a whole block party vibe over here.
October 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Read our statement responding to reports that the president is sending California National Guard troops to Oregon.

We are quickly assessing our options and preparing to take legal action.

We’ll continue to share updates as we have them.
October 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Trump is sending all of the roughly 300 California National Guard troops that remain federalized in Los Angeles to Portland, Ore., after a judge blocked the president from taking control of Oregon National Guard troops, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Sunday.

www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Trump sending 300 California National Guard troops to Portland — Newsom vows to sue
Gov. Gavin Newsom called the move, announced Sunday morning, “a breathtaking abuse of the law and power.”
www.sfchronicle.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I see this passed in the House, too. Our own Dem Reps here in Oregon mostly voted “present” not “no.” Smh. Didn’t he oppose women’s right to vote? Oct. 14 is my birthday, 🙄

www.axios.com/2025/09/18/c...
Senate passes "National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk"
The resolution moves to designate October 14, Kirk's birthday, as the remembrance day.
www.axios.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Oregon, Washington, 4 Lower Columbia Treaty tribes & conservation groups worked out the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement, signed in 2023.

Trump withdrew via a memo titled: “Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Generate Power for the Columbia River Basin.”

www.oregonlive.com/environment/...
Oregon resumes legal battle after Trump administration abandons historic Columbia River agreement
Oregon is seeking an injunction to preserve some of the beneficial changes to the operation of the hydropower system to protect salmon during next spring’s downstream migration.
www.oregonlive.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The Trump administration plans to end restrictions on road construction, logging and mining on almost 45 million acres of protected public land in an attempt to unburden private industry from environmental regulations.

capitalandmain.com/trumps-plan-...
Trump’s Plan to End Forest Protections Targets a ‘Conservation Success Story’
Allowing roads and logging on millions of acres of national forests would benefit private industry while threatening habitat and public access, opponents say.
capitalandmain.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
What a legacy to leave behind.

“Louisiana v. Callais…may be the vehicle by which the Roberts court’s conservative supermajority will end what is left of the storied Voting Rights Act of 1965, the best possible vehicle for challenges to racial discrimination in voting.”

slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Supreme Court Is Poised to Trigger an Earthquake in American Politics
The court seems poised to do away with the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement.
slate.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Pretendians have shown themselves to be irredeemable. None has ever apologized or even truly stopped. They are also actively vindictive when revealed to be frauds. They will take out any Native person, family, or even tribe that stands in their way. All to be us. It’s a sickness.
August 31, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Trump’s Forest Service layoffs are pushing firefighters to clean toilets and mow lawns while agency morale craters.

Producers: Jeremy Lindenfeld, Cerise Castle
Editor: Jeremy Lindenfeld
August 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
There are significant challenges faced by Navajo citizens when it comes to obtaining tribal IDs. Only a small percentage have them. In conversations with my cousins and fellow Navajos in Phoenix, I learned that the process can be quite cumbersome.
August 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Wow. Native people are being targeted by ICE and held. Native Americans fighting wildfires.

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Tribal Member interrogated in Border Patrol raid of wildland firefighters in WA State.
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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August 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Smh. Still #notyoumascot

If the family wishes to be mascotted it should only be with terms and imagery (and regalia) that SOLELY apply to them and no other Native people.

nypost.com/2025/08/16/u...
NFL’s Washington Redskins should restore name and logo, says family of Indian chief it was based on
The family of Blackfeet chief John Two Guns White Calf is deeply grateful to President Donald Trump for his bold calls to bring back the Washington Redskins and expose racial injustice.
nypost.com
August 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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As Chief of the Pamunkey Tribe at the time I received the same response from Courtney Stein despite showing that the reporters' opinions were not based on facts and that they even contradicted themselves with their opinions within the same podcast.
August 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Although I am appalled at Trump’s defunding of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, my feelings are tempered by the fact that NPR defamed me during last year’s Native American Heritage Month for my investigation of alleged Pretendians.

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When NPR Lies
Pretendianism –– The Issue Is NOT "Indian Identity is Complicated"
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August 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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August 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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by @jfkeeler.bsky.social

"[T]he school board president of Massapequa...claimed that banning mascots of Native people “would erase this heritage, tear down this history and silence this legacy” in her Long Island town, which is 92.3% white.."

LOL OK. pitiful settlers.
Trump wants to ‘Make Indians Great Again’ — by bringing back slurs to a school gymnasium near you
OPINION: “‘Not Your Mascot’ immediately trended — a powerful testament to the impact of collective action. … (President Trump) is trying to undo our work,” Jacqueline Keeler writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM