JUNE 21: DAY 4
• Public Hearing 4: Tuesday, June 21 (PBS NewsHour)
• Analysis: The 14 most important lines from today's January 6 committee hearing  (June 21, CNN)
• 'There is nowhere I feel safe': Jan. 6 panel hears from election officials Trump targeted (June 21, Time)
• Analysis: The single most compelling witness of the January 6 committee hearings so far (June 21, CNN)
•  Opinion: The gobsmacking audacity of the alleged scheme to keep Trump in office (June 21, CNN)
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​JUNE 16: DAY 3
• Public Hearing 3: Thursday, June 16 (PBS NewsHour)
• How Trump pressured Pence with taunts, lies and an angry mob (June 16, Time)
• Analysis: The 16 most compelling lines from the June 16 hearing. (June 16, CNN)
• The January 6 committee's most damning revelation yet (June 16, The Atlantic)
• Opinion: Eastman bet on the Supreme Court to intervene in the 2020 election. It was a lie (June 16, MSNBC)
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JUNE 13: DAY 2
• Public Hearing 2: Monday, June 13 (PBS NewsHour)
• Jan. 6 committee postpones Wednesday hearing ​ (June 14, CNN)
​• Analysis: The 14 most compelling lines from Monday's hearing. (June 13, CNN)
• Analysis: How Trump chose an 'apparently inebriated' Giuliani over his campaign team. (June 13, CNN)

​JUNE 9: DAY 1
​• Public Hearing 1: Thursday, June 9 (PBS NewsHour)
• Cheney said Trump had a 'seven-part plan' to overturn election (June 10, CNN)
• The 11 most consequestional lines from Hearing 1 (June 10, CNN)
​• Analysis; Violent images wipe away 17 months of denial (June 10, CNN)
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• Website: House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

Updated June 7
Jamie McLeod-Skinner defeated seven-term U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader in the 5th Congressional District Democratic primary, and will face Republican Loree Chavez DeRemer, former Happy Valley mayor, in the Nov. 8 general election.
On May 27, McLeod-Skinner declared victory, and Schrader conceded defeat.
"We won because Oregonians are frustrated with the divisiveness and obstruction," McLeod-Skinner said in a statement. "We are frustrated with politicians who are beholden to their corporate donors, and not us."
Schrader also issued a statement May 27.
"The majority of Democrats have chosen a different direction for now," he said. "I congratulate my opponent on her tireless efforts and successful primary campaign."
Because of a printing error, the hand counting of ballots in Clackamas County continued into early June. McLeod Skinner had districtwide total of 46,523 votes (54.57 percent) to Schrader's 38,195 (44.80 percent).
McLeod-Skinner was  endorsed by the Linn County Democrats and three other county Democratic parties, She garnered 46.83 percent of the vote, to Schrader's 51.97 percent in Linn County. Projections for Linn County leading up to the election, however, had Schrader with up to 80 percent of the vote (and up to 90 percent after President Biden's endorsement)  to 10-20 percent for McLeod-Skinner.  The Linn-Benton Democratic Organization Team praised the work of the Linn-County Neighborhood Leader Team in helping to shatter those projections.  "Your calls, canvasing, postcards, text messages, emails, donations, and volunteering closed the gap and secured significantly more votes than expected," the Organization Team stated in a May 18 email. 
For a look at other primary results, including Tina Kotek's victory over Tobias Read and 13 other candidates for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, see The Capital Insider story by Gary A. Warner.

​• The agreement announced Sunday has the support of 10 Republican senators (June 12, CNN)
• What's in the bipartisan gun deal and what's not (June 12, CNN)
• House passes sweeping gun reform package, though it's unlikely to move in the Senate;
 Rep. Kurt Schrader was one of two Democrats voting against it  (June 8, CNN)

• Wyden says GOP faces 'question of our time' on gun bills (May 31, Oregon Capital Insider)

Thirty-five people turned out May 3 at Ellsworth Street and Fourth Avenue in downtown Albany in support of women's rights and in opposition to the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would strike down Roe v. Wade.  Many passing motorists honked their horns and gave thumbs up to the waving demonstrators. The rally, at which Linn County Democrats were well represented, was one of hundreds held around the country May 3.

Majority of Americans say Supreme Court should uphold Roe, Post-ABC poll finds (May 3, Washington Post)
Schumer, Pelosi: Draft Roe would go down as an 'abomination' (May 3, The Hill)
Analysis: An earth-shattering moment for a Supreme Court already on the brink (May 3, CNN)
Analysis: Supreme Court may have just fundamentally altered the 2022 election (May 3, CNN)

​Susan Health is the new 3rd Vice Chair of the Linn County Democratic Central Committee. Heath, a longtime party volunteer, was elected by acclimation April 7 during the LCDCC’s monthly general meeting.
Nancy Greenman said Heath “always seems to be willing to do the work and knows what’s going on.”
Heath said she’s impressed that the Linn Dems have made meetings more inclusive, and she praised the Neighborhood Leader Program and the “great candidates” who have stepped forward.
“I would like to be a little more involved and be the 3rd Vice Chair,” she said.
Heath succeeds Mark Leonard, who was appointed acting 3rd Vice Chair last month to temporarily fill a vacancy. Miriam Cummins served as 3rd Vice Chair until resigning earlier this year.
In other action April 7, the Linn Dems gave Stamps of Approval to the following Democratic candidates: Nina Brenner, Mary Cooke and Renee Windsor-White, all running collaboratively for the House District 11 nomination in the May 17 Primary Election; Ben Watts, House District 15; Scott Bruslind, Linn County Commissioner; and Deidre DeJear, Iowa governor.
April 7 also marked the first hybrid meeting for the Linn Dems Twenty-six people attended via Zoom, while eight others attended in person at Albany Public Library for the first time since March 2020. The newly purchased Owl 360 degree camera, mic and speaker made it easy for everyone.