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After months of failed predictions concerning potentially violent acts committed by white supremacists, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security issued another blanket statement warning law enforcement, organizers, and attendees of the Tulsa Race Massacre centennial commemoration events that they could be targets of extremism.
Just last week, DHS said the “events associated with the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre … probably are attractive targets for some racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist-white supremacists to commit violence.”
New: @DHSgov warns “events associated with the 100th anniversary of the #TulsaRaceMassacre…probably are attractive targets for some racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist-white supremacists to commit violence.”
When the U.S. Census announced its 2020 count Monday, Oregon was announced as one of seven states that will add congressional seats, beginning in 2022.
Oregon will have a sixth congressional seat, adding a seat for the first time in nearly 40 years.
Both the Democrats and Republicans in Oregon applauded the news, with each side aiming to add a representative in Congress.
The Democrats, who hold four of the five existing seats, said they are eager to send another Democrat to Washington, D.C.
âThis is an important milestone for our state, and weâre excited for the opportunity to send another Democrat to Congress who will fight for all Oregonians, and work with President Biden and Vice President Harris to help America recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and build back better than before,â Carla âKCâ Hanson, the chair of the Oregon Democratic Party, said.