We have yet to see an Oregon No Kings protest that does not feature someone threatening to behead their opponents.

The above was from the March 28 Portland rally.

Here are some others in the past year:

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By Lars Larson
NW and national radio host,

The Northwest Nonsense

Well, citizens in the Northwest just got another big fat middle finger from another democrat .

Washington’s Secretary of State Steve Hobbs just refused to let the public vote on the illegal and unconstitutional income tax just passed by lawmakers.

Get this, Hobbs claims that voters are forbidden to have any say on billions in new taxes if state lawmakers simply declare it “necessary”.

Reminder, Washington’s state budget spending has increased 116-percent in the last ten years.

Show of hands folks…how many of you have paychecks that more than doubled in the last decade? That’s precisely what I thought.

Oregon democrats follow the same play book. Jam through a huge tax to feed the insatiable appetite of the government, mostly for salaries of workers whose unions feed the campaign war chests of democrats.

If that sounds like a giant cash laundromat, that’s exactly what it is.

Then, once the tax is passed, do everything possible to deny citizens the right to vote on any of it.

And then for the cherry on top, invite democrats politicians in both states, to stand up and loudly proclaim you’re defending democracy by denying democracy.

That’s the Rose City Rap. Join me at noon on KXL for 4 hours of Honestly provocative talk. I’m Lars Larson

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By Oregon Campaign Watch,

Oregon governor candidate Chris Dudley speaks about what he would do to help fix the homeless crisis:

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Top 5 headlines

1 OR has one of the highest tax burdens in the US
2 Oregon doled out millions in ‘questionable’ benefits
3 Oregon drops to 46th in competitiveness ranking
4 Oregon losing residents in prime earning years
5 NY Post: Portland ‘No Kings’ protests turn violent

Bonus

Another grocery store closing due to crime
Brittany Jones plans to unseat Kotek in Dem Primary
A pencil is running for governor, but no auto-pens

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Oregon Independent journalist Andy Ngo was on NEwsMax to talkabout the No Kings March.  Read below and then follow Andy Ngo here and donate here.

The media and Democrats are hoping you don’t remember that the “No Kings” security killed a bystander during an attempt to shoot a leftist mistaken for a “MAGA threat.” Watch my full interview: https://t.co/8O8bTN5BGw

Shout out to @itslinklauren for being a co-guest with me. pic.twitter.com/tpmdLN78EI

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) April 1, 2026

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By Oregon250.com
Oregonians celebrating America’s 250th

The patriots who dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation did so anonymously, never seeking accolades for the vital part they played in the American Revolution, with some mentioning their participation only in their obituaries. All were sworn to secrecy, and one teenager kept it quiet for 55 years.

On the night of Dec. 16, 1773, one of the youngest to smear grease and soot on his face and arms as a disguise before gathering at Griffin’s Wharf to dump tea into Boston Harbor was Joshua Wyeth, a 15-year-old blacksmith’s apprentice at Western & Gridley’s on Orange Street. He joined other young journeymen, apprentices and laborers in a rebellion against taxation without representation by cracking open 300 East India Company tea chests aboard the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver and dumping the contents into the harbor. The men were all sworn to secrecy, a promise Joshua kept for 55 years. As a man in his early seventies in Cincinnati, Ohio, he shared his recollections of what happened that night with Timothy Flint, who published the account in Flint’s Western Monthly Review on March 8, 1828. Joshua mentioned Moses Grant, John Martin, and others who participated in what he dubbed the Boston Tea Party. Joshua and his father, Ebenezer Wyeth, both fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Joshua served in Colonel Henry Knox’s Massachusetts regiment and used his blacksmithing skills in the artillery corps. He was injured in September 1776 at the Battle of Harlem Heights in New York. His younger brother, John Wyeth, a native of Cambridge, became a well-known American newspaper and book publisher of hymnals and histories.

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By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

A low-cost store chain, Grocery Outlet announced that they are closing their NE Portland location.

Because shoplifters were addicts they became violent at any confrontation.  The store manager explains, ““My son, our Store Manager, was trying to get merchandise back on August 27 when he was attacked by a shoplifter – leaving him with a broken nose, multiple fractures in the cheekbone and jawbone, and nerve damage in the side of his face,” McKeever recalled. “When a police officer eventually arrived, the assailant wasn’t arrested, he was given a ‘ticket to appear’ [in court] – while my son was in the hospital, facing thousands of dollars of medical treatment.“I’ve been thrown to the ground, kicked in the face, and kicked in the back of the head and in the ribs

He also talked about how they would destroy products to create diversions, “Then, one with a full cart will go to check-out and ‘have a problem’ with ‘their’ credit card, drawing over the Manager. Then, another one will smash a bottle of wine of the floor – and another will topple a table of products. While the employees are tied up with these created-emergencies, one of the ‘shoppers’ will roll a cart-full of goods out the door,” 

The store’s $350 shopping carts were continually stolen.

Reporter Kevin Dahlgren just featured a story about a different homeless man who stole nearly 100 shopping carts.

Already two East Portland Fred Meyer stores have closed over crime problems.

WalMart in SE Portland left.

KGW-TV ran a story of a shoplifting theft ringleader who confessed how easy it was to steal from stores in Portland.

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By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

The Portland Finance and Governance Committee held a hearing on the controversial Transportation Utility Fee this week and delayed the proposal to its next meeting on April 15, 2026. The road tax would charge single-family homes $12 per month, multi-family units $8.5 per month, and a 4.3% fee on business utility bills. The goal is to bring in $47 million as a backdoor tax. Portland already has a 10-cent gas tax to pay for roads. They wasted that money and are now sneaking this tax on the water bill.

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I was recently reading The Book of Common Prayer. In doing so, I came to appreciate how this book established a common culture in English-speaking countries.

Why did I read that long ecclesiastical book? It’s because a friend of mine gave me a copy of Julie McDonalt Zander’s The Reluctant Pioneer, a novel about crossing the Oregon Trail. The main character has room in their wagon for only two books. They bring a medical guide and The Book of Common Prayer. I have this personal rule about reading. When a book mentions another book, I stop to read that other book before going on so that I first understand the full context.

Written in 1549, this publication was as monumental politically, socially, and culturally as the translation of the Bible under the commission of King James I six decades later. Because it predates the King James Bible, the Book of Common Prayer quotes scripture with anachronistic phrasing. For example, the Greek word ζάω is translated as “quick” rather than “living.” So The Book of Common Prayer repeatedly says “the quick and the dead” which otherwise only lives on today as the title of a western. Yet that nicely captures the legacy influence this old book has imprinted into our culture, whether we are aware of it or not.

A bigger observation to note is the influence on marriage. How is it that, in a culture where the authority of the Church has been so far removed from the act of getting married, we all seem to be able to recollect a stereotype of what is ceremonially said? Those common phrases and ritual utterings, like “take thee” have survived centuries to the point where the accidental utterance of “Rachel” became a major plot turn in the sitcom Friends?

These phrases come from the chapter titled “THE FORM OF SOLEMNIZATION OF MATRIMONY.”

Yet it is still interesting to read that chapter to see what has also been lost. Take, for instance, the line where the minister pauses and asks if anyone objects to the marriage. That seems like a silly formality today. It was serious business before. In addition to that ceremonial script, The Book of Common Prayer goes further, stating at the outset of the marriage chapter:

First, the Banns of all that are to be married together must be published in the Church three several Sundays, during the time of Morning Service, or of Evening Service, (if there be no Morning Service,) immediately after the second Lesson; the Curate saying after the accustomed manner, I publish the Banns of Marriage between M. of — and N. of —. If any of you know cause, or just impediment, why these two persons should not be joined together in holy Matrimony, ye are to declare it. This is the first [second, or third] time of asking.

And if the persons that are to be married dwell in divers Parishes, the Banns must be asked in both Parishes; and the Curate of the one Parish shall not solemnize Matrimony betwixt them, without a Certificate of the Banns being thrice asked, from the Curate of the other Parish.

Only after this prior vetting does it then go on to say “At the day and time appointed for solemnization of Matrimony, the persons to be married shall come into the Body of the Church with their friends and neighbours: and there standing together, the Man on the right hand, and the Woman on the left, the Priest shall say…” Wow, they really took marriage seriously in the sixteenth century. There are many things our society has improved five centuries later, but this is not one of them.

Eric Shierman lives in Salem and is the author of We were winning when I was there. 

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By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

Independent journalist and homeless advocate Kevin Dahlgren shares a story about a man who built his camp with 100 stolen shopping carts.  View the post below, then follow Dahlgren and financially support him.

A homeless man showed me the nearly 100 grocery carts. He hauled into a public parking to build his camp. pic.twitter.com/U2MMcyOFp4

— Kevin Dahlgren (@kevinvdahlgren) March 31, 2026

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