The Bald Eagle Party

Still With Us: A Song About Recovery, Faith, and the People We Carry By Killian Yates | The Bald Eagle Party I wrote this song for Tristan, for my other friends and family lost to addiction, and for the people I love who are still in it. Their lives, their struggles, and the love I carry for them are the inspiration behind these words. I wrote the lyrics in pieces while listening to different songs on YouTube Music, leaving those pieces as comments as the words came to me. Eventually, those thoughts about grief, determination, faith, and recovery came together. I used Google Gemini to create the song from the lyrics I had written. Listen on YouTube Listen on Google Drive “enough dead homies to make a family tree” That line carries the weight of people I knew and loved. When I talk about addiction, I think about Tristan. I think about the oth...

Still Undelivered: One Dictionary, Two Political Parties and No Accountability Oregon’s Democratic administration passed responsibility down to prison housing officers while Republican representatives became unreachable. By Killian Yates | September 1, 2026 As of September 1, 2026, the book still has not been delivered. On Friday, August 28, Christina Towers of the Oregon Department of Corrections Office of the Inspector General assured me that Javier Manuel Morales would receive the book that night or, at the very latest, the following day. That deadline passed. Mr. Morales still does not have the book. Twenty-seven days have now passed since USPS delivered it to Snake River Correctional Institution. The item is a Merriam-Webster Rhyming Dictionary. I purchased it through Amazon for my friend, Javier Manuel Morales, so that we could write music together through letters. Amazon and USPS tracking ...

An Open Letter to Governor Tina Kotek Oregon Must Match or Beat California’s Three-Cent Prison Messaging Rate Oregon does not need to invent a new standard. California has already demonstrated that secure statewide correctional messaging can be offered for three cents per message while including free monthly messages. By Killian Yates | August 18, 2026 Governor Tina Kotek Attn: Constituent Services 900 Court Street NE, Suite 254 Salem, OR 97301-4047 Dear Governor Kotek: I am writing to urge you to intervene in the Oregon Department of Corrections’ current tablet and electronic-messaging negotiations before another long-term communications agreement is finalized. This is no longer a request for Oregon to experiment with an untested pricing model. California has already established a clear and directly comparable precedent. ...

The Bald Eagle Party | Open Letter Once Delivery Is Paid For, Viewing Must Be Free An open letter urging Governor Tina Kotek to end per-minute charges for viewing family messages and photographs in Oregon prisons—and to build a bipartisan national standard protecting prisoners and their children. By Killian Yates | August 10, 2026 Governor Tina Kotek Attn: Constituent Services 900 Court Street, Suite 254 Salem, OR 97301-4047 Subject: Protecting the Communication Rights of Oregon Prisoners and Their Families Dear Governor Kotek: I am writing to request immediate action concerning the Oregon Department of Corrections’ use of per-minute charges for electronic messaging and family communications through the GettingOut/Telmate platform. I recently raised this matter in an open letter to President Donald J. Trump. That letter described the problem plainly: “Four cents a minute to see your children.” It also propos...

Bald Eagle Party | Government Accountability and Civil Rights Four Cents a Minute to See Your Children An open letter to President Donald J. Trump—and a one-page proposal to end double-charging for prison messages and family photographs By Killian Yates | Bald Eagle Party | August 8, 2026 The principle is simple: Once a person has paid to send an approved message, photograph, or other electronic content to an incarcerated person, the recipient must be allowed to open, read, and view that content without paying a second fee. A correctional communications company may charge a separate, reasonable, one-time fee to transmit a reply—but it must not run a meter while a person reads, thinks, types, or looks at a photograph of their family. Mr. President, this is unacceptable Mr. President, The Oregon Department of Corrections directs families and adults in custody to use the GettingOut platform for electronic messages and photographs. ...

Public record: documentation of a third email sent to Russian authorities, addressed to Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, July 2026 — presented in eleven languages. English · Русский · Українська · Français · Deutsch · Svenska · Norsk · Italiano · Español · Ελληνικά · Polski English To Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, This is my third letter regarding the abducted Ukrainian children. They are still not home. So I write again — this time about memory, since your government has raised the subject itself. Your Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through Ambassador Gatilov in Geneva, declared that in Russia the memory of World War II victims is "preserved with great care," and that discussing the Holocaust without honoring the Soviet soldiers who stopped the mass extermination would be "profoundly dishonorable." The Ministry reminded the world that it was Red Army soldiers who opened the gates of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, and liberated t...