The Bald Eagle Party

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...

Public record: documentation of a follow-up email sent to Russian authorities, addressed to Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, July 2026 — presented in nine languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian, French, Polish, German, Swedish, Italian, and Norwegian. English · Русский · Українська · Français · Polski · Deutsch · Svenska · Italiano · Norsk English To Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, It has now been approximately 34 hours since I last wrote to you regarding the abducted Ukrainian children. The buses have not stopped. The camps have not emptied. So I write again. This time I will not reiterate the importance of a child's formative years, and I will not explain why the immediate release of these children matters. There is no need. Russia already understands both perfectly — that understanding is the entire reason for the program. You do not steal childhoods unless you know precisely what childhoods are worth. The calculation is transparent: take eno...