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The Rev. Dr. Kharma R. Amos. (Courtesy photo) " data-image-caption="The Rev. Dr. Kharma R. Amos. (Courtesy photo) " data-medium-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/11/The-Rev-Dr-Kharma-R-Amos.jpeg?w=300" data-large-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/11/The-Rev-Dr-Kharma-R-Amos.jpeg?w=300" />As tempting as it may be, returning hate for hate will not heal us. Violence and contempt only deepen polarization and erode moral clarity.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, at the Capitol in Washington, on Oct. 7, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press) " data-image-caption="Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in the Capitol in October. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photographer) " data-medium-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/11/Collins-walking-AP.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/11/Collins-walking-AP.jpg?w=780" />The investment — the largest ever by the PAC in Maine — shows the race's importance to Republicans trying to maintain control of the U.S. Senate.

As I see it, Adolf Hitler had the “Brown Shirts,” Benito Mussolini had the “Black Shirts” — both named for the uniforms they wore — and Donald Trump has ICE. Their common purpose: to make everyone in the country afraid. Tear gas, pepper balls, pepper spray, flash bang grenades and bullets, all part of the […]

AUGUSTA ME – JAN. 20: People hold a funeral march style protest on first anniversary of President Donald J. Trump’s second inauguration Tuesday January 20, 2026 outside the Muskie Federal Building in Augusta. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer) " data-image-caption="People hold a funeral march-style protest on Tuesday outside the Edmund S. Muskie Federal Building in Augusta, the first anniversary of President Donald J. Trump’s second inauguration. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer) " data-medium-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/01/43378857_20260120_AugustaProtest_2835.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/01/43378857_20260120_AugustaProtest_2835.jpg?w=780" />Organizers said the 'Stop the Killing' protest was designed to be a somber memorial for deaths in the last year they say were caused by policies of President Donald J. Trump since he was inaugurated a second time.