Chris Murphy

So we will use every power that we have in our disposal in the United States Senate. My colleagues will do the same thing in the House. This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is. The people get to decide how we defend the United States of America. The people get to decide how their taxpayer money is spent. Elon Musk does not get to decide.

So we will use every power that we have in our disposal in the United States Senate. My colleagues will do the same thing in the House. This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is. The people get to decide how we defend the United States of America. The people get to decide how their taxpayer money is spent. Elon Musk does not get to decide.

Listen, that is not a conversation that we have out loud, but I don't know how what has happened in the last week doesn't have an impact. I haven't shared this yet, but it is just true. My office has received phone calls and threats that are different than anything we had received prior to the pardoning of the January 6 protesters. We have had to have very different conversations internally.

Listen, that is not a conversation that we have out loud, but I don't know how what has happened in the last week doesn't have an impact. I haven't shared this yet, but it is just true. My office has received phone calls and threats that are different than anything we had received prior to the pardoning of the January 6 protesters. We have had to have very different conversations internally.

about how we protect me, my family, and my staff. I assume other offices are getting those calls. I assume those calls are reaching other Democratic activists who speak up online all around the country. And whether or not that reaches the level of consciousness, I don't know. But when your family is threatened with harm, of course it may, at the very least, subconsciously depress your interest in

about how we protect me, my family, and my staff. I assume other offices are getting those calls. I assume those calls are reaching other Democratic activists who speak up online all around the country. And whether or not that reaches the level of consciousness, I don't know. But when your family is threatened with harm, of course it may, at the very least, subconsciously depress your interest in

fighting as hard as you can.

fighting as hard as you can.

And given the fact that Elon Musk can sort of rouse those people with one or two or three tweets, it probably also has to do with why there hasn't been a concentrated effort to take him on personally, because folks don't want to end up as I have been and many others on the receiving end of sort of his social media storms, because what comes with that is an implicit threat of violence.

And given the fact that Elon Musk can sort of rouse those people with one or two or three tweets, it probably also has to do with why there hasn't been a concentrated effort to take him on personally, because folks don't want to end up as I have been and many others on the receiving end of sort of his social media storms, because what comes with that is an implicit threat of violence.

Well, I just feel like I have a unique responsibility. I mean, I'm one of 47 Democratic senators. I'm going to take some precautions to make sure that me and my family and my staff are protected. But if I mute my voice, then all is lost. And yes, I don't completely understand why everybody isn't fighting as hard as some of us have been.

Well, I just feel like I have a unique responsibility. I mean, I'm one of 47 Democratic senators. I'm going to take some precautions to make sure that me and my family and my staff are protected. But if I mute my voice, then all is lost. And yes, I don't completely understand why everybody isn't fighting as hard as some of us have been.

So I feel like my role right now is to model a kind of vigorous, organic, authentic anger at what is happening to hopefully inspire others to join.

So I feel like my role right now is to model a kind of vigorous, organic, authentic anger at what is happening to hopefully inspire others to join.

I think we talk a lot about the coming dictatorship, but I think what's really coming is what you would call an oligarchy. That's a term you probably forgot from high school, but what it means is that a handful of really rich people run the government, and they steal from ordinary people using their access to government in order to make themselves and their families even richer.

I think we talk a lot about the coming dictatorship, but I think what's really coming is what you would call an oligarchy. That's a term you probably forgot from high school, but what it means is that a handful of really rich people run the government, and they steal from ordinary people using their access to government in order to make themselves and their families even richer.

I think we talk a lot about the coming dictatorship, but I think what's really coming is what you would call an oligarchy. That's a term you probably forgot from high school, but what it means is that a handful of really rich people run the government, and they steal from ordinary people using their access to government in order to make themselves and their families even richer.

That is likely what we are heading for in the United States of America. I don't think it's a... a coincidence that Trump's cabinet is filled with billionaires. There's more wealth on that cabinet than 169 different nations.

That is likely what we are heading for in the United States of America. I don't think it's a... a coincidence that Trump's cabinet is filled with billionaires. There's more wealth on that cabinet than 169 different nations.

That is likely what we are heading for in the United States of America. I don't think it's a... a coincidence that Trump's cabinet is filled with billionaires. There's more wealth on that cabinet than 169 different nations.