Dear Fellow Marylanders, Earlier this month, I wrote to you about freedom when Americans Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, and Alsu Kurmasheva, as well as U.S. Green Card holder Vladimir Kara-Murza, were released from being wrongly detained in Russia. Physically releasing someone who has been imprisoned, detained or improperly held against their will is critical work. It’s why I press every single day since October 7 to move us closer to freeing the hostages who are being held by Hamas after being kidnapped from Israel. Freedom from injustice takes us towards the larger definition of freedom. Freedom is at the core of who we are as Americans, starting with the Declaration of Independence,...