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Running with a third party in the US is, as this candidate admits, quixotic. If the Dems aren't even going to run a candidate, though, why not?

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/10/13/green-challenging-republican-rep-greg-smith-hopes-to-win-with-nonaffiliated-voters/

#orpol #oregon

Demand environmental review for the proposed Amazon data center in Walla Walla! Send a letter & tell your friends, especially anyone in southeastern Washington or northeastern Oregon/the Umatilla Reservation area! https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-an-environmental-review-for-amazons-wallula-gap-data-center #USpol #WApol #ORpol #PNW #fuckAI

Go Portland Go claims to be progressive and then sets these four policies out:

* Police response times = We need more police
* Homelessness is a blight
* Commercial Real Estate rentals are down
* Income Tax is too high

Which of those is progressive?

#pdx #goportlandgo #orpol #election2026

I endorse this DoNotRank guide for the upcoming election.

It's worth knowing who you are voting for and many names might be unfamiliar--or familiar because they are funded by corpo interests and have ad reach.

#pdx #orpol #election2026

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:umenf2h7e27sesibvn7guixn/post/3mxchxcmxmc2y

8600+ Oregonians took the Governor's survey on what they want to see in a future transportation package.

What a surprise! People want to fix the damn roads, expand transit service and build safer streets.

Oregonians are not clamoring for ODOT to spend billions on freeway expansions. #orleg #orpol

Here’s how Oregonians want the...

#Wildfires #Firefighters #USFS #CAPol #WAPol #ORPol #USPol

From CBS News.com: Firefighters struggle with staffing, equipment shortages amid record wildfire season: "We're running thin"

FYI @ai6yr @bud_t @uccawx @ingalls @firefly @mappingsupport

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/firefighters-staffing-equipment-shortages-wildfire-season/

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/08/17/the-evergreen-snap-hunger-rural-oregon-food-assistance/

(at this point the logic of *capitalism with guardrails* as seen flourishing in modern social democracies elsewhere in the world has to be something that can be sold to #Oregon's rural poor)

“Usually it’s pretty full,” said food bank manager Eddie Nelson as she opened a freezer. “But as you can tell our freezers are getting empty.”

#ruralpoverty #ubi #pdx #orpol

Did you know that the state of Oregon is arguing in state court that "female" should be defined by referring to the size of a person's gametes?

#ORpol #Oregon

A great day to remember +30% of Oregon's carbon pollution comes from transportation, yet ODOT, Governor Kotek + the legislature are defunding transit while advancing multiple multi-billion dollar freeway expansions that will only make Oregon's air pollution and carbon emissions even worse #orpol

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4gky4qtrh5hjidewa3idoah4/post/3ms7bbl3hck2l