Oregonians won’t have the chance to vote on whether to replicate federal tax breaks for car loan interest and business assets on their state taxes after a referendum campaign led by conservative anti-tax operatives fizzled out. Oregon automatically replicates changes to federal tax law, including those included in congressional Republicans’ 2025 tax and spending megalaw. […]
Two-time Republican gubernatorial hopeful Christine Drazan pulled no punches as she launched her general election campaign in Portland last week, warning of a “bruising” incoming race against her political rival and incumbent Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek. “I’m committed to fixing what’s broken in our state,” the state senator from Canby said at a waterfront dock […]
Two Democratic legislative candidates backed by labor unions and the party’s left flank grew their leads Thursday over an incumbent state senator and local elected official supported by much of the party establishment. After Washington County published updated election results late Thursday afternoon, former elementary school principal Myrna Muñoz led Sen. Janeen Sollman, D-Hillsboro, by […]
Two Democratic candidates backed by labor unions and the party’s left flank have pulled ahead in tight legislative elections in Washington County as local election officials continue processing and counting ballots. As of 5 a.m. Thursday, former elementary school principal Myrna Muñoz, the sister of current Rep. Lesly Muñoz, D-Woodburn, was leading Sen. Janeen Sollman, […]
The race to represent Oregonians living along the state’s central and southern coast and parts of the Willamette and Umpqua River Valleys in Congress will be a rematch of 2024. U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle, a Lane County Democrat representing Oregon’s 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, was easily fending off her Democratic […]
A former Democratic state lawmaker is leading the Democratic primary to take on Oregon’s lone Republican member of Congress in the state’s sprawling 2nd Congressional District. U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz, of Ontario, was fending off primary challenges from Peter Larson, a former teacher, and Andrea Carr, a former rodeo queen and barrel racer, claiming nearly […]
AURORA – Oregonians voting in the 2026 governor’s race will decide between two familiar faces: State Sen. Christine Drazan and Democratic incumbent Gov. Tina Kotek. The Republican state senator from Canby who lost to Kotek by a few percentage points in a three-way race in 2022 took an early lead in the Republican primary for […]
As Oregonians turn in their ballots Tuesday, the state’s top elections and legal officers are reasserting confidence in the state’s election system. Oregon’s elections are safe and secure despite the Trump administration’s attempts to obtain personal voter data from the state, as well as cuts to the U.S. Postal Service and the federal agency charged […]
Washington state Democrats are wrestling with whether to join the redistricting battles unfolding across the country. There’s no immediate push to redraw the state’s congressional map. But Democratic leaders are not ruling out the idea if they win supermajorities in the Legislature. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court sharply limited the consideration of race when […]
Oregon’s elections are secure, and the state is doing everything it can to resist unconstitutional demands from the Trump administration that undermine state and local elections, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read said Monday. With the primary upcoming, Read hosted an afternoon town hall to address election security concerns alongside Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, […]
