New Oregon: My Vision for the Future of the Pacific Northwest

Editor’s Note: This is a very early, pre-announcement vision for New Oregon. I’m exploring a run only if there’s real support: I need funding first and then 23,000 signatures. If you want me to run, have ideas, or can help gather signatures and dollars, please reach out—let’s see if this is worth doing together. Check back soon and be sure to subscribe to our email newsletter!

New Oregon: Political independence

I’m done with mono-party control. We all want the same things—cleanliness, order, conservation, clean air and water, a good future for our children—so I’m building a broad, independent path that invites everyone in.

Homelessness (and economics)

The starting point is simple: most people without stable homes are decent human beings. Our approach is compassion, simplicity, and patience, plus practical steps for safety, IDs, jobs, and staying on track over weeks and months.

Religious freedom and pluralism

New Oregon must be a bastion for religious freedom and a government without a sanctioned religion. I’ll speak openly about the moral roots of policy—compassion, truth, simplicity, love—while refusing the habit of judging each other’s beliefs.

Compassion and justice (not either/or)

I reject the false choice between compassion and justice. We can seek accountability and still remain compassionate, renewing our criminal justice system with that harmony at the center.

Environment (and economics)

Here in the Pacific Northwest, we live in a rainforest, so let’s act like good stewards! I want practical incentives that reduce pollution and clean up past damage while growing real jobs—experiments that make economic sense or get retired quickly.

Science and difficult conversations

I value first principles, humility, and challenging our own assumptions. New Oregon should welcome respectful disagreement, real data, and the courage to change course.

Family law reform

We need to modernize Oregon’s family law system, which incentivizes litigation, and, in practice, is both anti-child and anti-family. We need to move fit parents out of adversarial courts and into child-centered reviews with coordinators, evaluators, and therapists, affirming parental rights as fundamental. To that end, I’m pushing a child-centered model that treats fit parents as fundamentally equal.