I have served this country in uniform for nearly 27 years — including combat tours rebuilding fractured nations, fighting insurgents, and serving at U.S. Embassies abroad in some of the world's most complex and challenging environments. I know what it looks like when a country loses its way. And I know what it takes to fight back.

Today, my mission is here. And this time, I am the insurgent.

I am also a healthcare executive who has led large and small Oregon health organizations, a graduate-level professor, a founder, a coach, and a fourth-generation Oregonian who spent much of my youth working on my family's Willamette Valley farm — milking cows, picking berries, and moving irrigation pipe. I am not a politician. I am someone who has spent a career solving hard problems under pressure — and that is exactly what I am bringing to Congress.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE

The Impact of Parties and Special Interests on the American Majority

You are not imagining it. Life is harder today.

Two parties have spent decades pulling us further apart — moving toward their most extreme factions, their biggest donors, and their most reliable primary voters.

The middle — where most Americans actually live — has been abandoned.

Meanwhile the cost of everything keeps going up. Rent. Groceries. Gas. Healthcare. Childcare. Oregon is now the 5th least affordable state in the nation. Bankruptcy filings jumped 25% in 2025. Childcare costs are up 55% since 2019.

And Congress — consumed by partisan warfare and donor obligations — has delivered nothing meaningful in response.

This isn't an accident. It's arithmetic. When corporations, parties, and special interests own a politician's loyalty entirely, the People don't just get less. They get nothing. Your voice isn't just being drowned out — it has been completely silenced.

You have been working harder than ever and falling further behind — and the people you elected to fix it have been too busy answering to their donors and their party to answer to you.

But in America, we get to control our own destiny. By choosing to reject the two parties that have failed us, that ends now.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW

Before you read further — here is how you can help today:

1. Donate

We are running against a party-backed incumbent who raised $3.3 million last cycle — 93% from outside this district, largely from national PACs, financial industry donors, and D.C. lobbying organizations. We can't match that dollar for dollar, and we don't have to. But here's what we can do.

In Oregon's 6th Congressional District, 38.52% of registered voters are unaffiliated — more than either party. Democrats make up 29.75%. Republicans 24.78%. The largest voting bloc in this district doesn't belong to either party. They're looking for exactly what this campaign offers. This race is winnable — and your donation helps prove it.

Right now the most urgent need is ballot access. Hiring enough paid circulators, working in parallel with our volunteers, to secure our place on the November ballot will cost approximately $7,500–$12,000. We need to collect 5,000 to 5,500 signatures knowing that some will be disqualified — meaning our real target is significantly higher than the 3,532 minimum required. Every dollar donated goes directly toward making that happen.

Your $25, $100, or $500 matters more here than anywhere else. The federal contribution limit is $3,500 per person per election.

2. Help us collect signatures — or donate to that effort

We need 3,532 valid signatures from OR-6 registered voters by this summer just to appear on the November ballot. This requirement doesn't apply to our opponents — only to independents. We know carrying a clipboard isn't for everyone, but if you're willing to do it, we need you now.

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Not everyone can go door to door, and that's okay. Your donation directly pays professional circulators working alongside our volunteers to make sure we hit our signature goal. Without ballot access, nothing else matters.

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3. Spread the word

Nearly 40% of OR-6 voters are unaffiliated. Most of them don't know yet that they have a real option. Here's how you can change that right now:

• Share this page on Facebook, Instagram, and X — tag us @jasonfalerforcongress
• Text three people you know in OR-6 and tell them about this campaign. Include a link to this website.
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• Forward this link to anyone in the district who's frustrated with both parties: www.FalerForCongress.com

WHY THIS MATTERS

I love this state and I love this country. I have served alongside those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for this nation. We owe it to them, to our children, and to ourselves to be a nation worthy of that sacrifice.

Today's America is far from the best version of itself. But it's not too late — if we simply choose to stop reelecting people who serve party over nation.

In 2006 I came home from my first combat tour in Iraq and started receiving desperate emails from interpreters who had worked alongside us — brave people whose lives were now in danger because of their loyalty to American forces. It took time to build a response worthy of the problem, but I did not sit on my hands and simply wish something could be done. I founded Checkpoint One Foundation, navigated years of bureaucratic red tape, and helped bring more than 150 Iraqi and Afghan interpreters and their families to safety in the United States.

The story gained national attention — covered by the New York Times, PBS NewsHour, the Christian Science Monitor, The Oregonian, and many others. Senator Ron Wyden (a Democrat) nominated me for the Congressional Medal of Honor Society's Above and Beyond Citizen Honors Award — and I was selected as Oregon's state finalist. Senator Gordon Smith (a Republican) commended me on the floor of the United States Senate. Republican and Democrat — both recognized what we had built. The result? Congress actually responded, passing legislation increasing Special Immigrant Visas — twice. Government worked because people applied pressure and refused to look away.

That experience — watching government fail the people who trusted it most, then fighting to make it right — is one of the core reasons why I'm running.

A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE TO THE STATUS QUO

As Oregonians we are, by nature, Pioneers and Trailblazers. This time, we have an opportunity to show the rest of the country that rejecting the two parties that have failed us is not only possible — it is necessary. That a different future is within reach. That a country that is exactly what our founders intended — one that is of the people, by the people, and for the people — is not just a theory or a dream. It is a choice. And we are making it now.

WHO IS JASON FALER?

Combat veteran. Healthcare executive. Professor. Fourth-generation Oregonian. Political outsider.

Jason has spent nearly 27 years solving hard problems under pressure — on the battlefield, in healthcare boardrooms, at U.S. Embassies abroad, and in the community. He is not a career politician. He has never answered to a party caucus. And he never will.

WHAT JASON STANDS FOR

Practical solutions over ideology. No party line. No donor agenda. Just common sense policy that works for the people of Oregon's 6th Congressional District.

CAN AN INDEPENDENT REALLY WIN?

The largest voting bloc in OR-6 — 38.52% of registered voters — is unaffiliated. They don't have a candidate who answers only to them. Until now. This is not a protest vote. This is not a throwaway vote — it's a statement, and the pathway to real change. The math works.

JOIN US

Grassroots. Bootstraps. Shoe leather. The odds are stacked against us — and we are going to win anyway.

Let's do this, together.