Oregon's 6th District doesn't need more ideology. It needs practical solutions.
Jason Faler has spent nearly 27 years solving hard problems under pressure — on the battlefield, in the day-to-day reality of leading healthcare organizations, at U.S. Embassies abroad, and as a father navigating the same rising costs every Oregon family faces. He doesn't start with a party platform and work backward. He starts with the problem and finds what actually works — regardless of which team thought of it first.
Below are Jason's positions on the issues that matter most. He won't agree with every voter on everything — and he won't pretend to. But he will always be honest, always be accessible, and always put the people of this district first.
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Government Reform • Affordability & Economy • Fiscal & Tax Reform • Healthcare • Mental Health • National Security • Oregon Agriculture • Immigration • Energy & Environment • Education • Addiction Policy • Constitutional Rights & Public Safety • Empowering the People
GOVERNMENT REFORM — Taking Back The People's House
This is the issue Jason feels most urgently — and most personally. He is collecting ink and paper signatures for ballot access while the OR-6 incumbent raised $3.3 million. That contrast is not just a campaign talking point. It is a diagnosis of everything that is broken about American democracy.
Our government was designed to be of, by, and for the People. It has become of, by, and for the party, the donor, and the career politician.
Politicians today demonstrate loyalty to their party over their constituents and their country. Andrea Salinas votes with her party 95% of the time. Not with this district. With her party. Ask yourself: who is she representing?
Most members of Congress either arrive as millionaires or become millionaires while serving on a $174,000 annual salary. That math does not work without insider trading, leveraging access for personal financial gain, or using public office as a platform for wealth accumulation.
When it costs $3 to $5 million to run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, the People have been priced out of their own government. That is not a representative democracy. That is an auction — and the highest bidder wins every time.
When politicians raise millions per cycle — the vast majority from outside their district, from PACs, from special interests — they are not representing the People. They are representing their donors. The People's voice doesn't just get softer. It gets silenced entirely.
Jason is running because someone has to say this out loud — and then do something about it.
Jason's Government Reform Agenda
- Constitutional Amendment to overturn Citizens United — corporations don't vote. They shouldn't buy elections. Jason will introduce legislation and build the coalition to reverse it.
- Term Limits — no one should be a career politician. Public office is an honor and a privilege — not a platform for personal enrichment.
- Campaign Spending Limits — cap what candidates can spend. Level the playing field. Return the ballot to the People.
- Money Out of Politics — Starting With This Campaign — Jason accepts no money from corporate PACs with a direct financial stake in federal legislation he would vote on. Every donor and every dollar publicly disclosed in real time.
- End Partisan Gerrymandering — districts drawn by independent commissions, not by the party in power.
- 72-Hour Rule — no member of Congress should vote on legislation they haven't had time to read.
- Campaign Finance Transparency — every dollar, every donor, publicly disclosed in real time.
"It costs $5 million to run for Congress. I'm collecting signatures by hand. That's not democracy — that's an auction. I'm running to change that equation — starting with this race."
AFFORDABILITY & ECONOMY — Making the Economy Work for Everyone
The Rigged Economy — The Numbers Don't Lie
This isn't a political opinion. It's arithmetic. And the arithmetic is damning.
Since 1979, productivity grew 70%. Worker pay grew 12%. If your pay had kept pace with your productivity over that period, you would be taking home $9.00 more per hour right now. CEO compensation has increased 1,094% since 1978. Worker pay has increased 26% over the same period. The average CEO now earns 281 times what the average worker earns — up from 21 times in 1965. And while this was happening — Congress did nothing. Both parties. For decades.
Look at who funds Andrea Salinas's campaign: the American Bankers Association, UBS Americas, Bain Capital, Warburg Pincus, Merrill, PricewaterhouseCoopers — the very financial institutions and private equity firms that have driven consolidation, extracted wealth from working communities, and funneled profits to shareholders while worker pay stagnated. 93% of her campaign funding came from outside this district. Whose interests do you think she's protecting?
Small Business & Competition — Main Street vs. Wall Street
Small businesses are the backbone of this district. Private equity firms buy up small businesses, eliminate competition, raise prices, cut wages, load companies with debt, and flip them for profit. This is extraction. And Congress has enabled it because the private equity industry is among the largest donors to both parties.
- Expand small business tax credits
- Antitrust enforcement with teeth — break up monopolistic consolidation, restore competition
- Restrict private equity extraction — limit loading acquired businesses with debt and flipping them at workers' expense
- Limit institutional ownership of single family homes
- Policy predictability — whiplash isn't policy — it's chaos
"Small businesses share the wealth. Corporations concentrate it. Congress has been choosing the wrong side for forty years."
Housing — Homes Are For People, Not Portfolios
Oregon is now the 5th least affordable state in the nation. This happened because elected leaders at every level allowed it — through zoning policies that restricted supply, financial policies that made homes into investment vehicles, and a failure at the federal level to stop Wall Street from buying up American neighborhoods.
- Build more, build denser — incentivize zoning reform tied to federal infrastructure funds
- Streamline permitting — reduce the regulatory timeline for new construction
- Portable mortgage rates — allow homeowners to take their existing rate when they move
- Explore parallel rate structures — government-backed mortgage programs for primary residence purchases
- Restrict institutional bulk purchasing of single family homes
- Expand manufactured housing
- First-time homebuyer support — targeted tax credits and down payment assistance
"A home is not a portfolio. It is where a family builds its life. When Wall Street decided otherwise — and Congress let them — every American family paid the price."
Policy Stability — Governing Is Not A Reality Show
Every real business plans ahead. When policy changes overnight, the entire planning framework collapses. Real businesspeople understand this instinctively. Most career politicians have never run a business.
- Small business impact assessments before major regulatory or trade policy changes
- Trade policy consultation — Oregon agricultural and business communities at the table
- Regulatory transition timelines — allow businesses to adapt without being forced out
- Congressional oversight of executive trade authority
"I've run organizations, signed contracts, made payroll, and watched policy chaos destroy business plans that took years to build. Oregon businesses can't afford for Washington to treat governing like entertainment."
Healthcare costs are one of the largest drivers of family financial stress in Oregon. See Jason's full Healthcare Reform platform below.
FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY & TAX REFORM — Honest Math
The federal government spent approximately $6.75 trillion in fiscal year 2024 while collecting approximately $4.9 trillion in revenue. The difference — nearly $1.9 trillion — was added to a national debt exceeding $36 trillion. Both parties built it. Jason is interested in math, not ideology.
Spending
Social Security and Medicare are promises made to people who paid into them their entire working lives. Jason will not support cuts to either. Full stop. A genuine line-by-line audit of federal spending would identify billions in savings without touching a single program actually serving the American people.
Make the Wealthiest Pay Their Actual Share
After the largest corporate tax cut in American history in 2017, corporations used the vast majority of their windfall to buy back their own stock — not to raise wages or invest in workers. The deficit exploded. Worker wages barely moved. This is not a partisan argument. It is a documented outcome. A wealth tax on extreme individual wealth concentration deserves serious consideration and honest public debate.
Jason's Fiscal & Tax Reform Agenda
- Balanced budget — ten years maximum
- Line-by-line federal spending audit
- Protect Social Security and Medicare — non-negotiable
- No middle class tax increases
- Make corporations pay their actual tax rate — close loopholes, eliminate offshore tax shelters
- Global minimum corporate tax
- Restrict stock buybacks
- Close the carried interest loophole
- Wealth tax — worth serious consideration
- Incentivize domestic on-shoring
- 72-hour budget rule — a real budget, passed on time, every year
"The national debt is $36 trillion. Both parties built it. Neither will fix it because fixing it requires honesty — and honesty doesn't win primaries. I don't have a primary. I have a responsibility."
HEALTHCARE — Patients Over Profits
In the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, no person should suffer or die from a preventable or treatable condition because they cannot afford care. That is a statement of basic human dignity. Setting that aside — there is also a powerful fiscal argument for expanding access that transcends ideology. Jason believes in this because it is right. He is also telling you it costs less. You can agree with him for either reason — or both.
The Real Cost of Doing Nothing
EMTALA — signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 — requires any hospital receiving Medicare funding to provide emergency care to anyone who walks through the door, regardless of ability to pay. A person without insurance cannot afford the $150 primary care visit to manage their diabetes. So they don't go. The condition becomes acute. They present to the emergency department at a cost of $3,000 to $10,000+. The hospital cost-shifts — inflating prices for commercially insured patients. Those inflated prices become your premiums. We are already paying for the uninsured. We are simply paying for them in the most expensive, least effective way possible.
The Structural Problem — Who Healthcare Answers To
When a health insurance company is publicly traded or backed by private equity, it has a legal fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder returns — a duty structurally in conflict with covering patient care. Private equity acquires hospitals, cuts clinical staff, loads organizations with debt, and flips them — leaving communities with degraded care or none at all. Vertical integration has made the Medical Loss Ratio regulation effectively meaningless. Jason supports the bipartisan Hawley-Warren legislation prohibiting this kind of vertical integration in healthcare.
Jason's Healthcare Agenda
- Prohibit private equity ownership of healthcare organizations
- End the vertical integration workaround — support the Hawley-Warren bipartisan legislation
- Expand access to primary and preventive care — fiscally rational and humane
- Lower prescription drug costs — allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices
- Price transparency — patients should know what care costs before they receive it
- Expand telehealth — critical for rural Oregon communities
- Mental health parity — enforce it with teeth
- Reform provider compensation — realign incentives toward preventive care and outcomes
- Expand health savings accounts
- Maintain access to reproductive care — healthcare decisions belong to patients and their doctors
- Address rural primary care shortages
- Invest in veterans' mental health — a personal commitment, not a talking point
"I have spent 20 years inside this system. I have seen what happens when healthcare answers to shareholders instead of patients. I am not reading from a policy brief. I am running because I have seen what needs to change — and I know how to change it."
MENTAL HEALTH — A Personal Commitment
I have sat with people I love in their darkest moments and felt the terror of not knowing where to turn or whether the help we needed even existed. I have also lost fellow soldiers — people I served alongside, people I trusted with my life — to suicide. I know what it means when the system fails the people who need it most. This is not policy to me. This is personal.
Mental health is the most underfunded, most stigmatized, and most consequential healthcare issue in America. The veteran crisis is particularly urgent — PTSD affects an estimated 20% of veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Roughly 17 veterans die by suicide every single day in America. These are not statistics. They are people Jason has served alongside.
Beyond veterans — jails have become the largest mental health providers in America, not because that is the right place for care, but because we have systematically defunded every alternative. Jason will say clearly: seeking help is not weakness. It is what strong people do when they need it.
Jason's Mental Health Agenda
- Dramatically expand veteran mental health resources — fully fund VA mental health services, eliminate wait times
- Mental health parity — enforce it with teeth
- Expand rural mental health access — telehealth, loan forgiveness, mobile mental health units
- Fund school-based mental health — every Oregon school should have access to qualified support
- End the stigma — seeking help is not weakness. It is what strong people do.
"Seventeen veterans die by suicide every day in America. I have served alongside these men and women. I have seen what they carried home. This will not be a bullet point in my platform. It will be a priority in my work — every day I serve."
NATIONAL SECURITY & FOREIGN POLICY — Strength, Restraint, and Constitutional Duty
Jason Faler has served in uniform for nearly 27 years. He has deployed to active combat zones, led intelligence operations at U.S. Embassies abroad in some of the world's most complex geopolitical environments, and navigated the competing agendas of multiple U.S. governmental organizations under real pressure. He has lost soldiers and friends in combat. When Jason speaks about national security, he is not reading from a briefing. He is drawing from experience that no other candidate in this race — and no current member of Oregon's congressional delegation — can match.
On the Use of Military Force
The Constitution vests the power to declare war in Congress, not the President. That framework has been systematically eroded by presidents of both parties — and by a Congress too paralyzed to assert its constitutional role. Military force should be used only when there are clear, compelling, and articulable threats — with clearly defined objectives, an exit strategy, and congressional authorization. Not before.
On NATO
NATO is the most successful military alliance in human history. Undermining it is not "America First." It is strategically catastrophic. Jason strongly supports NATO and America's treaty commitments to our allies.
On China
China represents the defining strategic challenge of the 21st century. The technology race with China is not optional — semiconductor manufacturing, AI, quantum computing, and rare earth supply chains are national security issues. Tough on China means smart on China — not whiplash.
On Narco-Terrorism
The fentanyl crisis is a national security emergency. Drug cartels are militarized, technologically sophisticated transnational threats. Fentanyl kills more Americans every year than were lost in the entire Vietnam War. Jason believes the United States should deploy the full spectrum of national power — diplomatic, economic, intelligence, and military — to eliminate this threat. We will no longer be held hostage by narco-terrorism or the nation-states that enable them.
Jason's National Security Agenda
- Restore congressional war powers — no president should take this nation to war without congressional authorization
- Strong, unwavering support for NATO
- Strategic competition with China — invest in domestic critical technology; restrict adversary purchases of American land and strategic assets
- Full spectrum response to narco-terrorism — diplomatic, economic, intelligence, and military tools
- No forever wars — clear objectives, congressional authorization, and an exit strategy
- Veteran mental health — a personal commitment
- Rebuild diplomatic capacity — military force is one tool among many
"I will never vote to send Americans into harm's way without congressional authorization, clear objectives, and a plan to bring them home."
OREGON AGRICULTURE — Fighting For The People Who Feed Us
Oregon's 6th District is farming country. Jason grew up working on his family's farm — moving irrigation pipe, milking cows, picking marionberries. He understands thin margins, unpredictable markets, and costs that never stop rising. Right now Oregon farmers are being hit from every direction simultaneously: tariffs disrupting export markets, Iran war fuel costs up 35%, Oregon climate legislation creating energy price spikes, and corporate consolidation absorbing family farms.
Oregon agriculture depends on migrant labor — that is an agricultural fact. Enforcement must be paired with realistic, accessible, humane legal pathways for workers whose labor is essential to Oregon's economy. A farm policy that ignores labor policy is not a farm policy.
Jason's Agriculture Agenda
- Protect Oregon farmers from trade policy whiplash
- Reduce fuel and fertilizer costs — end the Iran war's economic stranglehold on Oregon agriculture
- Reform Oregon climate legislation — realistic transition timelines and economic impact assessments
- All-of-the-above energy policy — gradual, economically realistic transition
- Restrict agricultural consolidation — antitrust enforcement; restrict corporate and foreign ownership of Oregon farmland
- Create realistic legal pathways for agricultural workers
- Reform ICE enforcement priorities — targeted, constitutional, with human dignity
- Expand rural broadband and infrastructure
"Oregon farmers didn't cause the global climate crisis, the Iran war, or the trade war. They're paying for all three. That ends when this district has a representative who actually understands what it means to work the land."
IMMIGRATION — Security and Human Dignity. Both. Not Either/Or.
One side treats every undocumented person as a criminal to be expelled. The other treats every enforcement action as an act of cruelty. Both are wrong. Jason's position: secure the border, enforce the law, treat every human being with dignity, and build a system that actually works.
The Border
Border security is not optional. Jason supports securing the border with modern technology, adequately staffed personnel, and intelligence-driven interdiction of fentanyl and criminal trafficking. Effective border security does not require cruelty. It requires competence, resources, and political will.
The People Already Here
There are approximately 11 million undocumented people living in the United States. Mass deportation is logistically impossible, astronomically expensive, and a moral catastrophe. Jason supports a realistic pathway to legal status — not automatic citizenship — for long-term undocumented residents who have demonstrated good character and contributed to their communities.
The Asylum System
The asylum system is broken — overwhelmed, underfunded, and weaponized by both parties. Legitimate asylum seekers deserve timely, fair adjudication. People without legitimate claims should be returned quickly.
Jason's Immigration Agenda
- Secure the border — modern technology, adequate staffing, intelligence-driven interdiction
- Modernize the asylum system — increase resources, reduce adjudication timelines
- Pathway to legal status — not automatic citizenship — for long-term undocumented residents with demonstrated good character
- Mandatory E-Verify — combined with realistic legal work authorization pathways
- Reform ICE — clear accountability standards, independent oversight
- Reform enforcement priorities — focus on criminals, traffickers, and security threats
- Realistic agricultural worker visas
- Address root causes — work with Central American governments to address conditions driving migration
"Secure borders and human dignity are not opposing values. They are both American values. Jason refuses to choose between them — because the choice is false."
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT — All of the Above, Honestly
Oregon's environment is changing — wildfire seasons longer and more destructive, water patterns shifting, coastal communities facing real long-term risks. Whether you attribute these changes primarily to human activity, natural cycles, or both — the practical response is the same: invest in resilience, pursue energy independence, and transition toward cleaner energy at a pace that doesn't destroy Oregon's economy. Jason thinks this should be an engineering problem — not a partisan debate.
The Iran war demonstrated what energy dependence on volatile regions costs American families. Gas prices up 35% since the conflict began. Energy independence is a national security issue and a family affordability issue.
Jason's Energy & Environment Agenda
- All-of-the-above energy strategy — natural gas, solar, wind, geothermal, next-generation nuclear, with an honest gradual transition
- Energy independence — reduce dependence on volatile regions
- Invest in renewable energy infrastructure — grid modernization, energy storage, workforce transition support
- Honest climate policy — coordinate with national and global frameworks; don't impose costs on Oregon businesses that make no meaningful dent in global emissions
- Reform Oregon climate legislation — realistic implementation timelines and economic impact assessments
- Wildfire mitigation — prescribed burns, forest thinning, aerial firefighting capacity. This is an emergency.
- Keep public lands public — forever. No sale, transfer, or privatization.
- Restrict adversary nation energy investment
- Support Oregon's fishing and coastal communities
"Energy independence is not just an environmental goal. It is a national security goal and a family affordability goal."
EDUCATION — What Works, Not What's Fashionable
America has been arguing about education for decades while student outcomes stagnated or declined. Jason's approach: start with the evidence, not the ideology. Find what works. Implement it with fidelity. Measure the results. Hold people accountable.
The Mississippi Model — Evidence That Cannot Be Ignored
In 2013 Mississippi ranked 49th in the nation for fourth grade reading proficiency. By 2025 Mississippi ranked 16th in the nation for overall education — its highest ranking ever — leading the nation in reading and math improvement since 2013, ranking #1 for improvement among economically disadvantaged students. What changed? Mississippi implemented the Science of Reading — structured, research-backed literacy instruction. They invested in teacher training, deployed reading coaches, implemented a third-grade reading promotion gate, and measured results transparently. Oregon should do the same.
Career and Technical Education
Not every student is destined for a four-year college degree — and pretending otherwise has done enormous harm. The skilled trades are among the most financially rewarding career paths available and are chronically understaffed. Jason will push to dramatically expand CTE programs and registered apprenticeships.
Jason's Education Agenda
- Evidence-based instruction — implement the Science of Reading with the fidelity that produced the Mississippi results
- Invest in teachers — competitive compensation, evidence-based professional development
- Accountability that works — transparent measurement with real support and real consequences
- Third-grade literacy gates — intensive intervention, not social promotion
- Expand career and technical education — dramatically increase CTE programs and apprenticeships
- Reduce student debt burden — targeted loan forgiveness and income-based repayment reform
- School mental health — every Oregon school should have qualified mental health support
- Local control with federal accountability
"Mississippi was 49th in reading in 2013. By 2025 it ranked 16th in the nation. They didn't reinvent education. They found what the evidence said works and implemented it. Oregon can do the same."
ADDICTION POLICY — Evidence-Based, Not Ideology in Either Direction
Oregon's Measure 110 decriminalization experiment failed — not because connecting people to treatment instead of incarceration is wrong, but because it decriminalized first and built the treatment infrastructure too slowly and too late. The result was public drug use without meaningful consequences and treatment capacity that wasn't ready.
Jason supports aggressive enforcement against traffickers and dealers, accountability for possession, AND investment in treatment and recovery that actually works. The goal is not to choose between public safety and public health — it is to achieve both.
Jason's Addiction Policy Agenda
- Aggressive enforcement against traffickers and dealers — treat fentanyl trafficking as the national security emergency it is
- Accountability for possession — meaningful consequences that create an on-ramp to treatment
- Evidence-based treatment investment — fund what the research says works
- Recovery support services — housing, employment, and community support
- Pharmaceutical accountability — full accountability for companies that contributed to the opioid crisis
- Expand naloxone access — overdose reversal saves lives and creates treatment opportunities
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS & PUBLIC SAFETY — Freedom and Accountability. Both.
The Constitution is not a menu. Every right enumerated in our founding documents is sacred. Jason will defend all of them. Every time. Regardless of which party is doing the violating.
Article I — Restoring Congressional Authority
The abuse of executive power has reached a point that should concern every American regardless of party. But the deeper problem is not just what the executive has done. It is what Congress has failed to do. Article I is unambiguous — Congress has the power to declare war, control the purse, and regulate commerce. That architecture has been systematically dismantled through the erosion and abdication of congressional authority. Career politicians found it easier to let the president act and then complain than to exercise the difficult authority the Constitution gives them. Jason will go to Washington to restore Article I. Not as a Republican. Not as a Democrat. As a representative of the People.
The Second Amendment
Jason supports the Second Amendment. He has carried weapons in combat, owns firearms personally, and holds a concealed handgun license. He understands both their utility and their gravity — not as a political position, but as a way of life. He also believes common sense and constitutional rights are not mutually exclusive. Universal background checks and properly designed red flag laws with full due process protections are practical measures supported by evidence on reducing gun violence. Jason will oppose any effort to confiscate legally owned firearms.
Public Safety
Jason supports adequate funding for police training and recruitment. Body cameras and accountability reforms are pro-police measures — nothing undermines public trust in law enforcement faster than the perception that officers who violate the law face no consequences.
The Epstein Files
The American people deserve full transparency and accountability regarding the Jeffrey Epstein network — every individual who accessed or facilitated his operation, regardless of wealth or political affiliation. No exceptions for the powerful.
Jason's Constitutional Rights & Public Safety Agenda
- Defend all constitutional rights — First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Fourteenth — every time
- Restore Article I — Congress must reclaim its authority as the primary check on executive power
- Oppose executive overreach — no president should detain legal residents and citizens without due process
- Support the Second Amendment — with evidence-based measures including universal background checks and properly designed red flag laws
- Adequately fund police training and recruitment
- Body cameras and accountability reforms
- Treat narco-terrorism as a national security threat — full spectrum of American power
- Full Epstein investigation and accountability — no exceptions for the powerful
- Protect voting rights — every eligible American should be able to vote
- Keep public lands public — forever
"I have sworn an oath to the Constitution of the United States nearly a dozen times over 27 years of service. That oath was not to a party or a president. It was to a document — and to the people that document was written to protect. I will defend every word of it. Every time. For everyone."
EMPOWERING THE PEOPLE — Why It All Matters
Every position on this page flows from a single belief: that the authority of this government derives from the People — not from corporations, not from parties, not from special interests, and not from career politicians who have confused public service with personal entitlement.
The founders were explicit about this. The Constitution begins with three words — We the People — not "We the Donors," not "We the Party," not "We the Career Politicians." Those three words are not decorative. They are the entire point.
Somewhere along the way — through Citizens United, through decades of gerrymandering, through the systematic erosion and abdication of congressional authority, through the capture of both parties by special interests and ideological extremists — those three words lost their meaning in practice even as they retained it on paper.
Jason is running to restore their meaning. Not through revolution. Not through rage. Through representation — genuine, accountable, independent representation of the kind the founders intended and the people of this district deserve.
He has no party telling him how to vote. He has no donor base to protect. He has no caucus to answer to and no primary to survive. He has one obligation — to the Oregonians who send him to Washington — and he will honor it every single day he serves.
The People's House has been captured. It's time to take it back. Not Left. Not Right. Just FORWARD.