Join me at Polk County GOP Saturday night: https://polkcounty.gop/  

Happy Tax Day! You pay the  highest total taxes in America!! https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/04/06/states-highest-lowest-income-tax-rates-2026/89420680007/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

9 ways your tax dollars in OR are wasted: https://oregoncatalyst.com/96027-tax-day-9-ways-tax-wasted.html

Fake Voter registration algorithms in this story have been happening in OR for years: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/peter_ticktin_for_us_attorney_general.html

The Iran port blockade is working, just like Reagan used it against them In 1987: https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/15/what-trump-can-learn-from-reagan-about-blockading-the-strait-of-hormuz/

Chinese oil tankers turned away from Iran ports by US Navy: https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2026/04/14/chinese-tankers-turn-back-challenging-u-s-blockade-others-pass-strait-hormuz-safely/

Kotax signed her latest job destroying small business tax increase: time to repeal it now! https://notaxor.com/

Reps Diehl and Yunker file repeal initiative: https://oregoncatalyst.com/95952-tax-oregon-rep-diehl-rep-yunker-launch-tax-clawback-referendum.html

Polk County GOP sat night event MC’d by Jeff Kropf: get tickets here https://polkcounty.gop/

US blockades Iranian ports: its better than troops on the ground: https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202604067622

Profound economic cost to Iran detailed here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2043456536454836467.html

Trump says he doesn’t care if Iran returns to talks: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/04/13/trump-says-he-doesnt-care-if-iran-returns-to-talks-if-they-dont-come-back-im-fine/

Drazan and Dudley ditch the biggest debate and opportunity of the Republican primary: Why? https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/04/2-leading-republican-candidates-for-governor-decline-to-participate-in-oregoniankgw-debate.html

Dems strangely silent about gas tax increase prior to repeal vote: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/04/democrats-fought-hard-for-oregons-road-tax-hikes-why-theyre-now-effectively-silent-as-voters-decide.html

Show and Tell to end Iran war: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/wayne-root-iran-solution-everyone-assumes-there-are/  

RINO amnesty bill gets hit hard! https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/rep-brandon-gill-goes-scorched-earth-dignidad-amnesty/

Leftugees: libs who leave high tax states for red states then vote for stupid leftists in red states: https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/10/how-republicans-surrendered-virginia-to-left-wing-colonizers/

Sign up to help repeal Kotax’s latest job destroying tax increase: https://notaxor.com/

Kotax gets an earful from fed up Oregonians: They don’t like high taxes but she is gonna raise them anyway: https://hoodline.com/2026/04/fed-up-oregonians-warn-kotek-taxes-and-red-tape-are-choking-local-jobs/

Fishwrap article on tone deaf Kotax points out she’s gonna raise taxes anyway: https://hoodline.com/2026/04/fed-up-oregonians-warn-kotek-taxes-and-red-tape-are-choking-local-jobs/

Is ceasefire just cover for final staging in Iran war? https://substack.com/@charliepgarcia/note/c-239909606

Slimy RINO’s in Congress try to slip by illegal alien amnesty bill: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/rino-rep-maria-salazars-mass-amnesty-bill-will/

Laura Ingraham exposes RINO Rep Lawler’s lies about amnesty bill: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/rino-rep-maria-salazars-mass-amnesty-bill-will/

Trump has been saying for 25 years Iran cannot have nukes: https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/09/trump-has-been-saying-iran-cant-have-nukes-for-20-years/

Sign up for the next repeal of another Kotax tax increase! https://notaxor.com/

Kotax blames Republicans for OR’s bottom education ranking https://medfordalert.com/2026/04/06/kotek-blames-republicans-as-oregon-ranks-near-bottom-in-education/

Cease fire in Iran war: will it hold? https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/last-ditch-effort-to-broker-us-iran-cease-fire-continues-as-trump-ultimatum-nears-6008760?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=section-1

Salem Mayor Julie Hoy should sue Salem Reporter for biased article: https://www.salemreporter.com/2026/04/06/ethics-commission-poised-to-make-final-ruling-julie-hoy-broke-state-meetings-law/

MC judge doesn’t want to go to work so she can campaign: https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2026/04/06/county-circuit-judge-told-she-cant-beg-off-running-trials-to-campaign-for-reelection/

VA: lawsuit to stop new state law allowing people born outside the US and have never lived in VA to vote: https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/07/lawsuit-seeks-to-stop-people-who-have-never-lived-in-virginia-from-voting-there/

Weekly interview with former Sen Linthicum: 

Kotek’s soft of punishment OR Corrections dept to give all inmates computer tablets to play games/watch movies: so much for penalty https://ktvz.com/news/2026/04/06/oregon-department-of-corrections-to-issue-computer-tablets-to-all-inmates-move-to-digitally-scanned-email/

Should we bomb Iran back into the stone ages tonight to create real regimen change? https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/last-ditch-effort-to-broker-us-iran-cease-fire-continues-as-trump-ultimatum-nears-6008760?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=section-1

Political Coffee Klatch tonight with Salem Mayor Julie Hoy, 6-8pm at Bo and Vine Restaurant on Commercial st in Salem

Has Oregon reached the breaking point that changes how people vote with such a high tax burden? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/oregon-and-massachusetts-rank-high-as-wealth-departs/gm-GM7AD67886?gemSnapshotKey=GM7AD67886-snapshot-1

Communist controlled unions trying to take out liberal Hillsboro Dem Senator: https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2026/04/05/state-sen-janeen-sollman-says-two-prominent-unions-resorted-to-bullying-and-intimidation/

Amazing rescue of WSO of the shot down F-15: Trump to hold presser at 10 pst: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/president-trump-joins-top-military-oval-office-historic/

IRGC intel chief killed in airstrike: https://rumble.com/v784nc6-irgc-intelligence-chief-major-general-majid-khademi-irans-2-guy-was-killed-.html?mref=1wxk5&mc=ehuil

 45 day ceasefire proposed? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/president-trump-joins-top-military-oval-office-historic/

Freedom Friday: Republican Gov debate recap: event will be posted here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVZrG4z5TZGhbR8WynJscyz4iT6moYCeS  

New Blazers owners offended that someone would accuse him of not having skin in the game with MODA center remodel: https://www.wweek.com/news/business/2026/04/02/tom-dundon-objects-to-questions-about-his-skin-in-the-game-for-arena-overhaul/

Communists running Portland now want to fine downtown landlords for having empty space: https://www.koin.com/news/portland/leaders-vacant-building-fee-downtown-stakeholders/

Trump fires Bondi: ne needs a vicious operator to replace her: https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/03/trump-needs-a-vicious-operator-to-bring-justice-back-to-the-justice-department/

Fed workers going without pay while Congress gets taxpayer funded vacation in Scotland: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/while-federal-workers-go-without-pay-30-members/

Tonight is the Oregon Voice Debate and we are broadcasting it live here: https://allevents.in/salem/the-oregon-voice-debate/200029772250508

Birthright citizenship stupidity: Justice Jackson is an idiot: https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/04/01/justice-jackson-suggests-foreign-tourists-qualify-birthright-citizenship-because-they-have-local-allegiance-us-while-vacation/

Her argument was dumb: https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/02/justice-jacksons-turning-japanese-argument-is-so-dumb-it-stuns/

 Trump’s speech last night was a nothing burger: https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/4-takeaways-from-trumps-primetime-address-on-iran-6007047?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=section-1

 High electricity rate increase is buried in the story: Green power madness: https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/what-is-driving-the-latest-pge-pacificorp-rate-hikes/