La Rochefoucauld (perhaps anticipating Oregon's House Bill 4024): "Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue."

Oregon is one of five states where basically anything goes in campaign finance. There are no limits on what a candidate can accept from a corporation, an individual, a political

The Coalition for Safe, Healthy and Prosperous Communities doesn’t disclose donors but has spent big to help Republicans.

The Berger Action Fund is a nondescript name for a group with a rather specific purpose: steering the wealth of a Swiss billionaire, Hansjörg Wyss, into the world of American

Democratic state Sen. Jeff Golden of Ashland is among the Oregon Legislature’s most vocal proponents of campaign contribution limits. His fellow Democrats and their political allies independently spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Golden's reelction.

The two candidates have raised a tiny fraction of the fundraising totals they amassed in the primary.

People for Portland, the nonprofit political group pushing political leaders to take a more aggressive approach to homelessness, appears to have given up on its attempts to get a measure on the November ballot.

Democratic cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried says he expects to spend “north of $100 million" in 2024, with “soft ceiling” of $1 billion.

Here's how a couple of primary elections could be influenced by the crypto industry.

Democratic candidates are all-but scripting ads for super PACs and dark-money groups to do their bidding — in plain sight.

Independent Neighborhood Action, a political action committee formed to “support the election of labor-endorsed candidates,” is sending out mailers in a last-minute push before the May 17 primary.

Even after $14 million worth of ads and mailers have touted Carrick Flynn for Congress, nearly half of likely Democratic voters in Oregon’s 6th District don’t know enough about the first-time candidate to form an opinion of him.

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Christine Drazan leads the state in spending this month.

The race for Oregon's newest Congressional seat has drawn unknown candidates and major outside funding from crypto billionaire,

Billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried has spent millions backing political newcomer Carrick Flynn. A look at both men's backgrounds shows they have traveled in similar orbits for years.

When Oregon formally won a new U.S. House seat in the decennial redistricting process last year, it set off a scramble among ambitious politicians who saw a rare chance to advance their careers. Th…

Candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Oregon this year have raised an eye-popping $14 million so far this election cycle, newly released campaign finance disclosures show.

The group Portland United launched Tuesday with a website and video ads promoting Vadim Mozyrsky, a challenger to Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, and Commissioner Dan Ryan, the incumbent in the other contested race.

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A coalition of Portland businesses, individuals and labor unions is forming to financially back Vadim Mozyrsky, a challenger to Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, with plans to drop hundreds of thousands of dollars to bolster his prospects in next month’s primary, sources told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Friday.