Oregon Voices Podcast - Elevating Oregonians' Lived Experiences
Oregon has a reputation as a progressive state. Democratic supermajorities control the legislature. We pass symbolic resolutions. We talk a good game about equity, climate action, and workers' rights.
But the actual policy outcomes tell a different story.
Progressive bills die in committee. Corporate tax breaks get protected. Housing remains unaffordable. Education funding lags. The gap between Oregon's reputation and reality keeps growing.
Why? Because Oregon's Democratic establishment is funded by the same corporate interests that fund Republicans everywhere else. The money controls the votes. The machine protects itself. And working families lose.
Oregon Voices Podcast - Elevating Oregonians' Lived Experiences
Latest Episodes
Oregon Voices Podcast: Episode 17- John Lenssen: Identity, Whiteness, and What Was Lost
Before you can know where you stand, you have to know what was taken from you to get you here.John Lenssen has spent a lifetime studying how identity forms, deforms, and finds its way back to something true. In this second conversation, ...
Oregon Voices Podcast: Episode 16 - John Lenssen: Multiracial Solidarity & the Untold Rules
There is a reason you were never taught this history. That reason is the history.John Lenssen has spent decades working at the intersection of civil rights, education, and multiracial solidarity across the Pacific Northwest. He did not a...
Oregon Voices Podcast: Episode 15 - Dawn Rasmussen, Democratic Candidate, Oregon's 2nd Congressional District
Dawn Rasmussen has driven nearly 9,600 miles through Oregon's 2nd Congressional District, the largest district in the state and one of the largest in the entire country, covering nearly two thirds of Oregon's landmass. She lives in The Dalles, ...
Oregon Voices Podcast: Episode 14 - Evelyn Kocher, Beaverton City Council Candidate, Position 1
Evelyn Kocher grew up in Beaverton, Oregon, fled there with her family from political violence in Jakarta, Indonesia, and never stopped belonging to that city even when she spent years teaching English in China and living abroad. She came back ...
Oregon Voices Podcast: Episode 13 - Teresa Alonso Leon, Democratic Candidate, Oregon Senate District 11
Teresa Alonso Leon was four years old when she was separated from her family at the border, placed in an orphanage until her father found her, and lost her voice completely in the silence between those two moments. She has spent the rest of her...
