The Portland Clean Energy Fund creates climate jobs for Portlanders installing solar panels and heat pumps to save working families money on energy costs, and make our air cleaner and city greener--especially in more vulnerable neighborhoods like mine that have seen generations of under-investment.

Thank you, @jeff-merkley.bsky.social. #orpol

The Bike Town Hall is one of my favorite events of the year. Thank you to all of the community organizations who joined us on our ride through Senate District 23.

Great news! Oregon families can now get SNAP benefits at least for the month of November. We still urgently need Congressional Republicans to negotiate to end the shutdown, lower skyrocketing healthcare premiums, and make sure families can get the food and housing assistance they need!

Change doesn't happen overnight, but some mornings you wake up feeling one step closer to the world we're fighting for. Today is one of those days! ☀️ Congrats @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and here's to the organizers & leaders doing the work with courage & heart!

Horrified to learn of another serious traffic crash on 82nd Avenue. Policymakers are about to make major decisions about how to reshape this critical main street. I'm committed to working with my colleagues to ensure 82nd is safer for everyone biking, walking and driving. https://loom.ly/jOdxsQQ

Oregon has allocated $5 million to emergency food and we need so much more than that. SNAP is our collective commitment to care for one another and to fight hunger - and we demand our tax dollars are released to feed our neighbors. Food is not a weapon. Food is a human right. #orpol

Vote Yes on the Portland Parks Levy! 💚 There's nothing quite like our parks to experience natural beauty in the heart of our City, whether at the playground for outdoor play time with the kids or strolling through miles of trails and finding some peace in the midst of this challenging time.

Last week, I had the pleasure of convening a Housing Production Roundtable along with Senate Housing Vice Chair Dick Anderson. Thank you so much to APANO for hosting us - always a pleasure to invite community partners out to the Jade District. #orleg

@counciloravalos.bsky.social I am here for you in this hard time, along with so many of your friends & neighbors. We need to care for our leaders who choose to serve and represent our communities with integrity, despite the risks and toll it takes. We've got you!

Staying in this fight takes fuel - and y’all are mine! Feeling deep gratitude for all the birthday love last month 💖 We will keep dancing and we will keep taking care of us! Join and Support: bit.ly/FriendsofKha...

Thank you, Attorney General Rayfield.

The joyful commitment to our community was on full display today for No Kings Day! Thank you to everyone who showed out for our democracy in Portland, throughout Oregon and across the US. #orpol #portland #oregon #nokings #pdx

I am horrified to learn about Oriana's experience, jailed and detained away from her family for three days for peacefully protesting outside the ICE facility. It's essential that we fight to protect our civil liberties and our right to peacefully protest this administration.

I'm so excited for the No Kings Rally this Saturday on the waterfront in Downtown Portland - and I hope to see you there. It's critical that Americans show up in the streets to demand an end to military occupation of our community. #orpol #pdx #portland https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/839417/

For folks who want to honor Hoa’s legacy with a gift, Hoa’s family has asked that donations go to the David Douglas Educational Foundation in lieu of flowers. www.ddefforkids.org

So many memories. I remember when Hoa first joined the legislature in 2023, she jumped right in, bringing her passion for students, immigrant families, and fighting chronic absenteeism in schools. #orleg

“Oregon is home. Not a military target. No violence against our people, our dogs, or our communities.” #orpol www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Transportation is what connects us to each other. At a time of isolation and disconnection, state legislators must vow to roll up our sleeves and revisit this critical conversation about how Oregon can build a safer, healthier, cleaner transportation that literally brings all of us together. #orleg

Change doesn’t happen by chance — it takes everyday people to step up, organize, and run to win. Join me at Rooted to Win: Working Families Campaign School to train alongside candidates, campaigners, & community leaders fighting for a future where Oregon works for all. https://loom.ly/aR_wooA

With $10 million, we could prevent homelessness for 2,000 families who are about to be evicted - that would be 8,000 kids and parents who never lose their housing and don’t need shelters and re-housing. Instead, we're funding an illegal military occupation. #orpol

It was shocking to learn this weekend that the President of the United States has unilaterally ordered the deployment of federal troops in Portland. Let me be clear - nobody in Portland asked for this. They are unwelcome, unneeded, and counterproductive to our efforts. #orleg

What a terrific story in the Oregonian on a hero who lives here in Senate District 23 - thank you so much, Renee, for your four decades of advocacy for education equity in our community. https://loom.ly/P4ms3kA

Enjoying a beautiful fall day in Portland, Oregon. We won't fall for Trump’s efforts to silence opposition and turn the city we love into a place where people feel afraid to leave our homes. We'll continue to take care of each other and stay strong in our defense of our communities and our rights.

Thank you so much to Third Act Oregon and all the other organizations who helped organize Portland's Sun Day of Action. It was an honor to speak about the importance of intersectional climate advocacy and supporting renewable energy while protecting our vulnerable communities locally and nationally.

This Saturday! It's going to be a gorgeous fall day for Annual Bike Town Hall. RSVP at http://bit.ly/SeeYouAtTheTownHall #orleg

Here at YIMBYtown with wonderful speakers connecting housing wins to the fight for transit - @amb.fyi @senkhanhpham.bsky.social @jarjoh.bsky.social @alexbaca.bsky.social

Looking forward to speaking on a panel on housing and transportation, and meeting people at @yimbytown.bsky.social this weekend! #yimbytown

Thank you to JVP Portland for organizing, and thanks to @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social, Rep Farrah Chaichi, @repwillychotzen.bsky.social, Councilor Nadia Hasan for speaking at today's rally in support of the Block the Bombs bill: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Everyone should send @senkhanhpham.bsky.social a thank you email because her and her team have been busting ass to save transit and barely anyone else had the guts to join them

This week, I voted to oppose the -18 Amendment to HB 3991 in the Joint Special Session Committee on Transportation Funding. I vow as a legislator to continue to fight for long term stable funding for this critical social service that serves the 1 in 4 Oregonians who can't or don't drive. #orleg

Republicans are proposing we use emergency reserve money to cover our transportation shortfall - this is nuts! There could not be a worse time to use up our cautiously guarded emergency funding. We need those dollars for wildfire response and other critical services in the uncertain times ahead.

Oregon has to be wiling to lead with common sense solutions like static connection to the federal tax code and revenue reform rooted in tax fairness that puts the wellbeing of working families front and center. #orleg #orpol https://loom.ly/u0qTFE8

First day back to school! Such a joy to see so many wonderful people who make our community a welcoming and vibrant place! Teachers, school social workers, counselors, the Latina moms group, Lent pedestrian bridge super volunteer, and ODOT trash pick up along the 205 path. I love our community!

I really appreciate this perspective from fellow elected officials around the country. With so much discussion about "abundance" these days, I want to make sure here in Oregon our efforts to expand housing production and build infrastructure benefit everyone. #orpol https://loom.ly/kT379bc

Thank you so much to @AlbinaVisionTrust for hosting a wonderful Sunday dinner event this weekend. I'm so grateful for your visionary work and leadership to redefine what's possible for neighborhood development and community wealth-building in our city and state.

Thank you Gov. Tina Kotek for affirming Oregon will protect the rights and human dignity of all our neighbors and keep our communities safe from federal overreach. https://www.kptv.com/2025/08/18/i-will-fight-oregon-gov-responds-trump-admin-deadline-end-sanctuary-policies/

“These tactics will only scare folks from working during the peak harvest. This not only affects farmworkers’ ability to support their families but also the many growers who rely on migrant labor and our collective ability to put food on our tables” - PCUN's Reyna Lopez https://loom.ly/3DC-s2o

This is a desperate, despot dictator move. An attempt to intimidate and silence this great American Black-led city, and an attack on dissent itself, as DC is the center of protest, of people exercising our freedoms to speak against this regime. Speak out! https://loom.ly/3U396RY

I'm so grateful for the Portland Clean Energy Fund. These air conditioners will literally save lives during this and future heat waves, which are only going to be more common in the years ahead. We must continue to protect and invest in our front line communities. https://loom.ly/XhxDvZQ

"It’s undeniable that Oregon’s roads are suffering from decades of chronic underinvestment, but there could not be a worse time than the present for the state government to pilfer our cautiously guarded emergency funding, which is needed for wildfire response and other critical services." #orleg

Heartbroken and outraged by the arson that destroyed CAIRO Academy’s new playground—a space of joy for Portland’s African immigrant kids. This was an attack on hope. CAIRO still rises. Let’s help them rebuild. 📰 KGW: https://loom.ly/HgQfcZQ 💖 Donate: https://gofund.me/21eac220

Whenever any member of our community is targeted, we are all diminished. Portland welcomes our neighbors of all cultures and identities as the foundation for a healthy democracy where we can disagree on ideas and hold one another's common humanity at the the same time. https://loom.ly/Pk61PBs

This week, I had the honor of attending the groundbreaking ceremony for 73Foster, a new affordable housing complex which will bring homes for sixty four new families into Senate District 23. Congrats and thank you to REACH CDC and all of the community partners who made this new investment possible.

I'm grateful for this analysis by @sightline.org of Governor Kotek's housing bills passed this session. Oregon needs to continue to aggressively pursue policy options to make it easier to build homes for Oregonians at all ages, wages and stages of life. #orleg https://loom.ly/4gpLtZk

Thank you SD 23 for coming out to our end of session town hall and for the support to continue fighting to defend democracy, fund transit and safe streets, take bold climate action, and deliver transformative wins on revenue reform to fund schools and vital human needs. #orleg #orpol

Bus riders across the state, like those riding the 9-Powell bus with me this week, are counting on legislators to pass a stopgap transportation funding bill to protect existing levels of transit service. #orleg

I've missed you! Let's catch up at our Joint Town Hall on Monday, July 28th. Myself, Rep Chotzen and Rep Tran will be on hand to answer your questions and share updates, highlights and unfinished business from the 2025 Legislative Session. What's on your mind? Hope to see you there! #orleg #orpol