David Brock Smith
Republican
Oregon state senator from Port Orford; former state representative and county commissioner
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U.S. Senate · Nov 3, 2026
U.S. Senate race in Oregon
Incumbent: Jeff Merkley, running for re-election.
Merkley is also the Working Families Party nominee, and Henry is the nominee of both the Progressive and Pacific Green parties.
The 4 candidates
Jeff Merkley
Democrat, Working FamiliesIncumbentU.S. Senator from Oregon since 2009; former Speaker of the Oregon House
Gary Lyndon Dye
LibertarianFormer engineer from Portland; ran for U.S. Senate in 2020
Chris Henry
Progressive, Pacific GreenTruck driver from Portland; former co-chair of the Oregon Progressive Party
Where they stand
What each candidate says they support or would do, on the issues they campaign on. Summaries use the same neutral words for everyone and link to the candidate’s own words.
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Taxes
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
Opposes new taxes and says he opposed Governor Tina Kotek's gas tax.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
No published position found.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
Supports raising taxes on the wealthy and prosecuting offshore tax avoidance.
Elections & democracy
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
No published position found.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
Supports ending gerrymandering, overturning Citizens United, restoring the Voting Rights Act, required early voting, vote-by-mail and same-day registration, and electing presidents by national popular vote.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
Supports campaign finance reform, campaign ad disclosure and ranked-choice voting.
Environment
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
No published position found.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
Supports a shift to 100% clean and renewable energy and a Green New Deal to address climate change.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
Supports ending fossil fuel and logging subsidies, shifting them to industrial hemp, and creating a tree-planting corps modeled on the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Health care
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
No published position found.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
Supports giving every American the option of Medicare for All and banning drug companies from charging more for a drug than they charge in Canada, Europe and Japan.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
Supports Medicare for All, including mental health, dental and vision care.
Education
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
No published position found.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
Supports smaller elementary class sizes, shop and technical classes, and debt-free college for every young person who wants it.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
Supports publicly funded education from day care and pre-K through trade training and higher education.
Jobs & labor
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
No published position found.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
Supports workers' right to form unions and negotiate wages and benefits.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
Supports raising the minimum wage, a maximum wage tied to a 10-to-1 pay ratio, a four-day work week, union card-check and full unionization of workers.
Budget
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
Supports reducing unnecessary government spending and eliminating fraud.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
No published position found.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
No published position found.
Crime & justice
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
Supports law enforcement, accountability for repeat offenders and restoring consequences for crime.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
No published position found.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
No published position found.
Housing
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
Supports drug and mental health treatment with accountability for homeless people and an end to permanent street camping.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
No published position found.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
No published position found.
Public lands
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
Supports active forest management, fuel reduction and work with landowners to prevent wildfires, and federal rules that put the needs of people who live in Oregon first.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
No published position found.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
No published position found.
Energy
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
Says data centers strain Oregon's water, farmland and energy costs, and says he would hold data centers accountable and keep their costs from being shifted onto households.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
No published position found.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
No published position found.
Infrastructure
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
No published position found.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
Supports rebuilding roads, bridges, docks and jetties, and bringing high-speed broadband to every rural community.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
No published position found.
Ethics
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
No published position found.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
Supports banning stock trading by members of Congress and a binding code of ethics for the Supreme Court.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
No published position found.
Immigration
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
No published position found.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
Opposes ICE operations at schools and warrantless home raids, and calls for full accountability for every civil rights violation.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
No published position found.
Defense
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
No published position found.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
No published position found.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
Supports scaling back the military-industrial complex and closing all overseas U.S. military bases.
Trade
RepublicanDavid Brock Smith
No published position found.
Democrat, Working FamiliesJeff Merkley
No published position found.
LibertarianGary Lyndon Dye
No published position found.
Progressive, Pacific GreenChris Henry
Opposes current tariffs and free trade deals that he says let corporations override labor, consumer and environmental protections.
Gary Lyndon Dye hasn’t published positions we could find.