David Brock Smith

David Brock Smith’s public career began on the Port Orford City Council and the Curry County Board of Commissioners, ran through six years in the Oregon House and continues in the Oregon Senate, where he is the Republican caucus’s Deputy Leader.

Smith is, by his official biography, a third-generation resident of Senate District 1 who grew up in Port Orford and graduated from Pacific High School. The campaign biography names his parents, Frank and Bonnie (Hodge) Smith, both raised in Port Orford, and describes his father as a Navy lieutenant commander who bought the family restaurant, the Port & Starboard, after a 27-year Navy career; the restaurant was built in 1970 by his grandfather, Lester T. Smith. Neither biography states a birth date, and this profile does not supply one. On May 22, 2026, three days after the May 19 primary, the Associated Press called the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate for Smith; the Secretary of State’s certified abstract records 107,953 votes for him, 29.5 percent of the Republican primary, against 99,278 for Jo Rae Perkins and 85,229 for Brent Barker. He faces Senator Jeff Merkley, who took 457,006 votes in the Democratic primary, on November 3, 2026. ^{[3][27][16][1]}

Education and professional preparation

The official biography says he attended “SOCC and SOU” after high school and then “worked in the Culinary industry, in some of the best restaurants in the Rogue Valley, before moving back to Port Orford and taking over his family’s 45-year Restaurant and Lounge.” Degrees and years are not stated in either biography and were not part of this review. The campaign describes him as “a third-generation resident and small businessman from Southwest Oregon.” ^[3][27]

A public life that began at city hall

The official biography records service as Port Orford City Council President, Chamber of Commerce president and director, Port Orford-Langlois School Board member, and Chair and Vice Chair of the Curry County Board of Commissioners, along with roles on the Association of Oregon Counties board and its legislative committee and the National Association of Counties public lands committee. The Oregon Capital Chronicle dates the council service to 2005–2012, the school board to 2010–2018 and the county commission to 2013–2017. He was sworn in to the Oregon House for District 1 in 2017 and re-elected in 2018 (22,077 votes to 10,071), 2020 (28,125 to 12,659) and 2022 (25,451 to 10,536). On January 11, 2023 the commissioners of Coos, Curry and Douglas counties appointed him unanimously to the Senate seat Dallas Heard had resigned, and in November 2024 he won the seat with 54,925 votes to 22,417. In 2026 he is Vice Chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Environment and sits on the Committee on Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs and the Joint Committee on Ways and Means. ^{[3][23][43][42][41][19][40][2]}

Nine years in the Legislature

The Legislature’s database lists him as a Representative in every session from the 2017 Regular Session, which convened January 9, 2017, through the 2022 session, and as a Senator from the 2023 session, which convened January 9, 2023, through the 2026 session. His member page records the committee work of those years: Vice Chair of the House Committee on Energy and Environment, Co-Vice-Chair of the Joint Committee on Carbon Reduction, Vice Chair of the House Economic Development Committee, and membership on House Agriculture, Land Use and Natural Resources and on the Ways and Means Natural Resources Subcommittee. He convened or co-convened the Sudden Oak Task Force, the Maritime Workforce Development Task Force and the Oregon Coast Trail work, co-chaired the Legislative Sportsman’s Caucus and the Wine Caucus, sat on the Governor’s Opioid Epidemic Task Force, and now co-chairs the Council of State Governments West committee on wildfire and disaster preparedness. The Capital Chronicle wrote in March 2026 that he “has developed a reputation in Salem for working across the aisle” and belongs to the bipartisan Sportsmen’s Caucus and Coastal Caucus. ^{[4][48][2][15]}

His federal candidacy is registered with the Federal Election Commission as candidate S6OR05218, with a principal campaign committee, David Brock Smith for Oregon (C00941559), whose treasurer is Bradley T. Crate of Sandy, Oregon. The campaign publishes its releases through an RSS feed on its website; three had been issued as of this review. ^[33][34][29]

From a Port Orford restaurant to a statewide nomination, the documented milestones show how his record was built.

Legislative documents and roll calls establish the following work. Outcomes are described at the level those records support, with shared credit where the measure had other chief sponsors or was another official’s initiative.

The campaign biography names his parents, Frank and Bonnie (Hodge) Smith, and his grandfather, Lester T. Smith, and describes the family’s Port & Starboard restaurant in Port Orford. Neither the official nor the campaign biography names a spouse or children, and this profile makes no claim about either. ^[27][3]

The official biography lists community roles beyond elected office: Chamber of Commerce president and director, the Port Orford-Langlois School Board, director of America’s Wild Rivers Coast, the South Coast Business Employment Corporation board, a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship, and coaching for the Oregon Youth Soccer Association. ^[3]

Neither biography states a religious affiliation, and this profile makes no claim about one. His legislative letters close with “Blessings”; that is a salutation, not a stated affiliation. ^[2]

He describes the district he represents as “southwest Oregon’s Fish, Farm & Forestry District,” all of Curry County and parts of Coos and Douglas, and his official biography lists the county liaison work he did as a commissioner: veterans services, the sheriff’s office, emergency services, the district attorney, juvenile, parks, roads, finance, economic development, and public and mental health. ^[3]

The following summarizes the agenda on Smith’s campaign website and in his campaign’s releases. These are proposed priorities, not completed accomplishments. ^[26][30]

A useful profile includes policy tradeoffs, the limits of a claim, and responses to material criticism.

• The 2020 election letter and January 6

  On December 11, 2020 Smith was one of twelve Oregon Republican legislators who wrote to Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum urging her to join the Texas suit arguing that electors from Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin “should not be allowed to cast their votes”; the Supreme Court rejected the suit the same day. After the January 6 attack, Rep. Julie Fahey said every signer was “complicit in today’s violence.” Smith answered on January 8, 2021: “This was not a coup, and Rep. Fahey’s statement… is shamefully arrogant and wrong,” adding that the letter “was not an act of sedition” but was meant “to highlight the unconstitutional actions surrounding elections that occurred in Pennsylvania.” Asked by Willamette Week whether he recognized the result, he said: “I have already accepted President-elect Biden,” and encouraged “everyone, especially our youth, to watch President-elect Biden’s inauguration.” ^[20][21]

• Vote by mail

  The Capital Chronicle reported that “thousands of Oregonians also excoriated his 2025 bill that would have asked voters to decide whether to repeal the state’s decades-old mail voting law.” The bill is SB 210: in-person voting as the standard method, photo identification, mail ballots on request for those unable to vote in person, and referral to the voters. It had one hearing and died in Senate Rules; the Legislature’s system holds more than 14,000 testimony records on it. No statement from Smith defending the bill appears in the documents reviewed for this profile. ^[15][10][11]

• Climate statements and the scorecards

  The Chronicle wrote that Smith “has claimed that human actions don’t contribute to climate change, despite widespread scientific consensus”; that is the newspaper’s characterization, and no direct quotation to that effect was located in the documents reviewed. His own words, from a November 2025 release, are that Oregon “produces less than 0.14% of greenhouse gas emissions on the global scale,” that the DEQ director had called the state’s share “minuscule,” and that the Governor’s order would “drive up costs for every Oregonian… while doing nothing to impact global greenhouse gas emissions.” The Oregon League of Conservation Voters scores him 25 percent for 2025, 14 percent for 2023–2024 and 26 percent lifetime, and docked him five points for sponsoring SB 777, which it calls a “Major Threat.” ^{[15][44][36][37]}

• The “made in China” billboard

  In the 2024 Republican primary a House candidate, Ben Edtl, and former radio host Rob Taylor accused Smith of ties to the Chinese Communist Party through the Republican Unity Caucus, a political action committee Edtl leads. They bought a billboard on Highway 99 south of Roseburg calling him “made in China”; a post on the committee’s website attributed to him the statement “I’m putting Chinese windmills in Coos Bay,” and a social-media graphic carried what the Chronicle called “another quote falsely attributed to Brock Smith”: “I helped Tianqiao Chen become the largest landowner in Oregon.” The record the Chronicle cited: Chen bought nearly 200,000 acres in 2015, a year before Smith was first elected; the 2021 wildfire-mapping law was SB 762; the offshore wind bill was HB 3375, which passed the House unanimously. An attorney for Smith sent the two men a cease-and-desist letter on April 1, 2024, and Smith said: “In my 20 years of dedicated public service, I have never witnessed such blatantly false statements.” ^[22][23]

• Offshore wind

  Opponents on the right have read HB 3375 as support for turbines off the south coast; one 2024 challenger said “the people on the coast do not want the windmills to happen, it will actually decimate the fishing industry.” The Capital Chronicle’s own account of the bill was that it “did not allow wind turbines on the coast – or approve any specific projects.” Smith’s answer was that it “was passed unanimously by the House for a reason and it was because, frankly, we needed this. We needed a seat at the table.” The record supports that description of the 2021 bill, and in 2024 he voted no on HB 4080, the offshore wind roadmap; the League of Conservation Voters scored that no against him. ^{[23][12][5][37]}

• The 2023 walkout

  When most Senate Republicans stayed away for six weeks in 2023 to block bills on abortion, gender-affirming care and firearms, Smith was one of three Republicans who kept under the ten-absence limit of Measure 113 and one of two present on May 18. He used the floor to praise the absent senators for “defending the transparency of this body… and more importantly defending the parental rights of every Oregonian in this state.” When HB 2002 and HB 2005 passed on June 15, 2023, 17–3, the record shows him Absent, and Absent again on twelve votes the next day; the database does not say why, and no explanation was located. Ten senators reached the ten-absence threshold at which Measure 113 bars a member from the next term; he did not, and he was elected to a full term in 2024. ^{[18][53][13][5][9][40]}

• Votes against the majority’s marquee bills

  Across nine years the record is consistent: no on the 2017 transportation package (39–20), the 2017 insurance assessment (36–23), the 2019 Student Success Act and its corporate activity tax (37–21), the 2019 rent-stabilization law (35–25), the 2021 clean-electricity mandate (35–20), farmworker overtime (37–23), the 2023 rent cap (17–8), unemployment benefits for strikers (16–12), the 2025 rapid-fire-activator ban (17–12) and the September 2025 transportation package (18–11); yes on paid family leave in 2019 (45–13), the 2024 campaign-contribution limits (22–6), the Governor’s 2024 housing bill (21–7) and Measure 110 reform (21–8). Voters rejected the referred gas-tax increase in May 2026, the Associated Press reported. ^{[6][5][9][16]}

• What the ratings measure

  The NRA Political Victory Fund grades him A and Merkley F for the 2026 election. The League of Conservation Voters’ figures are above; its earlier scorecards gave him 47 percent for 2019, when he voted for the offshore drilling ban and against cap-and-trade, and 32 percent for 2021–2022, when its scored bills included the clean-electricity mandate and farmworker overtime, which he opposed, and the Elliott forest and wildfire bills, which he supported. ^[39][38][6] Federal scorecards from Heritage Action, the Club for Growth Foundation, SBA Pro-Life America, NumbersUSA and the AFL-CIO rate members of Congress, not state legislators, and Voteview’s DW-NOMINATE and GovTrack’s report cards do not cover him; no such score is claimed here. The campaign lists Oregon Right to Life and the Taxpayers Association of Oregon among its endorsers; those are the campaign’s statements. ^[35][36][28]

• The field, the endorsements and the party’s statewide history

  Smith, the Chronicle wrote in March 2026, “appears to be the only elected official running for the GOP nomination.” His most prominent opponent, Jo Rae Perkins, had been the party’s Senate nominee in 2020 and 2022 and, per Willamette Week, “became a vocal adherent of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which she still espouses”; she finished 8,675 votes behind him. Brent Barker, whose “failed bids for state office” the paper noted, and Russ McAlmond, who it said “doesn’t have much experience in public life,” took 85,229 and 42,136 votes. The Chronicle noted that Oregon “hasn’t elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate since the 1990s”; the Associated Press wrote that it has not done so “since 2002” and that Merkley “is viewed as having a generally safe seat.” Because his state Senate term runs to 2029, the Chronicle wrote, “there is little drawback for Brock Smith to run.” The same primary saw voters, in the AP’s words, “overwhelmingly” reject the referred six-cent gas-tax increase that he had voted against in September 2025; Fortune’s headline on the AP report was that “now Jeff Merkley has a fight.” ^{[15][24][1][16][17][5]} Willamette Week, which endorsed Merkley in the Democratic primary, endorsed Smith in the Republican primary as “the most serious candidate by a long shot,” citing his work across the aisle on wildfire and estate-tax bills. The campaign announced endorsements from Republican gubernatorial candidates Danielle Bethell, Ed Diehl and Christine Drazan on April 29, 2026, and lists nine state senators and 21 state representatives. No endorsement from President Trump, the Club for Growth or the Senate Leadership Fund appears in the documents reviewed. Endorsements establish political support; they are not evaluations of the record above. ^[24][31][28]

Government records anchor the profile: the Legislature’s own vote, sponsorship and measure database, the bill pages on OLIS, the Secretary of State’s certified abstracts and results. Official biographies establish attributed background; original reporting supplies responses and scrutiny. Campaign materials are used for the candidate’s own priorities and claims.

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   May 19, 2026, Primary Election Abstract of Votes (EPD-26-3), US SenatorOregon Secretary of State, Elections Division (records.sos.state.or.us) · Certified abstract; accessed Sep. 17, 2026
   Republican primary: Smith 107,953 (nominee); Perkins 99,278; Barker 85,229; McAlmond 42,136; Brown 14,021; Burch 8,704; Skelton 5,626; Misc. 3,254. Democratic: Merkley 457,006; Wells 30,544.Government / regulatory record
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   Senator David Brock Smith — member page (greeting and 2026 committee assignments)Oregon State Legislature · Accessed Sep. 17, 2026
   Republican, District 1, Port Orford, Deputy Leader; Vice Chair, Senate Energy and Environment; Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs; Ways and Means; prior House and task-force roles.Government / regulatory record
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   Senator David Brock Smith — BiographyOregon State Legislature · Accessed Sep. 17, 2026
   Official biography: third-generation resident, Pacific High School, SOCC and SOU, family restaurant, Port Orford council president, Curry County commissioner, House District 1 from 2017, Senate from January 2023.Government / regulatory record
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   Legislators — rows for David Brock Smith (OData)Oregon Legislative Information System API · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
   Representative, House District 1, sessions 2017–2022; Senator, District 1, sessions 2023–2026.Government / regulatory record
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   MeasureVotes — floor votes recorded for “Sen Smith DB” (OData)Oregon Legislative Information System API · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
   1,967 Senate floor votes, 2023–2026, with the vote cast on each measure. Source for every Senate vote cited in this profile.Government / regulatory record
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   MeasureVotes — floor votes recorded for “Rep Smith DB” (OData)Oregon Legislative Information System API · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
   3,116 House floor votes, 2017–2022. Source for every House vote cited in this profile; totals of 5,083 votes, 3,943 Aye, 985 Nay, 155 absent or excused.Government / regulatory record
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   MeasureSponsors — measures sponsored by David Brock Smith (OData)Oregon Legislative Information System API · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
   1,538 sponsorship rows (Sen and Rep codes): 810 chief-sponsor rows and 728 regular-sponsor rows. Basis of the enacted-bill counts.Government / regulatory record
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   Measures — all measures, sessions 2017–2026, with chapter numbers (OData)Oregon Legislative Information System API · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
   Catchlines, chapter numbers and current location for every measure; joined to sponsorships to count enacted bills (102 chief-sponsored measures chaptered).Government / regulatory record
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   MeasureHistoryActions — roll-call tallies for the votes cited (OData)Oregon Legislative Information System API · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
   The Ayes/Nays text of each floor action, e.g. HB 3991 (2025 special session) “Ayes, 18; Nays, 11”.Government / regulatory record
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    SB 210 (2025 Regular Session) — OverviewOregon Legislative Information System · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
    Smith’s vote-by-mail referral: “Makes in-person voting on the date of an election the standard method”; photo ID; referred to the people; died in Senate Rules after a March 31, 2025 hearing.Government / regulatory record
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    CommitteePublicTestimonies — SB 210 (2025) (OData)Oregon Legislative Information System API · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
    14,222 written-testimony records logged for SB 210 (OData count, accessed Sep. 15, 2026; position codes not decoded in this review).Government / regulatory record
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    HB 3375 (2021 Regular Session) — OverviewOregon Legislative Information System · Accessed Sep. 17, 2026
    Planning goal of up to three gigawatts of floating offshore wind by 2030; literature review; Chapter 376.Government / regulatory record
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    HB 2002 (2023 Regular Session) — OverviewOregon Legislative Information System · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
    Reproductive health and gender-affirming treatment bill; Chapter 228. Smith recorded Absent on the June 15, 2023 Senate vote.Government / regulatory record
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    HB 3991 (2025 First Special Session) — OverviewOregon Legislative Information System · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
    Transportation tax and fee package; Chapter 1. Smith recorded Nay, September 29, 2025.Government / regulatory record
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    Coastal Oregon conservative announces run for U.S. SenateOregon Capital Chronicle, via OPB (Shaanth Nanguneri) · Mar. 4, 2026
    Announcement; the Chronicle’s characterizations of his climate statements, the Texas letter, the vote-by-mail bill, the 2024 misinformation fight and Jo Rae Perkins.Independent reporting
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    David Brock Smith wins GOP primary for US Senate in Oregon, will face Democratic incumbent MerkleyAssociated Press, via KPTV (Claire Rush) · May 23, 2026
    The race was called Friday, May 22, 2026, “the last significant race to be called”; field of seven; Merkley first elected 2008; the gas-tax referendum result.Independent reporting
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    Oregon Democrats wrote a gas tax, watched it get destroyed and now Jeff Merkley has a fightAssociated Press, via Fortune (Claire Rush) · May 23, 2026
    Same AP report: Smith’s statement on winning; voters “overwhelmingly rejected” the 6-cent gas-tax increase referred by Republicans.Independent reporting
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    Oregon Republican walkout: 6 more senators are potentially ineligible for reelectionOPB (Dirk VanderHart and Lauren Dake) · May 18, 2023
    Smith was one of three Republicans with fewer than 10 absences and one of two present on May 18, 2023; his floor remarks praising the absent senators.Independent reporting
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    David Brock Smith appointed to fill southwest Oregon state Senate seatJefferson Public Radio, via OPB (Roman Battaglia) · Jan. 13, 2023
    Unanimous appointment by Coos, Curry and Douglas county commissioners on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, to the seat Dallas Heard resigned; his statement on “the oppression of the majority party.”Independent reporting
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    A Dozen Oregon Republican Lawmakers Urged the Attorney General to Support Texas Lawsuit Undermining U.S. Election ResultsWillamette Week (Tess Riski) · Dec. 13, 2020
    The Dec. 11, 2020 letter’s text and the twelve signers, including Rep. David Brock Smith; the Supreme Court rejected the suit the same day.Independent reporting
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    We Asked Oregon Republican Lawmakers: Do They Acknowledge Biden Won?Willamette Week (Rachel Monahan) · Jan. 13, 2021
    Smith’s Jan. 8, 2021 statement (“This was not a coup”) and his answer that he had “already accepted President-elect Biden.”Independent reporting
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    Brock Smith threatens lawsuit against Republicans who accused him of ties to Chinese communistsOregon Capital Chronicle (Julia Shumway) · Apr. 1, 2024
    The claims (billboard, website), the record (Chen’s 2015 land purchase; SB 762; HB 3375) and Smith’s cease-and-desist response.Independent reporting
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    Three Republicans seek to unseat Brock Smith in 1st Senate District on southern coastOregon Capital Chronicle (Ben Botkin) · May 10, 2024
    Local offices with dates (council 2005–2012, school board 2010–2018, commissioner 2013–2017); his HB 3375 defense; natural-gas and carbon-goal statements; 2024 fundraising.Independent reporting
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    WW’s May 2026 Endorsements: CongressWillamette Week · Apr. 29, 2026
    Endorsed Smith in the Republican primary as “the most serious candidate by a long shot”; described Perkins; endorsed Merkley in the Democratic primary.Independent reporting
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    Home | David Brock Smith for OregonDavid Brock Smith for Oregon (campaign) · Accessed Sep. 17, 2026
    Campaign site: “Serving Oregon First”; donation and sign-up; “Paid for by David Brock Smith for Oregon.” English only.Campaign source
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    Issues | David Brock Smith for OregonDavid Brock Smith for Oregon (campaign) · Accessed Sep. 17, 2026
    The five campaign planks quoted in this profile: Putting Oregon First, affordability, crime and public safety, homelessness, wildfire prevention. Proposals, not record.Campaign source
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    Meet David | David Brock Smith for OregonDavid Brock Smith for Oregon (campaign) · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
    Campaign biography: parents Frank and Bonnie (Hodge) Smith; father a Navy lieutenant commander; the Port & Starboard restaurant built in 1970 by grandfather Lester T. Smith.Campaign source
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    Endorsements | David Brock Smith for OregonDavid Brock Smith for Oregon (campaign) · Accessed Sep. 17, 2026
    The campaign’s list of endorsers: 9 state senators, 21 state representatives, Oregon Right to Life, Taxpayers Association of Oregon, Oregon Chiefs of Police Association, AG-PAC, Forests For Oregon.Campaign source
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    News | David Brock Smith for Oregon (and RSS feed)David Brock Smith for Oregon (campaign) · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
    Three releases as of the review: launch (Mar. 3), gubernatorial-candidate endorsements (Apr. 29) and the nomination (May 22, 2026).Campaign source
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    David Brock Smith Launches Campaign for U.S. SenateDavid Brock Smith for Oregon (campaign release) · Mar. 3, 2026
    The announcement statement: affordability, “restore safety to our streets,” addiction and homelessness “with accountability”; “Put Oregon First.”Campaign source
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    Top Oregon GOP Gubernatorial Candidates Unite Behind David Brock Smith for U.S. SenateDavid Brock Smith for Oregon (campaign release) · Apr. 29, 2026
    Endorsements of Danielle Bethell, Ed Diehl and Christine Drazan, as announced by the campaign.Campaign source
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    David Brock Smith Wins the GOP Nomination for U.S. SenateDavid Brock Smith for Oregon (campaign release) · May 22, 2026
    The nomination statement: “putting Oregon first,” “balance a budget, run a business”; the race “officially called three days after primary election day.”Campaign source
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    SMITH, DAVID BROCK — Candidate overview (S6OR05218)Federal Election Commission · Accessed Sep. 17, 2026
    Candidate for Senate, Oregon, Republican Party; principal committee David Brock Smith for Oregon (C00941559).Government / regulatory record
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    Candidate master (cn26) and committee master (cm26) bulk filesFederal Election Commission · 2026 cycle; accessed Sep. 15, 2026
    Committee C00941559, David Brock Smith for Oregon, treasurer Bradley T. Crate, 38954 Proctor Blvd. #142, Sandy, OR 97055; incumbent/challenger code C.Government / regulatory record
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    Grades & Endorsements — Oregon, election of November 3, 2026NRA Political Victory Fund · Accessed Sep. 17, 2026
    U.S. Senate: David Brock Smith (R) A; Jeff Merkley (D) F.Independent analysis / professional record
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    Sen. David Brock Smith — 2025 Environmental ScorecardOregon League of Conservation Voters · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
    2025 score 25%; lifetime 26%; “Sponsored a Major Threat” (SB 777) −5%; prior years 14% (2023–24), 32% (2021–22), 34% (2019–20), 25% (2015–16).Independent analysis / professional record
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    Sen. David Brock Smith — 2023-24 Environmental ScorecardOregon League of Conservation Voters · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
    2023–2024 score 14%; the scored bills include HB 3409, HB 3630, HB 4080 and SB 1596.Independent analysis / professional record
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    Rep. David Brock Smith — 2021-22 Environmental ScorecardOregon League of Conservation Voters · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
    2021–2022 score 32%; scored bills include HB 2021, HB 4002, SB 1546 and SB 762.Independent analysis / professional record
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    Rep. David Brock Smith — 2019 Environmental ScorecardOregon League of Conservation Voters · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
    2019 score 47%; scored bills include HB 2020 and SB 256.Independent analysis / professional record
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    November 5, 2024, General Election Abstract of Votes (State Senator, 1st District)Oregon Secretary of State · Accessed Sep. 17, 2026
    Smith 54,925; Lupe Preciado-McAlister (D) 22,417; Misc. 254.Government / regulatory record
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    November 8, 2022 General Election — Official Results (State Representative, 1st District) (Internet Archive copy, captured Dec 15, 2022)Oregon Secretary of State (Internet Archive copy) · Certified 2022; archived Dec. 15, 2022
    Smith 25,451; Bret Cecil (D) 10,536; Misc. 96.Government / regulatory record
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    November 3, 2020 General Election — Official Results (State Representative, 1st District) (Internet Archive copy, captured Nov 12, 2022)Oregon Secretary of State (Internet Archive copy) · Certified 2020; archived Nov. 12, 2022
    Smith 28,125; Calla Felicity (D) 12,659; Misc. 65.Government / regulatory record
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    November 6, 2018 General Election — Official Results (State Representative, 1st District) (Internet Archive copy, captured Dec 15, 2018)Oregon Secretary of State (Internet Archive copy) · Certified 2018; archived Dec. 15, 2018
    Smith 22,077; Eldon Rollins (D) 10,071; Misc. 100.Government / regulatory record
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    Governor Kotek’s Latest Executive Order on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Pushes More Unaffordability onto Working Families (press release)Office of Senator David Brock Smith · Nov. 20, 2025
    His energy and climate position in his own words: Oregon’s share of global emissions is “minuscule”; natural gas “critically important”; forest management as the answer.Government / regulatory record
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    Joint letter of Oregon Republican legislators to Governor Greg Abbott on the Texas borderOregon Senate and House Republicans (posted by Sen. Smith’s office) · Feb. 5, 2024
    Smith as first-listed signer: “We stand in solidarity with you, Governor Abbott, and the State of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy to secure the border.”Government / regulatory record
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    Senator David Brock Smith Calls for a Special Legislative Session to Support Oregonians’ Desire to Repeal Measure 110 (press release)Office of Senator David Brock Smith (GovDelivery) · Oct. 19, 2023
    “Measure 110 has failed Oregonians and the overwhelming majority want change”; the county resolutions he cited; his call on the Governor to act.Government / regulatory record
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    Member photograph, Senator David Brock SmithOregon State Legislature · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
    The official member photograph used to identify the subject (115 × 130 pixels).Government / regulatory record
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    Legislative Sessions (OData)Oregon Legislative Information System API · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
    Session dates used for the timeline, e.g. 2023 Regular Session began Jan. 9, 2023; 2025 First Special Session began Aug. 29, 2025.Government / regulatory record
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    HB 4002 (2024 Regular Session) — OverviewOregon Legislative Information System · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
    “Relating to the addiction crisis in this state”; “The Act changes drug laws”; at the request of the Joint Interim Committee on Addiction and Community Safety Response; Chapter 70.Government / regulatory record
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    Official Marion County Voters’ Pamphlet — Gubernatorial General Election, November 3, 2026 (sample ballot, p. 14)Marion County Clerk, Oregon · Accessed Sep. 17, 2026
    The county clerk’s composite sample ballot lists four candidates for US Senator on November 3, 2026: David Brock Smith (Republican), Jeff Merkley (Democrat, Working Families), Gary Lyndon Dye (Libertarian) and Chris Henry (Progressive, Pacific Green). It is one county’s official ballot document, not the Secretary of State’s statewide list, which could not be retrieved for this review.Government / regulatory record
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    GOP challenger outraises Oregon’s U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle in latest fundraising periodOregon Capital Chronicle (Mia Maldonado) · July 16, 2026
    A post-primary report on second-quarter campaign finance filings that identifies Smith as Senator Merkley’s “Republican challenger.” It is a fundraising story, not a list of the candidates on the ballot.Independent reporting
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    Upcoming Elections — General Election, November 3, 2026Oregon Secretary of State · Accessed Sep. 17, 2026
    The state election authority’s page for the November 3, 2026 general election: October 13 as the last day to register to vote, October 14 as the first day ballots are mailed, Election Day and the postmark rule for mailed ballots. It does not list candidates.Government / regulatory record
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    Oregon Senate Republicans end 6-week walkout that blocked bills on abortion, trans health careAssociated Press, via PBS NewsHour (Andrew Selsky) · June 15, 2023
    Wire report on the end of the 2023 Senate walkout: it began May 3 and ended June 15, “a six-week walkout,” prompted by a measure on abortion and gender-affirming care; it also blocked a gun-safety measure. Used only for the walkout’s length and the bills at issue.Independent reporting

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Scope & method. Reviewed September 17, 2026. This is a documented overview of publicly available biography, major actions, and stated priorities, not an exhaustive vote-by-vote record; all 5,083 of his recorded floor votes were retrieved and the defining ones are cited. Numerical claims retain their original meaning and attribution. Historical sources do not imply current positions. A newspaper’s characterization is labeled as such. The source list provides direct links so readers can check the underlying material. Filings and campaign pages may change after this review.

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