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Purple State Strategies

Paid $29K by Portland’s business-backed and conservative campaigns and PACs since January 2025.

Business & conservative side, 2025–26$29K

Progressive side, 2025–26—

Every Oregon committee, 2025–26$31K

Every Oregon committee, all years$274K23 committees since 2022

Who’s behind it

The firm doesn’t publish who owns or runs it, and public records we could reach don’t say.

$274K from 23 committees since 2022. The biggest:

Earlier: Jessie Burke’s Positivity PAC 2024; Arnold and Zimmerman 2024.

Portland race payments: the campaigns’ own ORESTAR filings. Other clients and all-years history: a Ballast vendor search of every Oregon committee in ORESTAR. Both pulled Oct 19, 2026.
Oregon Secretary of State, Active Businesses dataset (data.oregon.gov, updated weekly; checked Oct 20, 2026): search for names containing “PURPLE STATE”