A working-class mother, a labor organizer, and a democratic socialist, I am running for re-election to help build an economy that serves working people, not the billionaires.A proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America, I am guided by the principle that <a href="https://platform.dsausa.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Workers Deserve More</a>.

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"I will always be a voice for workers, for our students, and for every family. As a mother of four and the proud daughter of immigrants, I know even one chance at a better life is worth fighting for."

Inspired by her parents who came to the United States and worked hard for better opportunities, Lesly Muñoz has spent her career representing workers and organizing for the highest quality education for our children. She fights for better wages and working conditions for educators and healthcare workers in our community.

Lesly Muñoz: Abogando por los trabajadores, familias, y nuestra comunidad.

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“Siempre seré una voz que lucha por los trabajadores, por nuestros estudiantes, y por todas las familias. Como madre de cuatro hijos y orgullosa hija de emigrantes, lucharé por la oportunidad de una vida mejor para todos.”

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“I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition; as it is now the capitalists use your heads and your hands.”― Eugene V. DebsI cannot do this alone. None of us can. It will take a mass, working-class movement to defeat the power of the billionaire class. I invite you to join me.

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For decades, establishment politicians in both the Republican and Democratic Parties have failed working people. As a mother and labor organizer in the Oregon Education Association, I have seen firsthand how we are whittled to the bone to make up for austerity budgets.We need massive investment into public education, healthcare, and all public goods. Nike, Intel, and Amazon must pay their fair share to ensure fully-funded schools, universal healthcare, and housing for all.

As an organizer in the Oregon Education Association, I have seen firsthand how workers are whittled to the bone to make up for austerity budgets. Nike, Intel, and Amazon must pay their fair share to ensure fully-funded schools, universal healthcare, and housing for all.

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We deserve universal healthcare — including dental, vision, abortion, and gender-affirming care — free at the point of service without bureaucratic red tape.Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy, and many patients don’t get the care they need because the corporate system is so impossible to navigate. At the same time, healthcare workers are brutally overworked as hospitals are turned into assembly lines.In 2026, the Oregon legislature will begin considering a bill to implement a statewide Universal Health Plan. The insurance lobby will do everything they can to water down the bill until it’s rendered useless — I am already in the fight to make sure that does not happen. I will continue to champion the movement for a single-payer system like Medicare, made available to all Oregonians regardless of age or immigration status.

We deserve universal healthcare — including dental, vision, abortion, and gender-affirming care — free at the point of service without bureaucratic red tape.

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Forty percent of Oregon’s carbon emissions come from transportation. We’ve waited far too long to take back our economy and infrastructure from the stranglehold of the fossil fuel industry. As a mom, I will do everything in my power to keep this planet livable for the next generation.We need massive state investment in buses and trains that run on renewable energy. We need expanded public transit services across the state.As State Representative, I will continue to fight for...<ul><li>State funding for local transportation infrastructure including improvements to streets and paths to make cycling accessible, efficient, and safe.</li><li>Possibility of public ownership of energy and other utilities available as an option to all local governments regardless of size, and state government support for communities that choose it.</li><li>Stop the fossil fuel buildout for data centers, reject new gas plants and coal upgrades unless companies commit to using clean energy, pay for grid expansion, and win community approval.</li><li>Require environmental justice reviews before siting data centers or power plants, ensure clean air and water in working‑class neighborhoods.</li><li>Force corporate interests, including data centers, to pay the same rates as residential customers: no favorable rate treatment.</li><li>New regulations that limit industrial pollution and increase testing, especially in high-density urban areas with significant residential population exposure.</li><li>Protection of our state parks, and conservation of our unique ecological heritage for generations to come. We can protect our state’s beauty while also improving access to its wonders.</li><li>Legislation that mandates Green construction for new state buildings and a program to update existing buildings to be cleaner and more efficient.</li><li>A cohesive relationship between the state’s K-12 public schools and its community and four-year colleges and universities to build a pipeline of workers for green jobs guided by a need for a just transition and priority employment for those who live in underserved urban and rural communities.</li></ul>

We need massive state investment in buses and trains that run on renewable energy. We need expanded public transit services across the state.

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Housing is a human right. As State Representative, I have seen how workers suffer when subjected to runaway rents, predatory flippers, and a lack of access to affordable housing. It’s time we challenge the interests of the real estate lobby and implement essential protections from abusive corporate landlords. I will prioritize the passage of the <a href="https://pdxrenterpower.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Renter’s Bill of Rights</a> statewide, ensuring that local rent control is finally allowed throughout Oregon.

Housing is a human right. It’s time we challenge the interests of the real estate lobby and implement essential protections from abusive corporate landlords. I will prioritize the passage of the <a href="https://pdxrenterpower.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Renter’s Bill of Rights</a> statewide, ensuring that local rent control is finally allowed throughout Oregon.

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Public education is a public good. As an organizer with the Oregon Education Association, I have witnessed the amazing outcomes and growth that can occur when children are safe and barriers to a quality education have been removed. Universally accessible, high-quality public education is one of the greatest investments we can make in the lives of all Oregonians. Public schools should be well-funded, guided by best practices, and led by well-compensated, highly-educated professionals. All students deserve opportunities for critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and the development and maintenance of executive function. That means that our children should be taught by real teachers, not primarily by apps and AI bots.Perennial budget cuts and privatization of educational institutions have resulted in our public education institutions being understaffed and ill-equipped to adequately serve learners and communities. This austerity has led to more harmful policies: an over-emphasis on high-stakes testing, extreme punishment practices, and a catastrophic staffing crisis.As a State Representative I will fight for:<ul><li>Comprehensive public funding for universal, high quality, developmentally appropriate pre-Kindergarten.</li><li>Teachers as workers statewide, ensuring that they have fair wages and safe, just working conditions.</li><li>Working to free our children from the horror of screen addiction by promoting limits on classroom screen time and investing in real, human educators.</li><li>Teachers as professionals, ensuring that they have access to high-quality, paid professional development opportunities and are defended from assaults on culturally responsive curricula and censorship.</li><li>Real action on the substitute teacher crisis.</li><li>Fully and better staffed schools, providing holistic support of learners: counselors, wraparound staff, teaching support staff, and sufficient staff for operations such as custodial, meal, and transportation workers. </li><li>A de-emphasis of standardized assessments and removal of the high stakes tied to assessments.</li><li>A rich curriculum for every child that guarantees every Oregon public school student access to art, music, physical education, and world languages.</li><li>Ensure Oregon students have access to a high school curriculum on the history of the working class in our state, including the multiracial labor movements that shaped our state.</li><li>Oppose state-level political interference that would restrict educators from teaching accurate history—especially efforts that ban discussion of race, enslavement and labor exploitation, indigenous displacement, and queer people in shaping Oregon.</li><li>Work toward tuition-free community college and vocational training, with the long-term goal of making all public higher education free and accessible.</li><li>Strong support of Oregon's English Language Learners, including more Newcomer Academies.</li></ul>

Public education is a public good. As an organizer with OEA, I have witnessed the amazing outcomes and growth that can occur when children are safe and barriers to a quality education have been removed. Universally accessible, high-quality public education is one of the greatest investments we can make in the lives of all Oregonians.

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Lesly is a first-generation graduate and the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants. She knows firsthand the impacts of ICE terror on immigrant workers.Woodburn and Northeast Salem have been ground zero for ICE’s regime of fear. Lesly knows that real community safety begins with the abolition of ICE. In her first term, Lesly passed HB 4114: the “Protect Your Door Act” empowered workers to sue federal agents for damages during illegal raids and detentions.Lesly will continue to protect Oregon’s Sanctuary Status, as well as any legislation that makes it harder for federal agents to undermine constitutional protections.

I am a first-generation graduate and the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants. I know firsthand the impacts of ICE terror on immigrant workers. I will continue to protect Oregon’s Sanctuary Status, as well as any legislation that makes it harder for federal agents to undermine constitutional protections.

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