Ben is a career entrepreneur turned insurgent political reformer. He’s one of the most uncompromising figures in Oregon politics today. Long before entering electoral politics, he built and ran businesses in some of the most hostile regulatory environments in the nation: Portland, Oregon. As a multi-unit café operator and CEO of a specialty coffee roaster, Ben stood up to COVID mandates in real time. He put his businesses, livelihood, and reputation on the line to defend workers, customers, and basic civil liberties while much of Oregon’s leadership enforced compliance without question.

In 2021, Ben founded Free Oregon, Inc., mobilizing more than 20,000 Oregonians to challenge unlawful mandates on behalf of nurses, doctors, teachers, first responders, and everyday citizens. That fight marked the beginning of a broader mission: exposing corruption, defending constitutional rights, and rebuilding accountability from the ground up.

Ben has since taken that fight directly to the political establishment, including his own party. He was elected the Republican nominee for Senate District 19 in 2022 and House District 37 in 2024, challenging entrenched corruption and far-left ideology head-on. In 2023, he founded the Republican Unity Caucus to strengthen the voice of America First populist Republicans. At the same time, he launched brutally effective accountability campaigns against corrupt Republican legislators. His work exposed senior lawmakers who sold out Oregon voters, including revealing foreign-linked donor ties behind Chinese-backed offshore wind schemes on the southern Oregon coast.

To professionalize grassroots resistance, Ben founded Politogy, LLC, building and running dozens of political campaigns for candidates and causes locked out by party gatekeepers. In 2025, he founded Voter Relationship Management (DBA Politogyvrm), a next-generation campaign management and voter data platform powered by cutting-edge AI to give grassroots candidates access to the same intelligence and outreach tools long monopolized by establishment power brokers.

In 2024, Ben was appointed CEO of the Douglas County transit agency amid an imminent insolvency crisis. Within four months, he stabilized the district, brought it into full legal and financial compliance, and eliminated more than $600,000 in fraud, waste, and abuse from the biennial budget. Later that year, he exposed election tampering inside Douglas County, becoming the first CEO in Oregon history to refuse to certify an election.

After the 2024 election, when establishment actors openly manipulated outcomes across Oregon, he took the gloves off, launching a sustained public campaign to expose election corruption and the officials in both parties who oppose transparency and public oversight.

Ben joined Michaela Hammerson and Stephen Joncus as a Chief Petitioner of Oregon’s IP37, Oregon’s most comprehensive citizen-led election security initiative. As a Chief Petitioner, he continues to advance major Civil Rights and election-integrity lawsuits targeting systemic abuse of power by state and local officials.

Ben does not answer to party leadership, donors, or consultants. He answers to the Constitution and the people of Oregon. His work is driven by a simple conviction: liberty only survives when citizens are willing to fight for it.