Choose Idaho!
25th January 2025
Lawmakers returning to Salem for the start of the Legislative session this week are being greeted by roadside messages encouraging them to “Free Eastern Oregon” by moving the border. The billboard campaign is the work of the Greater Idaho Movement, an organization seeking to move Oregon’s border so that the conservative eastern counties of the state can become part of Idaho.
The messages, running on five different screens across the Salem area and I-5 corridor, are varied, but all relate to the same theme of self-determination for the people of eastern Oregon and the feeling that the wishes of the people there are not being heard or respected.
“For four years, voters in eastern Oregon have been passing our measures telling their elected leaders they want them to pursue moving the border. The people have spoken and the Idaho Legislature has already passed a memorial supporting border talks. It’s time for Oregon’s Legislature to stop holding eastern Oregonians captive and let us go,” said Matt McCaw, Executive Director of the movement. “This campaign is a message directly to the legislators who have the power to do that.”