Since 2010, Samuel Alexander has been the First Speaker of the Federal Republic of Oregon[1]. His first four-year term featured him governing with a slim majority, passing a largely focused on economic issues. Taxes were reduced for most income brackets (with the goal of eventually turning towards a flat-tax rate) while also cutting back environmental regulations, particularly to the benefit of the lucrative timber industry in Oregon. Upon a landslide victory in 2014, Alexander turned toward a more hard-right position, particularly in response to large amounts of South Asian and Latin American migrants that had grown in population since the early 1990s[2]. Large amounts of migrants were deported throughout the late 2010s, and the Federal Gendarmerie increased in size and capacity to handle their increased policing responsibilities. In 2016, the National and United Christian Parties combined into the Civic Identity Party - a nationalistic conservative party committed to utilizing the Federal Government to push a more conservative moral agenda[3]. Utilizing his massive Senate majorities, Alexander stacked the Federal judiciary with Conservative judges and purged Federal agencies of non-loyalists. Educational institutions, from elementary schools to universities, were increasingly policed and those who violated new patriotic education guidelines were targeted. In particular, promotion of LGBTQ+ materials would result in hefty fines, and at times imprisonment.
The Civic Identity Party would win again in 2018 and the 2019 special election, despite failing to win a majority of the popular vote, Alexander retained strong majorities in the Senate. With this, Alexander held control of redistricting in 2020, which featured the most intense partisan and racial gerrymandering in the history of Oregon since independence. The 2020 Pandemic featured Alexander embrace a more autocratic mode of governance, increasingly utilizing his executive office to pass regulations without the consent of the Senate. Alexander's most dramatic usage of executive authority came in 2021. During that summer, while the Federal Gendarmerie was conducting a raid in a Seattle neighborhood, his police shot and several unarmed South Asian migrants. Following this moment, protests erupted in several Oregonian cities, mostly in Vancouver and Seattle[4]. In response, Alexander ordered the Federal Gendarmerie to crack down on the protestors, culminating in the Gardner Hill Massacre in Seattle where 11 protestors were shot dead by the Gendarmerie. This brutal show of force triggered condemnation from around the world, but particularly from the United Kingdom, United States, and Mexico. In response, Alexander ordered his party to withdraw Oregon from the North American Union, further isolating Oregon from its North American neighbors.
In 2023, the Civic Identity Party won a commanding 2/3 majority. With the ability to transform the Constitution, Alexander's goals are a far-reaching transformation of the Oregonian Nation. From forever limiting immigration, to declaring Oregon a Protestant Christian State, to forbidding most income taxes, the goals of the Civic Identity are broad and boundless.
[1] Basically US does not acquire Oregon (they do annex Mexican California in the 1890s) and the region remains under British Control. In 1920, what is OTL Southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho become part of the Federal Republic of Oregon. Rest of British North America remains more or less under British control into the 2020s, though they have a degree of autonomy.
[2] Oregon is traditionally a white and conservative nation in North America. The Northwest does not develop quite as much as it does in otl, and is several million people smaller. Along with this a bunch of white southerners (and northerners) angered by black suffrage in the 1870s migrate to the region. From around 1989 to 2010, Oregon was under the control of an economically liberal, immigrant friendly set of political parties before Alexander took charge in 2010.
[3] Similar to what you would see in otl red-states, though a bit more friendly towards the welfare state.
[4] Most immigrants settled in west coast cities.