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Dear Friends and Supporters, Utah’s 2nd Congressional District was gerrymandered by Utah’s Republican-dominated state legislature so that a Democrat could never win. After the last census, its boundaries were drawn to stretch the vast district from urban Salt Lake City to rural Southern Utah, 14 counties...

Dear Friends and Supporters, Fifty-five years ago today President Lyndon B. Johnson “signed into law the most sweeping voter rights protections the nation had ever seen." The Voting Rights Act, which was amended five times over the next ten years, increased government oversight in areas of the...

Dear Friends and Supporters, A quick campaign update based on a remarkable—and not in a good way—set of comments by my opponent, Chris Stewart. Yesterday, he appeared on a Zoom session sponsored by the conservative Sutherland Institute. I listened in, as did members of our team....

Dear Friends and Supporters, With just over three months to Election Day, I wanted to take a moment and share a message … from my Republican opponent, Chris Stewart, which he recently sent to his supporters. Stewart in his own words I believe it is important that we...

Dear Friends and Supporters, For those of you outside Utah, you might not know that today is a Utah state holiday: Pioneer Day, commemorating the day in 1847 when Mormon pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. On this July 24th—one without very many parades across Utah,...

Issues over Values: Stewart, Mental Health, & the Suicide Hotline Despite his focus on establishing a nationwide three-digit suicide hotline, Chris Stewart has voted AGAINST funding for mental health services dozens of times. His record in Washington is clear: Stewart has repeatedly worked to "defund" and...

Dear Friends and Supporters, When not reaching out to urban voters in CD2’s northern areas (Salt Lake City—where I live—and neighboring Davis and Tooele Counties), our campaign continues to hit the road southward in order to extend conversations with rural Utahns. Republicans in Utah consider these...

Dear Friends and Supporters, I want to call your attention to Chris Stewart’s statements urging early re-opening of the economy. In March, when it became clear how serious the outbreak of COVID-19 was in the U.S., Chris Stewart said, "We know that from studying previous pandemics and other viruses,...

Dear Friends and Supporters, Now that our campaign has covered over 3,000 miles across all 14 counties of CD2—a geographic area larger than some east coast states—the true potential, not just challenge, of this gerrymandered district is apparent: within its boundaries, residents have highlighted two important...

Dear Friends and Supporters, "Twenty Americans were killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2019, but it was not clear which killings were under suspicion ...