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Sam Forstag

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Smokejumper. Union leader. Running for Congress in MT-01 to build an economy that works for working people.

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Elon Musk and DOGE came for U.S. Forest Service jobs, now the Trump administration is coming for our public lands. So I’m running to fight back. We shouldn’t accept living in a country where working people struggle to afford housing, healthcare, and childcare while the rich get richer. Government’s job is to materially improve peoples’ lives when the market isn’t cutting it. Our leaders aren’t doing their job, because they’re not working for working people like us.While the average Congressperson is worth ~$4 million, too many of us are left scraping by. If we want a Congress that works for working people, we need to send working people to Washington so we can fight for ourselves. I’m fighting like hell to do just that in Montana’s Western Congressional District, and I’d love your help.Join the fight. Go to samformontana.com & let’s do this. 💪❤️✊ by @samforstag

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We are getting ready to build the country we deserve.We can do this, friends.Join us. samformontana.com by @samforstag

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As a smokejumper, I got to see how ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things when all of us come together to fight for something.That’s what we’re doing here. That’s what Montana needs right now.When I wasn’t fighting wildfires, I was advocating for housing & healthcare access, civil rights & public services. I’ve spent the last decade doing the work in Montana, and I’m just getting started.I’m running for Congress because working people in this state are getting crushed - by rent, by medical bills, by rich politicians like Ryan Zinke who think votes are bought instead of earned. We’re building something here. A campaign that belongs to all of us to make a government that works for all of us.Together, we’ll carry on ✊, and we’ll win this thing.🔗 All of the links to volunteer, chip in, and learn more about what we’re fighting for are in my bio, or you can go to samformontana.com by @samforstag

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I’m excited to have more conversations like this one with @stevenrinella from a couple months back. Here in Montana, we know we don’t have to agree on every single issue to get things done—we just have to agree that everyone deserves respect, dignity, and the freedom to live how they choose. Because building a state where we can all work one job and afford a roof over our head, quality healthcare, and reliable childcare is not a partisan issue. by @samforstag

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I’m proud to have the endorsement of Planned Parenthood Action Fund.Every Montanan deserves access to reproductive healthcare. Private medical decisions about pregnancy, birth control, abortion and miscarriage care belong between a patient and their doctor - Montanans know this. Too many of our elected leaders do not.Attacks on reproductive healthcare are attacks on all of us. Too often, working people pay the price. I’m proud to have PPAF’s support fighting back against the creeps in Congress trying to insert themselves into those private conversations and take away people’s healthcare.I’ll fight to codify Roe, expand funding for family planning providers, and reverse Ryan Zinke’s Medicaid cuts that make healthcare that much harder to access.Thanks, friends. We can do this. by @samforstag

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This is how we get to work and win in western Montana. We build a coalition of firefighters, electrical workers, teachers, nurses, building trades workers, and veterans. We earn the support of more than 30 current and former Montana elected officials, Democrats and Republicans alike, because winning this seat to represent working-class people means bringing together the working people who are done being failed by the folks at the top.We outraise the competition through grassroots fundraising. Last reporting period we out-raised our Republican opponent with thousands of grassroots contributions, an average donation under fifty bucks, and not one dime of corporate PAC money. We bring a politics of hope to Montana, a state where one good job should be enough to afford housing, healthcare, and childcare. No matter who you are or where you come from, if you believe that we build a better future for working-class Montanans together, there’s room for you here.Over the next few weeks we’ll be announcing new leaders and major organizations joining our coalition as our momentum continues towards November. As always, we’re staying scrappy, and we’re building a campaign for the people.This is our shot to send working-class representation to Congress so pitch in, sign up to volunteer, and let’s go win this thing —for all Montanans. by @samforstag

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We worked our tails off the past 6 months and spent the weekend celebrating a hard-won campaign with my sweetheart the best way I know how: out in Montana.We caught First Friday in Missoula to see friends, local art, and some music from the Timber Rattlers. Saturday, we scooted up to the Swan Valley for a night in one of my favorite Forest Service cabins, a steak dinner at Lindey’s, a good fire, and each others’ company. And Sunday we took a hike around Holland Lake and made a mandatory stop on the way home at The Ice Cream Place in Seeley.Grateful for this place, the people, and the possibility that we’re still fighting for - a future where every Montanan can afford a life with the stability, security and dignity we all deserve. by @samforstag

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We have a chance, right now, to make the big, bold changes we need so that Montana works for working families. We have a chance to bring people together, and choose hope over anger. We have a chance to build the country we deserve.•••I would love your help with that. by @samforstag

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we had the best night ever on tuesday!!!! thank you to everyone who came to show support at one of our first gigs, and especially to uplift @samforstag !! we are so proud of sam for getting on the ballot in November, maybe we can play his inauguration?! VOTE SAM FORSTAG FOR CONGRESS ⚡️❤️‍🔥wanna see us more this summer?! come girl freak out @lolo.hardware on July 11th. stay tuned for more deets. photos by: @samforstag team, @aaronagosto, @basmith.photo, @missoulian, @mtfreepress, @aprileling by @samforstag

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Vote Save Montana by @samforstag

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🚨ENDORSEMENT ALERT🚨 We’re excited to endorse @samforstag for MT-01. As a member of #unrigwashington, Sam understands that corruption is at the root of rising costs and is committed to putting Montana voices first. We look forward to helping him win in November. by @samforstag

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Within a corrupt political system, here is an inspiring story which speaks to the beauty and strength of democracy and what we can accomplish when we work together. In April 2025, as part of our Fighting Oligarchy tour, I held a rally in Missoula, Montana. As we almost always do at our rallies, we invited local union leaders to address the crowd and say a few words about issues impacting their communities. One of those local union leaders was a National Forest firefighter named Sam Forstag, who discussed how Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE had just fired thousands of federal employees — including many in Montana. As a result of that rally and the 9,000 people there who responded very positively to his remarks, Sam, who had never run for public office before, decided to take on the Establishment and run for the U.S. Congress as a proud member of the American working class. Guess what? On Tuesday, June 2, after putting together a strong grassroots coalition, Sam Forstag won the Democratic Party’s primary in the First District of Montana. And, with our help, he’ll soon become Congressman Sam Forstag. by @samforstag

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