Dave Calder

First Question: “Utah voters told us government corruption is their top concern in this year’s election. Why do you think voters feel this way? And why should Utahns trust you to represent them?”

Banger

Beyond a new rape allegation, the @democrats-judiciary.house.gov report implicates current Attorney General Todd Blanche, stating he "may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while acting on a mission to protect Trump," referring to an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. Seems like news!

Republicans are the party of rape.

One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.

#BreakingUpdate Utah Democratic voters just crushed their weekly record (+1,817) by adding +1,907 new active voters Oct 19-26 🔵D +1,907 🔴R -1,769 🟣U -644 YTD 🔵D +16,282 (+6.8%) 🔴R -9,362 (-1.0%) 🟣U +18,640 (+3.8%) Dems had *never* outgained Reps in any prior election year this decade (see table)

Apparently Vivek Ramaswamy no longer has a PR team.

“The current stance among lawmakers is very anti-doctor...”

Same slogan. Same colors. New sender. Utah Republicans are rerunning anti-trans mailers from 2024. youtube.com/shorts/_O41C...

A federal judge has dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit demanding Utah's full, unredacted voter list. Federal courts have now rejected 27 DOJ lawsuits seeking state voter data this year. utahpolitics.news/judge-dismis...

Happy Saturday. 🔵D +18 swing in voter reg. of mail/early in-person voting in UTAH statewide as of Oct 24, 2022-2026. Watch for the UNA vote share to rise, so REP share may not recover much even if DEM is maxed out (22% of 2026 votes cast so far vs. 15% of reg. voters-more data on that to come...)

Semper Fidelis

John Curtis finally holding a town hall - in R+51 Washington county. 🙄

A lawsuit filed this week alleges the school’s principal at one point told a girl and her parents they shouldn’t “ruin these boys’ lives.”

GOP plot to put the Onion out of business.

nobody stopped Musk before he broke the state monopoly on violence, so now either he goes or the nation-state does

This doesn't surprise me! wapo.st/3WF2YQo

So that’s a no?

Neil Bush, the brother of former President George W. Bush, said this week that he voted for James Talarico, breaking with his family’s Republican political dynasty.

I predict I will get more votes from Hill AFB than Bob Stevenson.

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/m... Women's health care in Idaho is unsafe

Also me making sure I parked on a good grade when the auto shop was already closed and wouldn’t open until the next day.

When your campaign doesn’t remember how the Alamo ended.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Albania's corrupt government secretly sold a popular nature preserve to Jared Kushner to be bulldozed for an exclusive resort, and Albanians responded by burning everything to the ground.

Now that is quite a photo. (Credit: Doug Mills / New York Times)

All the wackiness in one place www.nytimes.com/athletic/769...

NORTH CAROLINA A&T STUDENTS MARCH TO VOTE AFTER CAMPUS POLLING LOCATION REMOVED Students at North Carolina A&T State University took to the streets in Greensboro on Thursday, marching to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting in North Carolina.

Another +1,725 Utah voters registered Democratic in the last week alone (+4,416 since Labor Day vs. +2,212 new GOP voters & +6,069 Unaffiliated voters) UTAH 2026 YTD Chg. in active voters (10/12/2026) 🔵DEM +13,779 (+5.8%) 🔴REP -6,954 (-0.8%) 🟣UNA +19,418 (+3.9%) An unprecedented pattern in 2026

"The drones force soldiers to scatter and hide — sometimes, unknowingly, only yards from the enemy. One day, Henadii turned on his phone and it offered to connect to a Russian Wi-Fi router. 'I immediately turned the phone off,' he said during an interview..." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Trump Signs Order Exempting Russia From Sanctions Legislation www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

Dan Sullivan is living in bubble if he doesn’t think any Democrat running for office can roll out that response without an advanced prompt.

“Glitch”

I don’t think the richest man in the world, who condemned millions to die by destroying USAID, is spending money on a corrupt politician because he loves Texans.

Funny story: After Maryland Rep. Andy Harris blocked marijuana legalization in DC, residents would call up his office to complain about potholes and stuff. When the staffer would explain that they weren't constituents, they'd yell something to the effect of, "Then stop fucking with our weed!"

A law signed by Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts when he was governor gave $836 million in tax breaks to data centers in 5 years before the new governor stopped it. This wasn't a mistake but how Republicans think the economy should work: economic development can only be achieved with corporate welfare.