Sam Forstag

FORSTAG’S CLOSING MESSAGE: You should only have to work one good job and afford a roof over your head, health coverage that gets you care, childcare, and a stable retirement.

FORSTAG: The amount of money in our politics is a poison that is infecting every other piece of our government.

FORSTAG MAKES IT CLEAR: I'm so tired of working people being told that we should settle for scraps while the richest people in this country get permanent relief. That is all backwards. I'll be fighting for working people, not for those corporations.

FORSTAG: When it comes to the Steelworkers over at Stillwater Mine, only one of us showed up while they were on the picket line picketing against a South African mining company, and only one of us has the Steelworkers endorsement. That is me. I'll stand with those union members.

FORSTAG BLASTS FLINT: God, I would love to see an actual concrete commitment to say we're not going to allow data centers on our public lands. ‘Public lands in public hands’? That’s the same thing we hear from every politician. It means nothing. We need action.

FORSTAG: AI Aaron Flint has received north of $590,000 from an AI super PAC already. They're flooding $150 million, these AI companies, into our elections just this year. We cannot afford another puppet for AI companies as a congressman. I'll fight for you, not those companies.

FORSTAG: We don't solve a housing crisis, a broken health care system, a lack of affordable child care with more empty words and empty suits. We do it by actually reaching across our differences.

Good morning, Montana! Ballots are being sent out to mailboxes across the state *today!* Now it’s time to make a plan to vote! So how are you planning to vote? By mail? Fantastic! Get those ballots in as soon as you can.

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NEW AD: Turn on the TV lately and all you'll see from Aaron Flint is fear and lies–plusa lot of dirty money being spent to distract from the fact that he doesn’t have any plans to solve our problems. So, let’s cut the crap.

I believe in keeping kids safe, keeping things fair, and keeping politicians out of our personal business — out of our gun safes and our doctor's offices. And I'm fighting to get dark money out of our elections so we can stop seeing Aaron's phony ads, and start fixing what's broken.

samformontana.comSam Forstag for MontanaSam Forstag is a smokejumper and union leader — a working Montanan who understands the struggle of breaking your back trying to get ahead and still barely getting by.

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Need some good news today? Well, you’re in luck! Because we are winning!! Despite tech billionaires and party boss SuperPACs dumping millions of dollars into this race to try and help their political puppet Aaron Flint, the most recent poll shows us up by three!

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We’re up against a lot of money and power, but they’re up against all of us. Help us get across the finish line! secure.actblue.com/donate/sf-driveby#social

Good morning, Kalispell.

21 Sept

NEW AD:

15 Sept

BREAKING NEWS: ANOTHER poll shows this race in a dead heat. We can win this, and we have 49 days left to do it!

15 Sept

Aaron's got money pouring in from AI SuperPACs & corporate donors, but all that dirty money won't work this time. We win by saying we're tired of the lies & distractions, and by working our tails off to talk to our neighbors, friends, and families between now and November 3.

15 Sept

We're outworking him, but I can't do it alone. So go to samformontana.com, sign up to volunteer, and let's show them what it looks like when working people pull together. We can do this, friends! 💪❤️✊

11 Sept

Today we remember the victims and first responders of 9/11, and hold close all those who forever carry the grief of that day. Thank you, Missoula Firefighters IAFF Local 271, for the invitation to honor the lives lost and remember the heroes who answered the call. We will never forget.

8 Sept

Nowhere does Labor Day like Butte. Happy to celebrate it with the Southwestern Montana Central Labor Council and the union members who make Montana work!

8 Sept

Unions have always been the best tool we’ve got to build our own power as working people. Generations fought to win the workplace rights we enjoy today. That fight ain’t over, but today, we celebrate them.

7 Sept

7 Sept

In the fight against unfathomable corruption & corporate greed, solidarity is the way we win. When unions are strong, wages are higher. When we stand together in solidarity, there’s little we can’t do.

7 Sept

So let’s pick up the torch so many Montanans carried before us. Let’s build union power by getting union members to positions of power, and let’s show em just how much we can do when working people stand together. Happy Labor Day, Montana!

ms.nowFormer RNC chair backs Democrat in coveted Montana districtMarc Racicot’s endorsement of Sam Forstag gives Democrats a crossover asset in a red district the party is hoping to flip.

Marc Racicot served 8 years as a Republican Governor of Montana, chaired the Republican National Committee and ran a Republican president's re-election campaign. Today, he's endorsing our campaign. www.ms.now/news/montana...

No matter which way you've voted before, let's agree on this: 1 job ought to be enough to afford safe housing, real healthcare, childcare, and a secure retirement, and it should afford you enough time to get out on our public lands without having to worry about it being sold out from under us.

We can build that future for the Montanans who come next. I’m grateful to have Governor Racicot’s support doin’ it. Go to samformontana.com to find out how to help. It’ll take a lot of work, but we can do it together.

ms.nowFormer RNC chair backs Democrat in coveted Montana districtMarc Racicot’s endorsement of Sam Forstag gives Democrats a crossover asset in a red district the party is hoping to flip.

That our democracy should serve to improve people’s lives, not protect the powerful. Above all else, we both believe that it’s not too late to build a politics with decency & virtue at its core.

As important as any particular policy I’m fighting for is the work of binding up the wounds of division and remembering that our neighbor is not our enemy.

ms.nowFormer RNC chair backs Democrat in coveted Montana districtMarc Racicot’s endorsement of Sam Forstag gives Democrats a crossover asset in a red district the party is hoping to flip.

Governor Racicot and I don't agree on everything, but we agree that the people we serve should always come before the party we’re in. That our constitutional freedoms are worth fighting for, especially when it’s not politically convenient.

NEW AD OUT ACROSS MONTANA: While Aaron Flint spent the last decade spewing anger and hate from his air conditioned recording studio, we’ve been here on the ground, working more and getting less.

The firefighters & flight attendants, teachers & caregivers, builders & boilermakers. The members who lay the pipes & protect our public lands — we’re fighting for a future where one job is enough to afford the basics, and for a Representative who answers to working people instead of party bosses.

We all know this country's got problems. Now let’s stop talking about them and get to work fixing them. I'm Sam Forstag. One of us. For all of us.

NEW AD OUT ACROSS MONTANA: While Aaron Flint spent the last decade spewing anger and hate from his air conditioned recording studio, we’ve been here on the ground, working more and getting less.

Well talk is cheap, and we’ve got work to do, so let’s spend these next two months heeding that wisdom and bringing working people together so we can send one of our own to Congress. Montana's unions know the difference.

31 Aug

An AI Super PAC poured $590,000 into Montana to elect their very own political puppet, AI Aaron, just in the month of May. AI Aaron will serve the corporations who fund his campaign & pull his strings. We’ve got plenty of political puppets in Washington as is, let’s not send another.

28 Aug

They said the war would last a few weeks. Today, it’s been 6 months. Another lie. More endless wars that leave us poorer in so many ways.

28 Aug

18 service members dead. Hundreds wounded at a price of over $100 billion for taxpayers and $4.30/gallon for gas. While all of us pay the price, Congress fails to act and a few corporations make out like bandits. End the war. Take care of our service members. Invest at home.

Aaron Flint wants to roll back protections for more than six million acres of our national forests and open them up for new roads and development. I spent years defending those public lands, so let me tell you why that’s such a bad idea.

We don’t need to roll back public lands protections to fight wildfires or responsibly harvest natural resources. We can defend wild places for hunting, fishing, and recreating while investing in public lands agencies and creating jobs.

Aaron Flint's been at this for years, looking for ways to strip protections for our public lands and sell them off to the highest bidder. These places belong to all of us. I'd like to keep it that way.

We've already got 380,000 miles of road in these forests and we're over $6B behind on keeping them up. Seems to me we ought to take care of what we've already built, and pay the folks who do that work, before we go carving in more.

24 Aug

I will never vote to cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. And I will fight to expand and protect these vital programs that keep our communities alive. mtstandard.com/news/state-a...

19 Aug

NEW AD: Smokejumpers have a saying, “ask for a stronger back, not a lighter load.” And that’s what Montanans do. Early starts, late nights, stretching every dollar til it breaks.