When working people don’t have a voice in the places where policy decisions are made, we get policies that don’t serve us. If we want to fix that, we have to do it ourselves.
Beyond my work as a smokejumper & union leader, I spent years working between fire seasons as an organizer & advocate - working to bring people together and pass policies that make life a little easier for working people in Montana.
I worked with public libraries to fight for funding, the ACLU of MT to fight for constitutional freedoms, homeless shelters across Montana to win support for our most vulnerable neighbors, and reproductive healthcare providers to defend Montanans’ right to make our own medical decisions.
I’m still fighting for those same things, and always will. We can win these fights when we work together. Election Day is June 2 - let’s win this thing! 💪❤️✊
Go to samformontana.com to donate, sign up to volunteer, get some swag, and learn more!
I’m Sam Forstag - I’m a smokejumper, a union leader, and I’m running for Congress because for too long, Montanans have been breaking their backs just to fall further behind. Together, we can build an economy that works for working people.
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. 💪❤️✊
We have just over 15 days to win this thing. We need every supporter, every volunteer signing up to get voters out! Head to the link in my story right now to sign up to phone bank this week, and check out other volunteer opportunities too! We can do this.
16 days ‘til Election Day - let’s make every single one of ‘em count! Huge thanks to my little sister Sophia and my buddy Leif Rova for painting some signs while I was up in the Flathead to get out the vote!
And shoutout to Matty for sharing the free space for our first billboard! DM us if you have some highway frontage or some time to come help paint.
Check out the links in the bio for other ways to volunteer & help. June 2 is coming quick and it’s gonna take all of us!
SAM’S CREW!! Our volunteers have knocked on thousands of doors across Western Montana in the wind, rain, snow, and sun. We’ve made thousands of phone calls to voters around the district, trained one another to talk to our people about the issues they care about and how we can start fixing things, and built a get-out-the-vote plan that reaches every friend, family member, and neighbor. Together we’ve built the largest grassroots volunteer operation in this race, one conversation at a time.
This campaign believes in earning every vote and we believe that our people-powered organizing is what makes this campaign so different. On June 2nd, when we look back at what we built together, it’ll be because of every door, every call, and every friend you brought along.
We’ve got 16 days til Election Day - let’s leave it all on the field. Join us to knock doors, make calls, or to turn your people out to vote for Sam. See all the details and RSVP at the link in bio.
I’m proud to support the Montana Plan to get corporate spending out of our elections. Since we launched the campaign I’ve been happy to make our events open to Montana Plan volunteers and to encourage supporters to join me in signing it.
I-194 will make Montana a leader once again in standing up to corporations that try to buy our elections. We’ve done it before and we can do it again, but it’s going to take all of us.
Make sure you sign the petition to put the Montana Plan on our ballot this year, and if you already have, encourage your friends and family to do the same. You can learn more and find where to sign in your community by checking out montanaplan.org
#montanaplan #tei
Our campaign is for the working people of Montana: nurses, firefighters, home health workers, small business owners, anglers, and retirees who worked their whole lives.
Thank you to every one of you who came out in Columbia Falls last night. We have just over two weeks to bring this home - let’s run through the tape and win this thing!
Profit has no place in our country’s prison system, and access to justice shouldn’t depend on access to resources. When it does, we’re all left poorer.
Today, Montanans are paying $20 million/year to house 600 prisoners at private prisons in Arizona & Mississippi. Montana’s prison population has increased by over 30% since 2018, and too often the quality of your representation depends on how much you can spend.
We fix this by banning private prisons, investing in rehabilitation, mental health care, and addiction treatment, and rolling back laws that send poor and working people to prison for non-violent offenses.
The justice you get shouldn’t depend on your zip code or your bank account. I’ve worked with groups like the ACLU and MT Innocence Project to fight for that sort of change in Montana. In Congress, I’ll keep fighting for a system that does that.
For all of us, Montana.
We’ve got two and a half weeks to bring this home. Vote, volunteer, donate. Visit samformontana.com. We can do this.
#SamForMontana #MT01
Seven current and former elected Montana leaders from western Montana just co-signed a letter backing our campaign. These are folks who know what it takes to deliver for working families and I’m so proud to have their support.
Thank you to @stevenrinella and @meateater for taking the time to have this conversation this week.
There are so many reasons to be angry about the state of politics right now. But anger has never been enough, and shouting into a cell phone or on talk radio doesn’t do a thing to fix our broken systems.
If we want to actually build a society where everyone can work one job and afford a house, healthcare, and childcare, we have to start talking to each other as human beings.
That’s what I’ve been doing for decades now. Between fire seasons, I’ve organized and advocated for vulnerable Montanans in the state legislature. Here in Montana, we work across the aisle and get things done for the people who need it.
When folks are living out of their cars and trailers because housing in Western Montana is too expensive, you don’t find help for them by pointing at the other side and saying it’s their fault. You find common ground and build.
That’s exactly what I’m going to do in Congress.
