I was making 19 bucks an hour jumping out of airplanes for the federal government in a community where you'd be lucky to find a home for a half million bucks. If a smokejumper is being left behind, a whole lot of other people are being left behind by both…
Meantly / Midterms 2026 / MT-01 / Sam Forstag
Midterms 2026 · MT-01
Sam Forstag
Across 8 statements tracked since 8 Oct 2026, Sam Forstag's most frequent rhetorical moves are absolutes and us vs. them.
Meantly read
Most used moves, last 90 days
Audience impact, last 30 days
+0.6 leans reassuring
This week against their usual
Hostility this week 1.1 / 10, in line with their usual.
Latest statements
What Aaron’s got to offer here is politics that is purely composed of anger and hate and fearmongering — and Aaron’s not the only one doing it. It feels like that’s what’s defined politics for most of my adult life. Candidates in (one) party, they just tell…
What got me into this race was this misnamed Department of Government Efficiency, where at least in our state, in my agency, the Forest Service, they just about exclusively came after the lowest paid workers we’ve got. The first round of firings from DOGE, it…
We’re hosting a day of action across the state that includes canned food drives here in Butte. We got one in Bozeman, Missoula, Kalispell. We’re reaching out and actually trying to help our neighbors. You should have a chance to earn a life of dignity without…
‘Public lands in public hands’ — That’s the same thing we hear from every politician. It means nothing. We need action. deserve a congressperson who stands up for working people, who stands up for our public lands, not just with slogans but with actions.
I spent the last eight years as a wildland firefighter — as a smokejumper — jumping out of airplanes to put out wildfires on our public lands. ‘Public lands in public hands,’ that doesn’t mean anything. My national party, the Democrats, they’ve failed on so…
They came in and attacked the Forest Service and our public lands agencies and a whole lot of my members last year. the average congressman is worth 15 times the average American.
We cannot afford another puppet for AI companies. As a congressman, I'll fight for you, not those companies.
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