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"A gut punch." Utah is still reeling after the murder of conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk. @schotthappens joins the #11thHour to discuss the reaction from communities on the ground.
Bryan Schott
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Publisher/Managing Editor - Utah Political Watch 📝 I write about politics. Sometimes it goes well. | 🧠 Unsupervised adult with ADHD. | 🏈 In a toxic relationship with the Oklahoma Sooners. DM for Signal. linkin.bio/schotthappens
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"A gut punch." Utah is still reeling after the murder of conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk. @schotthappens joins the #11thHour to discuss the reaction from communities on the ground.
Utah sued Kalshi last week, arguing the online prediction platform violated the state's anti-gambling laws. On Tuesday, the federal government sued Utah to stop it from enforcing gambling laws on Kalshi and other prediction markets. Full story at the link ⬇️ utahpolitics.news/cftc-sues-ut...
Mailers attacking Republican candidates in three competitive Utah House races are landing ahead of next week's election. Much of the money behind them traces to one progressive-leaning Wyoming nonprofit. utahpolitics.news/wyoming-nonp...
I am quoted in this tremendous New Yorker article featuring Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson. You should absolutely read it. It’s 100% worth your time. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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...
Same slogan. Same colors. New sender. Utah Republicans are rerunning anti-trans mailers from 2024. youtube.com/shorts/_O41C...
The Utah Republican Party is mailing voters a near-copy of a 2024 attack on Democrats over transgener issues. Same slogan. Same red and blue color scheme. Same stock photo of a girl at a locker. utahpolitics.news/utah-gop-rec...
Is Utah seeing a surge of independent voters? Not really. About 10,400 of Utah's "new" unaffiliated voters didn't choose to be there. The state moved them after the No Labels Party dissolved. Take them out, and Democrats are the fastest-growing group. utahpolitics.news/utah-voter-r...
Utah lawmakers can raise taxes with a simple majority. If voters approve Amendment B, citizens who try it through a ballot initiative would need 60%. Under Amendment B, 2018's voter-approved Medicaid expansion would have failed. Amendment B explained: utahpolitics.news/utah-amendme...
Brooks Benson, the GOP candidate in Senate District 11, says developers should prove there's enough water before breaking ground. In August he took $5,000 from a developer of a proposed project in Fairfield that includes a 900-acre data center. utahpolitics.news/fairfield-da...
This is an excellent article from Poynter about my lawsuit against the Utah Legislature over their refusal to give me a press credential. BTW, there's a status conference in the case scheduled for next week. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...
Ten Utah House districts changed ratings in our latest update. All ten moved toward Democrats. Utah Republicans need 50 House seats to keep their supermajority. We have them favored in 57. Could Democrats break the GOP supermajority? It's possible. Here's how: utahpolitics.news/utah-house-r...