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"The Press Room" replay (subscriber-exclusive livestream sample)
In this replay of our subscriber-only livestream from 11/03/2025, we walk through the Lyman-aligned federal lawsuit to overturn Utah election results by attacking SB 5...
A pretzel of financial shenanigans
This week in Utah politics: dark money, taxpayer funded PR campaign and a massive homeless campus.Mega “service campus” for the homeless near SLC airport: 16 acres, up...
Expand or extinct: Democrats' 2030 redistricting crisis
Run for Something's Amanda Litman explains why Democrats must invest in red states now—or face permanent minority status after 2030 redistricting.She argues that redis...
The Utah GOP finds the redistricting UNO reverse card
Utah Republican Party announced a dual strategy to combat court-ordered redistricting and repeal Prop 4.Referendum on Option C Map (00:04:33)GOP launching statewide re...
Incumbent pile-up
On this episode:The judge in Utah's gerrymandering case stares down the clock.Incumbent pile-up: All the proposed congressional maps put at least two GOP incumbents in...
New congressional maps and legislative shenanigans
Breaking down the three proposed replacement congressional maps in Utah that have been submitted to the court.Plus, the legislative maneuvers Republicans used to fast-...
Utah redistricting: Legislature set to pick map proposal "C"
Utah Republicans are pushing for the Utah Legislature to adopt map "Option C" when they meet to vote on new congressional boundaries on Monday. The map is the most pro...
Utah's Map-tastrophe
The Utah Supreme Court denied the Utah Legislature's request for an emergency stay to keep the state's 2021 congressional maps, deemed illegal, in place. If you needed...
The Aftermath of Charlie Kirk's Assassination: A Conversation with Christopher Goldsmith
We sit down with Christopher Goldsmith, an expert on disinformation and extremist tactics and the founder of Veterans Fighting Fascism. Goldsmith, who publishes the "O...
Cracking the code on Utah's gerrymandered maps
This week, we go over the latest in the court case over Utah's gerrymandered congressional maps and how the GOP-controlled legislature will try to open up a new path o...
All about gerrymandering
A Utah judge threw out Utah's congressional maps on Monday, ruling that the Republican-controlled legislature violated the state constitution when it repealed Prop. 4....
Stuart Adams has a problem
Utah Senate President Stuart Adams is under scrutiny after a change to state law he championed benefited his step‑granddaughter as she faced serious felony charges.Hos...
The feds want Utah's voting records
The chatter surrounding Utah Sen. Mike Lee as a possible pick for the Supreme Court has started again. Don't dismiss it as just idle speculation. Lee probably came clo...
Take away Mike Lee's phone!
It was a bad week on social media for a couple of Utah's congressional Republicans. Rep. Burgess Owens reposted an anti-Muslim video on social media that came from an ...
Who's funding who?
Federal prosecutors drop the charges against a Utah doctor accused of running a fake vaccine card scheme. How much did politics play in the dismissal? (Hint: a lot).Wh...
Mike Lee can't stop...won't stop
Sen. Mike Lee's social media is causing some heartburn for top leaders of the LDS Church, but don't expect that will make him tone things down.Lack of housing in the W...
Mike Lee hits some roadblocks
Sen. Mike Lee's controversial plan to sell off millions of acres of public lands hits two significant roadblocks. The Senate parliamentarian ruled against the proposal...
Physician, heal thyself!
Utah's members of Congress either supported President Donald Trump's airstrikes against Iran or remained silent, despite the lack of credible intelligence backing the ...
"The whole thing is dumb"
Utah elected officials are talking tough about possible violence ahead of protests scheduled all over Utah this weekend. A group of Republicans in Riverton issued a co...
The royal hierarchy of Twitter dweebs
Utah's Republican members of Congress sure like to talk about how they're worried about government debt and deficits, but they're twisting themselves into knots to jus...