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Utah 2026 Candidate Filings
Candidate: Elias Henry Montgomery
Office: U.S. House, District 1
Party: Unaffiliated
Status: Election Candidate
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Economy, jobs, taxes, and affordability
Candidate position
Establishing a clear, steady marketplace where the rules are exactly the same for everyone, ensuring the government acts as an objective referee. We must secure a level playing field by separating the treatment of personal individual labor from the scale of high-capacity platform infrastructure. This protects individual free-market competition from insider favoritism while enforcing transparent legal parameters to keep the game fair.
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Establishing a clear, steady marketplace where the rules are exactly the same for everyone, ensuring the government acts as an objective referee. We must secure a level playing field by separating the treatment of personal individual labor from the scale of high-capacity platform infrastructure. This protects individual free-market competition from insider favoritism while enforcing transparent legal parameters to keep the game fair.
Housing affordability
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Lower Everyday Costs: Breaking down artificial market barriers to bring relief to housing and essential goods.
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Lower Everyday Costs: Breaking down artificial market barriers to bring relief to housing and essential goods.
Economy, jobs, taxes, and affordability
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Shifting tax collection entirely closer to home over a strict, phased horizon, anchoring federal contributions strictly to state economic capacity, and establishing objective fiscal relief valves to shield local commerce from emergency economic shocks. Your tax dollars are a sacred trust. The law must act as an objective, consistent referee—eliminating direct federal extraction from personal individual labor while realigning state-level revenue collection with proportional platform usage and diversified consumption.
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Shifting tax collection entirely closer to home over a strict, phased horizon, anchoring federal contributions strictly to state economic capacity, and establishing objective fiscal relief valves to shield local commerce from emergency economic shocks. Your tax dollars are a sacred trust. The law must act as an objective, consistent referee—eliminating direct federal extraction from personal individual labor while realigning state-level revenue collection with proportional platform usage and diversified consumption.
Constitutional government, civil rights, and individual freedom
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Maintaining an unyielding, permanent constitutional baseline that protects individual liberty, while focusing public policy on resolving the root economic, social, and psychological causes of community instability. Real progress does not come from a politician's pen or regulatory overreach; it comes from easing household financial stress, fixing broken local environments, and clearing the logjam in our mental health support systems. When our communities are economically secure, physically revitalized, and mentally supported, violent crime and self-inflicted tragedies naturally recede.
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Maintaining an unyielding, permanent constitutional baseline that protects individual liberty, while focusing public policy on resolving the root economic, social, and psychological causes of community instability. Real progress does not come from a politician's pen or regulatory overreach; it comes from easing household financial stress, fixing broken local environments, and clearing the logjam in our mental health support systems. When our communities are economically secure, physically revitalized, and mentally supported, violent crime and self-inflicted tragedies naturally recede.
Constitutional government, civil rights, and individual freedom
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Securing a fully funded, professional law enforcement structure as a community safety baseline, while wrapping that power inside objective constitutional boundaries and transparent citizen oversight to preserve individual liberty. The law must act as a reliable referee—backing our officers with the training and competitive resources required to stop crime, while enforcing consistent, uniform body-camera metrics and independent local tracking to preserve public trust.
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Securing a fully funded, professional law enforcement structure as a community safety baseline, while wrapping that power inside objective constitutional boundaries and transparent citizen oversight to preserve individual liberty. The law must act as a reliable referee—backing our officers with the training and competitive resources required to stop crime, while enforcing consistent, uniform body-camera metrics and independent local tracking to preserve public trust.
Economy, jobs, taxes, and affordability
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Deregulate and Unshackle Personal Labor: Shift marketplace rules away from the regulatory penalty of direct taxation on personal work. Decentralize tax collection away from direct income tax so that lower income individuals and families are more capable to provide cost-of-living expenses. Rather than routing local wealth through a bloated government spending bureau, this model keeps capital in the private economy where it acts as a permanent, non-inflationary buffer for everyday citizens.
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Deregulate and Unshackle Personal Labor: Shift marketplace rules away from the regulatory penalty of direct taxation on personal work. Decentralize tax collection away from direct income tax so that lower income individuals and families are more capable to provide cost-of-living expenses. Rather than routing local wealth through a bloated government spending bureau, this model keeps capital in the private economy where it acts as a permanent, non-inflationary buffer for everyday citizens.
Energy, water, public lands, and environment
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Stop Over-Spending: Halt the reckless federal money-printing that drives up the daily cost of gas, groceries, and housing.
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Stop Over-Spending: Halt the reckless federal money-printing that drives up the daily cost of gas, groceries, and housing.
Housing affordability
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Address Economic Stressors First: Lower the cost of living by executing our primary Policy Agenda—stabilizing housing supply, prioritizing local buyers, and stopping reckless spending to halt the inflation eating away family savings.
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Address Economic Stressors First: Lower the cost of living by executing our primary Policy Agenda—stabilizing housing supply, prioritizing local buyers, and stopping reckless spending to halt the inflation eating away family savings.
Public safety and justice
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Support Our Officers: Provide robust community funding for advanced law enforcement training, mental health resources, and competitive retention pay.
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Support Our Officers: Provide robust community funding for advanced law enforcement training, mental health resources, and competitive retention pay.
Transportation and infrastructure
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Enforce Proportional Platform Utility Standards: Apply a consistent, uniform rule for high-capacity enterprise networks, requiring them to fund our public framework in direct proportion to the massive scale at which they utilize our legal systems, shipping corridors, and financial grids. This is not wealth redistribution; it is an infrastructure maintenance fee ensuring that massive entities pay the true commercial utility cost of the platform they profit from.
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Enforce Proportional Platform Utility Standards: Apply a consistent, uniform rule for high-capacity enterprise networks, requiring them to fund our public framework in direct proportion to the massive scale at which they utilize our legal systems, shipping corridors, and financial grids. This is not wealth redistribution; it is an infrastructure maintenance fee ensuring that massive entities pay the true commercial utility cost of the platform they profit from.
Public safety and justice
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Revitalize the Local Environment: Invest in structural neighborhood safety and clean urban design—like the Rio Grande Plan—because research proves that rehabilitating disinvested public spaces and expanding community connectivity organically drops regional violence.
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Revitalize the Local Environment: Invest in structural neighborhood safety and clean urban design—like the Rio Grande Plan—because research proves that rehabilitating disinvested public spaces and expanding community connectivity organically drops regional violence.
Public safety and justice
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Demand Complete Accountability: Require uniform body-camera operation across all deployments and support independent citizen oversight boards to review critical events.
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Demand Complete Accountability: Require uniform body-camera operation across all deployments and support independent citizen oversight boards to review critical events.
Economy, jobs, taxes, and affordability
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Protect Local Small Businesses: Cut the mountain of expensive paperwork that stops local entrepreneurs from competing with giant corporations.
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Protect Local Small Businesses: Cut the mountain of expensive paperwork that stops local entrepreneurs from competing with giant corporations.
Economy, jobs, taxes, and affordability
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Ban Omnibus Packaging: Enforce a strict single-subject legislative tracking rule, requiring every single spending item to stand or fall on its own individual public vote.
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Ban Omnibus Packaging: Enforce a strict single-subject legislative tracking rule, requiring every single spending item to stand or fall on its own individual public vote.
Gun policy and firearms
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Protect Financial and Legal Privacy: Ban the use of specific merchant category codes by corporate data brokers or banks to secretly track legal firearms purchases, and outlaw forced property seizures that bypass upfront constitutional due process.
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Protect Financial and Legal Privacy: Ban the use of specific merchant category codes by corporate data brokers or banks to secretly track legal firearms purchases, and outlaw forced property seizures that bypass upfront constitutional due process.
Health care
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Establishing a universal safety net for major medical emergencies while keeping everyday care open to honest, competitive choice, and ensuring baseline public health rules apply uniformly to protect community stability. The law must act as an objective, consistent referee—enforcing transparent pricing rules on clinical groups to spark competition, while securing predictable emergency floors to shield local families from bankruptcy.
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Establishing a universal safety net for major medical emergencies while keeping everyday care open to honest, competitive choice, and ensuring baseline public health rules apply uniformly to protect community stability. The law must act as an objective, consistent referee—enforcing transparent pricing rules on clinical groups to spark competition, while securing predictable emergency floors to shield local families from bankruptcy.
Gun policy and firearms
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Secure Clear Appeals Tracks: Ensure instant background check pipelines operate with high-speed accuracy, backed by swift, transparent appeal lanes to instantly rectify database errors that mistakenly penalize innocent citizens.
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Secure Clear Appeals Tracks: Ensure instant background check pipelines operate with high-speed accuracy, backed by swift, transparent appeal lanes to instantly rectify database errors that mistakenly penalize innocent citizens.
Reproductive rights and health care
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Focus on Root Causes: Shift away from weaponized criminal systems and invest heavily in vulnerable families and local foster care models.
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Focus on Root Causes: Shift away from weaponized criminal systems and invest heavily in vulnerable families and local foster care models.
Reproductive rights and health care
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Protect Tragic Exceptions: Secure permanent legal protections for medical emergencies, rape, incest, and structural maternal health risks.
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Protect Tragic Exceptions: Secure permanent legal protections for medical emergencies, rape, incest, and structural maternal health risks.
Reproductive rights and health care
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Expand Real Community Support: Grow access to prenatal healthcare, simplify parental leave rules, and build supported local adoption networks.
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Expand Real Community Support: Grow access to prenatal healthcare, simplify parental leave rules, and build supported local adoption networks.
Constitutional government, civil rights, and individual freedom
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Blending a shared, objective academic structure with transparent, consistently enforced rules that guarantee absolute parental transparency and protect individual liberty. The law must act as an unyielding referee—shielding families with full transparency tools while ensuring school library curation is bound to fixed, objective developmental metrics rather than weaponized partisan view-purges.
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Blending a shared, objective academic structure with transparent, consistently enforced rules that guarantee absolute parental transparency and protect individual liberty. The law must act as an unyielding referee—shielding families with full transparency tools while ensuring school library curation is bound to fixed, objective developmental metrics rather than weaponized partisan view-purges.
Education, child care, and workforce training
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Establish Factual Baselines: Focus public school core curriculum metrics tightly on essential, foundational academics, including math, science, reading, history, and civics.
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Establish Factual Baselines: Focus public school core curriculum metrics tightly on essential, foundational academics, including math, science, reading, history, and civics.
Constitutional government, civil rights, and individual freedom
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Protect Houses of Worship: Secure explicit statutory guarantees that faith institutions retain total, absolute sovereignty over internal codes and teachings.
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Protect Houses of Worship: Secure explicit statutory guarantees that faith institutions retain total, absolute sovereignty over internal codes and teachings.
Immigration and border policy
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Secure All Checkpoints: Deploy advanced screening technologies and increase personnel assets to fully secure physical entry ports.
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Secure All Checkpoints: Deploy advanced screening technologies and increase personnel assets to fully secure physical entry ports.
Constitutional government, civil rights, and individual freedom
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Secure Equal Marketplace Access: Enforce steady, predictable non-discrimination baselines to protect citizens from arbitrary eviction or job loss based on identity.
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Secure Equal Marketplace Access: Enforce steady, predictable non-discrimination baselines to protect citizens from arbitrary eviction or job loss based on identity.
Government ethics, accountability, and elections
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Enforce True Government Transparency: Force federal agencies to hand over completely unedited, unredacted records and travel logs to investigators within 30 days.
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Enforce True Government Transparency: Force federal agencies to hand over completely unedited, unredacted records and travel logs to investigators within 30 days.
Gun policy and firearms
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Enforce Hard Rules on Illegal Supply Chains: Shift law enforcement focus away from penalizing lawful gun owners and redirect resources to aggressively tracking and prosecuting violent felons, straw-purchasers, and criminal syndicates running black-market weapon networks.
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Enforce Hard Rules on Illegal Supply Chains: Shift law enforcement focus away from penalizing lawful gun owners and redirect resources to aggressively tracking and prosecuting violent felons, straw-purchasers, and criminal syndicates running black-market weapon networks.
Constitutional government, civil rights, and individual freedom
Candidate position
Guaranteeing strict, permanent protections for religious institutions to guide their internal doctrines without federal interference, while securing uniform civil protections for LGBTQ+ individuals in the marketplace. The law must act as an objective referee—ensuring that protections for faith and identity are applied consistently and transparently, so no community is targeted or disadvantaged by the shifting winds of political power.
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Guaranteeing strict, permanent protections for religious institutions to guide their internal doctrines without federal interference, while securing uniform civil protections for LGBTQ+ individuals in the marketplace. The law must act as an objective referee—ensuring that protections for faith and identity are applied consistently and transparently, so no community is targeted or disadvantaged by the shifting winds of political power.
Health care
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Keep Medical Choices Local: Reject heavy-handed federal intervention in deeply personal healthcare spaces, ensuring choices stay balanced by family and clinical data.
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Keep Medical Choices Local: Reject heavy-handed federal intervention in deeply personal healthcare spaces, ensuring choices stay balanced by family and clinical data.
Immigration and border policy
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Streamline the Legal Queue: Replace broken back-alley processing channels with efficient, automated background check pipelines for legal applicants.
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Streamline the Legal Queue: Replace broken back-alley processing channels with efficient, automated background check pipelines for legal applicants.
Constitutional government, civil rights, and individual freedom
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Refocusing federal enforcement assets on tracking down cartels, drug runners, and violent felons while keeping domestic municipal police free to focus on local public safety. The law must act as an objective referee—enforcing consistent, transparent judicial processing rules on federal agencies, while protecting the independent authority of local officers to preserve community stability and individual liberty.
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Refocusing federal enforcement assets on tracking down cartels, drug runners, and violent felons while keeping domestic municipal police free to focus on local public safety. The law must act as an objective referee—enforcing consistent, transparent judicial processing rules on federal agencies, while protecting the independent authority of local officers to preserve community stability and individual liberty.
Government ethics, accountability, and elections
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Maintain Judicial Accountability: Enforce steady judicial processing requirements rather than using sweeping, unvetted community roundups.
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Maintain Judicial Accountability: Enforce steady judicial processing requirements rather than using sweeping, unvetted community roundups.
Immigration and border policy
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Protect Local Police Autonomy: Oppose top-down federal mandates that force local Utah police departments to divert resources toward executing civil border checks.
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Protect Local Police Autonomy: Oppose top-down federal mandates that force local Utah police departments to divert resources toward executing civil border checks.
Energy, water, public lands, and environment
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Ensuring energy development is completely transparent, holding polluters directly liable for any ecological damage they cause, and cutting red tape for clean, decentralized power solutions. The law must act as an objective, consistent referee—protecting individual community innovation and free-market exploration, while enforcing clear, transparent corporate liability rules to safeguard our shared environment.
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Ensuring energy development is completely transparent, holding polluters directly liable for any ecological damage they cause, and cutting red tape for clean, decentralized power solutions. The law must act as an objective, consistent referee—protecting individual community innovation and free-market exploration, while enforcing clear, transparent corporate liability rules to safeguard our shared environment.
Technology and cybersecurity
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Oppose the Box Elder Data Center: Actively block closed-door corporate infrastructure deals that bypass standard public environmental impact hearings.
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Oppose the Box Elder Data Center: Actively block closed-door corporate infrastructure deals that bypass standard public environmental impact hearings.
Energy, water, public lands, and environment
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Cut Local Clean Energy Red Tape: Empower communities to develop advanced small-scale nuclear and solar setups without waiting through multi-year federal administrative freezes.
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Cut Local Clean Energy Red Tape: Empower communities to develop advanced small-scale nuclear and solar setups without waiting through multi-year federal administrative freezes.
Energy, water, public lands, and environment
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Enforce Direct Environmental Liability: Pass rules ensuring out-of-state entities pay directly for their ecological waste footprints rather than leaving the cleanup bill to local taxpayers.
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Enforce Direct Environmental Liability: Pass rules ensuring out-of-state entities pay directly for their ecological waste footprints rather than leaving the cleanup bill to local taxpayers.
Energy, water, public lands, and environment
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Protecting our essential natural resources through clear, predictable regional standards while funding infrastructure that opens up public space for housing and conservation. The law must act as an objective, consistent referee—enforcing transparent environmental safety limits on commercial waste footprints, while protecting local property development rights to secure long-term public well-being.
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Protecting our essential natural resources through clear, predictable regional standards while funding infrastructure that opens up public space for housing and conservation. The law must act as an objective, consistent referee—enforcing transparent environmental safety limits on commercial waste footprints, while protecting local property development rights to secure long-term public well-being.
Transportation and infrastructure
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Fund the Rio Grande Plan: Secure infrastructure grants to move downtown rail underground, freeing up 50 blocks of urban space for walkable housing and clean parks.
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Fund the Rio Grande Plan: Secure infrastructure grants to move downtown rail underground, freeing up 50 blocks of urban space for walkable housing and clean parks.
Technology and cybersecurity
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Stop Secret Subsidies: Ban federal energy grants for data centers unless those projects are explicitly cleared by local public utility hearings.
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Stop Secret Subsidies: Ban federal energy grants for data centers unless those projects are explicitly cleared by local public utility hearings.
Constitutional government, civil rights, and individual freedom
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Legally establishing digital data as physical personal property and shutting down the secret loop where corporate tech giants sell your information to federal law enforcement. The law must act as an objective referee—ensuring that protections for personal digital assets and private communication are applied consistently and transparently, so your constitutional rights are never bypassed by corporate data tracking systems or government agencies.
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Legally establishing digital data as physical personal property and shutting down the secret loop where corporate tech giants sell your information to federal law enforcement. The law must act as an objective referee—ensuring that protections for personal digital assets and private communication are applied consistently and transparently, so your constitutional rights are never bypassed by corporate data tracking systems or government agencies.
Technology and cybersecurity
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Close the Warrant Loophole: Stop agencies like the FBI from bypassing the Fourth Amendment by buying private citizen phone-tracking datasets directly from corporate brokers.
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Close the Warrant Loophole: Stop agencies like the FBI from bypassing the Fourth Amendment by buying private citizen phone-tracking datasets directly from corporate brokers.
Government ethics, accountability, and elections
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What ties this entire platform together is a simple commitment to consistency. I am not promising easy answers, but I am committing to rules that do not change based on party pressure, donor influence, or who holds power. When government intervenes, it should do so openly, fairly, and in ways everyday people can actually live under. That is how we lower real costs, protect your rights, and restore trust.
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What ties this entire platform together is a simple commitment to consistency. I am not promising easy answers, but I am committing to rules that do not change based on party pressure, donor influence, or who holds power. When government intervenes, it should do so openly, fairly, and in ways everyday people can actually live under. That is how we lower real costs, protect your rights, and restore trust.
Government ethics, accountability, and elections
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End Gerrymandering: Using fully independent maps so politicians cannot pick their own voters.
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End Gerrymandering: Using fully independent maps so politicians cannot pick their own voters.
Technology and cybersecurity
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Ban Public Mass Surveillance: Pass strict bans preventing state or federal agencies from deploying automated facial recognition and licence plate tracking in public city squares.
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Ban Public Mass Surveillance: Pass strict bans preventing state or federal agencies from deploying automated facial recognition and licence plate tracking in public city squares.
Technology and cybersecurity
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Oppose Reckless Tech Developement: I actively oppose data centers when they eat environmental resources or when they act as hubs of personal data (this is most often the case). Safeguard laws must be enacted to protect consumer data and prevent unwaranted tracking.
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Oppose Reckless Tech Developement: I actively oppose data centers when they eat environmental resources or when they act as hubs of personal data (this is most often the case). Safeguard laws must be enacted to protect consumer data and prevent unwaranted tracking.
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2026 Utah candidate filing — Elias Henry Montgomery