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2026 Utah U.S. House — District 1 — General Election · November 3, 2026
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Candidate: Jesse West
Office: U.S. House, District 1
Party: Libertarian
Status: Election Candidate
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Build one fair tax system that everyone pays into, native-born and newcomer alike.
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Build one fair tax system that everyone pays into, native-born and newcomer alike.
Hey! My name is Jesse West and I am a 30-year-old skier and attorney here in Salt Lake City Utah. I am currently a Brighton season pass holder, family law practitioner, and the Chair of the Salt Lake City Libertarian Party. I am not a career politician and I am not from Utah. I started visiting Utah in 2018 to ski and visit friends, and I kept coming back because I loved it. When I graduated from school, I chose Utah because I fell in love with the natural beauty, the snow, and the people.
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Hey! My name is Jesse West and I am a 30-year-old skier and attorney here in Salt Lake City Utah. I am currently a Brighton season pass holder, family law practitioner, and the Chair of the Salt Lake City Libertarian Party. I am not a career politician and I am not from Utah. I started visiting Utah in 2018 to ski and visit friends, and I kept coming back because I loved it. When I graduated from school, I chose Utah because I fell in love with the natural beauty, the snow, and the people.
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•Require Congressional authorization for any new military engagement
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•Require Congressional authorization for any new military engagement
The death penalty doesn't deter crime, doesn't bring closure to families, and costs more than life imprisonment. What it does do is give the state irreversible power over human life — a power no government should have, especially one with a documented history of getting it wrong.
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The death penalty doesn't deter crime, doesn't bring closure to families, and costs more than life imprisonment. What it does do is give the state irreversible power over human life — a power no government should have, especially one with a documented history of getting it wrong.
Libertarians, committed to protecting individual rights and minimizing government overreach, should support environmental policies that safeguard clean air and water as fundamental extensions of the right to life, liberty, and property. This is a hierarchy of rights, and while private property rights are important, clean air, clean water, and clean soil in our country is a more important right. The pollution of shared natural resources directly violates the rights of individuals to live free from harm imposed by others. When a factory dumps waste into a river or releases harmful pollutants into the air, it initiates a form of physical force against those downstream or downwind, depriving them of clean water and air essential for their survival and well-being. Supporting policies that prevent such harm aligns with the Libertarian principle of opposing the initiation of physical force.
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Libertarians, committed to protecting individual rights and minimizing government overreach, should support environmental policies that safeguard clean air and water as fundamental extensions of the right to life, liberty, and property. This is a hierarchy of rights, and while private property rights are important, clean air, clean water, and clean soil in our country is a more important right. The pollution of shared natural resources directly violates the rights of individuals to live free from harm imposed by others. When a factory dumps waste into a river or releases harmful pollutants into the air, it initiates a form of physical force against those downstream or downwind, depriving them of clean water and air essential for their survival and well-being. Supporting policies that prevent such harm aligns with the Libertarian principle of opposing the initiation of physical force.
•Expand mental health and transition support for returning servicemembers
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•Expand mental health and transition support for returning servicemembers
Criminal justice should be about accountability, rehabilitation, and public safety — not vengeance. Life imprisonment holds the guilty accountable without gambling innocent lives on a broken system.
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Criminal justice should be about accountability, rehabilitation, and public safety — not vengeance. Life imprisonment holds the guilty accountable without gambling innocent lives on a broken system.
Moreover, ensuring clean water and air is critical to upholding the Libertarian commitment to property rights. Pollution that contaminates private wells, destroys crops, or reduces property values constitutes a trespass on private property. This interference undermines the individual's right to use and enjoy their property without outside interference. Libertarians should champion environmental policies that enforce accountability for pollution, using the free market to incentivize responsible behavior while ensuring that polluters bear the costs of their actions rather than externalizing them to others.
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Moreover, ensuring clean water and air is critical to upholding the Libertarian commitment to property rights. Pollution that contaminates private wells, destroys crops, or reduces property values constitutes a trespass on private property. This interference undermines the individual's right to use and enjoy their property without outside interference. Libertarians should champion environmental policies that enforce accountability for pollution, using the free market to incentivize responsible behavior while ensuring that polluters bear the costs of their actions rather than externalizing them to others.
Voting should be easy, accessible, and secure. End arbitrary restrictions that make registration difficult, expand early voting and vote-by-mail, and ensure every eligible citizen can participate without jumping through hoops designed to suppress turnout.
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Voting should be easy, accessible, and secure. End arbitrary restrictions that make registration difficult, expand early voting and vote-by-mail, and ensure every eligible citizen can participate without jumping through hoops designed to suppress turnout.
When veterans come home, we owe them real support — healthcare, mental health services, housing, and job training. Too many servicemembers return to bureaucratic nightmares and broken promises. That's unacceptable.
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When veterans come home, we owe them real support — healthcare, mental health services, housing, and job training. Too many servicemembers return to bureaucratic nightmares and broken promises. That's unacceptable.
•Expand access to DNA testing and post-conviction review
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•Expand access to DNA testing and post-conviction review
There is no need, ever, for any purpose, for the United States to have secret police, that is masked and given the authority to kill citizens. ICE must go and the DHS needs to be reduced significantly.
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There is no need, ever, for any purpose, for the United States to have secret police, that is masked and given the authority to kill citizens. ICE must go and the DHS needs to be reduced significantly.
•Protect the right to organize without government interference
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•Protect the right to organize without government interference
•Allow interstate cannabis commerce and banking access
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•Allow interstate cannabis commerce and banking access
Finally, protecting air and water quality promotes voluntary and contractual relations among individuals. A healthy environment supports a thriving free market by reducing conflicts and fostering trust between parties. Conversely, unchecked pollution leads to increased costs for individuals and businesses, from healthcare expenses to cleanup efforts, ultimately hindering economic freedom. Libertarians should advocate for policies that empower individuals and communities to protect these vital resources while limiting government interference to its proper role: enforcing contracts, protecting property rights, and prohibiting the initiation of harm. Supporting clean air and water is not just compatible with Libertarian principles; it is essential to their fullest realization.
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Finally, protecting air and water quality promotes voluntary and contractual relations among individuals. A healthy environment supports a thriving free market by reducing conflicts and fostering trust between parties. Conversely, unchecked pollution leads to increased costs for individuals and businesses, from healthcare expenses to cleanup efforts, ultimately hindering economic freedom. Libertarians should advocate for policies that empower individuals and communities to protect these vital resources while limiting government interference to its proper role: enforcing contracts, protecting property rights, and prohibiting the initiation of harm. Supporting clean air and water is not just compatible with Libertarian principles; it is essential to their fullest realization.
•Reform prosecutorial misconduct protections
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•Reform prosecutorial misconduct protections
We need to fix the system and instead of incentivizing people to come and take advantage of it, we need to incentivize people to come and participate in a system that works. Just like drug and alcohol prohibition, criminalizing immigration does not work. Let's bring the whole system into the light, it will be safer and more efficient.
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We need to fix the system and instead of incentivizing people to come and take advantage of it, we need to incentivize people to come and participate in a system that works. Just like drug and alcohol prohibition, criminalizing immigration does not work. Let's bring the whole system into the light, it will be safer and more efficient.
•Oppose federal land transfers that restrict public access
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•Oppose federal land transfers that restrict public access
•End mandatory minimums and restore judicial discretion
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•End mandatory minimums and restore judicial discretion
•Expand protections for climbing, hiking, and camping access
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•Expand protections for climbing, hiking, and camping access
•Invest in rehabilitation and reentry programs that actually reduce recidivism
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•Invest in rehabilitation and reentry programs that actually reduce recidivism
•Create clear, straightforward pathways to citizenship and integration.
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•Create clear, straightforward pathways to citizenship and integration.
•Fix our foreign policy. If we keep damaging other nations, open borders won't work. That's a core issue.
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•Fix our foreign policy. If we keep damaging other nations, open borders won't work. That's a core issue.
Your health savings should be yours. Money you own and control, that follows you from job to job and state to state, with the same tax break your employer already gets for buying your coverage. Not an account the government fills and runs for you. Your money. Your doctor. Your choices. No bureaucrat, public or private, deciding what you deserve.
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Your health savings should be yours. Money you own and control, that follows you from job to job and state to state, with the same tax break your employer already gets for buying your coverage. Not an account the government fills and runs for you. Your money. Your doctor. Your choices. No bureaucrat, public or private, deciding what you deserve.
•Expand tax-free Health Savings Accounts and give individuals the same tax break employers get, so your coverage isn't chained to your job
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•Expand tax-free Health Savings Accounts and give individuals the same tax break employers get, so your coverage isn't chained to your job
•Repeal certificate-of-need laws that block new clinics and providers from competing
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•Repeal certificate-of-need laws that block new clinics and providers from competing
•Require up-front pricing from every hospital and provider, so you never get a bill for a number nobody quoted you
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•Require up-front pricing from every hospital and provider, so you never get a bill for a number nobody quoted you
•Expand early voting and no-excuse mail voting nationwide
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•Expand early voting and no-excuse mail voting nationwide
•Lower ballot access barriers for third-party and independent candidates
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•Lower ballot access barriers for third-party and independent candidates
The best way to support the troops is to bring them home.
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The best way to support the troops is to bring them home.
•Reform the system before trusting it with permanent decisions
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•Reform the system before trusting it with permanent decisions
•Create clear, accessible legal pathways to citizenship
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•Create clear, accessible legal pathways to citizenship
•Stop criminalizing people for crossing a line on a map
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•Stop criminalizing people for crossing a line on a map
•Bring troops home from non-strategic deployments
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•Bring troops home from non-strategic deployments
•Cut the billions wasted on detention, walls, and deportation, and redirect it to real priorities.
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•Cut the billions wasted on detention, walls, and deportation, and redirect it to real priorities.
•Build one fair tax system that everyone pays into, native-born and newcomer alike.
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•Build one fair tax system that everyone pays into, native-born and newcomer alike.
•Cut the FDA red tape that keeps cheaper generics and biosimilars off the shelf
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•Cut the FDA red tape that keeps cheaper generics and biosimilars off the shelf
•Remove cannabis from the federal controlled substances list
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•Remove cannabis from the federal controlled substances list
•Implement ranked-choice voting for federal elections
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•Implement ranked-choice voting for federal elections
•End partisan gerrymandering through independent redistricting
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•End partisan gerrymandering through independent redistricting
•Establish automatic voter registration at 18
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•Establish automatic voter registration at 18
•End U.S. involvement in undeclared conflicts and forever wars
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•End U.S. involvement in undeclared conflicts and forever wars
•Abolish the death penalty at the federal level
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•Abolish the death penalty at the federal level
•Eliminate occupational licensing for non-safety-critical professions
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•Eliminate occupational licensing for non-safety-critical professions
•End corporate subsidies and industry-specific tax breaks
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•End corporate subsidies and industry-specific tax breaks
•Repeal zoning laws that restrict home businesses and housing supply
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•Repeal zoning laws that restrict home businesses and housing supply
•End taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuel extraction on public lands
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•End taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuel extraction on public lands
•Streamline permitting for renewable energy projects
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•Streamline permitting for renewable energy projects
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Candidate ID: H6UT01251
Name: WEST, JESSE KEEGAN
Office: House
State: UT
District: 01
Total receipts: $0.00
Total disbursements: $0.00
Cash on hand: $0.00
Debts owed by committee: $0.00
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