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Steve Merrill Candidate

This Is What Politicians Do When They’re Afraid of the People

Steve MerrillCandidate for U.S. House, Utah Congressional District 3 (court decision pending)Steve@vote4merrill.com The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of TogetherWorks Southern Utah. This Is What Politicians Do When They’re Afraid of the People Starting Tuesday, December

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Decline to sign the prop 4 repeal

DECLINE TO SIGN

Decline to sign the petition to repeal Prop 4 The Crisis Utah voters are facing a direct threat to the very foundation of our system of government — and that foundation is you. Our rights aren’t vague ideals; they are written directly into the Utah Constitution. Article I, Section 2

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Stand with Utah's Constitution TogetherWorks Southern Utah

How to Remove Your Signature from a Ballot Initiative in Utah

To remove your signature from a Utah initiative petition, you must submit a signed statement to your local county clerk’s office requesting its removal. The statement must be received by the county clerk no later than the specific deadline, which is often 5 p.m. on the first business day after

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TogetherWorks Southern Utah: Judge Chooses judicial map.

Judge Chooses Legislative Map

The Legislature’s map, Judge Gibson wrote, “fails in many ways to comply with Proposition 4,” a 2018 voter-approved law establishing an independent redistricting process and neutral map-drawing criteria.Utah News Dispatch 11-11-2025 The claim that it’s unconstitutional for a judge to choose a legislative map ignores the core issue: the legislature’s

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Senator Bernie Sanders

The Shutdown

What is REALLY going on with our current shutdown. “So in this very difficult moment in American history, when working families are under attack, when the billionaire class has never had it so good, when we are moving every day toward authoritarianism under a president who wants more and more

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Elizabeth Rassmussen Executive Director of Better Boundaries presents at TogetherWorks Southern Utah conference

SHORT NOTICE & INCONVENIENT LOCATIONS

The Republican Party has rescheduled their public hearings on the initiative to repeal Proposition 4, Utah’s Fair Redistricting Law starting TODAY, NOVEMBER 3 and continuing on November 10. The initiative process is a constitutional right reserved for the people. It gives citizens a way to hold government accountable when it

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Opinion article for TogetherWorks Southern Utah

Help preserve Red Cliffs Zone 3!

The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of TogetherWorks Southern Utah. For nearly twenty years I’ve been battling to protect Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, the 62,000-acres mostly north of St. George, now mostly a national conservation area.

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Washington County Utah: No Kings 2.0

St. George Utah Rally in the Park October 18, 2025 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM MDT Vernon Worthen Park 300 S 400 E, St. George, UT 84770 We will be meeting at the same place(s) as last time: near fire pits and covered tables by pickle ball courts, on the

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togetherworks southern utah opinion article

The Oath

The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of TogetherWorks Southern Utah. There has been much talk about The Oath servicemen and women take on joining the Armed Forces. “Defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic…”

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