Tell Mayor Mendenhall: Keep Fighting the ICE Mega Center! buff.ly/obxW9ge

Weber County recently launched harm reduction vending machines, offering free naloxone kits, fentanyl test strips, hygiene items, safe sex supplies, and treatment and recovery resources. 🔗 Utah News Dispatch: buff.ly/PZWUgRQ

Utah recorded 606 overdose deaths in 2023—the highest number on record. Colin Conner's death was not an anomaly; it was a systemic failure, repeated over and over for years because the county said it didn't have the money. 🔗 The Salt Lake Tribune: buff.ly/lgzZD4g

The same administration that wants to detain up to 10,000 people in Salt Lake City also wants a federal judge to hand it the personal records of every eligible voter in Utah. That is not a coincidence—it is a pattern. 🔗 FOX 13: buff.ly/3ZBoaz0

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall confirmed Monday that ICE officials told her during a 30-minute virtual meeting last week that the agency's newly purchased west side warehouse will become a "mega center" with capacity for 7,500 to 10,000 detainees. 🔗 Utah News Dispatch: buff.ly/1UIBfYh

Let's be clear about what's happening here: Utah lawmakers just mandated Bible instruction for eight-year-olds using public school time and $12 million in taxpayer money. 🔗 Salt Lake Tribune: buff.ly/qSQBn7C

Here are the highest-scoring State Senators on our 2026 Progress Report! Take a look at the full Progress Report for a more detailed breakdown of the bills and how your legislators voted on them. Here's the link: buff.ly/T6SOwov

Utah's nuclear ambitions are moving fast, and Utahns deserve a transparent public conversation to match the pace of it. 🔗 FOX 13: buff.ly/Q5DTpLD

Reminder for all Utah voters- the deadline to change your party affiliation is 5pm on April 1st! If you need to change your party affiliation or check your registration, you can do so here:

Our 2026 Progress Report is out now! Check it out to see how your legislators did --> buff.ly/T6SOwov

What Saturday showed us is that this movement is not fading. It is growing, and it is sharpening. 🔗 KUER: buff.ly/vgIJYJr

Tell the FTC to Ban Hidden Rental Fees! buff.ly/xFiPAuK

A bill that passed the House 70-3 couldn't get a Senate committee hearing. That's not a close call—that's a choice. 🔗 The Salt Lake Tribune: buff.ly/0VAvOPZ

This story is moving fast, and much of it is still behind closed doors because the governor's office cited real estate negotiations as grounds for withholding records. That alone should raise flags. 🔗 Grist & The Salt Lake Tribune: buff.ly/l31ptXl

Utah opened its newest prison in 2022 with 1,000 fewer beds than the facility it replaced because the theory was that treatment and rehabilitation would reduce the need. Less than four years later, the state is spending $125 million to add beds back. 🔗 Utah News Dispatch: buff.ly/yyqEjtU

This story is a window into how Utah's homeless system actually operates and how precarious it is. 🔗 Utah News Dispatch: buff.ly/mQV8M1y

Even in a red state, communities can push back through transparency, documentation, and sustained public pressure. 🔗 Fox 13: buff.ly/O4seZgN

In SLC, the council unanimously passed an emergency ordinance capping new nonresidential developments that use 200,000 or more gallons of water per day, a measure that would effectively block the proposed 7,500-person ICE detention facility. 🔗 KSL: buff.ly/Ee30FCy

Six straight income tax cuts make for a tidy political talking point, but the math behind them deserves scrutiny. Utah's income tax is constitutionally earmarked for education and social services. 🔗 KSL: buff.ly/uxHpyRM

The special district isn't an energy plan—it's a financing workaround for a coal rescue mission that still has no takers. Ratepayers could eventually be on the hook for bonds issued to buy generators nobody wants, while the rest of the country builds out renewables. buff.ly/gEsYglh

Tariffs, war, and a worsening water crisis didn't happen to Utah farmers in isolation, they're the compound result of policy choices. When family farms go under, they don't come back. Neither do the rural communities built around them. 🔗 The Salt Lake Tribune: buff.ly/cQ5aVv4

Show Up Today: Tell Local Officials to Fight the ICE Detention Warehouse! Today, you have a few chances to show up ---->

Equal opportunity is harder to access when you can't find the door. The Legislature didn't just change policy, it erased spaces where first-generation students and students of color found community, mentorship, and belonging. 🔗 The Salt Lake Tribune: buff.ly/iaGk8dF

Thank Lt. Gov. Henderson for Standing Up for Utah Voters! buff.ly/m2vNkG8 Utah's own Republican lieutenant governor is telling the Trump administration to back off, and she deserves to hear that Utahns support her for it.

A crowded field of eight candidates hoping to represent Utah's newly created 1st Congressional District came to Salt Lake Community College on Saturday for a forum organized by Ignite Utah, designed to connect Gen Z voters with the people seeking to represent them in Washington.

A system already running on fumes is about to be asked to do dramatically more with dramatically less. This immigration attorney in this article put it plainly: the pressure on immigrants sometimes feels designed to push people to self-deport. 🔗 KSL TV: buff.ly/YDEdM07

The DOJ has no role in administering Utah's elections. It has no business collecting Social Security numbers from law-abiding Utah voters. The League is right to intervene, and Henderson is right to fight it. 🔗 Utah News Dispatch: buff.ly/4BDHrtz

Events coming up this week: 2026 Legislative Wrap-Up (ACLU Utah) March 24 | 6:30pm | Salt Lake City RSVP Here: buff.ly/FeLrq9u

The West Side Needs Your Voice! Call or write Gov. Cox and ask him to publicly oppose the ICE detention facility and support Salt Lake City's right to meaningful community input before any facility moves forward. Email Governor Cox here: buff.ly/sT99MYD

Utah has made it progressively easier to opt out of school vaccination requirements over the past several years. We are now watching the predictable consequences of that policy play out in real time, and the state's response is to look the other way. Utahns deserve better.

Utah Called This Journalist "Irreputable." Will the 10th Circuit Agree? Political journalist Bryan Schott has spent more than 2 decades covering Utah politics, & held press credentials at the Legislature while working for The Salt Lake Tribune. buff.ly/wCqOrlh

The Rio Grande Depot was literally designed to be a train station. The Rio Grande Plan isn't a fantasy. It's a serious, studied proposal that could reshape connectivity for a city long divided by infrastructure. 🔗 KSL: buff.ly/8BICWdw

Utah has added Looking for Alaska by John Green to its statewide list of books banned from all public schools, bringing the total to 28. 🔗 Salt Lake Tribune: buff.ly/vbr0BGr

This story has every element of what happens when federal power runs roughshod over a community: 🔗 Utah News Dispatch — Mayor's Letter: buff.ly/O9KRF1t 🔗 Utah News Dispatch — West Side Impact: buff.ly/tt450fV

Utah's June 23 primary is closer than it seems, and the deadline to change your party affiliation is April 1. If you want to participate in the Republican primary, which is closed, you must be registered as a Republican by that date. 🔗 ABC 4: buff.ly/KKSobny

Thousands of Utahns turned out Tuesday for precinct caucuses across the state, where delegates and party officials are chosen ahead of state conventions. 🔗 Fox 13: buff.ly/iADy1wF

The bell-to-bell phone ban has real evidence behind it—schools that have already implemented it report better attendance and fewer behavioral incidents. 🔗 Utah News Dispatch: buff.ly/W1etqBe

Mike Lee has spent years pushing measures to make voting harder. This is his biggest swing yet—and the fact that it could still fail in a Republican-controlled Senate, with the president calling it his top priority, tells you something. 🔗 Deseret News: buff.ly/ZeyCivD

A Republican lieutenant governor refusing to hand Utahns' private data to the Trump administration is not the story you expect—but here we are. Henderson deserves credit for holding the line. 🔗 Salt Lake Tribune: buff.ly/3qgCGS5

Events coming up this weekend: With Liberty and Justice for All—Fulfilling America’s Promise (Mormon Women for Ethical Government) March 21 | 8:00am | Utah Valley University, Orem RSVP Here: buff.ly/Bbdk7bO

Curtis isn't saying the detention center is wrong—he's saying ICE should have asked permission first. That's a very different argument from the outright opposition coming from Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County mayors. 🔗 Deseret News: buff.ly/IkNJCM9

Utah hasn't sent a Democrat to Congress since Ben McAdams lost his seat in 2020. National money, national attention, and a map that reflects Salt Lake County's actual demographics—it's a genuinely different moment. 🔗 Deseret News: buff.ly/tz0Omvw

41 candidates is a lot of noise. The signal underneath it is this: Utah now has a congressional district that leans Democratic by double digits. That hasn't existed in this state in years. 🔗 Utah News Dispatch: buff.ly/pGef1Yp

Cutting women's leadership research on the last night of a tight-budget session, for the second year running, is not a coincidence. It's a pattern. 🔗 Salt Lake Tribune: buff.ly/EKzH5km

The 2026 session reshaped Utah's university system in significant ways: 🔗 International Business Times: buff.ly/iADrgRI

The Legislature's housing playbook—build supply, cut regulations, trust the market—has been consistent for years. So has the gap it leaves: the families already priced out aren't the ones getting relief. 🔗 Deseret News: buff.ly/8R3z2JA

Troy Williams, the longtime executive director of Equality Utah, is stepping down after years of turning street-activist energy into institutional wins. 🔗 KUER: buff.ly/Q5ji61o

Events coming up this week: Pints & Policy (HEAL Utah) March 18 | 6:00pm | Fisher Brewing, Salt Lake City (21+) RSVP Here: buff.ly/Ft3POCk

The Legislature has now failed twice to strip voters of their initiative rights: once through gerrymandering the map, once with misleading ballot language. They're gearing up for a third try. 🔗 Fox 13: buff.ly/ZshG045

Tell Sen. Curtis to Vote No on the SAVE Act: buff.ly/O8QuogH The SAVE America Act—the sweeping federal election bill championed by Sen. Mike Lee and pushed by President Trump as his "No. 1 priority"—is on the Senate floor this week.