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Sen. Dan Thatcher Is Leaving Utah’s Republican Party To ‘Break The Deadlock’ In Politics

March 12, 2025

The Forward Party welcomes its first sitting Utah State Senator to our ranks, Sen. Dan Thatcher. He is leaving his party because he’s tired of the division and deadlock in his state that’s caused just by the letter next to a lawmaker’s name. “The fact of the matter is, only the two major parties are going to win,” Thatcher said in an interview, “and I think the only way to break the deadlock is to have a force that is neither.” Read the full article here.

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