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Steve Merrill Wants to Put Utah's Working Class First
Steve Merrill is running for Congress in Utah's 3rd District — a district bigger than 19 states — on a platform of uniting working communities and restoring real accountability. No corporate PACs. No curated tele-town halls. Just a database programmer, a husband, and a dad who decided politics wasn't going to ignore him.
In this episode of Breaking the Meta, host Mike Winson sits down with Steve Merrill, Democratic candidate for Utah's 3rd Congressional District, to talk about what it actually takes to represent 60% of a state — and why the people in it have been ignored for too long.
Steve covers:
Why Utah's redistricting changed the map — and why CD-3 now stretches across farmers, ranchers, mining towns, the Navajo Nation, and national parks
How tariffs gutted coal, oil, and iron mining communities ("It doesn't matter how much stuff costs — they lost their job")
Rural hospitals shutting down, leaving residents 4 hours from emergency care
What real accountability looks like — and why tele-town halls with eight curated questions don't count
The moment in 2016 that pulled him into politics (his stepson, the day after the election)
Why he wants the U.S. to join the International Criminal Court
Ending the AUMF, clawing back Congressional war powers, and putting guardrails on executive orders
Citizens United, APAC, Elon Musk's $250M, and the case for publicly funded campaigns
What he'd do on day one in Congress — starting with SNAP and Medicaid
If you've been looking for candidates who aren't taking corporate PAC money, who want to be held accountable, and who are running to fix problems we've been screaming about for decades — this is the series.
Support Steve:
🌐 votethe4merrill.com
🌐 voteforme.us
📱 Socials: @vote4merrill
Support the show:
👍 Like, subscribe, and share — it's the cheapest way to help candidates without millions of dollars get seen.
🔔 Subscribe for more interviews with grassroots candidates the mainstream won't cover
About Breaking the Meta:
Breaking the Meta is about having hard conversations when necessary, fighting to break the status quo, and the idea that all people — no matter your race, religion, gender, or identity — deserve rights, respect, dignity, and safety.
#SteveMerrill #UtahPolitics #Congress2026 #BreakingTheMeta
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By Mike WinsonSteve Merrill is running for Congress in Utah's 3rd District — a district bigger than 19 states — on a platform of uniting working communities and restoring real accountability. No corporate PACs. No curated tele-town halls. Just a database programmer, a husband, and a dad who decided politics wasn't going to ignore him.
In this episode of Breaking the Meta, host Mike Winson sits down with Steve Merrill, Democratic candidate for Utah's 3rd Congressional District, to talk about what it actually takes to represent 60% of a state — and why the people in it have been ignored for too long.
Steve covers:
Why Utah's redistricting changed the map — and why CD-3 now stretches across farmers, ranchers, mining towns, the Navajo Nation, and national parks
How tariffs gutted coal, oil, and iron mining communities ("It doesn't matter how much stuff costs — they lost their job")
Rural hospitals shutting down, leaving residents 4 hours from emergency care
What real accountability looks like — and why tele-town halls with eight curated questions don't count
The moment in 2016 that pulled him into politics (his stepson, the day after the election)
Why he wants the U.S. to join the International Criminal Court
Ending the AUMF, clawing back Congressional war powers, and putting guardrails on executive orders
Citizens United, APAC, Elon Musk's $250M, and the case for publicly funded campaigns
What he'd do on day one in Congress — starting with SNAP and Medicaid
If you've been looking for candidates who aren't taking corporate PAC money, who want to be held accountable, and who are running to fix problems we've been screaming about for decades — this is the series.
Support Steve:
🌐 votethe4merrill.com
🌐 voteforme.us
📱 Socials: @vote4merrill
Support the show:
👍 Like, subscribe, and share — it's the cheapest way to help candidates without millions of dollars get seen.
🔔 Subscribe for more interviews with grassroots candidates the mainstream won't cover
About Breaking the Meta:
Breaking the Meta is about having hard conversations when necessary, fighting to break the status quo, and the idea that all people — no matter your race, religion, gender, or identity — deserve rights, respect, dignity, and safety.
#SteveMerrill #UtahPolitics #Congress2026 #BreakingTheMeta