Logjam Presents is pleased to welcome Rally for Sam Forstag with AOC and AOC and Sara Nelson for a FREE event at the The Wilma on Friday, May 22, 2026.
Logjam Presents
Rally for Sam Forstag
with AOC and Sara Nelson
About Rally for Sam Forstag
It’s time to get out the vote for Sam Forstag in Western Montana, and some of the most powerful voices for working people are showing up to bring it home!
Stand with Sam, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AFA-CWA President Sara Nelson, and labor leaders from across Montana as we rally the broad coalition we’re building door by door, community by community, and get ready to send Sam Forstag to Congress!
This is a historic moment. We have the chance to send real working-class representation to Congress from western Montana. Working people, young folks, and families across our communities are counting on us.
We need people in Congress who will fight for housing we can afford, healthcare for every Montanan, and the universal childcare that families need.
So come to Missoula on May 22 ready to show up for working Montanans — and ready to have representation in Congress for all of us.
About Sam Forstag
Sam is a smokejumper and union leader — a working Montanan who understands the struggle of breaking your back trying to get ahead and still barely getting by.
Sam was raised by a mom who picked up extra nursing shifts and a dad who became a public school teacher, and they made just enough to get by. That childhood taught Sam the value of hard work. It also taught him just how hard it can be for working people to get by in an economy that too often doesn’t work for them.
After working his way through school at the University of Montana, he went to work for the Forest Service, where he climbed the ranks to become a smokejumper – a firefighter who parachutes into remote areas to stop fires before they grow.
Between fire seasons, Sam never stopped showing up for Montanans, working as an organizer across Montana and an advocate at the state legislature, where he fought for public education, libraries, healthcare and constitutional freedoms. When Elon Musk tried to gut the Forest Service and public land agencies, Ryan Zinke didn’t stand up for Montanans — but Sam did. As Vice President of his union’s local, Sam organized against Musk’s cuts and rallied Montanans around the real-life impacts of Congress’ inaction.
Year after year, Montanans keep seeing the cost of their groceries, housing, healthcare and childcare go up. Sam’s running for Congress because he knows it shouldn’t be this hard to afford the basics in Montana. It’s time working families in Montana had one of their own fighting for them in Congress.