Sam is the first Democrat Montanans have sent to the U.S. House in three decades.

Forstag: “This win is the work of thousands of Montanans who are sick of a politics that puts working people last, and who are ready to send one of our own to Washington to make it work for us. I promise to keep showing up, listening, and fighting for a future where every Montanan can work one good job and afford the basics, and where our wild places are protected..."

The Trump administration is proposing to rescind the Roadless Rule, a 25-year-old policy that bars development like road construction and logging on nearly 45 million acres of national forest land, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday.

The Roadless Rule protects nearly 6 million acres of federal public land in Montana, and nearly 10 million acres across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. It's more anti-public lands and wildlife policies from Trump, et. al.

Constitutional Initiative 132, which amends the state Constitution to require that judicial elections remain nonpartisan, Constitutional Initiative 133, an initiative about ballot issues and referendums, and Initiative 194, dubbed The Montana Plan, which changes state code to prohibit any incorporated entity in Montana from spending money to influence state elections, have all passed.

All three initiatives won by large margins, showing strong voter approval.