This smokejumper says the US has lost its empathy. That’s why he’s running for Congress

Montana’s Sam Forstag says US working class is left playing a game of chance while neither party serves its interests At around five o’clock on a winter evening in 2013, then college student Sam Forstag was driving through a snowstorm toward his third job of the day, making sandwiches at the Subway inside a Walmart. “I was always late,” Forstag recalled with a laugh more than a decade later. Continue reading...

Lok Darjee · Sun, Sep 6, 2026, 7:00 AM
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This smokejumper says the US has lost its empathy. That’s why he’s running for Congress

Montana’s Sam Forstag says US working class is left playing a game of chance while neither party serves its interests

At around five o’clock on a winter evening in 2013, then college student Sam Forstag was driving through a snowstorm toward his third job of the day, making sandwiches at the Subway inside a Walmart.

“I was always late,” Forstag recalled with a laugh more than a decade later.

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