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2026 candidates we're tracking in MT-1
Aaron Flint
Top priorities
- Make Montana more affordable
- Promote trade education, manufacturing and mining
- Ensure public access to public lands
Per the campaign site.
About Aaron Flint
Flint is a combat veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and has worked as a radio host, a fifth-generation Montanan, per the campaign site.
Sam Forstag
Top priorities
- Ensure working people can afford housing, health care, childcare and retirement
- Invest proactively in public lands management and health care access
- Strengthen unions and raise wages for working people
Per the campaign site.
About Sam Forstag
Forstag is a smokejumper and union leader who worked his way through the University of Montana before joining the Forest Service, where he became a smokejumper, per the campaign site. Between fire seasons he has worked as a union organizer and legislative advocate and currently serves as vice president of his union's local chapter, per the campaign site.
Nick Sheedy
Top priorities
- Strengthen the War Powers Resolution so that Congress, not the President, controls decisions to deploy military forces
- End the Federal Reserve to address inflation and restore Congress's constitutional authority over currency
Per the questionnaire.
About Nick Sheedy
Nick Sheedy is the Libertarian nominee for Montana's 1st Congressional District, per the Montana Free Press 2026 election guide. No additional occupation or career background was found as of September 20, 2026. No campaign website was found as of September 20, 2026.
About this race
Montana's 1st Congressional District elects one member of the U.S. House of Representatives to a two-year term. Every House seat in the country is on the ballot in 2026. The Montana primary is Tuesday, June 2, 2026, and the general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.