For Wyoming. For Us.
About Jimmy Skovgard
Fifth-generation immigrant. Fourth-generation Wyomingite. Husband, father, veteran, and now a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
I grew up in the Big Horn Basin: grade school in Greybull, high school in Basin, and college at the University of Wyoming. My great-grandfather, Simon Skovgard, homesteaded near Basin in 1909. Like many of us, I was raised to work hard, speak the truth, and take responsibility for my actions.
I served 12 years in the Wyoming Army National Guard and was honorably discharged as a captain. I have worked in the private sector, run my own business, and spent my life grounded in Wyoming values.
I never planned to run for office.
I got off the couch in 2024 because the path of division, distraction, and fearmongering is wrong. Fear can sharpen the mind in a crisis, but right now it is being used to keep us angry and apart. Nothing is being built.
I have seen this in my own family. A brother who forwards link after link filled with half-truths. A sister who lives in the Big Horn Basin and worries that “illegals” will invade her home. These are not natural divisions. This is deliberate manipulation for control, and it cuts deep.
Why I Am Running
If manipulation can divide a family, it can divide a nation. That is why I am running. This is not about party politics or career ambition. It is about principle: about us, the people of Wyoming, being seen, heard, and respected again.
Our budget is a moral document. Every line tells a story about who is protected, who is forgotten, and who pays the bill. Right now that bill is drifting toward our children.
Service
Not career politics. A season of work for the people of Wyoming.
Accountability
Receipts, not rhetoric. Transparent books. No secret slush funds.
Tools
Technology that brings Wyoming voices to Washington, not backroom deals.
A Season of Service
Office should be a season of service, not a lifetime entitlement.
I will treat this work as a shift, not a career. I support term limits.
I will support plain-language public reports showing what came in, what went out, and what it means for our future.
I will live under the standard I am asking us to adopt.
Health Care Rights
On questions of life, family, and medical care, we start with Wyoming’s Constitution. Government must not force personal medical decisions on families.
“Every competent adult has the right to make personal health care decisions for themselves and their dependents, and the State of Wyoming must protect those rights from undue governmental infringement.”
Wyoming Constitution, Article 1, Section 38
Dig Deeper
Hundreds of essays on Jimmy’s journey and the path forward. Read the Substack, then join the conversation on the podcast.