The Wyoming Opposition

Wyoming Can Do Better.

Harriet Hageman is asking to be Wyoming's next senator. Chuck Gray is asking to be Wyoming's next representative. Wyoming should ask them for answers first. This is the Wyoming Opposition, where citizens organize, ask hard questions, and choose a better direction.

Jimmy Skovgard

Jimmy Skovgard, Republican, Wyomingite, American.


Why This Exists

An unopposed office is an unwatched office.

A primary settles a nomination. It does not settle whether anyone is paying attention. Offices that go unwatched drift, and the people who hold them stop expecting to explain themselves.

Organized opposition is not hostility. It is the ordinary maintenance work of a republic. Someone reads the record. Someone asks the question in public. Someone writes down the answer and what happened next.

That work is easier together than alone. This is where Wyoming citizens do it together.

What We Stand For

The standard we hold, and hold ourselves to.

These are commitments, not slogans. They apply to how this effort behaves, not only to what it asks of others.

Accountability

Public office is a public trust. We ask for the record, we link to the source, and we say plainly when something is judgment rather than fact.

Local Control

Decisions about Wyoming land, water, and work belong to the people who live with the results. Distance from a problem is not expertise about it.

Open Debate

Hard questions asked in public are how a republic corrects itself. An officeholder who will not take questions is telling you something.

Citizen Participation

This is neighbors doing the work, not a consultant operation. Show up, ask, read the record, and bring someone with you.

Service

The job is service, not position. It is measured by what gets done for Wyoming, not by how loudly it gets announced.

The Record

Read it, then decide for yourself.

Every claim links to an original source. Independent reporting, advocacy research, and an organization's own materials are labeled separately, because they are not the same kind of evidence.

More records are added as they are verified and sourced.

Dispatches from the Wyoming Opposition

Cowboy Care

Jim Allington drove seventy-three miles to the mine at three in the morning for thirty years. Peabody ended his retiree medical program with roughly $240,000 of it still unused. Wyoming had no contract and no channel. I am building the channel.

More to hear

Take Part

Four ways to make this real.

No machine and no mega-donors. Neighbors talking to neighbors, and a record anyone can check.