WASHINGTON — State Sen. Nate Blouin will run for Utah’s newly redrawn 1st District in next year’s midterm elections, and he views it as an opportunity to do something the Beehive State has never done before: send a progressive to the halls of Congress.

Blouin announced his bid on Sunday morning following weeks of speculation that he would join the already-crowded field of candidates vying to flip one of the four Republican-held House seats in Utah. Blouin will officially launch his campaign on Dec. 1, just one month before candidate filings open for the 2026 election cycle in January.

“We got an electrifying decision last week that’s a real shot in the arm for progressive Utahns and Democrats across the country,” Blouin told the Deseret News. “I woke up last Tuesday and immediately got t

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