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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"><strong>I was born and raised in </strong><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">Michigan’s Upper Peninsula</strong><strong>.</strong></span><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"> When I was young, I was blessed to know all of my great-grandparents – including Italian immigrants - and I grew up surrounded by a big family, rich with stories and experiences. My father was a second-generation Architect, and my mother was a homemaker and caregiver, raising four children, chauffeuring all the neighborhood kids around in her conversion van, and making sure we had everything that we needed. We were never wealthy, but we were mostly comfortable.</span></p>

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<p>Like many Yooper kids, I was raised to appreciate nature and community. I grew up around family hunting camps, often with my grandfathers - Camp Pottsville on the Baravetto side and Ponderosa on the Blomquist side - hiking the woods, learning how to read basic game signs, shoot, hunt, and fish. While I hunt far less seriously than in my youth, I still maintain that wonderful November ritual, spending the evenings playing cribbage and trading good-natured barbs with the crew at Camp Misery in northern Dickinson County.</p><p><strong>From an early age, I was taught to be understanding, to welcome the stranger, to stand for those who cannot stand for themselves, and to embrace our differences.</strong></p>

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<p><strong>My name is Kyle Blomquist.</strong></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">I’m running to represent the people of Northern Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives, on a mission to unify working people and dramatically improve their lives.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">I’m running as a Democrat, but this campaign isn’t afraid to acknowledge the inherent flaws of a two-party system which too often functions to distract from our shared struggles and common cause. Instead, my message is one of class solidarity.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"><strong>I consider myself a Democratic Socialist. </strong></span>I believe that in a wealthy society, no person should be too poor to live with dignity, no necessity should be withheld strictly for profit, no child should go hungry, and no senior should live in fear and squalor.</p><p>Where too often our government empowers a wealthy few to exploit the many, I believe in democratizing our economy. <span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"><strong>I believe that the American working class should be the primary beneficiary of their collective productivity. </strong></span>And I believe that a person’s value is inherent in their humanity, not measured in a stock ticker.</p>

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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)">Growing up in the 1990s, much of my time was spent with friends, riding my bike around my small U.P. town, watching professional wrestling, playing video games, and finding my first great passion in the sport of football. While I was never naturally gifted - my feet too big, my stride too long and clumsy - I was tenacious and coachable. I put in the work and learned from my mistakes. Above all else, I became unwavering and dependable - especially as my physique grew to match my will - earning the trust of coaches and teammates. </span></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong>To this day, the faith of those I respect and care for is far more important to me than any personal accolade.</strong></span></p>

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<p>Upon receiving our Master’s degrees, we returned to my hometown of Iron Mountain to join an Architectural practice that had seen better days. The Housing Market Collapse of 2008 and economic downturn that followed had reduced a once-thriving firm of around twenty staff to only one man: my father, working alone in a large, empty office. The first several years of our careers were wracked with uncertainty, sparse projects, low pay, crushing student loans, and collective sacrifice as the three of us worked to resuscitate the business created by my grandfather 60 years prior. Eventually, we found our footing, and in 2019, Megan and I purchased ownership of the firm which we still operate with a small team today.</p><p>Even in the midst of our own reclamation project professionally, Megan and I wanted to do more for a community which was also struggling through difficult times. At first, this took the form of volunteering with the local Downtown Development Authority, Habitat for Humanity, and other organizations striving to make a difference. Eventually, it led Megan to become Chair of the DDA’s Board of Directors and me to join the Iron Mountain City Council where I still serve as Mayor Pro Tem after over a decade on the board. In the intervening years, we have seen a great resurgence in the community, filling vacancy, adding vibrance, and building futures.</p><p>In 2018, Megan and I welcomed identical twins.  They are rambunctious kids who love to ride bikes, play soccer, football, swim, camp, snuggle, and rough-house. They have made me a vastly better man, having known them, and they are my greatest source of pride. <strong>They have sparked in me a quiet desperation, a need to spare them the same anxieties we endure, which has led me to embark on this journey now.</strong></p><p>The truth is - despite my personal and professional successes - I feel completely helpless in affecting the pain and injustice I see in the world around me. Deep down, I still hold tight to the aspirations of a young would-be Architect who believed their work would improve people’s lives. Yet, I am confronted by the numerous ways I cannot do enough:</p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">     I can design a bright, beautiful medical clinic, but I can’t ensure that everyone who enters receives the care they need or doesn’t leave bankrupt because of a cancer diagnosis.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)">     I can imagine luxurious apartment buildings or lavish homes, but I can’t do anything to house the most vulnerable amongst us.</strong></span></p><p><strong>     I can restore a century-old storefront building to its former glory, but I can’t do anything to ensure that the people who work there can afford to shop there or put adequate food on their family’s table.</strong></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)">     I can create rich learning environments, but each school project is haunted by the specter of gun violence, and despite every effort that I can make architecturally, there is really very little I can do to make sure that the children taught there won’t be shot there.</strong></span></p><p><strong>    There isn’t a hospital or home, shop or school that I can build to prevent children like my own from being starved and bombed in Gaza or torn from their parents here in America.</strong></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)">In many ways, this campaign embodies that personal desperation and embraces the frustrations of the American people.  I want my neighbors and friends in Northern Michigan to know that their pain is real, and their worries are valid.</span></p><p><strong>I want working-class families to know that a better world is not only possible, but imminent, if we only have the will to create it.</strong></p><p>In ways that even Architecture cannot, I want to empower common people to replace structures that were built to oppress and exploit them.</p>

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<p></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)">It was at Architecture school that I met Megan – a brilliant, studious, and principled young woman, who I married and have been working with ever since.</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Following high school, I attended Grand Valley State University with an emphasis in engineering and art, before transferring to the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, where I pursued my second great passion: Architecture.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">The education of would-be Architects is a unique one, centered around analysis, design, documentation, and jury defense (understanding, intent, execution, and explanation). </span><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"><strong>For an Architect, it is not enough to simply create something beautiful; we must know and nurture the user - the human beings who inhabit our buildings - and draw our designs in service to those people</strong></span><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">. I reveled in the possibilities, an opportunity to transform lives by designing inspired places for people to live, work, and play. Through my studies, I grew as a person, learning to exercise compassion in applying my craft. Empowering people became my focus, and Architecture was my tool to do so.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">As I entered Graduate school, my thoughts turned back to Michigan. As the Great Recession crushed the working class, few cities were hit harder or were more emblematic of our national struggle than Detroit. Exploited, divided, beaten, and all-but-broken under the fickle stroke of capitalism. I wrote and designed my Master’s thesis around urban renewal, housing, and mobilization in some of Detroit’s most blighted neighborhoods. Solutions were addressed at all scales – consolidation of empty space, creation of cooperative housing types, and implementation of a construction process which recycled oversized infrastructure and deployed under-employed people in reviving their own communities. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"><strong>While existing only in theory, </strong><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">this reflected my personal belief in the high potential of society when optimism is married with planning and ambitious reform</strong><strong>.</strong></span></p>

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<p>IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. (WBUP/WJMN) – Kyle Blomquist, 40, an architect from Dickinson County, has announced his candidacy for Congress in Michigan’s 1st District.</p><p>Born and raised in the Upper Peninsula, Blomquist is a lifelong resident with family roots in Northern Michigan spanning more than three generations.</p>

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<h4>UP Democrat joins First Congressional race, challenges Rep. Jack Bergman</h4>

<p>This is a virtual phone-banking event! Join us from the comfort of your own home to spread Kyle's message!<br><br>Training will be provided upon RSVP!</p>

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<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>Kyle is running for Congress because he believes that your basic needs should be treated as human rights. Healthcare, housing, living wages, and a dignified retirement should be guaranteed to all American workers.</p><p>Doors open at 5:30 PM (CT), and the event will begin at 6:00 PM (CT). Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions. No script, no filter.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, July 2nd!</p>

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<p>An Iron Mountain City Council member will seek to represent Michigan’s 1st District in Congress, campaigning as a Democrat in the 2026 election for the seat now held by U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet.</p><p>Kyle Blomquist, 40, an architect, said his campaign will focus on fighting for working-class families.</p>

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<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>Kyle is running for Congress because he believes that your basic needs should be treated as human rights. Healthcare, housing, living wages, and a dignified retirement should be guaranteed to all American workers.</p><p>The event will begin at 5:00 PM (EST) - Doors open at 4:30 PM (EST).  Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, July 21st!</p>

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<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>The event will begin at 5:00 PM - Doors open at 4:30 PM. Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, July 21st!</p>

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<p>Join us for a Meet &amp; Greet with Kyle Blomquist, candidate for US House of Representatives in MI-01. Hear Kyle speak, and ask your questions. Light refreshments will be served.</p>

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<p>Candidates &amp; Community Forum on March 9, 6–8 p.m. CST at Menominee High School lecture hall, doors open at 5:30. - Moderated by Melissa Ebsch.</p><p>General topics shared with candidates in advance, no specific questions beforehand.</p><p>Topics: mental and general health, economy, schools, data centers, renewable energy, tax incentives, corporate bailouts.</p><p>Confirmed candidates: Kyle Blomquist, Justin Michael, Zebulon Featherly, Wayne Stiles.</p><p>All candidates invited.</p><p>Reminder: Michigan schools are gun-free zones.</p>

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<p>Join us for a day of action to spread Kyle's message! We have 3 opportunities to get involved. Join us for 1 or all of them!</p><p><strong>9 AM - 12 PM: Phone Bank for Kyle</strong><br>Black Candle<br>2062 W South Airport Rd Ste B, Traverse City, MI 49684<br><br><strong>1 PM - 4 PM: Canvass for Kyle</strong><br><br><br><strong>5PM - 8 PM: Canvass for Kyle</strong><br>Meet at: Traverse Area District Library<br>610 Woodmere Ave, Traverse City, MI 49686<br></p>

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<p>Join us for a day of action to spread Kyle's message!  We have 3 opportunities to get involved:</p><p>9 AM - 12 PM:  Phone Bank for Kyle<br>1 PM - 4 PM: Canvass for Kyle<br>5PM - 8 PM: Canvass for Kyle</p>

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<p>Join Democratic candidates Kyle Blomquist and Wayne Stiles for a moderated forum hosted by the Alpena County Democrats. Doors open at 1:30pm and the forum begins promptly at 2.</p><p>Also, there will be an after-party event at PIF Cider, 205 W Chisholm St, Alpena, MI 49707, from 3:30 to 5 pm following the event where there will be ample time to ask candidates your own questions. </p>

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<p>Join Kyle with other CD-1 candidates for a meet &amp; greet at the Irish Kilt Brewing Company.</p><p>This is an open and welcoming event where neighbors can ask questions and hear directly from those candidates willing to attend. </p>

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<p>Join Kyle for a meet &amp; greet at the Irish Kilt Brewing Company.</p><p>This is an open and welcoming event where neighbors can ask questions and hear directly from Kyle.</p>

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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong>Michigan’s natural resources are among the most precious in the world. </strong></span><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)">I am committed to advancing a Green New Deal framework, transitioning to a sustainable economy, prioritizing clean energy, lowering utility costs in the Upper Peninsula, and </span><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong>safeguarding our air, water, and land from corporate exploitation</strong></span><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)">, while creating good-paying jobs and ensuring environmental justice for all communities.</span></p>

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<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>Kyle is running for Congress because he believes that your basic needs should be treated as human rights. Healthcare, housing, living wages, and a dignified retirement should be guaranteed to all American workers.</p><p>Doors open at 1:30 PM (EST), and the event will begin at 2:00 PM (EST). Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, July 12th!</p>

<h4>FRANKFORT - TOWN HALL</h4>

<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>Doors open at 1:30 PM (EST), and the event will begin at 2:00 PM (EST). Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, July 12th!</p>

FRANKFORT - TOWN HALL

<p>Join Northern Indivisible for a meet and greet with Kyle Blomquist.  Kyle will introduce himself and his campaign and answer questions from the crowd. This event is open to the public.</p>

<h4>Community Conversation with Kyle Blomquist Hosted by Northern Indivisible</h4>

Community Conversation with Kyle Blomquist Hosted by Northern Indivisible

<p>Kyle Blomquist, a Dickinson County architect and dedicated community leader, has announced his candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives serving Michigan’s 1st Congressional District. Born and raised in the Upper Peninsula, he is a lifelong resident with deep roots in Northern Michigan, where his family has lived for more than three generations.</p>

<h4>Blomquist seeking 1st District seat in Congress</h4>

<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>Kyle is running for Congress because he believes that your basic needs should be treated as human rights. Healthcare, housing, living wages, and a dignified retirement should be guaranteed to all American workers.</p><p>Doors open at 5:30 PM (EST), and the event will begin at 6:00 PM (EST). Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions. No script, no filter.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, July 7th!</p>

<h4>SAULT STe. MARIE - TOWN HALL</h4>

<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>Doors open at 5:30 PM (EST), and the event will begin at 6:00 PM (EST). Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions. No script, no filter.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, July 7th!</p>

SAULT ST. MARIE - TOWN HALL

<p>Join us Saturday from 1pm - 3pm inside Cuppa Joe at 1990 US-31 for an opportunity to sign the petition to get Kyle Blomquist on the ballot. We're fighting for to make sure that all of us have a fair shot at the American dream.</p>

<h4>East Traverse City Petition Drive</h4>

East Traverse City Petition Drive

<p>Join Kyle with the Antrim County Dems in Elk Rapids for a meet &amp; greet at Short's Brewing Company!</p><p>There will be plenty of time for questions and answers!</p>

<h4>ELK RAPIDS - MEET &amp; GREET</h4>

ELK RAPIDS - MEET & GREET

<p>Join us Saturday from 11am - 1pm on the back side of Harlow Park for a drive-through opportunity to sign the petition to get Kyle Blomquist on the ballot. We're fighting for to make sure that all of us have a fair shot at the American dream.</p>

<h4>Marquette County Petition Drive at Harlow Park</h4>

Marquette County Petition Drive at Harlow Park

<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>Kyle is running for Congress because he believes that your basic needs should be treated as human rights. Healthcare, housing, living wages, and a dignified retirement should be guaranteed to all American workers.</p><p>The event will begin at 6:00 PM - Doors open at 5:30 PM. Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Monday, July 20th!</p>

<h4>PETOSKEY - TOWN HALL</h4>

<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>The event will begin at 6:00 PM - Doors open at 5:30 PM. Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Monday, July 20th!</p>

PETOSKEY - TOWN HALL

<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>Kyle is running for Congress because he believes that your basic needs should be treated as human rights. Healthcare, housing, living wages, and a dignified retirement should be guaranteed to all American workers.</p><p>Doors open at 5:30 PM (EST), and the event will begin at 6:00 PM (EST). Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions. No script, no filter.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, July 1st!</p>

<h4>HOUGHTON/HANCOCK - TOWN HALL</h4>

HOUGHTON/HANCOCK - TOWN HALL

<p><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">Our government should serve its people, free of corrupting influence. </strong></span>I'll support legislation to <span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">overturn Citizens United</strong></span>, prevent billionaires from buying our elected officials through unaccountable PACs, and <span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">ban members of Congress from owning individual stocks</strong></span>. I’ll also fight to implement <span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">term limits</strong></span> for Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court.</p>

<h2>DEMOCRATIC REFORM</h2>

<p>Upon their original conception, <span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)">the federal minimum wage was intended to be a living wage</strong></span>, and the 40-hour work week was established to ensure a life outside of the workplace. In the intervening generations, the minimum wage has been treated instead as a level of maximum tolerable cruelty for many in the <span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)">working class</strong></span>, while the 40-hour work week has become an arbitrary threshold that allows corporations to avoid responsibility for the well-being of workers. <br><br>More than 40% of Americans work a job which fails to pay a living wage – enough to pay for <span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)">basic necessities</strong></span> like housing, food, schooling, and a retirement contribution. The vast majority of this over-exploited, under-compensated workforce is employed by companies that post ever-growing profits for wealthy shareholders, while their employees turn to public assistance simply to <span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text)">survive</strong></span>. <br><br><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary)">I support the increase of the federal minimum wage</strong></span> to once again be a viable living wage, with <span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary)">automatic increases tied to the rate of inflation</strong></span>, ensuring that we never again backslide into poverty wages.</p>

<p><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">American workers should be empowered to start and grow their families without financial hardship. </strong></span>I'll fight for <span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">universal childcare</strong></span> and <span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">paid parental leave</strong></span>, providing time for new parents to care and connect with their children and eliminating the high cost and low availability of daycare that disproportionately affect rural districts like ours.</p>

<h2>CHILDCARE &amp; PARENTAL LEAVE</h2>

<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>Kyle is running for Congress because he believes that your basic needs should be treated as human rights. Healthcare, housing, living wages, and a dignified retirement should be guaranteed to all American workers.</p><p>Doors open at 5:30 PM, and the event will begin at 6:00 PM. Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions. No script, no filter.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Monday, July 27th!</p>

<h4>IRON MOUNTAIN - TOWN HALL</h4>

<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>The event will begin at 6:00 PM - Doors open at 5:30 PM. Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions. No script, no filter.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Monday, July 27th!</p>

IRON MOUNTAIN - TOWN HALL

<p>It's not radical to want our Children to be safe from gun violence in school, or church, or at concerts, or walking down the street.   Until American's can re-learn how to be responsible gun owners, until our mental health crisis is taken seriously and addressed, I do not believe in open, unfettered gun laws. </p><p>Owning a gun is a massive responsibility. </p>

<p><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">Meeting people’s needs is the most effective way to improve society and prevent crime.</strong></span> The U.S. spends nearly three times as much to imprison people as it does to educate them. I'll support substantial <strong>criminal justice &amp; prison reform,</strong> including reduced sentencing, humane conditions, reintegration programs, ending prison slavery, &amp; <span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong>shrinking America’s prison population to mend communities.</strong></span></p>

<h2>INVEST IN PEOPLE, NOT PUNISHMENT</h2>

<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>Kyle is running for Congress because he believes that your basic needs should be treated as human rights. Healthcare, housing, living wages, and a dignified retirement should be guaranteed to all American workers.</p><p>The event will begin at 6:00 PM (Doors open at 5:30 PM). Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, July 23rd!</p>

<h4>TAWAS CITY - TOWN HALL</h4>

<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>The event will begin at 6:00 PM. Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, July 23rd!</p>

TAWAS CITY - TOWN HALL

<p>This event is an opportunity to hear from candidates running to unseat Jack Bergman in Michigan's First Congressional District.</p><p>It will be moderated by G.G. Gordon, former High School Bowl Host.</p><p>Confirmed attendees include:<br>- Kyle Blomquist<br>- Zebulon Featherly<br>- Justin Michal<br>- Wayne Stiles</p>

<h4>Lake Superior Region Indivisible Candidate Forum</h4>

Lake Superior Region Indivisible Candidate Forum

<p>Join Kyle for a Question &amp; Answer session! Come hear Kyle's vision for a brighter, more just future for the working class. <br><br>No talking heads. No filter. No script. Just your questions and real answers.<br><br>The event will be held at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RightBrainBrewery?__cft__[0]=AZYaNP1flIeD0vPM1qWr247TsHXMNBry0ws_2EAlKJidFs24z90gPrEN2gQAys1ZpKHb95p_-iQ0ovaQR4ewSz4yXFbrNaLVptfzfsCRwtAdHqPFXjWgAiqaWge0mW_kVFvMWV33fYUR3xOLQ-LkV8FquUTax5Yt67Ws5j6d0qL99P-FuLumXnzBdDdg5avEBlc&amp;__tn__=-]K*F">Right Brain Brewery</a>. We look forward to seeing you there!</p>

<h4>TRAVERSE CITY - WORKING CLASS Q&A EVENT</h4>

TRAVERSE CITY - WORKING CLASS Q&A EVENT

<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>Kyle is running for Congress because he believes that your basic needs should be treated as human rights. Healthcare, housing, living wages, and a dignified retirement should be guaranteed to all American workers.</p><p>The event will begin at 5:00 PM (EST) - Doors open at 4:30 PM (EST). Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, July 22nd!</p>

<h4>ALPENA - TOWN HALL</h4>

<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>The event will begin at 5:00 PM. Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, July 22nd!</p>

ALPENA - TOWN HALL

<p>Join us for a Meet and Greet with Kyle Blomquist at Silver River Bakery in L'Anse. Come meet Kyle, listen to his vision for the district, and ask your questions.</p>

<h4>Meet and Greet with Baraga County Dems</h4>

Meet and Greet with Baraga County Dems

<p><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">Billionaires and corporations should be accountable for the vitality of their workforce.</strong></span> I'll support <span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">progressive tax increases on the top 10% of earners</strong></span>, including the gains and wealth of billionaires. I’ll push legislation to restrict corporate stock buybacks, tie CEO pay to that of the lowest wage individuals within their companies, and <span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary)">strengthen antitrust laws</strong></span>.</p>

<h2>ECONOMIC EQUITY</h2>

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<h4>ALCONA COUNTY - MEET &amp; GREET</h4>

ALCONA COUNTY - MEET & GREET

<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>Kyle is running for Congress because he believes that your basic needs should be treated as human rights. Healthcare, housing, living wages, and a dignified retirement should be guaranteed to all American workers.</p><p>Doors open at 11:30 AM (EST), and the event will begin at 12:00 PM (EST). Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, July 11th!</p>

<h4>CHARLEVOIX - TOWN HALL</h4>

<p>Join Kyle for a public Town Hall!</p><p>Doors open at 11:30 AM (EST), and the event will begin at 12:00 PM (EST). Please join us to hear Kyle speak, and ask him questions.</p><p>We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, July 11th!</p>

CHARLEVOIX - TOWN HALL

<p>Join Kyle, the Cheboygan County Democrats, and other CD-1 candidates for an open forum at the historic Cheboygan Opera House!</p><p>Professor Scott LaDeur from North Central Michigan College will be the moderator.</p><p>Kyle looks forward to meeting you and answering your questions on Sunday, June 14th!</p>

<h4>CHEBOYGAN Democrats - CANDIDATE FORUM</h4>

CHEBOYGAN - CANDIDATE FORUM

<p>Join Kyle with Eastern UP Solidarity to stand up against the Data-Centers, Billionaires, and private equity attempting to exploit our resources by building AI data centers and bitcoin mining operations in the Upper Peninsula. These facilities threaten our way of life by polluting our land and water, by destroying the silence that brings so many of us peace, harming our wildlife, increasing our utility bills, and, importantly, by corrupting our local governments, and harvesting our personal data.</p><p>Kyle is a life-long Yooper and a champion in the fight against data center corruption.</p><p>Whether you are a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, if you want to keep data centers out of the UP, please join Kyle and Eastern UP Solidarity on Saturday, June 27th @ 3PM (EST).</p><p>Bring rally signs, energy, and good vibes!</p>

<h4>SAULT ST. MARIE - RALLY against the machine!</h4>

SAULT ST. MARIE - ANTI-DATA CENTER RALLY

<p>Candidates &amp; Community Forum on March 10, 5:30–7 p.m. CST at Gogebic Community College..</p><p>Candidates will answer questions regarding what matters most to voters.</p><p>Confirmed candidates: Kyle Blomquist, Justin Michael, Zebulon Featherly, Wayne Stiles.</p><p>All candidates invited.</p>

MARQUETTE - TOWN HALL