A New Progressive Era
A New Progressive Era
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Tax the rich
When the wealthy pay their share, we can invest in a stronger, more equal future. The U.S. boomed in the 1950s and 60s when we imposed top marginal tax rates as high as 90%. As your Representative, I will sponsor legislation to make our tax laws work for everyone by closing loopholes, raising taxes on millionaires and billionaires (the current highest rate kicks in at $640,600 for an individual and never increases again), and lowering taxes for everyone else.
ABOLISH ICE
As your Representative, I will vote against providing any funds to ICE, DHS, and CBP. I will also sponsor legislation abolishing ICE. People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. Fear-based enforcement by an army of masked agents is not immigration policy. ICE, created in 2003, is a rogue agency led and staffed by incompetent and malevolent thugs terrorizing American cities.
Medicare for All
Healthcare should be affordable, universal, and simple. As your Representative, I will co-sponsor the Medicare for All Act, which will guarantee comprehensive, free-at-the-point-of-service coverage for all U.S. residents, eliminating most private insurance, deductibles, and copays. This will lower costs for families and employers, free workers from job-locked healthcare, and help small businesses thrive.
Affordable Housing
The rent (and mortgage) is too damn high. As your Representative, I will sponsor legislation to create a renter’s tax credit and to increase federal funding for new housing construction, which will bring rents down and help more people buy a home.
Universal Childcare and Paid Parental Leave
Becoming a parent and raising children should not come with impossible financial and professional tradeoffs. As your Representative, I will sponsor legislation guaranteeing universal high-quality, free child care and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents.
Raise the Minimum Wage
No one working full time should struggle to get by. As your Representative, I will sponsor legislation raising the federal minimum wage to at least $20 an hour and tied to inflation and eliminating the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers.
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SLUG Magazine
Michael Farrell for Utah: An Office Open to All
Michael Farrell for Utah: An Office Open to All
Michael Farrell is a young, energetic, first-time candidate running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Utah’s First Congressional District who wants to be a new, progressive voice for Utah. Farrell realizes that he’s a relatively new kid on the block, but don’t let that fool you. He’s been working hard to build his voice in the community.
Read the full article at https://www.slugmag.com/community/michael-farrell-for-utah-an-office-open-to-all/.
Mar
4
2026
Utah news dispatch
A self-described progressive Democrat enters packed primary for Utah’s 1st Congressional District
A self-described progressive Democrat enters packed primary for Utah’s 1st Congressional District
Michael Farrell, a staunch Trump critic, says he’ll ‘fight for working people,’ pledges not to take PAC money or corporate donations.
Read the full article at https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/03/06/progressive-democrat-enters-primary-for-utahs-1st-congressional-district/.
Mar
7
2026
ABC4 Utah
March 9 Town Hall
March 9 Town Hall
The Town Hall was conducted along the lines of a presidential debate, with questions gathered in advance from prospective audience members through a form on the website of the 71 Percent Coalition. Two moderators one each from the 71 Percent Coalition and Black Lives Matter (Utah Chapter) guided the discussion.
Mar
9
2026
Salt Lake City Weekly
ICE is Out of Control
ICE is Out of Control
Utah loves to celebrate its pioneer story—ancestors who crossed borders and deserts fleeing persecution, searching for safety, faith and opportunity. We call that courage and grit. Today, however, as immigrants are hunted, detained and disappeared by an increasingly aggressive and unaccountable federal government, the values Utah claims are not the values its leaders are defending.
Mar
12
2026
Deseret News
Utah Democrats test limits of progressive politics in new blue district. Is this what voters want?
Utah Democrats test limits of progressive politics in new blue district. Is this what voters want?
As McAdams sits out, Democratic candidates embrace the left at Salt Lake town hall.
The candidates found consensus trying to outdo each other in their eagerness to “tax the rich,” pass the Green New Deal, and cut off aid to Israel.
Mar
12
2026
USTL PRESS RELEASE
Strong Support in UT CD-01 Race for Congressional Term Limits
Strong Support in UT CD-01 Race for Congressional Term Limits
U.S. Term Limits (USTL), the leader in the non-partisan national movement to limit terms for elected officials, praises 2026 U.S. House of Representatives candidate for Utah, Michael Farrell (district 1), for signing the pledge for an amendment to term limit Congress.
Mar
15
2026
Youtube
This Progressive CALLS OUT TRUMP For MAGA Failures!
This Progressive CALLS OUT TRUMP For MAGA Failures!
Check out my interview on The Discourse with Brandon Clark where I talk about why Utah's First Congressional District needs a strong progressive member of Congress who knows how to get things done!
Mar
16
2026
Axios Salt Lake City
Here are the candidates for Utah's 1st Congressional District race
Here are the candidates for Utah's 1st Congressional District race
Michael Farrell, a tax attorney, is campaigning on raising the federal minimum wage to $20 an hour, building more housing to lower rents, and establishing universal child care and paid parental leave.
Mar
18
2026
The SALT Lake tribune
Democrats see ‘record-breaking’ caucus turnout with Utah’s new congressional district
Democrats see ‘record-breaking’ caucus turnout with Utah’s new congressional district
Three of the seven Democratic candidates in the crowded field for the open seat showed up at the Salt Lake City elementary school to chat up prospective delegates and deliver a minute-and-a-half speech.
They were former U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams, who was Utah’s most recent Democrat in Congress, state Sen. Nate Blouin and attorney Michael Farrell.
Mar
18
2026