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The Eternal Saints Endorses Phil Lyman For Congress
If you have followed The Eternal Saints for any length of time, you know Phil Lyman is one of the reasons I started covering politics in the first place.
I was all in on his 2024 gubernatorial campaign. Through the convention. Through the primary. Through the write-in campaign. Through the controversy and unresolved questions that followed.
I still am.
So when Phil announced his run for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District, this endorsement was not a hard decision.
The first reason is simple.
Phil Lyman cannot be bought.
His former running mate, Natalie Clawson, recently described an early moment in their campaign when someone came forward with a substantial offer that would have helped them. It came with strings attached.
Phil walked away.
That tells you something. In a political world where too many people have a price, Phil has already shown where his line is.
His platform reflects that independence.
He is running on real spending cuts, government transparency, immigration enforcement, local control, land and water rights, and resistance to federal overreach.
Those are campaign issues for some people.
For Phil, they are the fights he has already been in.
As a state legislator, he created and led the Yellowcake Caucus for six years to defend rural Utah’s right to control its own resources. He has spent years standing with ranchers, producers, families, and communities who are too often treated as obstacles by federal agencies and political insiders.
Natalie also spoke about the Phil Lyman people do not always see.
Driving through the night from the Wasatch Front back to Blanding so he could teach his church class on Sunday.
Spending hours at the bedside of a neighbor dying of cancer.
Showing up for people in courtrooms, helping them find representation, and standing beside them when power came down hard.
Those stories did not come from Phil.
They came from the people he helped.
That kind of character is hard to fake in a small community where everyone knows you.
Phil’s political history speaks for itself.
At the 2024 Republican state convention, he defeated incumbent Governor Spencer Cox among delegates. After losing the primary, he launched a write-in campaign that drew more than 200,000 votes, one of the strongest efforts of its kind in Utah history.
He did not quit.
His voters did not abandon him.
The 3rd Congressional District covers much of eastern and southern Utah, including rural communities and working families who feel Washington stopped listening a long time ago.
Phil grew up here. His family has lived here for generations. He and Jody raised their five children here, built their business here, and now have 20 grandchildren growing up in these same communities.
He is not borrowing Utah values for a campaign cycle.
He lives them.
I am not naive about Washington. Good people go there and get swallowed by the machine all the time.
But Phil has already shown he can stand outside the managed consensus when conscience, transparency, and Utah’s people require it.
That is rare.
It is needed.
The Eternal Saints endorses Phil Lyman for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District.