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A Trump-aligned dark money group just dropped another $2.175 million to help repeal Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law—bringing its total to nearly $3.3 million and making it the sole funder of the campaign.
Utahns for Representative Government (UFRG), a political issue committee led by Utah Republican Party Chair Rob Axson, is circulating petitions to put a full repeal of Proposition 4—the anti-gerrymandering measure voters approved in 2018—on the ballot.
In late October, Securing American Greatness donated $1,087,500 to UFRG for the petition drive. Last week, it added $2,175,000 more.
So far, Securing American Greatness has donated just shy of $3.3 million to the effort. They are UFRG’s only donor.
Securing American Greatness is a 501(c)(4) “dark money” group. It can raise unlimited funds without disclosing donors. The only known corporate donor so far is technology company Qualcomm, which corporate filings show gave $1 million sometime between September 2024 and March 2025.
Utah isn’t the only redistricting battleground drawing the group’s money. Earlier this year, it sent $1 million to a Missouri group working to stop a petition drive targeting a new congressional map that could give Republicans an extra seat.
The group formed during the 2024 presidential campaign and spent more than $60 million to boost Trump. It later dropped nearly $8 million on ads pressuring congressional Republicans to back his economic agenda, and it was behind a video promoting Trump’s push to annex Greenland.
UFRG has until Feb. 15 to collect just over 140,000 signatures from registered voters statewide, plus signatures from 8% of registered voters in 26 of Utah’s 29 state Senate districts.
