Official Announcement: Gabriel Green for Governor of Wyoming in 2026

We are pleased to announce our candidate for the 2026 Wyoming Gubernatorial Race!

Meet Gabriel Green, founder of the DINO WYO movement, and 2026 candidate for the Democratic Nomination for Wyoming Governor.

Gabriel and the unofficial DINO Mascot, Nobu

Gabriel's Vision for Wyoming

Unlike the establishment candidates who are committed to preserving the power of those benefiting from our broken system, Gabriel is excited to offer something different!

Gabriel's vigor and passion make him well suited to lead Wyoming into the future.

A future where we can preserve the traditions that make this state so spectacular, while building an economy of opportunities that our young folks can get excited about!

Despite looming threats like AI and data centers, a crumbling economy, the erosion of our Republic's institutions, and changing weather patterns, Gabriel is optimistic that Wyoming can lead the way into the brightest age of American politics and even global history.

Together, we can make Wyoming a shining city on the hill for everyone else to envy!

We are going to accomplish this by focusing on the economy, and making sure that hard work is enough to earn a comfortable living, while eschewing the social issues and government interference in our personal lives that both parties have used to divide us.

Our vision is simple: when people can work hard, earn a comfortable living, and otherwise be left alone by the government, Wyoming will be great.

A Little About Gabriel

Gabriel Green was born in Casper on the 4th of July, 1996. He was raised there most of his life, though he now lives in Sheridan where he enjoys being out of the wind.

He will be the youngest governor in Wyoming history having just reached the constitutionally required age of 30 before the August primaries.

Education and Upbringing

Gabriel, the eldest of three brothers, was raised in a Christian family by two loving and hard working parents. They ensured that he found spiritual success in addition to academics.

Whether through Sunday School, a church deacon who served as his private tutor, or the many church camps Gabriel attended, he was always steeped in the principles of Christ. That's why today, he is trusted by many of his coworkers and their family/friends to lead a bible study every Sunday night.

In high school, Gabriel was the 2014 Wyoming State Champion in Lincoln-Douglas Debate, representing Kelly Walsh High School, and is still the highest placing individual debater at the national tournament in state history.

Gabriel graduated in 2014 from Kelly Walsh, and earned the prestigious Daniels Scholarship which empowered him to study Political Science in Washington, DC at American University.

While in DC, he learned a lot about what has corrupted our republic, and what threats Wyoming has to watch out for from Washington insiders of both the Red and Blue varieties.

Gabriel not only got to witness the 2016 election from one of the deepest blue districts in the whole country, but he also got to witness the 2024 election from Arizona. Between seeing elections in the deepest red (Wyoming), deepest blue (DC), and most divided swing state (Arizona), Gabriel has a unique perspective on how to fix the corruption that is rotting our republic, tainting our elections, and dividing our people.

A Unique Perspective from Working in the States

While in college in DC, Gabriel earned an internship with the State Policy Network (SPN), a conservative nonprofit dedicated to defending the states from federal overreach and educating state policymakers about their responsibilities to properly steward their resources.

Founded at the behest of Ronald Reagan, SPN was dedicated to the belief that "the states formed the federal government, not the other way around."

Gabriel eventually turned that internship into an over 5-year career working around state politics and policy. This gives him a unique perspective that few can rival.

Typical anti-establishment candidates, unfortunately, often have no clue how government works. Meanwhile, those who know how it works have been corrupted by its evils.

Gabriel meanwhile knows EXACTLY how to improve Wyoming's government, defend our autonomy from federal overreach, reign in government spending, fix the economy, and more. All without being another establishment shill.

By traveling the whole country, and working around but not inside of state politics, Gabriel has seen everything from how propagandists and partisans try to influence policy, to how states actually can and do solve problems for their constituents.

Never has there been an anti-establishment candidate this capable of governing effectively.

Shaping the Gabriel Green Administration

Additionally, Gabriel gained a robust network of the best and brightest minds (read: nerds) around the whole country, who he will call on to populate his administration with fiscally conservative and responsible administrators who can actually deliver on the promise of reducing the scope and expense of our massively bloated government.

While many in the nonprofit space are unfortunately nothing more than partisan mercenaries saying whatever their donors want, there are plenty of great patriots out there who just want to serve their country and their communities.

Those patriots are the people he's going to hire.

Gabriel's administration will be filled with principled professionals. Public servants, whose defining characteristic is competence in their roles, not loyalty to a party or their donors.

He will ensure that the team he leads remembers that they represent the people of Wyoming, not some rich backers' special interests. And he is confident in his ability to do this because he has the ability to draw on the best people from all over the entire country.

A State Young Folks Want To Stay In

Beyond a career that makes him uniquely suited to effective governance based on the DINO principles of Hard Work, Fiscal Responsibility, and Personal Freedom, Gabriel has lived life full of blessings that expand his perspective for ensuring Wyoming stays special.

His life spent around hard working folks struggling to provide the best for their families inspires him to make the world better for those who put the most into it.

His forced pivot from nonprofit consulting to working in food service – due to political backlash for criticizing the democrats – has only further expanded his appreciation for the plurality of people that make this state so amazing.

By getting to serve at the Pony Bar and Grill, he's not only learned more about the workers in the food service, but the many folks around Wyoming who use places like the Pony to unwind from their stressful jobs. It's those folks he's running to help.

Other highlights of his life include living on Casper Mountain for three months after college painting cabins (literally the peak of existence), and getting paid to take a kid snowboarding (basically a professional). Despite never having much in the way of money, he's experienced more in 30 years than most folks do their whole life. And he's just getting started.

All told, Gabriel knows exactly what it takes to both preserve our greatest traditions and build a state that our young folks are proud to call home.

How We're Going to Win

This brings us to perhaps the biggest question on peoples' minds. How on earth is a "Democrat" going to win a statewide election in Wyoming?

Well, it probably helps that Gabriel's whole schtick is being a Democrat IN NAME ONLY.

As mentioned above, Gabriel is unique as an anti-establishment candidate becuase he knows how the system works but isn't corrupted by it. He's being very strategic.

Why not be Independent or Third Party?

Well, this is the first problem in how our system is set up. Right now, you basically need the governments' permission to change the government...bad incentives, right there.

If someone wants to run as a Republican or Democrat, there are already existing rules and structures for doing so. You basically just have to say, "I'm a Republican," or "I'm a Democrat" and you can get on a ballot. That's why Wyoming has so many RINOs...

But, if you want to get on the ballot in the first place as an Independent or Third Party, you have to gather signatures, get those signatures approved, and then get the governments' permission to be on people's ballots. Meanwhile, the ENTIRE time you're trying to get signatures there are a ton of extra rules about raising money, spending money, designing materials like pamphlets and handouts, and more.

Basically, we've made it impossible for people who aren't privately wealthy to run for office as anything other than a Red or Blue.

Republican Primary is a Trap, Democrat Primary is a Joke...

Gabriel isn't Red or Blue, he's Gabriel GREEN.

But, because he's from a working background and doesn't have a ton of money, he has to choose which party to pretend to be a part of. He has to be a RINO or a DINO. And, since he wants to win and actually help Wyoming improve, the choice must be DINO.

See, there are going to be tons of folks running in the Republican Primary, ranging from real Wyoming Traditionalists, to Radical Big Government Reds, to RINOs who would be Democrats and full-blown liberals in every other state.

It's confusing to voters, and frankly unfair to them too.

How are you supposed to know who to trust if the party is full of a million types of candidates, pretending to be something they're not?

Gabriel meanwhile owns this reality. While it's unfortunate to have to "pretend" to be a Democrat at all, it should be obvious from things like Democrats getting him fired for criticizing them that he isn't part of their ilk.

He's using their party, not joining it.

And, while the Republican Primary is likely to cost well over a million dollars, the Jackson-controlled Democrats will just pick someone at the last minute and then trust their dwindling pool of voters to tow their party line.

Fortunately, that dwindling pool and growing dissatisfaction in the Blue ranks means it's going to be easy to get enough normal people (read: not from Jackson) to vote for something different for Wyoming, and support Gabriel Green in the Democrat Primary.

What does the winning coalition look like?

Not to be cheesy, but the winning coalition looks like YOU!

Whether you're a dissatisfied Republican, a first time voter, or even one of the many Wyoming Democrats who sees that your party is aiding the rise of fascism with its incompetence, this is YOUR opportunity.

This campaign is meant to be of the people, for the people, and by the people.

There will be lots of differences between individuals who choose to vote for Gabriel Green, but the thing we'll all have in common is a desire for something different.

Whether voting in the Democrat Primary, or eventually voting for Gabriel in the General Election over whoever buys the Republican Primary, we'll all be in this together.

And together, we will fix the economy, get the government out of our personal lives, and restore the Republic that so many of us love.

What happens when we win?

First and foremost, your life starts to improve. Obviously it improves materially as the economy shifts from benefitting billionaires to benefiting those who work for a living.

But also at a more personal level, as you and your neighbors are reminded of how much you have in common, and as government gets out of the way of your personal life.

While Gabriel is quick to criticize the members of the establishment that have ruined our state and country, the primary focus is on unifying the people who have been abandoned by that very establishment.

By running a campaign focused on unifying the people, and lifting up the vast majority of us who work for a living, this will be an opportunity to heal the wounds that our recent politicians have allowed to fester.

Wyoming, Best Darn State in the Union

Wyoming meanwhile will become a thriving economy once again, where it's easy to envision how you'd raise your family as you see fit.

People will be able to vacation in state because they'll have surplus money, so towns like Thermopolis and Cody will thrive once again.

Traditional industries like Agriculture and Resource Extraction (mining, drilling, etc.) will provide not only money, but pride in the work you do.

We will be that shining city on the hill that other states, and even other countries, look to with envy.

Rather than the pyramid scheme economy of the billionaires, we'll have a thriving economy based on stewarding our resources, and ensuring that jobs last generations, not just years.

Restoring the Republic

Nationally, we can't promise big things immediately. But, frankly, we think the reverberations of Gabriel Green's win will be huge.

Just think about what it says to the establishment of both parties when he wins...

To the Radical Right, it shows them that we're not going to keep voting Red just becasue we're scared of Blue. They cannot continue to erode the institutions that made this country great, expand the scope and size of the government, and increase the ability of billionaires to grift off the hard work of the people. At least not without consequences.

This is the deepest Red state in the country, and the Red Partisans know it. That's why they've begun using Wyoming as the testing ground for their most radical ideas.

We're not people to the Republican Establishment; we're guinnea pigs.

Meanwhile, the Dysfunctional Democrats would (hopefully) wake up and realize just how much they suck.

By offering the people nothing but the status quo, and a different brand of billionaire donors' special interests, the people have been forced to vote for the Reds for too long.

The Democrat establishment has abandoned voters in droves who they deem "deplorable" and genuinely seems to think of Wyoming as a place not worth trying to win.

But when we win a statewide election, despite the despicable "D" next to Gabriel's name, we'll prove to them that they were the problem, not the hard working people of Wyoming.

Then, hopefully, their party will stop offering craziness, and start offering competence.

Even if both parties fail to learn a lesson though, Wyoming will be better off.