'The Montana Plan'

KTVQ Q2 | Former Montana leaders speak at Billings forum on limiting corporate election spending

Nearly 800 filled the Lincoln Auditorium on Saturday to hear about The Montana Plan

Virtual Only | TEI ‘The Montana Plan’ February 23 at 6PM

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Nature images courtesy Christopher Burke

Time for this one to come down!

Dark Money Film - Missoula Screening | Q & A March 1st

Free Dark Money Screening in Missoula on March 1st

Dark Money Film - Helena Screening | Q & A March 31st

Free Dark Money Screening in Helena on March 31st at The Myrna Loy

Montana! Tell us you want to SIGN! when our initiative is ready!

Montana! tell us you want to SIGN! when The Montana Plan initiative is ready!

TEI Files The Montana Plan as a Constitutional Initiative and Statutory Initiative

“Montanans deserve a fair shot at voting on whether corporations should be allowed to dominate our political process. Today’s filings provide a pathway.”

Dark Money Film- Livingston Screening | Q&A February 12

The film takes viewers to Montana frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide to follow an intrepid local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

Happy New Year! We Have a Very Busy 2026 Starting in January!

NYT | Nearly $900 Million in Secret Flowed into 2024 Presidential Campaigns

Despite the gargantuan sums, the donors to these nonprofit groups will almost certainly never be revealed

Robert Reich | How to get rid of Citizens United

Hopefully, Montanans will lead the way.

The Montana Plan Explainer

An updated notebookLM presentation of The Montana Plan

The Lever | The Montana Plan to Kill Citizens United

Transparent Election Initiative, Montana’s new proposal to purge dark money from the state, which could potentially rewrite national politics

Issue One | New polling illuminates how the Supreme Court got Citizens United wrong

New polling commissioned by Issue One and conducted this month by YouGov reveals that overwhelming majorities of Americans — and Montanans — broadly believe that large-scale political spending by corporations, dark money groups, and wealthy donors undermines democracy, creates the appearance of corruption, and reduces trust in government.

Daily Montanan | National poll shows support for Montana-based solution to Citizens United

Mangan stressed that although the issues and even solutions have varied, limiting the influence of money in politics is part of the state’s historical tradition, stretching back to 1912 when Montana voters demanded the “Corrupt Practices Act” which gave citizens more political power even at a time of Copper Kings and a notoriously weak first state constitution. “There’s a consistency there because it treats everyone the same,” Mangan said. “No gimmicks, no loopholes.”

The Corporate Power Reset that makes Citizens United Irrelevant

to strike down a state’s decision to not grant a power to corporations, courts would need to unmake a vast expanse of settled precedent establishing that corporations have only the powers bestowed by state law.

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance | Transparent Election Initiative

Corporations have only the powers that states give them—no more. States stopped being choosy about the powers they granted to their corporations in the mid-1800s. But every single state retained the authority to be as choosy as they like. Every single state retains the authority to decide to no longer grant its corporations the power to spend in politics.

TEI | Montana Constitutional Initiative with Annotations