'The Montana Plan'

NYT | Millions of Dollars in Secret Spending Could Upend the 2026 Midterms

Secrecy has become so widespread it is essentially systematized

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Public Citizen | Corporate Money Surges to $650 Million in 2026 Midterms

Months before Election Day, corporations have already collectively spent $646 million to influence federal midterm elections – a 40% increase over the $461 million corporations spent over the entire 2024 election cycle

JC Moore | Beware of The Montana Plan Boogeyman

Montana Cartoonist JC Moore’s latest I-194 The Montana Plan editorial cartoon - There goes the Montana Chamber trying to scare small businesses again!

David Oclander | Montanans Have Seen This Story Before

Our state has a tradition of independence, practicality, and neighborliness. We value people who can disagree without becoming enemies. We expect leaders to solve problems rather than simply score political points

Issue One | Top super PACS raise Millions from Secret Donors

Anti-corruption guardrails don’t work when voters are kept in the dark about who’s bankrolling political ads.

Jeff Mangan | They are Scared of You, Montana

The Montana Plan is not complicated. Corporations cannot spend money to support or oppose candidates or ballot issues. Only individuals can. That's the whole measure. If you believe elections should be decided by people and not by artificial persons and billionaires hiding their identities, then I-194 is your initiative.

The Montana Chamber has the Vapors

The Montana Plan I-194 Set to Qualify for November Ballot After All-Volunteer Effort Collects Nearly 50,000 Signatures Across Montana

The Montana Plan is about a simple principle: real people should govern, not artificial persons created on paper. A vote for The Montana Plan (I-194) is a vote to put Montanans back in charge of Montana elections

A Response to the Montana Chamber: The Montana Plan Doesn't Silence Anyone

The Montana Plan doesn't quiet a single Montanan. Every business owner, every employee, every rancher and shopkeeper …

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.

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.