'The Montana Plan'

The Nation How The Montana Plan Could Make Citizens United Irrelevant

“We can make money not the focus of these races anymore, and put the focus where it should be, the citizen, the voter, regardless of party.”

Dark Money Screening in Great Falls on May 12th

Special guests include Senator Jon Tester and journalists Mike Dennison and Peter Johnson

Pete Buttigieg Endorses The Montana Plan, Announces Butte Town Hall

I'm glad to do my part to support these efforts and believe The Montana Plan could be a blueprint for how to put citizen voices, not special interests, at the center of our politics

Main Street Business Support The Montana Plan

As a main street business for over 50 years, I simply reject the notion that corporations with unlimited budgets should be able to buy elections of people who will be in the pocket of those donors

BREAKING! Montana Supreme Court Finds TEI’s Constitutional Initiative Language Legally Sufficient

Orlando Sentinel: Corporations Spend Big in Florida Politics

The state of Montana is betting it can, with an oddly simple, yet startlingly robust solution.

The Montana Plan at The Emerson and Dark Money May 6th

Come visit, learn about The Montana Plan and see a special screening of Dark Money at 6PM

Economic Architecture Podcast | Can Citizens Remove Corporate Money from Democratic Elections

we explore the political implications of Citizens United—the landmark 2010 Supreme Court decision that led to an unprecedented rise in corporate financing of political campaigns

Keep Calm and Sign the Petition

Keep Calm and Sign the Petition by Montana Cartoonist JC Moore

Montana Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Effort to Block Initiative I-194

We’re grateful for the Montana Supreme Court’s swift and unanimous decision, which reaffirms the right of Montanans to participate in the initiative process and have their voices heard.

I Love The Fact

Mark Alber, Miller Creek Reforestation, Montana fiercely independent businessman.

Open Letter: Main Street for Montana

At its core, The Montana Plan is about leveling the playing field for small businesses

TEI Volunteer Signature Gathering Training

We will be providing signature gathering training for our ballot initiative to end corporate and dark money, The Montana Plan, as we gear up for signature gathering! Please email volunteer@transparentelection.org to volunteer!

The Montana Plan - I Want to Sign!

Visit sign.mttei.org and let us know you want to Sign!

The Montana Plan Explainer

An updated notebookLM presentation of The Montana Plan

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.