Ballot Issue

The State of Montana Podcast | Jeff Mangan
I don’t ever beg people to share an episode from my podcast, but if this initiative gets on the ballot, Montana will be the first state to find a way to ban corporate financing from political campaigns - Russell Rowland

MTFP | Bipartisan group push plan to block corporate dark money in Montana politics
Supporters present The Montana Plan as a clever workaround to Citizens United, the watershed U.S. Supreme Court decision from 2010 that allowed for unlimited corporate spending in elections

TEI Files Appeal of MT AG Legal Sufficiency Determination with Montana Supreme Court
On November 3, 2025, the Transparent Election Initiative filed our appeal of the Montana AG’s legal sufficiency decision with the Montana Supreme Court.

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.

