Citizens United

NYT | Millions of Dollars in Secret Spending Could Upend the 2026 Midterms
Secrecy has become so widespread it is essentially systematized

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

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.”
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

Covington | MegaPACS the Next Frontier of SuperPACS
Not only are larger corporations making sizeable contributions to super PACs, but corporations are now banding together to support even larger super PACs focused on the interests of a specific industry

Move to Amend Statement of Support of The Montana Plan
The Initiative represents an important democratic step forward, both culturally and legally

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.

Undoing Citizens United in Montana
Through Montana’s constitutional initiative process, The Montana Plan would limit corporate and dark money spending by granting corporations only those powers the people of Montana have agreed, in existing state law, are necessary or convenient to carry out their lawful business or charitable purposes.

