“Montanans deserve a fair shot at voting on whether corporations should be allowed to dominate our political process. Today’s filings provide a pathway.”
Despite the gargantuan sums, the donors to these nonprofit groups will almost certainly never be revealed
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
Simple & Beautiful...outside the box thinking
We broke it all down with Mangan, including the legal hurdles still facing the initiative, what opponents are saying, and how to get an effort like this started in other states
Hopefully, Montanans will lead the way.
A very conservative place like Montana is trying to address this through attention to what a corporation can and can't do, because that's actually decided at the state level
That plan is the basis of the Transparent Election Initiative’s constitutional amendment as a ballot measure to be put before Montana voters in 2026. The measure asks voters whether or not their state should redefine corporate charters to disallow spending in elections.
Transparent Election Initiative, Montana’s new proposal to purge dark money from the state, which could potentially rewrite national politics
