Resource

•Apr 15, 2026

MSU Public Things: Money, Transparent Elections & the Montana Experience

The MSU College of Letters and Sciences Public Things: Conditions for a Sustainable Democracy initiative brings you a moderated discussion about the Montana experience with elections, campaign finance, and democracy.

Mar 24, 2026

Dark Money Data & Resource Sources

there is a rich ecosystem of news and research tracking [dark money, corporate spending] that activity

TEI Volunteer Signature Gathering Training

Events

•Mar 21, 2026

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!

Montana

•Jan 17, 2026

Montana! Tell us you want to SIGN! when our initiative is ready!

Montana! tell us you want to SIGN! when The Montana Plan initiative is ready!

Social Media Images

•Nov 5, 2025

Following the Money 2024

Another notebookLM media presentation on money in our 2024 elections

Social Media Images Montana

•Nov 5, 2025

The Montana Plan Explainer

An updated notebookLM presentation of The Montana Plan

TEI Files Appeal of MT AG Legal Sufficiency Determination with Montana Supreme Court

Ballot Issue

•Nov 3, 2025

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

Ballot Issue

•Oct 29, 2025

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.

Citizens United

•Sep 15, 2025

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.

Aug 29, 2025

PEW Research | 72% Money in Politics Biggest Issue

Roughly seven-in-ten Americans say “the role of money in politics” is a very big problem in the country today – the highest share of any of the 24 items asked about on the survey.