Montanans Want Corporate $$$ Out Of Our Elections!
Montanans hate what corporate money has done to our political process. It’s time to fight back!
A ballot initiative, The Montana Plan – Transparent Election Initiative, will shut down Citizens United and corporate money in our elections. If you are unfamiliar with the Transparent Election Initiative and how it will stop corporate influence in Montana’s elections, please visit transparentelections.org.
The Transparent Election Initiative has finally been approved as a statutory initiative (I-194) after Attorney General Knudsen fought to keep it off the November, 2026 ballot as a constitutional initiative. The signature gathering phase has begun!
“For citizen initiatives, proposals to enact or revise a law, a successful petition requires at least 5% of registered voters in the state at large – or 30,121 signatures. That number must include signatures from at least 5% of the electorate in 34 different legislative House districts.” https://montanafreepress.org/2026/03/11/its-signature-gathering-season-how-does-the-process-work/
Ballot initiative petitions must be submitted before June 19th. The bottom line is there will be a very short window for collecting signatures before the Secretary of State’s deadline to put the Initiative on the November ballot.
How You Can Help
- Verify your voter registration status and House District at MyVoterPage.
- Volunteer to collect signatures. You will need to complete signature gathering training. Please check https://bozemanresists.com/#calendar for in-person and virtual trainings in March and April. The first signature gathering in Bozeman will be at the No Kings 3 protest, March 28th.
- Indicate your intent to sign the petition supporting the Initiative and/or volunteer to gather signatures https://sign.mttei.org/petition or use the QR code link shown here.
- Check out signing events in your area – https://sign.mttei.org/events
- Share this information with your family and friends!
Check out https://transparentelection.org/states and How to get rid of “Citizens United” by Robert Reich.
Nationally, organizers are working on a Constitutional (federal!) amendment to “restore reasonable limits on money in our campaigns and elections.” To learn more about the For Our Freedom Amendment, please watch Heather Cox Richardson’s interview with Amendment organizer and author of “Corporations Are Not People,” Jeff Clements. The details of the For Our Freedom Amendment are at https://americanpromise.net/our-plan/.
Latest News for the Transparent Election Initiative
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Auntie J's Reading List
Highly recommended reading for non-melanated folx, ages teen through senior citizen.
Kudos to those who have read some of these books already. Now, read the rest!
- HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST, by Ibram X. Kendi
- BIASED, Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD
- HOW TO RAISE AN ANTIRACIST, by Ibram X. Kendi
- STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING, by Ibram X. Kendi
- THE NEW JIM CROW, by Michelle Alexander
- THE 1619 PROJECT, By Nikole Hannah-Jones
- A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, by Howard Zinn
- AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- AN AFRICAN AMERICAN and LATINX HISTORY of the UNITED STATES, by Paul Ortiz
- WHITE WOMEN, by Regina Jackson, Saira Rao (good for ALL genders)
- THE SUM OF US, by Heather McGhee
- HOW THE WORD IS PASSED, A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America; by Clint Smith (particularly good as an audiobook)
- THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS, by Isabel Wilkerson
- BLACK AF HISTORY, by Michael Harriot
- WILD GIRLS, How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation, by Tiya Miles
- LYNCHING IN AMERICA; Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, by The Equal Justice Initiative
- THREE OR MORE IS A RIOT, by Jelani Cobb
- WE REFUSE, A Forceful History of Black Resistance, by Kellie Carter Jackson