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The Montana Plan, a breakthrough legal strategy, will stop corporate and dark money cold. It's how Montanans will beat Citizens United and take back our politics.
Montana's laws include three powerful provisions that give us a clear path toward keeping corporations out of our politics: power to alter or revoke, universal application, and out-of-state corporation limits. Together, these provisions mean Montana has full authority to no longer grant corporations the power to spend in our politics—across the board, and for good. We'll need your help. The Transparent Election Initiative is spearheading a ballot initiative that gives Montana voters the ability to implement The Montana Plan. Volunteer, engage, and sign the petition when ready!
The Montana Supreme Court will not — at least in the immediate future — take up another round of constitutional climate litigation filed by 13 young Montanans who successfully sued the state over its energy-permitting practices.
In a short order issued Dec. 23, a five-justice majority wrote that Rikki Held and her co-plaintiffs failed to meet the “emergency” threshold necessary to bypass a lower court with the new litigation. That means it could be years before Montanans have clarity on the legality of three bills the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature passed earlier this year. Those bills revise the environmental review process and outline how state agencies should analyze and disclose greenhouse gas emissions for large projects that come under their permitting purview.
As 2025 closes out, Montana Free Press reporters are reflecting on the work they’ve done over the course of the year — and what they expect to be writing about heading into 2026.
Going into the 2025 Legislature, many health policy advocates told me they were preparing for a big fight over whether lawmakers would renew funding for the state’s expanded Medicaid program. That health care program — jointly funded by the state and federal governments — uses taxpayer funds to cover a range of health services for about 75,000 low-income Montanans between the ages of 18 and 65. As it turned out, the bill passed by a wide margin, powered along by a bipartisan bloc. The legislation, House Bill 245, also benefited from the support of Gov. Greg Gianforte and sponsorship from Rep. Ed Buttrey, a Great Falls Republican allied with major health care industry groups.
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