Montana's fight to undo Citizens United and take corporate & dark money out of politics is gaining steam. The Transparent Election Initiative isn't in the Giving Tuesday mix--they're a (c)(4). TEI boss Jeff Mangan's too much of a gentleman to ask today, but I'm not. His work matters more than ever.

Transparent Election Initiative (The Montana Plan)

I support Montana’s Transparent Election Initiative ! We should have it on every state ballot! Disable Citizens United! transparentelection.org

You may know that in Montana local organizers have drafted and submitted a constitutional initiative for voters to consider in 2026. It would decline to grant to all corporations the power to spend in elections. Called the Transparent Election Initiative. resist.bot/petitions/PV...

Jeff joined Virginia's Foggy Bottom Line podcast to discuss The Montana Plan! Appreciate the invite! Give them a listen and subscribe! disruptdarkmoney.feather.blog/foggy-botto...

What is Dark Money? @OpenSecretsDC #CampaignFinance #DarkMoney #Resource #TEI www.opensecrets.org/dark-money

It's not regulation, it's redefinition - join us in taking political spending off the board at TheMontanaPlan.com #TEI youtu.be/18QxU7m5NxE

The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map

Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

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imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail

Here’s every Democratic ad for the midterms. 👇

So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.

This

This was never about targeting violent criminals. This was always a wind up to the full attack on Black, Brown and Muslim immigrants we’ve seen burst wide open this week. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

it is insanely dishonest to characterize the reaction to the most corrupt pardons in american history as pro-police and pro-prison. fuck off

While Mike Johnson is running around trying to act like he’s not the most incompetent Speaker in US history, we’re pushing hard to extend the ACA tax credits for millions of Americans. We’re almost there, and you can help!

They just don't seem to do numbers or facts very well...

Morning.

This SCOTUS is an indelible stain on every state and federal judge who takes their oath to uphold the constitution seriously.

This is what Working the refs looks like

Artist did good work! Great message. [email protected]

Since the regime still hasn’t provided any legal justification for these bombings, we must urge our elected officials to call for a full investigation and immediate oversight hearings. Call your senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal... And call your representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social

Well not surprising the ACIP meeting isn't off to a great start. Cynthia Nevison (a climate researcher) demonstrating ACIP's new strategy to use CDC data, wildly misinterpret it on purpose, and have no true CDC expert to actually explain/clarify/correct.

The CDC’s vaccine panel is meeting. RFK Jr. is on a mission to make measles great again.

A speaker from the CDC immunization safety office is correcting a number of false statements made by the radical anti-vaccine presenters. He highlights the that certain studies were excluded by the CDC review for food reason.

1️⃣RFKJ appointees to CDC are now calling themselves “CDC experts” and saying their information is reliable because it’s “CDC data”. Ironic because these are the same people saying that CDC can’t be trusted. These "experts" are infiltrating CDC data systems and misinterpreting it to meet their agenda

Thousands of staff are gone. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

Meet the new Deputy Chief of Staff at the CDC.

Top Senate health leader calls CDC vaccine panel ‘totally discredited’ www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/c... via @statnews.com #CDC #ACIP #vaccines #health #MedSky

Release the Epstein files. Lock up war criminals.

"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst." Everything this administration tells us is a lie.

I fully agree. (He's being sued by several medical societies). He already has blood on his hands from the national and worldwide dissemination of vaccine disinformation. I'd like to see him tried for negligent manslaughter.

YES!!!! The weakling rollover character of the Dem party is why we are in this mess. Out with the studious do-nothings and in with tough get it done fighters.

We asked Indivisibles around the country what they want to see from Democrats in 2026: Nominate real fighters, secure stronger leadership, and demonstrate that the Democratic majorities of 2027 will not be held back by the 2025 status quo.

Trump is fascist and corrupt. His regime is fascist and corrupt. His supreme court is fascist and corrupt. Even his family is fascist and corrupt. Will the US population continue to just sit back and let a fascist and corrupt despot and his regime control and demean their country and their lives?

Karma should be kicking in their front doors!

Slow soft coup by corrupt lying ideologues

This country will look like the East Wing by the end of this administration.

Christofascists ALL

They are totally in Trump's pockets. It's a disgrace

Term limits. We need make sure that neither party can stack an extreme and biased court that can remain for decades. 18 year terms means to SCOTUS appointments per presidential term, and no terrible court can remain long term.

The experts were credulous fools. Anyone not blowing smoke up their own asses could see both his project -- entrenching minority rule -- and his tactic of ceding just enough ground to the left on non-strategic matters to preserve a facade of neutrality. How shameful of the legal press to fall for it

I read "Fever In the Heartland" a few years ago. It was shocking how fast (several years) the political machinery was essentially overtaken by the Klan. Watching the Supreme Court 100 years later appear to act as corruptly on behalf of power and white supremacy feels like a distant echo.