The Republican Party’s strategy is to prevent as many people as possible from voting. Republicans are threatened by large voter turnout. Voter suppression has been a scheme for Republicans since the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Republicans on the Supreme Court struck down the core of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, freeing states to […]

Attempts to undermine ESA put our future at risk I recently met virtually with staff members from the offices of Sen. Steve Daines and Sen. Jon Tester to discuss concerns over recent proposals from the Trump administration to weaken the Endangered Species Act. As we face this global pandemic, it may seem like the least […]

Recently I’ve started to see Steve Daines signs popping up again with the slogan “More Jobs, Less Government.” Recycling this meaningless slogan from his last campaign shows how astonishingly out of touch Daines is with the crisis now facing Montana families. More jobs? Daines and his administration have now presided over the greatest loss of […]

As an energy exporting state, Montana should not have high utility bills, but it does. The Public Service Commission has failed to regulate utilities for the benefit of the people of the state. Tom Woods knows and understands this. That is why he is running for a seat on the Public Service Commission. Tom supports […]

We are living in an historic time. Our nation is in tumult with a deadly viral pandemic, on the verge of an economic collapse, dealing with a presidential administration that is shockingly unhinged in the eyes of many, and suffering from deadly viral racism. As black, brown and indigenous folks here at The Montana Racial […]

“I am thanking the president for his leadership.” That was the response of Montana Sen. Steve Daines to the action of President Donald Trump ordering federal troops to use force to push back peaceful demonstrators so he could stroll, uninvited, to the grounds of St. John’s Church. Trump gave no unifying speech, answered no questions. […]

We must put country before incompetent president “Under the leadership of Donald Trump, our country is weaker and sicker and poorer.” Those are the words from prominent Republicans, former leaders, Republicans who care about America and Americans. We have been watching our country explode with rage and we have a president who has sent our […]

The continued killings of black people by white people fill me with sadness and angst. Our democratic institutions are failing us. Many elected leaders and even some courts and police departments are turning a blind eye to each citizen’s constitutional right to equal treatment under the law. I search for hope in these troubling times. […]

Patriotism is defined as love of and loyalty to one’s country. Sometimes it is pitted against globalism, which transcends boundaries. But this is a false dichotomy. Trump’s opposition to patriotism is jingoism, a boastful, so-called superiority and an aggressive, warlike foreign policy. But is Trump truly patriotic? Or is he just a jingoist and his […]