Issue 1

Planning Before the Crisis

The Elder‑Care Steps Most Families Overlook

By Shirley Wolfe

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Most Americans assume elder‑care planning is something to worry about “later.” But for many families, “later” arrives suddenly—after a fall, a stroke, a diagnosis, or a financial emergency. By then, options are limited, costs are higher, and families are left scrambling to make decisions under pressure.

Experts say the most effective elder‑care planning happens years before health declines or savings run out. Yet many of the most important steps are the ones people rarely hear about. Here are the practical measures families can take now to avoid confusion, conflict, and financial strain down the road.

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PROPERTY TAX SHAM

State’s ‘80% Tax Cut’ Claim Crumbles as New Law Creates Winners, Losers —
and Homes No One Can Sell

By Lisa Bennett

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Newly compiled data from Bill Stene, a sales agent with Polly Kovash Brokerage at Metro Realtors LLP  (www.metrorealtorsllp.com), shows increases ranging from several hundred dollars to more than 150 percent, depending on property type and classification. Stene warns that the new system is so uneven that some properties may become effectively unsellable.

The state’s “80% got a tax cut” message was based on a comparison between 2025 taxes under the new law and a hypothetical 2025 bill under the old system, not to what people actually paid the year before. Many homeowners who expected relief instead saw their taxes rise—just not as much as they would have without the change

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Raised in a Boxcar, Guided by the Creator

Charles Walking Child’s Inspiring Journey to the U.S. Senate

By Anna Marie White

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In a world drowning in political noise and empty promises, Charles Walking Child stands out like a beacon of quiet strength. Meet him once, and you’ll feel it—a calm wisdom, an unshakeable presence, like an old soul who’s weathered life’s fiercest storms without letting them define him. But to truly know Charles, you must step back into his beginnings: a humble boxcar on the rugged outskirts of Great Falls, Montana.

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Stop the $16.6 Billion Betrayal

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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As a lifelong resident of House District 4, I am writing to alert my neighbors to a fiscal crisis in Helena that is being masked by “conservative” rhetoric. While Representative Lyn Bennett claims to represent our values, her voting record tells a different story: she has become a key vote for the most bloated budget in Montana’s history.

To most of us, $16.6 billion is just a number. But let’s look at what that means for your family. According to the Montana Legislative Fiscal Division (LFD), the 2025 biennium budget reached a staggering $16.6 billion. This breaks down to approximately $14,561 for every man, woman, and child in the state over two years

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Taxation is Ruination — and a Warning for Montana

By Tracy Sharpe

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Taxation is supposed to be about revenue — not ruination. The overhaul of Montana’s tax system by the 69th Legislature threatens the foundation of our communities and could force Montanans to abandon their properties to the ultra-rich.

Though advertised as relief, these reforms create an unstable, unpredictable landscape: property taxes drop for select homeowners, but increase sharply for small businesses, landlords, and anyone excluded from narrow eligibility brackets. Through tax policy, the state government isn’t merely raising revenue to fund its obligations; it is picking winners and losers.

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The Arabella Tentacles Reaching Into Montana

How Out-of-State Dark Money Tied To Leftist Groups Built a Campaign Machine Inside Montana’s Republican Primaries

(Article 3 in a series about leftist dark money groups trying to capture Montana)

By Montana Sentinel Press

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The National Pipeline The Arabella Advisors network is the largest dark money infrastructure in the United States, with roughly $5 billion in total revenue between 2019 and 2022 flowing through four managed nonprofits: the Hopewell Fund, New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, and Windward Fund. Major institutional funders include the Berger Action Fund (Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, the largest identified donor), the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation ($27 million to Hopewell Fund in 2018 alone), the Open Society Foundations, and others. In November 2025, Arabella rebranded as Sunflower Services; its operations remain functionally unchanged.

Tax filings trace a specific pipeline from this network into Montana. The Hopewell Fund granted $18.4 million to Global Impact of Alexandria, Virginia (Form 990, Schedule I). Global Impact’s 501(c)(4) subsidiary, the Global Impact Social Welfare Fund (GISWF), then pushed money into Montana through two branches: $2 million to the Western Futures Fund (a Wyoming 501(c)(4) with no donor disclosure), and $500,000 to Way Back PAC (also Wyoming-based). Western Futures Fund also fed $150,000 to Way Back PAC, meaning both branches draw from the same upstream source. This pipeline has been active for at least two election cycles, with Western Futures Fund contributing $100,000 to Montana Values Action Fund as far back as 2022.

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Weaponized Immigration Methods Aimed at America

By Jenna Lee | The Daily Signal

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Rival nations are weaponizing immigration to America, according to an author who investigates foreign influence in the United States. Experts gathered at The Heritage Foundation Wednesday to discuss how this works. Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and author of “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon,” explained that Mexico uses mass immigration as an entrance for Mexicans to “reclaim” their territory and push their power in the U.S.

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The Glyphosate Deception

What Chemical Companies Never Told America or Its Farmers

By: Lisa Bennett

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In the weeks since President Trump signed the February 18, 2026, executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to ramp up domestic production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides, the Make America Healthy Again movement has been quietly fracturing. Farmers who once viewed the administration as a bulwark against overreach are now raising sharp questions. Moms battling chemicals in school lunches are calling the order “a love letter to glyphosate.” Regenerative cattlemen who escaped the chemical treadmill say the move doesn’t free them—it locks the gate behind them.

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