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By Tracy Sharpe

Read the complete article: Taxation is Ruination and a Warning for Montana

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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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

Read the complete article: The Arabella Tentacles Reaching Into Montana

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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By Jenna Lee | The Daily Signal

Read the complete article: Weaponized Immigration Methods Aimed at America

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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What Chemical Companies Never Told America or Its Farmers

By: Lisa Bennett

Read the complete article: The Glyphosate Deception

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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By Matt Erickson

Read the complete article: The Forgotten Limits of Federal Power

Our divinely-inspired (and inspiring) Declaration of Independence boldly proclaims America’s founding principles to be self-evident truths—truths so fundamental, they don’t require further support. The greatest of these undeniable truths is that all men are created (equal) and accordingly endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights (among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness).

The practical application of our God-given rights in everyday life is but a minor step down in importance, thus it’s proper that the Declaration next details that men instituted American government for the express purpose of securing our rights, before informing us that legitimate governing authority is derived from the consent of the governed.

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The Biggest Energy Backroom Deal in Modern Montana History

By Lisa Bennett

Read the complete Article:  The Colstrip Power Heist

A Transfer That Changed Everything—Quietly

In late 2025, NorthWestern Energy executed a transaction that carries sweeping implications for Montana’s energy future. The company arranged for Puget Sound Energy’s 370‑megawatt share of Colstrip Units 3 and 4 to be transferred not into the regulated utility that serves Montana families, but into a newly created, unregulated affiliate: Colstrip 370Pu LLC

In a November 7 letter to the Montana Public Service Commission, NorthWestern acknowledged that assigning the acquisition contract to the unregulated subsidiary “ensures local operational control… while shielding customers from costs.” But the documents show something far more consequential: Montana ratepayers were cut out of access to 370 megawatts of power that NorthWestern acquired for free — and the company positioned that energy for sale to a single large customer, likely a data center.

Read the complete Article:  The Colstrip Power Heist