Tired of being one of the very last states to vote in primary presidential elections, Montana is again debating whether it should go to the polls in early spring or even late winter.

Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen, the state’s top election official, says her office will use a federal database to step up efforts to check registered voters for U.S. citizenship.

Polls suggest 74 percent of voters in the state will back a ballot initiative to counter the effects of Citizens United.

Daoud is a veteran Libertarian candidate for federal office, who made headlines in 2024 when President Donald Trump asked him to withdraw from Montana’s U.S. Senate race to clear a victory path for Tim Sheehy, the Republican who prevailed. Daoud declined.

Three- and four-way elections tip toward candidates with comparatively liberal backing in Billings and Kalispell.

A proposed ballot initiative to keep Montana’s judicial elections nonpartisan is advancing after the state Supreme Court ruled that the attorney general overstepped by rewriting the measure.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen defended his edits to several proposed ballot initiatives on judicial elections, saying his office is obligated to ensur

A look at migration data for Montana suggests Gianforte might be onto something, though perhaps with a bit of an asterisk in the context of Montana.

Several of you responded to my “Sunday thought” yesterday by saying that the first step out of the mess we’re in is to get rid of the Supreme Court’s bonkers Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision of 2010,

A growing bipartisan effort in Montana aims to curb the effects of Citizens United by altering corporate charters rather than regulating political speech.