{
  "id": 16400807,
  "title": "Montana's plan to curb election spending",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/montanas-plan-to-curb-election-spending-16400807",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-25T00:52:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/20261025/montanas-plan-to-curb-election-spending"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Montana's Senator longed to curb excessive election spending, frustrated by the relentless influx of corporate money that muddled the political landscape. The U.S. Senate could not or would not address the issue stemming from the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling, which permitted unlimited independent election spending by corporations and unions under the guise of free speech rights. But a quiet revolution is brewing at the state level that could finally expunge corporate influence from politics.\n\nMontana is poised to spearhead this movement come fall, with voters poised to vote on the \"Montana Plan,\" a groundbreaking ballot initiative that seeks to redefine corporate powers within the state. This innovative approach is grounded in a straightforward principle: the state has always wielded the authority to determine a corporation's powers, and it retains the ability to modify them. If the ballot measure secures victory, the act of spending money in Montana's elections would no longer be among the powers explicitly granted to corporations.",
  "summary": "One of the greatest frustrations I had during my 18 years representing the great state of Montana in the U.S. Senate was watching, in real time, the ever-increasing flood of corporate money poison our political discourse. Washington couldn’t — or wouldn’t — fix the problem unleashed by the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United, which allowed unlimited independent spending on elections…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}