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Montana's Initiative 194 uses 10th Amendment corporate charter power to bypass Citizens United and block dark money in elections.

Citizens United eroded federalism by overriding state election laws. Restoring local control over political money is conservative.

The funding boost could prove pivotal for the Republican, who is locked in a tight rematch with Gov. Tina Kotek.

Clay Bearnson, former Medford City Councilor, said he is offering voters a third-party choice as the registered Independent candidate for Oregon Senate District 3, focusing on campaign finance reform and affordable health care. With only $4,300 in contributions — far less than his opponents—he contends that big money in politics stifles real change in Salem.

The races are unlikely to determine a new balance of power in the Oregon Legislature, where Democrats hold majorities.

More than 15 years after the U.S. Supreme Court reshaped American politics with its Citizens United campaign finance ruling, Montana voters will decide whether to make their state the first in the ​nation to bar corporations from spending money on elections through a ballot initiative.

A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.

Honest Elections Oregon has argued the ballot measure could reduce the “terrible impact” of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

Lawmakers said the state would get sued, even as they pushed SB2471 into law as Act 11, seeking to nullify the U.S. Supreme Court decision known as…

A follow-up to the Grassroot Institute of Hawai‘i's lawsuit against the state over the new anti-corporate-spending bill urges the courts to prevent the…

A second lawsuit challenging Act 11 has struck the state.

The union representing Oregon carpenters says the money is meant for long-term political giving, not just the 2026 elections.

Elections have consistently broken spending records in the state in recent years, largely due to corporate money. A ballot measure known as the Montana Plan aims to eliminate that kind of spending in Montana, sidestepping a controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling. That would make the state a national legal test case.

Kotek has raised $14.7 million since January 2025, compared with $11.4 million for Drazan in that same period.

Most voters have messier views than their partisan labels would suggest.

Julie Fahey’s cerebral style helped her rise. Now it’s being tested.

A 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for corporations, unions and other groups to spend unlimited money on politics. Oregon organizers trying to join a state-by-state effort limiting […]

The proposed measure would eliminate independent expenditures from powerful groups, commonly referred to as dark money.

At least $1 billion from anonymous donors is flowing into the midterm elections. Dark money is not new, but it now permeates nearly every major contest.

About $1 billion in anonymous contributions is coursing through midterm races across the country. Figuring out where the funds are coming from is no easy task.

Two candidates are chasing them while a third rejects them outright.

The plaintiffs are asking a federal judge to order a new, independent review of all gathered signatures.

The chief petitioners are demanding a recount of the signatures.

A campaign finance proposal being prepared for a possible 2028 Oregon ballot could change how corporations and other organizations spend money in elections

The proposal uses a playbook, growing nationwide, that could test how far states can go to rein in big spending in politics.

How did corporate money end up flooding political campaigns? We take a look at the Supreme Court’s many decisions that brought us to 2010’s Citizens United ruling.

As citizens have increasingly employed their powers to make or change law, state officials have used a variety of tactics to make doing so more difficult.

A fight over a controversial police funding measure could be headed to the court after the initiative fell 6,000 signatures short of making it onto the ballo...

The Portland City Elections office announced Tuesday that backers of the Enhanced Community Safety initiative did not submit enough valid signatures.