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✓ Phase in any significant increase over several years, so Montana’s small businesses can plan and adjust instead of being hit overnight.

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✓ Ban private-equity firms from buying up Montana homes as investment portfolios: a house should be a place to raise a family, not a line item in a Wall Street fund.

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✓ Put affordability and reliability first, no energy plan that raises your bill or leaves you in the dark.

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✓ Fully fund IDEA (S.1277), so the gap Washington leaves is not carried by local districts and by families.

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✓ Protect the right to organize and bargain. Montana is not a so-called right-to-work state, and I will defend workers’ freedom to join together for better pay and safer jobs.

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✓ Back the More Homes on the Market Act, bipartisan legislation that raises the home-sale capital-gains exclusion to $500k for single filers and $1M for couples, and indexes it to inflation, and expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit to build the affordable homes Montana needs.

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✓ Expand real choice: help any Montanan who wants to add rooftop or community solar, battery storage, or EV charging through tax credits and low-cost financing, never mandates.

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✓ Catch disabilities early, and get the assessment right. Fund IDEA Part C early intervention so kids are identified before they fall behind, require culturally and linguistically valid evaluation so no child is mislabeled, and meet the federal government’s direct obligation to Bureau of Indian Education schools.

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✓ Reward work in the tax code: expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit so a paycheck goes further for working families.

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✓ Build it right: Montana-made energy that respects our constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment.

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✓ Defend Section 504 and the ADA in schools, and oppose Montana’s participation in the multistate lawsuit against Section 504.

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✓ Pair rising wages with lower costs, the housing, child-care, and everyday-cost fixes, so a raise is not eaten by rent.

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✓ Protect the Medicaid dollars that pay for school services. Montana schools and cooperatives bill Medicaid for the speech, occupational and physical therapy, school psychologist, audiology and personal-care paraprofessional services written into a child’s IEP. A Medicaid cut is a special-education cut, and it lands hardest on the rural districts that already share those staff.

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✓ Back the Montana small businesses and co-ops that create the jobs, instead of writing the rules for the biggest corporations.

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✓ Invest in infrastructure to replace crumbling schools.

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✓ Fund multiple pathways: college, vo-tech, and small-business ownership.

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✓ Fund child care where it doesn’t exist: expand CCDBG and create rural and Tribal supply-building grants so counties with zero licensed providers finally have some.

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✓ Back the IDEA Full Funding Act (Washington promised 40% of special-ed costs and pays about 13%), make Secure Rural Schools funding permanent, and expand Workforce Pell for vo-tech and the trades.

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✓ Pay the people who do the work: federal compensation support so providers earn a living wage without pricing parents out.

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✓ Keep federal education dollars in public schools: defend Title I funding for the schools serving Montana’s highest-need kids, and oppose federal voucher and tax-credit schemes that route public money to private schools with no accountability to the families paying for it.

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✓ Build the plan with the people who live it: the providers and parents doing the work, not just consultants and lobbyists.

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✓ Protect Head Start and restore the Child Tax Credit: fully fund Head Start and Early Head Start, and bring back an expanded Child Tax Credit so families have real breathing room.

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✓ Make child-care safety real, not paper: fully fund and enforce the background checks, health-and-safety standards, and regular inspections that federal law already requires, so every licensed provider is actually held to them.

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✓ Back the rancher, not the loophole: fund small and local processing and expand the Cooperative Interstate Shipment program so state-inspected plants can sell across state lines, inspection kept, not cut, and enforce the Packers & Stockyards Act. You don’t help ranchers by handing the next recall to the family operation that can least afford it.

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✓ Build on the right side of the TRICARE model, where public dollars pay for private, community-based care in your own town, not the base clinic and not the VA.

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✓ Pass the farm bill, because if Washington lets it die, Montana’s producers stay stuck under outdated supports as costs climb, we lose the country-of-origin labeling for our beef, and the whole safety net risks snapping back to 1940s law that bails out dairy and abandons half our crops. Farm families can’t plan a season on a maybe.

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✓ Restore the ACA tax credits that just expired and doubled people’s premiums, add a public option you can choose, and close the Medicaid coverage gap.

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✓ Create financial safety nets for family farmers and ranchers, FDIC-style crop insurance and low-interest loans, so producers can form co-ops that keep corporate ag from choking out the little guy.

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✓ Fund long-term care and care at home, cut the Medicaid waiting lists, and finally support the family caregivers holding it all together.

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✓ Fund rural mental-health care for the farm and ranch families carrying the weight of a broken farm economy.

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✓ Give the next generation a real shot at the land with a multi-year tax break for new farmers, and defend the right-to-repair wins in the new farm bill.

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✓ Fund beginning-farmer programs and protect family operations from being taxed off the land in the next Farm Bill.

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✓ Raise the capital-gains exclusion on a home sale from $250k to $500k so longtime owners aren’t taxed out of moving.

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✓ Tax breaks for builders who make at least 30% of their units genuinely affordable.

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✓ Rebuild the teacher pipeline. Montana has a statewide teacher shortage, and the federal levers are real: Title II-A, TEACH Grants, and Teacher Quality Partnership grants that pay for teacher preparation and put mentors in front of new teachers so they make it past year three.

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✓ Break the meatpacker chokepoint: enforce the Packers & Stockyards Act and pass the American Beef Labeling Act to put mandatory country-of-origin labeling back on beef.

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✓ Pay producers to keep land working through the Conservation Reserve Program, not subdivided.

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✓ Reverse the unnecessary Trump tariffs that raise the cost of everyday goods for Montana families.

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✓ End the costly, unnecessary war with Iran that’s pushing gas prices higher.

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✓ Rebuild economic cooperation with our global trading partners, and put real safety nets under the farmers and ranchers who feed Montana and the world.

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✓ Never force anyone off diesel or gas, if it’s what keeps your ranch or operation running, that’s your call, not Washington’s.

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✓ Back Montana’s rural electric cooperatives as they add local solar and battery storage, because a co-op that generates and stores its own power for less holds everyone’s rates down (Flathead Electric, Ravalli Electric, and Yellowstone Valley are already leading).

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✓ Route clean-energy tax credits to Montanans: residents, co-ops, and communities capture the value, not just out-of-state hyperscalers.

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✓ Keep the biggest power users, like data centers, from driving up costs or straining the grid Montana families and farmers depend on.

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✓ Close the services cliff at 21, so young people aging out of school services are not left with nowhere to land.

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✓ Keep federal education dollars in public schools, where students with disabilities keep their IDEA and Section 504 protections, instead of routing public money to private schools with no accountability to the families paying for it.

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✓ Rebuild the staffing pipeline with the federal levers that already exist: IDEA Part D personnel preparation grants, Title II-A, TEACH Grants, and Teacher Quality Partnership grants, so districts can hire and keep special-education teachers and paraeducators.

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✓ Raise the federal minimum wage so a full-time job keeps a worker and their family out of poverty, and index it to inflation the way Montana already does, so the floor never sits frozen for fifteen years again.

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✓ Use tariffs against genuine cheating, dumping, illegal subsidies, and intellectual-property theft, and never as a blanket tax on everyday goods and our own trading partners.

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✓ Reverse the blanket tariffs that raise costs for Montana families and kill our producers’ export markets.

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✓ Enforce fair-trade rules against anyone who breaks them, including China, without blowing up the trade that keeps prices down.

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✓ Tie trade deals to strong, enforceable protections for workers and the environment.

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✓ Keep the value in Montana by backing in-state processing, so we export finished products, not just raw commodities.

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✓ Cap what families pay: limit child-care costs as a share of income, and make the Child & Dependent Care Tax Credit bigger and refundable so it actually reaches working families.

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✓ Put the records in parents’ hands: a plain, public inspection-and-violation history for every provider, so a parent can see who they’re trusting before they hand over their child.

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✓ Close the accountability gaps: real consequences and coordination when abuse or neglect is found, and help states strengthen licensing and reporting instead of gutting it.

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✓ Lock the no-cost preventive care and pre-existing-condition guarantees into law so they stop depending on who’s in charge.

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✓ Pay for it honestly: go after the hundreds of billions we already waste on paperwork and middlemen, and commission real, independent studies before promising a dime.

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✓ Break up the health care monopolies: the vertically-integrated giants that own the insurer, the drug middleman (PBM), and the pharmacy all at once — three of them run about 80% of America’s prescriptions. When the company that sets your price also owns the pharmacy and the insurer that won’t pay, you lose.

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✓ Grow our own doctors: wipe out medical-school debt for those who serve rural Montana, and lift the frozen cap on residency slots.

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✓ Cover the whole body — put dental, vision, and hearing into Medicare (there’s a bill for it), and require real coverage in private and marketplace plans too, not skimpy add-ons.

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✓ Un-freeze the benefit — modernize the dental caps stuck since 1973 and cap what families pay out of pocket.

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✓ Make hearing care real — cover hearing aids and the help to actually use them, with honest pricing and standards so people can choose, not one captive vendor.

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✓ Bridge coverage now — expand Medicaid adult dental and vision, fund community dental, and keep over-the-counter hearing aids affordable.

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✓ Make parity real — enforce the 2024 rule that makes insurers cover the mind like the body, and pay providers enough that they’ll actually take insurance. This administration paused it; end the pause.

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✓ Specialized care for everyone — providers trained for veterans, LGBTQ+ Montanans, tribal communities, and trauma survivors — and restore the 988 youth crisis line this administration cut.

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✓ Care across state lines — back the telehealth compacts so rural and reservation Montanans can reach the right provider, and keep them when they travel.

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✓ Beyond the medication mill — cover CBT, EMDR, and neurodivergent-affirming care, with a doctor in the loop so people reach the right level of care, not just a prescription and a waitlist.

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✓ Fix the shortage at its root — loan forgiveness for providers who serve rural and tribal Montana, and take on the runaway cost of a medical education that keeps the pipeline too small.

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✓ Stand with those who carry the most — mental-health and trauma support for veterans, first responders, wildland firefighters, and the investigators and advocates who work the worst cases.

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✓ A human in the loop, by law — an algorithm can never be the sole reason your care is denied; a qualified clinician who reviewed your case decides. Take California’s law national, to every insurer.

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✓ Open the black box — require insurers to disclose and independently audit their denial algorithms, and be accountable when a tool denies care that appeals overturn nine times in ten.

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✓ Fix prior authorization — deadlines, real-time decisions, and gold-carding so trusted providers stop re-justifying obvious care, especially for seniors.

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✓ End the equipment fight — cut the coinsurance and the repeated denials on the wheelchairs and durable medical equipment people need to live, and modernize the outdated “in the home” rule.

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✓ Flip the burden — faster appeals in plain language, and real penalties for bad-faith mass denials, so a sick person, or an exhausted family member, isn’t the one out-fighting a computer.

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✓ Rein in the Medicare Advantage denial machine, where the AI-denial abuse is concentrated.

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✓ Defend the right to make private medical decisions free from government interference.

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✓ Back the Women’s Health Protection Act to protect abortion access nationwide, and push for a constitutional amendment that protects abortion rights.

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✓ Confirm judges who will critically reexamine the Dobbs decision, and vote against those who won’t.

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✓ Fund access to all reproductive healthcare, including contraception and disease prevention (Right to Contraception Act), and protect emergency and maternity care under EMTALA.

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✓ Oppose any federal abortion ban and any revival of the Comstock Act.

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✓ Restore the research and bar the purges: bring back the women’s, maternal, and minority-health studies Washington cancelled, and change the law that let a court call it illegal discrimination and still allow it.

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✓ End Montana’s maternity-care deserts: fund rural and tribal obstetric care and the maternal-health workforce, and keep small-town labor and delivery open.

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✓ Deliver for Native mothers: fully fund the Indian Health Service so Native families get the care the government already promised.

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✓ Protect landmark research: defend studies like the Women’s Health Initiative, and finally put women fully into the clinical trials that decide how everyone gets treated.

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✓ Keep politics out of medicine: honest medical guidance free of ideology, in what schools teach and what insurance covers.

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✓ Protect Social Security from the automatic cut coming in 2033, no benefit cuts, no privatization.

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✓ Fund Social Security for good by removing the wage cap so the wealthiest pay in on all their income: enough to keep the program solvent in perpetuity and to support family caregivers.

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✓ Stop penalizing families who care for their own: a caregiver’s pay should never be taken out of the person’s Social Security check.

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✓ Protect and properly fund Medicaid long-term care: raise reimbursement to the true cost of humane, dignified care so Montana’s nursing homes can staff up and stop closing, not just scrape by on bare-bones minimums.

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✓ Expand affordable home- and community-based care so seniors can age in their own homes, not only in institutions.

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✓ End the federal tax on Social Security benefits (back the You Earned It, You Keep It Act), so a lifetime of work isn’t taxed twice.

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✓ Protect Medicare Part D and the drug-cost relief it delivers: the $2,000 out-of-pocket cap, $35 insulin, free vaccines, and Medicare drug-price negotiation.

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✓ Partner with the state on property-tax relief for Montanans living on Social Security.

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✓ Protect and strengthen Medicaid and Home & Community-Based Services: fight the cuts, per-capita caps, and paperwork traps that strip coverage.

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✓ Grow federal HCBS funding to clear Montana’s waitlist, and make home- and community-based services a guaranteed part of Medicaid.

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✓ Raise Direct Support Professional pay to a living wage by tying Medicaid reimbursement to the real cost of care.

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✓ Fully fund IDEA, a promise Washington has never kept, and close the “services cliff” young people fall off at 21.

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✓ Oppose Montana’s participation in the multistate lawsuit against Section 504, and defend the ADA against any rollback.

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✓ Stand up a permanent disability advisory group with a named point of contact: a direct line, not an afterthought.

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✓ Delay and repeal the federal Medicaid work-reporting mandate before it strips coverage from tens of thousands of working Montanans.

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✓ Fund the state eligibility systems so people who qualify aren’t dropped over broken paperwork and red tape.

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✓ Protect the exemptions Washington left out, for people experiencing homelessness, domestic-violence survivors, and family caregivers.

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✓ Defend Montana’s Medicaid expansion, the coverage that keeps rural hospitals open and one in ten Montanans insured.

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✓ No sale of public lands: ever.

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✓ No opening of public lands to exploitation: ever.

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✓ Protect corner crossing so legal access can’t be locked away.

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✓ Build a bipartisan coalition to defend access for hunting, fishing, and recreation.

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✓ Work across the aisle to pass the bipartisan Public Lands in Public Hands Act: barring the sale or transfer of public land without an act of Congress.

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✓ Give the people who have to live with one of these the final say, not Washington and not the company: no federal permit, dollar, or tax break moves until the affected community, and any affected Tribe, has had an open public hearing and the full facts on water, power, and cost.

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✓ Protect the local, state, and Tribal right to say no: I won’t let Washington preempt or override a Montana community’s power to reject a project it doesn’t want, and I’ll stand with the communities already fighting one.

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✓ End the NDA secrecy: no federal support, permit, or grid interconnection for a data-center deal that gags people, not just about water and power but about the project itself. Local officials shouldn’t have to sign a nondisclosure agreement to do their jobs, and no landowner should be silenced from telling their neighbors what’s moving in next door.

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✓ No data centers on public lands: period.

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✓ Back the pause: support a federal moratorium on the biggest new builds until real rules are in place, and stand with the Montana communities calling for their own.

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✓ Prove it before any yes: require honest, independent impact studies and full public disclosure of power, water, and cost as a condition of any federal approval or support.

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✓ Make Big Tech pay 100% of its own grid and its own power (push FERC’s large-load rule, Docket RM26-4), never households, farmers, or seniors, and keep it public: no islanding into a private grid.

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✓ No federal tax breaks, subsidies, grants, or loans for these companies, and I’ll push Montana to end its own giveaway too. Some of the richest firms on earth do not need a handout from Montana.

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✓ Require enforceable community benefit agreements as a condition of federal support: a real share into local schools, research, and nonprofits, and no leaving Montana dotted with empty warehouses after barely a decade.

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✓ Keep them from becoming surveillance machines: back the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act so it takes a warrant, not a data broker, and rein in Flock-style tracking.

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✓ Hold every project to Montana’s constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment.

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✓ Defend Montana’s clean drinking water, and hold anyone who pollutes our water sources accountable.

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✓ Until data centers can prove they won’t pollute or drain Montana’s water, my answer is no.

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✓ Make polluters, not taxpayers, pay to clean up the messes they leave behind, and clean up Montana’s abandoned mines and contaminated sites.

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✓ Protect Montana’s remaining unspoiled backcountry and the clean headwaters that start there, for hunting, fishing, clean water, and the wildlife that depend on it.

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✓ Defend and fund wildlife migration corridors so Montana’s herds and native fish can move, feed, and recover: good for the animals, good for hunters, and fewer collisions on our roads.

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✓ Hold the federal land agencies, the Forest Service and BLM, accountable to the law, and get them back to prioritizing our environment and lands, not the intentions of the 1%: the same clean-air and clean-water enforcement my husband spent his career on. No more cutting corners on the public’s land.

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✓ Manage wildlife and fisheries on the best available science, not politics.

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✓ Pursue the win-win with our ranchers: better grazing practices like riparian fencing and rotation, not ending grazing.

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✓ Invest in modern water infrastructure for rural communities, and respect Tribal nations’ sovereignty over their own land, water, and environment.

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✓ Make polluters pay, not taxpayers: a federal royalty on hardrock mining plus a dedicated cleanup fund, and reinstate the full “polluter pays” Superfund taxes.

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✓ Defend clean drinking water: enforce and fund the Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts, including limits on PFAS “forever chemicals.”

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✓ Clean up the abandoned mines and contaminated sites: fund Superfund and Brownfields cleanup, and let good-faith Good Samaritans help without inheriting the liability.

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✓ Modernize rural water infrastructure: State Revolving Funds and WIFIA loans so small Montana towns get clean, reliable water.

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✓ Respect Tribal sovereignty over water: back tribes’ authority to set and enforce their own water-quality standards.

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✓ No rubber stamp: demand the full federal environmental review and the real public comment this project skipped instead of the expedited pass Washington gave it.

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✓ Full disclosure or no permit: condition any federal approval on the company publicly putting the exact safety and spill-risk data on the table, the same data Montana regulators caught it trying to omit. No secret waivers, no code names, no “trust us.”

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✓ Report it in the open, year after year: require public reporting of leak-detection performance, inspection and integrity results, and worst-case spill modeling along the whole route, filed where any Montanan can read it, not buried in an agency drawer.

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✓ No gag orders on landowners: no federal support for a project that uses easement nondisclosure agreements to stop a landowner from telling their own neighbors what’s crossing their land, what the risk is, or what the company’s record has been.

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✓ Real hearings, not a rubber stamp: the towns, counties, and Tribes along the route get open public hearings with the full facts before any federal approval, and I’ll leave those calls to them and use every federal lever to strengthen their hand.

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✓ Polluters pay, up front: before a shovel goes in the ground, require a worst-case tar-sands spill-response plan and full financial assurance, so the company is on the hook for the cleanup, not Montana towns.

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✓ Treat diluted bitumen as the distinct hazard the National Academies say it is, the one kind of oil we still can’t clean up once it sinks, with standards and liability to match.

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✓ Back Montana’s own energy and Montana’s water at the same time: I’m for the Bakken and the people who work it, and I won’t trade our rivers to move Canada’s tar sands to market.

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✓ Hold town halls in every one of Montana’s 56 counties, on the record.

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✓ Support congressional term limits.

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✓ Publish how I voted and why, every time.

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✓ Back the TRUST in Congress Act to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks, and the DISCLOSE Act to unmask dark money.

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✓ Endorse I-194, The Montana Plan, the state ballot measure to end dark money in Montana. Same fight, right here at home.

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✓ Hold them accountable: vote to convict and remove Trump, and the accomplices who executed it, starting with SecDef Pete Hegseth.

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✓ Reclaim the war power: put teeth back in the War Powers Resolution, repeal the stale 2001 and 2002 war authorizations, and require a vote in Congress before we strike.

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✓ Make court orders stick: require the executive to obey federal court rulings, and protect the inspectors general and DOJ independence that keep it honest.

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✓ Stop the self-dealing: enforce the emoluments clauses, end the President and VP’s conflict-of-interest exemption, and get personal crypto ventures out of the White House.

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✓ Close the immunity loophole the Supreme Court opened, so a president answers to the criminal law like anyone else.

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✓ Restore due process and fix the Court: repeal the 1798 Alien Enemies Act used to disappear people without a hearing, and pass a binding Supreme Court ethics code with 18-year terms (see Judicial Reform).

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✓ Keep elections local: run by the states, as the Constitution intends. No federal takeover of how Montana votes, from any administration.

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✓ Restore the Voting Rights Act: pass the John R. Lewis Act so no American is denied the vote for who they are or where they live. The guardrail, not a takeover.

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✓ Voter ID, done right: it’s fine to confirm who you are; it’s not fine to demand hard, expensive documents to fix a fraud problem the data says barely exists.

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✓ Keep the president out of your voter file: no handing over the rolls, no national voter database. No president, of either party, gets that power.

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✓ No access to the machines without a warrant, and no unqualified, partisan “audits” breaking the chain of custody. Real audits, by certified pros, under law.

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✓ Defend how Montanans actually vote: protect early voting, mail-in ballots, drop boxes, and enough open polling places. Secure and easy, not a gauntlet.

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✓ Enact a binding, enforceable Supreme Court ethics code: real disclosure of gifts, and recusal rules with teeth.

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✓ Establish 18-year term limits with regular, predictable appointments, so no single president reshapes the Court for a generation.

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✓ Support impeachment for serious judicial misconduct.

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✓ Defend judicial independence as the thing accountability is meant to protect, not court-packing.

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✓ Fully fund the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network so investigators can follow the money.

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✓ Enforce the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Corporate Transparency Act instead of shelving them.

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✓ Close the anonymous-shell-company loophole that lets kleptocrats launder money through the United States.

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✓ Modernize financial-crimes enforcement for crypto, where too much of today’s corruption hides.

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✓ Hold corruption accountable wherever it is, including at the top of our own government.

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✓ Investigate the damage before we rebuild: a complete, independent investigation and a cross-branch commission to map what was broken and what can be recovered, and restore the independent inspectors general first.

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✓ Do real efficiency: independent, expert audits with the authority to act on them, the job DOGE faked. Verified savings, not a press release.

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✓ Keep the guardrails: protect the inspectors general, whistleblowers, and your data, and never let “efficiency” be the excuse to break the law.

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✓ Give law enforcement the tools and funding to fight trafficking and online exploitation.

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✓ Strengthen penalties for producing and distributing child sexual abuse material.

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✓ Back the Invest in Child Safety Act to fund the ICAC task forces and NCMEC analysts who work these cases, and the STOP CSAM Act to hold platforms accountable.

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✓ Honor tribal sovereignty and the federal trust responsibility: treat funding as an obligation, not charity.

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✓ Make the MMIW/MMIP crisis a priority: fully fund and finish implementing Savanna’s Act and the Not Invisible Act, and close the tribal-jurisdiction gap under VAWA.

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✓ Close Indian Health Service funding gaps and improve access to quality healthcare in Native communities.

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✓ Support Native veterans, who serve at the highest per-capita rate of any group, with easier access to the VA care they’ve earned, including better IHS–VA coordination and services closer to home.

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✓ Improve tribal members’ access to housing, and protect tribal sovereignty over resource management, including buffalo and bison grazing on public lands.

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✓ Fund safe drinking water in Indian Country as the trust obligation it is: finish paying for the tribal water settlements Congress already agreed to, instead of authorizing them and walking away.

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✓ Build tribal regulatory capacity instead of federal oversight of tribes: back Nations seeking treatment-as-a-state authority under the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts, and fund it, so tribes set and enforce standards on their own land and those standards hold against upstream polluters who aren’t tribal at all.

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✓ Protect the federal funding underneath Indian Education for All: Title VI Indian Education, Johnson-O’Malley, and Impact Aid for districts serving reservation communities.

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✓ Put tribal leadership at the table, represented on staff with direct access to the federal delegation, and invest in leadership pathways for Indigenous Montanans.

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✓ Make Washington keep its treaty and trust obligation: fund public safety on reservations to the level each tribe’s own plan requires.

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✓ Fix the ISDEAA “638” process so the BIA can’t stall or stonewall a tribe that chooses to run its own law enforcement.

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✓ Follow the lead of the tribes themselves: back whatever public-safety approach each Nation decides, and never substitute Washington’s judgment, or mine, for theirs, and connect it to the MMIP work already in this position so Washington finally resources the investigations and coordination it has long owed.

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✓ Support universal background checks: keep firearms out of the wrong hands without burdening law-abiding owners.

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✓ Back red-flag / extreme-risk protections with strong due-process safeguards, because most of Montana’s gun deaths are suicides we have the power to prevent.

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✓ Oppose bans on the semi-automatic firearms Montanans lawfully own and use, which include most common handguns and hunting rifles.

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✓ Insist that any firearms legislation be written with a precise, technical understanding of exactly what it regulates and why, not drafted by people who have never handled the weapon.

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✓ Keep listening to Montanans on magazine-capacity limits and forced-reset triggers before taking a position, no rubber stamp for either side.

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✓ Defend the individual right to own and use firearms for hunting, sport, and self-defense.

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✓ Keep the government out of families’ private medical decisions; those belong to patients, parents, and their doctors, not politicians.

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✓ Champion the Equality Act to guarantee nondiscrimination in housing, employment, and public life.

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✓ Defend the Respect for Marriage Act.

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✓ Oppose book bans and laws that target LGBTQ+ Montanans: especially kids.

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✓ Back civil-rights enforcement that protects people from discrimination and hate.

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✓ Protect Essential Air Service from the proposed cut and reauthorize it, so frontier towns keep the flights they use to reach care.

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✓ Fully fund the SIREN Act, now law, so rural EMS crews get the training and equipment to answer the call.

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✓ Fix the Medicare reimbursement trap: pay EMS to treat people in place and by telehealth, not only to haul them to an ER.

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✓ Recognize EMS as an essential service so rural coverage does not hinge on whether a volunteer squad survives another year.

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✓ Protect the Rural Emergency Hospital option and the Medicare and Medicaid payments that keep rural ERs open.

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✓ Fund the rural broadband that makes remote 911, telehealth, and treat-in-place actually work.

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✓ Enforce the surprise-billing protections and extend them to ground ambulances, so the ride that saves a life does not bankrupt a family.

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✓ Pair every funding ask with the return: the downstream cost of a closure, and the efficiencies that make the same coverage cost less.

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✓ Rebuild the DOJ Civil Rights Division: fully staff the lawyers who enforce the anti-discrimination laws again, in jobs, housing, lending, schools, and at the ballot box.

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✓ Restore fair-housing enforcement: bring back HUD’s investigators and the complaint process, so being turned away for your race, your kids, or a disability actually has consequences.

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✓ Reopen the gutted civil-rights offices: the EEOC for workplace discrimination and the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights for students, so a complaint gets a real answer.

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✓ Stand behind the ADA: enforce the disability-rights protections that let people work, learn, and live with dignity.

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✓ Enforce the law, not labels: equal protection and equal opportunity are already written into American law. My job is to enforce them fairly, for everyone.

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✓ Pass the Major Richard Star Act: end the offset that claws back retirement pay from combat-injured veterans medically retired before 20 years, so they finally receive the concurrent pay they earned.

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✓ Reverse this administration’s VA workforce cuts: rehire and restaff the nurses, doctors, mental-health providers, and claims processors veterans depend on; you can’t deliver care with the caregivers gone.

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✓ Oppose every scheme to slash the disability ratings veterans have earned, no means-testing, no age cutoffs on unemployability, no quietly downgrading PTSD, TBI, or sleep-apnea claims to save money.

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✓ Guarantee real VA access from every Montana reservation, VA Community Care agreements, clinics or telehealth, tribal-health reimbursement, and a VSO service officer within reach, so no Native veteran drives five hours for care they were promised.

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✓ Fully fund and defend the PACT Act: keep faith with veterans exposed to burn pits and toxic hazards, and never let that promise be rolled back.

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✓ Make veteran suicide prevention and mental-health care a front-line priority: the crisis hits hardest in rural states like ours, and the VA staff who answer that call are exactly who we cannot afford to lose.

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✓ Secure the border and enforce the law: let good people in, keep bad actors out.

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✓ Clear the immigration backlog and cut the fees, delays, and red tape that punish people for following the rules.

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✓ Shut ICE down, name and all, and build its replacement from scratch, into whatever structure an honest, independent review recommends.

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✓ Open an independent review of deaths in custody, serious injuries, and unlawful detentions.

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✓ Move the immigration courts out of the Justice Department into an independent Article I court.

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✓ Require a judicial warrant or a judge’s danger finding before anyone is detained, with regular review.

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✓ Keep the military out of immigration enforcement: no active-duty troops or federalized National Guard running raids, checkpoints, or detention on U.S. soil. Defend and strengthen the Posse Comitatus Act.

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✓ Cut off the funding and legal workarounds used to turn the armed forces into a domestic immigration agency.

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✓ Reform qualified immunity so officers who violate someone’s constitutional rights cannot hide behind it.

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✓ Focus enforcement on traffickers, smugglers, organized crime, and violent criminals, not families seeking safety.

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✓ Address root causes: addiction treatment at home, and the destabilization abroad that America helped cause.

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✓ Enforce the War Powers Resolution: 48-hour notice to Congress, 60–90-day withdrawal absent authorization.

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✓ Repeal-and-replace the outdated 2001 AUMF so each new war gets its own vote.

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✓ Insist on smart, accountable defense spending, not blank checks, and reduce unnecessary Middle East intervention.

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✓ Enforce the Leahy Law, which bars U.S. assistance to any security unit credibly found to have committed gross human-rights violations. In practice that means a full arms embargo: an end to U.S. military assistance while this assault continues.

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✓ Keep humanitarian aid reaching the civilians caught in this, and back accountability through the international bodies already weighing these crimes, including sanctions and the trial of the leaders responsible.

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✓ Oppose Section 219 of the NDAA, which would fuse the U.S. and Israeli defense industrial base.

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✓ End the U.S. Loan Guarantee Program that has underwritten roughly $3 billion a year of Israeli government borrowing since 2003.

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✓ End the legal mandate that the U.S. must maintain Israel’s “Qualitative Military Edge.”

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✓ Call out anyone who holds public office, in either party, and won’t use it to push for an end to these actions. Silence and blank checks are a choice; I’ll make a different one.

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✓ Back a real path to repair and justice: the democracy, freedom, dignity, and security every person in the region deserves, Israelis and Palestinians alike.

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✓ Vote to end the war and invoke the War Powers Resolution to bring our troops home, since Congress never authorized this.

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✓ Insist any act of war go through Congress, as the Constitution requires. No more presidential wars.

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✓ Prevent a nuclear-armed Iran the way that actually works: tough, verified diplomacy and the strongest inspections we can negotiate, not another president’s illegal war.

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✓ Get back to the table: pursue a verifiable agreement that keeps Iran from a weapon and rebuilds the inspections this war destroyed.

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✓ Back an independent investigation into the strikes on civilians, including the Minab girls’ school, and support holding those who ordered them accountable, including through the International Criminal Court.

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✓ Use appropriations and oversight to cut off funding for an unauthorized war and force the truth about U.S. casualties into the open.

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✓ End the disruption driving diesel and food costs: the fastest relief for Montana’s farmers and families is ending this war.

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✓ Restore USAID and rebuild it stronger, with real fraud and enforcement controls.

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✓ Protect humanitarian aid absolutely: never let food, medicine, or disaster relief be used as a weapon of war.

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✓ Restore America’s global-health leadership: reauthorize PEPFAR, replenish the Global Fund, and rejoin the World Health Organization.

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✓ Fully fund diplomacy and the State Department, and re-engage at the UN and the international institutions.

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✓ Keep Montana producers in the mission by funding the food-aid programs that buy Montana wheat and pulses for overseas relief.

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✓ Condition military aid on human rights and the laws of war, while protecting the humanitarian side that saves civilian lives.

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✓ Rebuild NATO and our alliances, and treat coalitions as strategy, not charity.

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✓ Stand with Ukraine with the weapons, intelligence, and sanctions it needs to hold the line, and make Russia bear the cost of its aggression.

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✓ Manage China as both adversary and partner: enforce the rules against cheating, keep the channels open, and never start a trade war that makes armed conflict rational.

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✓ Fully fund the State Department and re-engage at the UN and international institutions.

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✓ Renew nuclear diplomacy and oppose any resumption of nuclear testing.

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✓ Keep the power to go to war where the Constitution put it, with Congress, and make the military the last lever, not the first.

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✓ Invest in American leadership in AI, quantum computing, and biotechnology through public research, our universities, and the people who power it, and keep us ahead of our adversaries.

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✓ Secure the critical-technology supply chains, the chips, materials, and infrastructure they run on, against foreign leverage.

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✓ Lead on responsible AI rules: catastrophic-risk reduction, civil liberties and privacy, and real protections for workers.

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✓ Hold AI companies legally accountable for the harm their products do to children: child sexual abuse imagery their tools create, chatbots that coach kids toward self-harm, and systems that sexually exploit minors. No blanket immunity for what they build.

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✓ Protect American research and innovation from theft by hostile intelligence services, the fight I spent my career on.

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✓ Build a Montana tech economy on our university research and clean power, so the jobs and the value stay here.

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NO CORPORATE PAC MONEY

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DONORS DON’T BUY VOTES

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Decisions follow the facts and the people, not the lobby.