Montana Liberty News

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Butte voters denied data center vote... again

THE STATEHOUSE

County to Helena: explain your data center law

'Montana Plan' takes aim at dark money

'Dangerously overbroad': the case against I-194

Power plant rules fall, Montana officials cheer

TAXES & SPENDING

Revealed: $2.4 million Medicaid fraud scheme

Billings woman pays $50,000 for Medicaid fraud

Governor's new mansion already needs more work

Could Miles City land a data center?

Great Falls exit stays closed as paving drags

Highway 93 fix pushed off until spring

THE COURTS

How Montana picks judges is on your ballot

Judge: 'Free Land Holders' can't fence your forest

One applicant for Flathead's open judgeship

Justice of the peace hopefuls make their case

SCHOOLS

Nonreligious private school opens doors in Helena

FVCC pumps brakes on president's contract

GUN RIGHTS

Photo: Putitonamap98, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Knudsen rallies 25 states against gun waiting periods

POLICE & SURVEILLANCE

State probes officer 'critical incident' in Harlem

CITY HALL

Helena moves to cut housing red tape

Missoula approves more money for the Pov

'Illogical': Missoula council decisions under fire

Columbia Mountain tram proposal rides again

Gallatin's Brown talks housing in reelection bid

NATIONAL NEWS

PODCAST

Hannah Henriksen: Why Human Respect Is Essential to LibertyGeorge Washington in 2026: Winning Liberty Is Only the Beginning Grover Norquist: Why the Fight for Lower Taxes Is Really a Fight for Liberty Naomi Brockwell: The Fight to Take Back Your Digital Privacy Topher Field: Why Good People Break Bad Laws

STORIES

Liberty at Home Requires Restraint Abroad Lawmakers Raised Their Own Pay. Then Raised Taxes on South Carolinians She Built Kentucky’s YAL Network From the Ground Up How Grassroots Activists Forced a Delay in a Surveillance Expansion Vote The Student Who Refused to Let His Chapter Die How Grassroots Organizing Changed Wyoming's Legislature Transparency Is the Foundation of Trust in Government

WAR POWERS

Rubio boots Iran's negotiators, Trump teases next strikes^NEW

Scott Horton: the Iran 'panicans' were right

Ron Paul asks: is Cuba next?^NEW

Ron Paul: America finally (sort of) out of Iraq^NEW

THE FED

Washington's debt bill explodes: yields hit 24-year high^NEW

...and your mortgage just hit 7.28%^NEW

Kashkari confesses: inflation 'still too high'^NEW

Fed watchdog clears Fed chief. Naturally.^NEW

Crop prices log biggest jump since Ukraine invasion^NEW

DUE PROCESS

Sue a fed in California? Meet qualified immunity.

Supreme Court puts deportation machine under the knife^NEW

Court slaps rogue sheriff who seized 650,000 ballots^NEW

He fought for his country. Now it wants his land.^NEW

CRONY CAPITALISM

Musk, Luckey and Gingrich walk into the Pentagon...^NEW

Trump's steel mill: steelmakers win, you pay^NEW

Trump and Big AI go all-in together^NEW

GUN RIGHTS

Gutowski: America never taxed common guns. Why start?

EXECUTIVE OVERREACH

Reminder: the Constitution has no 'emergency' clause

Trump on ads you paid for: 'I'm promoting the country'

Trump regrets his own Supreme Court picks^NEW

The libertarian case for impeachment...^NEW

THE SURVEILLANCE STATE

Cops' AI dragnet grabbed innocent driver. Judge just killed it.

DHS watchlisted Americans over 'potential inaccuracies'

Leak: cops can beat your iPhone's lock-down reboot^NEW

America rejects plate cameras, San Francisco shrugs^NEW

SPEECH POLICE

Cops knocked over her Facebook post. Lawsuit stands.

Ask Trump's chatbot who won 2020. Good luck.

Pepperdine bans professor who taught a black Jesus

Court: publishing sealed arrest records is protected speech

TAXES & REGULATION

Judge blocks Trump's $100,000 visa toll^NEW

Treasury readies $3,400 school-choice tax credit^NEW

Watch: how Washington made your BLT more expensive^NEW

Nicotine isn't the killer. Politicians ban it anyway.^NEW

First city to price-fix your groceries...^NEW

LIBERTY MOVEMENT

Rand Paul: Americans poorer under Trump than Biden^NEW

Jack Hunter: more Massie, fewer midterm woes

FEDERAL FAILURE

FAA hiring spree follows 'chronically understaffed' confession^NEW

Trump orders rats and mosquitoes out of DC^NEW

STATES PUSH BACK

Texas kills cop shop that gave 'no benefit'