Doug James

Let’s just admit it: nothing terrifies Governor Greg Gianforte and the Republican-controlled Montana Legislature more than you—yes, you—showing up and voting. It seems your simple, all-American act of civic participation poses an existential threat to their grip on power. That’s why they’ve been so busy churning out voter suppression laws like they’re manufacturing bear spray.

Apparently, in their warped view of democracy, the fewer people who vote, the better. Because if everyone actually did vote—especially young people, people of color, working-class Montanans, students, elders, and others not part of their country-club base—they might lose. And we can’t have that now, can we?

Take Senate Bill 490, for example, which slashes most of Montana’s Election Day registration. Why

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