Daoud is a veteran Libertarian candidate for federal office, who made headlines in 2024 when President Donald Trump asked him to withdraw from Montana’s U.S. Senate race to clear a victory path for Tim Sheehy, the Republican who prevailed. Daoud declined.

There’s now less than a year to go until the 2026 elections in Montana. Three members of Montana’s congressional delegation are up for election next year.

Polls suggest 74 percent of voters in the state will back a ballot initiative to counter the effects of Citizens United.

Three- and four-way elections tip toward candidates with comparatively liberal backing in Billings and Kalispell.

A ruling this week from the Montana Supreme Court means that signature gathering can begin for one of the proposed ballot measures that seeks to ensure Montana judicial elections remain nonpartisan.

A proposed ballot initiative to keep Montana’s judicial elections nonpartisan is advancing after the state Supreme Court ruled that the attorney general overstepped by rewriting the measure.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen defended his edits to several proposed ballot initiatives on judicial elections, saying his office is obligated to ensur

A growing bipartisan effort in Montana aims to curb the effects of Citizens United by altering corporate charters rather than regulating political speech.

A new requirement that voters write their year of birth on mail-in ballot envelopes resulted in more than 2,700 local-election ballots being rejected this week in Montana’s six largest cities, according to election office data compiled by Montana Free Press.

In a separate ruling on a ballot measure also concerning nonpartisan court elections, the court ruled in favor of the attorney general.