The Montana Plan FAQ
I've put together this page to answer questions I thought of and that I see online.
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The Montana Plan's national debut
The Montana Plan is publicly debuted in this 75 minute video
Watch Tom Moore explain and answer questions on The Montana Plan
The Montana plan is a brilliant idea that's been hiding in plain sight
Bernie's words for we the people
We the people can and will create a political revolution
"If you want to beat Trump you have to stop him at the polls"
This message was conspicuously absent in last night's No Kings call
Public campaign finance helped Zohran Mamdani
This piece in The Nation written by David Sirota covers why we need publicly funded elections
The Montana Plan - pathway to getting money out of politics
#5 on the Town Hall Citizen platform is Publicly funded elections. But Citizens United is in the way. Read on to see a pathway that goes around Citizens United.
The arsonists are back
Yesterday's No Kings protest featured state Representative Meghan Lukens, a centrist Democrat.
Town Hall Citizen platform and Bernie's No Kings speech
Everything Bernie said yesterday in his No Kings speech is covered in our platform
"Complaining is not a strategy"
"Protests are important. But changing the culture means nothing if the law doesn't change". — Notorious RBG
Don't let No Kings be wasted time
Nothing will change unless we the people divest and take control of the Democratic Party.
Viva La Financiera Revolución!
I want to buy Blue Bonds. Count me in as an organizer (albeit a beginner) to help others to.
decentralized Internet
France President Emmanuel Macron's speech is a clarion call
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to [American and Chinese] social networks, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”
soft sucession
Let's talk about soft succession
SCOTUS has given Republicans carte blanche to ignore any law or precedent. Meanwhile, blue states send billions more to Washington than they get back, essentially funding their own destruction.
social media is a social disease
NH Democratic Congressional Candidate Carleigh Beriont is Not Using Social Media
This is real organizing
Jane McAlevey
There's only one way out - organize
The problem is the left. They don't organize.
Jane McAlevey
Jimmy presented the case for Town Hall Citizen
Jimmy Kimmel returned to some airwaves last night. In his monologue he presented why Town Hall Citizen exists.
Bernie Sanders
Bernie - "scrap the cap"!
At today's Fighting Oligarchy stop in Viroqua, WI, Bernie said "scrap the cap". Every Democrat should run on this.
Organize
Caitlin Drey won a state house seat in Iowa. Now the bad news.
Today social media is cheering that Caitlin Drey, an Iowa Democrat, won a state house seat that previously went Trump +11. Elect Catelin Drey for Iowa Senate District 1Working mom & advocate Catelin Drey is running to flip Iowa SD1 on Aug 26 & break the GOP supermajority. Learn more
Ralph Nader
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa - "we need to create a country where we are actually in control of our own government"
"No rational human being would ever be in favor of what's being done to Gaza"
Organize
Majority Report - "organize around some narrow principles"
The August 13, 2025 Majority Report (full disclosure - I'm a paid subscriber) gets to what Town Hall Citizen is about and why I started it. On the show Sam interviews Harvey J. Kaye, Historian and Professor Emeritus of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green
Ro Khanna
Ro Khanna in Greenville, SC - Medicare for All, people have the power
From today's Benefits Over Billionaires rally in Greenvilles, South Carolina
Jon Ossoff
Jon Ossoff - the system is rigged
Watch this 2 minute clip. Every Democrat should run on this message.
Organize
Establishment Dems are the past, not the future
If Democrats are so great why do they keep losing elections? Why couldn't they beat the worst Presidential candidate in history?