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CI-132 and the Myth of Non-Partisanship
Whether you’re voting on a ballot issue or a candidate for office, my advice to you is always the same: cast an informed vote or skip it and move on. Voting because it’s “good citizenship” is, in fact, bad citizenship if you don’t know who or what you’re voting for. Judge and Supreme Court justice races scream out as the biggest examples of voter ignorance – and thus, bad voting. We know this instinctively.
CI-132 and the myth of non-partisanship | Roger Koopman Original
New subscriber benefit! Copied to clipboard Out of gifts for the month Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. Share this article paywall-free Email Copy Link Prefer us on Google Facebook Twitter Bluesky WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Whether you’re voting on a ballot issue or a candidate for office, my advice to you is always the same: cast an informed vote or skip it and move on.
CI-132 and the myth of non-partisanship | Roger Koopman
Whether you’re voting on a ballot issue or a candidate for office, my advice to you is always the same: cast an informed vote or skip it and move on. Voting because it’s “good citizenship” is, in fact, bad citizenship if you don’t know who or what you’re voting for. Judge and Supreme Court justice races scream out as the biggest examples of voter ignorance — and thus, bad voting. We know this instinctively.
Dark Politics in Action: the I-194 Fraud
New subscriber benefit! Copied to clipboard Out of gifts for the month Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. Share this article paywall-free Email Copy Link Prefer us on Google Facebook Twitter Bluesky WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Aren’t people clever? Start by getting massive amounts of dark money from nonresident billionaires seeking to control Montana’s politics.
Letter to Editor
Dark Politics in Action: the I-194 Fraud by Roger Koopman Aren’t people clever? Start by getting massive amounts of dark money from nonresident billionaires seeking to control Montana’s politics. Then run a ballot initiative that claims to control dark money influence in Montana. Bait and switch. Brilliant! Why, it’s enough to get you really cynical about politics… The dark money-funded I-194 signs and advertising are everywhere. It all sounds so doggone good.
Guest opinion: Dark politics in action
by | October 1, 2026 12:00 AM Aren’t people clever? Start by getting massive amounts of dark money from nonresident billionaires seeking to control Montana’s politics. Then run a ballot initiative that claims to control dark money influence in Montana. Bait and switch. Brilliant! Why, it’s enough to get you really cynical about politics. The dark money-funded I-194 signs and advertising are everywhere. It all sounds so doggone good. Too much dark money in politics, you say to yourself.
Dark politics in action: the I-194 fraud
Aren’t people clever? Start by getting massive amounts of dark money from nonresident billionaires seeking to control Montana’s politics. Then run a ballot initiative that claims to control dark money influence in Montana. Bait and switch. Brilliant! Why, it’s enough to get you really cynical about politics. The dark-money-funded signs and advertising for I-194 are everywhere. It all sounds so doggone good. Too much dark money in politics, you say to yourself. Too much wealthy out-of-state influence.
Denied: Your Right to Write In
You may think you have the right to vote. The right to exercise your constitutional franchise to select the candidate of your choice. You would be wrong. In Montana, that right no longer exists. The politicians have seen to that. They have filtered your choices for you, and left your right to choose on the floor of the legislature like a rotting corpse. All to benefit themselves. For many voters, the write-in lines are hardly noticed.
Convenience trumps the Constitution for write-in votes
You may think you have the right to vote. The right to exercise your constitutional franchise to select the candidate of your choice. You would be wrong. In Montana, that right no longer exists. The politicians have seen to that. They have filtered your choices for you, and left your right to choose on the floor of the legislature like a rotting corpse. All to benefit themselves. For many voters, the write-in lines are hardly noticed.
Opinion: Denied: Your right to write in
You may think you have the right to vote. The right to exercise your constitutional franchise to select the candidate of your choice. You would be wrong. In Montana, that right no longer exists. The politicians have seen to that. They have filtered your choices for you and left your right to choose on the floor of the Legislature like a rotting corpse. All to benefit themselves. For many voters, the write-in lines are hardly noticed.
Denied: Your right to write in
You may think you have the right to vote. The right to exercise your constitutional franchise to select the candidate of your choice. You would be wrong. In Montana, that right no longer exists. The politicians have seen to that. They have filtered your choices for you, and left your right to choose on the floor of the legislature like a rotting corpse. All to benefit themselves. For many voters, the write-in lines are hardly noticed.
Denied: Your right to write in | Roger Koopman
You may think you have the right to vote. The right to exercise your constitutional franchise to select the candidate of your choice. You would be wrong. In Montana, that right no longer exists. The politicians have seen to that. They have filtered your choices for you, and left your right to choose on the floor of the Legislature like a rotting corpse. All to benefit themselves. For many voters, the write-in lines are hardly noticed.
Denied: Your right to write in | Roger Koopman
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Denied: Your right to write in | Roger Koopman Original
You may think you have the right to vote. The right to exercise your constitutional franchise to select the candidate of your choice. You would be wrong. In Montana, that right no longer exists. kAm%96 A@=:E:4:2?D 92G6 D66? E@ E92E] %96J 92G6 7:=E6C65 J@FC 49@:46D 7@C J@F[ 2?5 =67E J@FC C:89E E@ 49@@D6 @? E96 7=@@C @7 E96 {68:D=2EFC6 =:<6 2 C@EE:?8 4@CAD6] p== E@ 36?67:E E96>D6=G6D]k^Am kAmu@C >2?J G@E6CD[ E96 HC:E6\:? =:?6D 2C6 92C5=J ?@E:465] %96J >2J ?@E =:<6 2?J @7 E96 42?5:52E6D AC:?E65 @?
Denied: Your right to write in | Roger Koopman
You may think you have the right to vote. The right to exercise your constitutional franchise to select the candidate of your choice. You would be wrong. In Montana, that right no longer exists. The politicians have seen to that. They have filtered your choices for you, and left your right to choose on the floor of the Legislature like a rotting corpse. All to benefit themselves. For many voters, the write-in lines are hardly noticed.
Denied: Your right to write in | Roger Koopman
You may think you have the right to vote. The right to exercise your constitutional franchise to select the candidate of your choice. You would be wrong. In Montana, that right no longer exists. The politicians have seen to that. They have filtered your choices for you, and left your right to choose on the floor of the Legislature like a rotting corpse. All to benefit themselves. For many voters, the write-in lines are hardly noticed.
America’s Endless Wars: Had Enough Yet?
The Koopmans came to America in 1910, in the steerage section of a ship headed for Ellis Island. Grandpa was a man of peace, seeking peace. He wanted no part of Prussian militarism and “the Kaiser’s wars.” So he packed up four kids and a wife, and three generations later, the Koopmans are still seeking peace, not war. I guess it’s in my blood. Pop would often say, “the Democrats are the war party.” Even as a kid, that stuck in my head, and probably had a lot to do with me becoming a Republican.
Partisan politics is making war inevitable | Roger Koopman
The Koopmans came to America in 1910, in the steerage section of a ship headed for Ellis Island. Grandpa was a man of peace, seeking peace. He wanted no part of Prussian militarism and “the Kaiser’s wars.” So he packed up four kids and a wife, and three generations later, the Koopmans are still seeking peace, not war. I guess I have it in my blood. kAm!@A H@F=5 @7E6? D2J[ “E96 s6>@4C2ED 2C6 E96 H2C A2CEJ]” tG6? 2D 2 <:5[ E92E DEF4< :?
Partisan politics is making war inevitable
The Koopmans came to America in 1910, in the steerage section of a ship headed for Ellis Island. Grandpa was a man of peace, seeking peace. He wanted no part of Prussian militarism and “the Kaiser’s wars.” So he packed up four kids and a wife, and three generations later, the Koopmans are still seeking peace, not war. I guess I have it in my blood. Pop would often say, “the Democrats are the war party.” Even as a kid, that stuck in my head, and probably had a lot to do with me becoming a Republican.
Partisan politics is making war inevitable | Roger Koopman Original
The Koopmans came to America in 1910, in the steerage section of a ship headed for Ellis Island. Grandpa was a man of peace, seeking peace. He wanted no part of Prussian militarism and “the Kaiser’s wars.” So he packed up four kids and a wife, and three generations later, the Koopmans are still seeking peace, not war. I guess I have it in my blood. kAm!@A H@F=5 @7E6? D2J[ “E96 s6>@4C2ED 2C6 E96 H2C A2CEJ]” tG6? 2D 2 <:5[ E92E DEF4< :?
Guest opinion: The eyes of our visitors should open our own eyes about America
It’s all over the internet. The foreign fascination — even infatuation — with America, as citizens from across the globe visit our shores for the World Cup competition. Hundreds of thousands, singing our praise while lambasting their local media for lying to them. In more ways than one, they were seeing America for the first time. It’s sights and scenery. Its stores and stadiums. Most of all, they were seeing its people. And it’s been love at first sight.
Awe-Struck World Cup Tourists Should Remind Us What Makes America So Great Original
As citizens from across the globe visit American shores for the World Cup competition, hundreds of thousands praise the United States while lambasting their media for lying. In more ways than one, they are seeing the real America for the first time: Its sights and scenery, its stores and stadiums, and most of all, its people. It has been love at first sight.
The Eyes of Our Visitors Should Open Our Own Eyes About America
United States soccer fans celebrate their victory following the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group D match between the United States and Australia at the FIFA Fan Zone on the National Mall in Washington on June 19, 2026. The FIFA World Cup 2026 Fan Zone is set up as part of America's 250th anniversary celebration and will host daily matches blocks from the U.S. Capitol Building. Commentary It’s all over the internet.
Maduro and Mamdani might make a great team
Newsflash! Now that Marco Rubio and Donald Trump have decided to unconstitutionally “run” Venezuela, that country’s deposed dictator will doubtless have a lot of time on his hands during his sleepovers in a New York City prison. The word on the street is that NYC’s just-elected socialist mayor is negotiating bail for Maduro, and planning to put him on the city’s payroll as his personal consultant. And why not?
The eyes of our visitors should open our own eyes about America | Roger Koopman Original
It’s all over the internet. The foreign fascination — even infatuation — with America, as citizens from across the globe visit our shores for the World Cup competition. Hundreds of thousands, singing our praise while lambasting their local media for lying to them. In more ways than one, they were seeing America for the first time. It’s sights and scenery. Its stores and stadiums. Most of all, they were seeing its people. And it’s been love at first sight. kAmxE :D 3@E9 65:7J:?8 2?5 F?:7J:?8 E@ =:DE6?
Want a conservative legislature? Vote in the GOP primary! | Roger Koopman
Almost every Republican voter you talk to is, by definition, conservative. I mean genuinely conservative. Just read the GOP state platform if you have any doubt about what it means to be a Republican. Conservatism is both a commitment to the Constitution’s system of limited government, and a moral philosophy that places the sovereignty of the individual over the coercive, collective action of government itself. Our God-given rights as inviolate. Government as protector, not provider.
Want a conservative legislature? Vote in the GOP primary! | Roger Koopman Original
Almost every Republican voter you talk to is, by definition, conservative. I mean genuinely conservative. Just read the GOP state platform if you have any doubt about what it means to be a Republican. kAmr@?D6CG2E:D> :D 3@E9 2 4@>>:E>6?E E@ E96 r@?DE:EFE:@?’D DJDE6> @7 =:>:E65 8@G6C?>6?E[ 2?5 2 >@C2= A9:=@D@A9J E92E A=246D E96 D@G6C6:8?EJ @7 E96 :?5:G:5F2= @G6C E96 4@6C4:G6[ 4@==64E:G6 24E:@? @7 8@G6C?>6?E :ED6=7] ~FC v@5\8:G6?
The primary question: When are conservatives not conservatives? | Roger Koopman Original
By now, Montana’s conservative majority ought to be getting pretty upset. Every two years, we elect a Legislature that is overwhelmingly Republican, and every Republican claims to be conservative. They wouldn’t be elected any other way. And yet, every two years, government continues to grow, becoming more bureaucratic, more autocratic and intervening more in our lives.
Political Sleaze: Admired, Tolerated or Rejected?
Time to see the fairness of a children’s game. Time for men to stop, and learn to do the same. – The Kingston Trio We know the story. But how did we react to it? Montana’s highest federal office holder, U.S. Senator Steve Daines, did what almost every small child is taught not to do. He was a bully – the big kid on the block who would only let his close friends step onto the field and play the game.
Letters to the Editor
Political Sleaze: Admired, Tolerated or Rejected? By Roger Koopman Time to see the fairness of a children’s game. Time for men to stop, and learn to do the same. The Kingston Trio We know the story. But how did we react to it? Montana’s highest federal office holder, US Senator Steve Daines, did what almost every small child is taught not to do. He was a bully -- the big kid on the block who would only let his close friends step onto the field and play the game.
Roger Koopman: Political sleaze - admired, tolerated or rejected?
Time to see the fairness of a children’s game. Time for men to stop, and learn to do the same. — The Kingston Trio We know the story. But how did we react to it? Montana’s highest federal office holder, U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, did what almost every small child is taught not to do. He was a bully — the big kid on the block who would only let his close friends step onto the field and play the game.
Political sleaze: Admired, tolerated or rejected? | Roger Koopman Original
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Political sleaze: Admired, tolerated or rejected?
We know the story. But how did we react to it? Montana’s highest federal office holder, U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, did what almost every small child is taught not to do. He was a bully — the big kid on the block who would only let his close friends step onto the field and play the game. That is the essence of the sleazy, deceptive, manipulative action Daines took by waiting until the last three minutes before withdrawing from his Senate race.
Roger Koopman: Rand Paul's bill targeting internet liars is good government
Lies can wreck a business, destroy a career, kill relationships and ruin lives. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is right. When an internet service provider hosts a defamatory, fabricated personal attack that accuses the target of reprehensible and criminal behavior, that provider possesses a certain degree of accountability for their refusal to take it down.
Roger Koopman: Rand Paul's bill targeting internet liars is good government
Lies can wreck a business, destroy a career, kill relationships and ruin lives. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is right. When an internet service provider hosts a defamatory, fabricated personal attack that accuses the target of reprehensible and criminal behavior, that provider possesses a certain degree of accountability for their refusal to take it down.
Roger Koopman: Rand Paul's bill targeting internet liars is good government
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Roger Koopman: Rand Paul's bill targeting internet liars is good government
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Internet lies ruin lives – and Rand Paul has the solution * WorldNetDaily * by Roger Koopman
Lies can wreck a business, destroy a career, kill relationships and ruin lives. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is right. When an internet service provider hosts a defamatory, fabricated personal attack that accuses the target of reprehensible and criminal behavior, that provider possesses a certain degree of accountability for their refusal to take it down.
Opinion:The freedom to lie is the freedom to steal Original
Lies can wreck a business, destroy a career, kill relationships and ruin lives. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is right. kAm(96? 2? :?E6C?6E D6CG:46 AC@G:56C 9@DED 2 5672>2E@CJ[ 723C:42E65 A6CD@?2= 2EE24< E92E 244FD6D E96 E2C86E @7 C6AC696?D:3=6 2?5 4C:>:?2= 3692G:@C[ E92E AC@G:56C A@DD6DD6D 2 46CE2:? 568C66 @7 244@F?E23:=:EJ 7@C E96:C C67FD2= E@ E2<6 :E 5@H?] }@E F?=:<6 E96 AC:?E >65:2 <?@H:?8=J AF3=:D9:?8 2 =:36=@FD =6EE6C @C @A\65[ E96 :?E6C?6E 42CC:6C >2J[ 32D65 @?
Online Lies Nearly Cost Lives-Senator Paul Demands Tech Liability
Lying about someone is stealing. It is the worst form of theft that robs you not of physical possessions but of your reputation. Lies can wreck a business, destroy a career, kill relationships, and ruin lives. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is right. When an internet service provider hosts a defamatory, fabricated personal attack that accuses the target of reprehensible and criminal behavior, that provider possesses a certain degree of accountability for their refusal to take it down.
Roger Koopman: Maduro and Mamdani might make a great team
Newsflash! Now that Rubio and Trump have decided to “run” Venezuela for awhile, that country’s deposed dictator will doubtless have a lot of time on his hands during his sleepovers in a New York City prison. The word on the street is that NYC’s just-elected socialist mayor is negotiating bail for Maduro, and planning to put him on the city’s payroll as his personal consultant.
Maduro and Mamdani might make a great team | Roger Koopman
Newsflash! Now that Rubio and Trump have decided to unconstitutionally “run” Venezuela for awhile, that country’s deposed dictator will doubtless have a lot of time on his hands during his sleepovers in a New York City prison. And why not? For a bright young so-called democratic socialist like Mamdani, the 26-year track records of Maduro and fellow Marxist/socialist Hugo Chavez have much to be admired.
Maduro and Mamdani might make a great team | Roger Koopman Original
Newsflash! Now that Rubio and Trump have decided to unconstitutionally “run” Venezuela for awhile, that country’s deposed dictator will doubtless have a lot of time on his hands during his sleepovers in a New York City prison.
If You Don’t Want Kings, Take Off the Partisan Blinders - Flathead Beacon
The well-orchestrated “No Kings” protests across America had my conservative buddies bristling – so much so that they made a point of wearing their MAGA caps at our weekly breakfast. I was not the most popular item at the table, after suggesting that the protesters – while motivated more viscerally than intellectually – were in fact illuminating the darker side of our current president. A side that rejects rather than embraces conservative ideals and principles.
If you don’t want kings, take off the partisan blinders | Roger Koopman Original
The well-orchestrated “No Kings” protests across America — while motivated more viscerally than rationally — helped illuminate the darker side of our current president. A side that rejects the conservative ideals and principles he claims to embrace. Principles anchored in natural rights, rule of law, minimum government and maximum freedom. kAm%CF>A 92D 46CE2:?=J 5@?6 D@>6 E9:?8D E92E 2=:8? H:E9 4@?D6CG2E:G6 :562D[ =:<6 2AA@:?E:?8 %F=D: v2332C5[ H9@ 4@FC286@FD=J 5676?5D @FC 4:G:= =:36CE:6D :?
If you don’t want kings, take off the partisan blinders | Roger Koopman
The well-orchestrated “No Kings” protests across America had my conservative buddies bristling — so much so that they made a point of wearing their MAGA caps at our weekly breakfast. I was not the most popular item at the table, after suggesting that the protesters — while motivated more viscerally than intellectually — were in fact illuminating the darker side of our current president. A side that rejects rather than embraces conservative ideals and principles.
The politics of violence, the politics of peace | Roger Koopman
When the announcement came down that 31-year old conservative icon Charlie Kirk was lying dead before his family in a pool of blood — executed for expressing his pro-life, pro-family, pro-freedom beliefs — the giddy “he had it coming” reactions of his political adversaries left us all wondering what kind of country we are living in, and whether gentleness, kindness and human decency mean anything anymore.
The Politics of Violence. The Politics of Peace
When the announcement came down that 31-year old conservative icon Charlie Kirk was lying dead before his family in a pool of blood – executed for expressing his pro-life, pro-family, pro-freedom beliefs – the giddy “he had it coming” reactions of his political adversaries left us all wondering what kind of country we are living in, and whether gentleness, kindness and human decency mean anything anymore.
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