
First, let’s state the obvious: no one believes anything in 2026 is non-partisan, including the courts. So what is up with the ballot initiative paying assholes in Missoula to harass people for their signature?
There is a desperate and cynical ploy from Montana Democrats to convince and/or gaslight Montanans into believing the bullshit, shoveled by entities like the ACLU, that Montanans prefer PEOPLE over PARTY when choosing judges in this VERY corrupt judicial system.
Here’s the bullshit I will be decoding for today’s post from the ACLU website:
Judges should be elected based on their record and qualifications, not their political party. Montanans have been electing judges in non-partisan elections since 1935.
Politicians in Helena are actively trying to take control of Montana’s court system by passing laws that inject party politics into our judicial system. We need to protect our courts from the threat of political control and ensure that judges remain nonpartisan. This ballot measure protects our long-standing tradition of selecting judges based on the person, not the party.
My assertion, which I will I back up by exposing the groups behind this effort, is that party politics is already all over the “court system”, it’s just difficult to see behind the smokescreen of “non-partisanship”.
If the courts were NOT a partisan-soaked machine functioning as part attack dog, part protection racket, for Montana Democrats, then explain how State Senator, Ellie Boldman, still has a prominent career?
The notorious political rise of this Idaho transplant who used a homeless shelter in Missoula to launch her political career is actually one of the best ways to see the REAL political tentacles slithering behind this effort to keep Montanans bamboozled about how bad the court system has become.
Last month two separate initiatives became one and, according to the Daily Montanan, here’s who, and what, is paying the signature-gatherers to panhandle Missoulians for their scribbled consent:
According to a Thursday press release, Montanans for Fair and Impartial Judges, the group started by Ted Dick and Pepper Peterson that sponsored CI-131, announced their endorsement of CI-132.
The consolidation “signals a united effort to protect Montana voters’ 90-year right to nonpartisan judicial elections,” Dick said in a press release. “Montanans for Fair and Impartial Judges believes Montanans for Nonpartisan Courts has a strong policy and the resources to ensure the initiative qualifies for the ballot, which is why we have chosen to formally endorse CI-132.”
Dick has formally requested to withdraw CI-131 with the Montana Secretary of State.
Montanans for Nonpartisan Courts is a coalition comprising multiple advocacy groups throughout the state including Montana Federation of Public Employees, Big Sky 55+, ACLU of Montana, Forward Montana, and Catalyst Montana.
The first name that gave the game away for me is the name “Pepper Petersen”, president and CEO of the Montana Cannabis Guild. To give you a sense of the hierarchy Pepper has within the weed industry, he would probably be getting pegged by Ellie Boldman if Montana Democrats ran EYES WIDE SHUT parties.

The next big giveaway is “Forward Montana”, the political creation of Matt Singer and former employer of Catherine Virginia Tooley Shepard before she committed suicide, a sad and tragic death that helps highlight how corrupt the “courts” are, since you would hope that a powerful woman involved in allegedly bullying Catherine for the extramarital affair she had with the woman’s husband would have faced some kind of accountability for her behavior.
I’ll give the ACLU an honorable mention, since Gwen Florio’s husband, Scott Crighton, was its sole director from 1988 to when he stepped down in 2015 to enjoy the retired life and eventually travel with his fiction-writing wife from their new home base in New Jersey.
Gwen Florio, I will remind readers, was instrumental in controlling the narrative around the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office ability to euthanize a black man in a private hospital room. Once that part of the narrative was controlled, the inability of the Stevenson family to find a willing lawyer ANYWHERE in Montana highlights, again, the power of what we’re talking about here to maintain this illusion for the courts and the “non-partisan” role they supposedly play in providing equal justice under the law.
Finally, my favorite “group” in this list of illusion-protectors is the rebranded group calling itself “Catalyst Montana”, formerly known as the Montana Human Rights Network, something I only found out because I showed up to rain on their exploit-the-homeless parade.
If you want to better understand where the Montana Human Rights Network was coming from before they felt the need to rebrand, here is a post I wrote four years ago, titled On Democracy, The Montana Human Rights Network, And The Wrong Kind Of Black People.
And, if you want to better understand “Catalyst Montana”, here’s a screenshot from their new effort to do the same shit under a different name:

In summary, this effort to maintain a false illusion of non-partisanship for the courts appears, upon further scrutiny, to be nothing more than partisan bullshit, but the partisans have money, while I, in contrast, am wondering how I’ll cover my bills this month.
If you would like to help with the latter, I’m my gofundme is 94% to $5,000, a modest figure I set out to raise several years ago. Meanwhile, ICE shooters and widows of dumb martyrs raise over a million.
Such is life in a 250 year old retarded dumpster fire where we allow psychopaths and cyborg nerds to openly harvest our children.




































