Words matter. Lake County residents know some legislators to be truly conservative, yet they get a “C” at best in this index.
Current News
Finley Warden, Candidate for HD13, Makes MTGOP Honor Roll!
See the ‘Honor Roll’ for Montana Republicans announced by MTGOP!
Click HERE for the latest press release that leads you to the lists of those who are no longer considered Republicans, as well as those who are on the honor roll.
Included on the Honor Roll:
“The Honor Roll Candidates deserve recognition for standing firmly behind the Republican platform and its principles, as well as supporting the MTGOP and its grassroots base of Montana Republicans,” MTGOP Chairman Art Wittich said.
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National Popular Vote Compact Coming?
Thanks to indefinite counting going on after Election Day, Kamala Harris’ popular vote is now at over 75 million, quietly creeping up from the initial counts. With compromised voter rolls anything is possible. That number may be used to justify a compact that looks like interstate collusion. Would it be constitutional? If we lose midterms and SCOTUS is packed, what may happen?
One of the stories found on the internet:
Map shows states in National Popular Vote Compact as Virginia joins effort
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‘Dark Money’ in Politics
If you’re not worried about future elections and what is being done to the MT Constitution by way of initiatives, you must have missed Representative Tracy Sharp’s presentations on ‘Dark Money’ (last one April 10 for a crowd of Pachyderm attendees in Polson).
Tracy has done quite some research on Dark Money, and told us how it all actually started right here in Montana… For those who may be wondering about who funds the people flocking to ‘No Kings’ protests, wonder no more: Tracy shared that information as well.
Excerpts (more in minutes posted under ‘Pachyderm Club’:
$294,487,641!
How does this happen?
MTGOP Rebukes Republicans
President Trump is on the ballot in 2026!
Fellow Patriots,
2026 is a critical year for our nation. We must retain the House and Senate to keep President Trump’s great revival and revitalization of America rolling! Make no mistake about it–President Trump is on the ballot in 2026, even though it is a mid-term!
The totalitarian left as we saw during the Biden years is seeking to thwart every good thing done by this President so they can seize power and ruthlessly wield that power to jail their opposition, rig the election process, arrest conservatives while letting leftist off scott free, replace native American voters with imported illegals from around the globe, and push America into being a socialist hell-hole where only the elite live well and the common citizen pays for it in taxes.
The Montana GOP is the only game in town capable of derailing the totalitarian plans of the far and extremely well funded left (think Soros, Bill Gates, etc,.).
No matter what you thought of the MTGOP of the past, there is a new sheriff in town with Art Wittich’s election to Chair. The new group is working hard to implement decisive change, and that ‘change’ has the establishment hopping mad! The power brokers of old are working hard to make the new MTGOP fail! They liked the bland ‘we support everyone with an ‘R’ behind their name’ approach that went before, but those days are over. Chair Wittich is working hard to restore power to the grassroots and take it away from the rich ‘party bosses’ that had long counted on their big-money donations to ensure they got only the people they wanted elected to the legislatures of the state and federal government.
The power brokers fear this change and are betting against the new MTGOP!
We need your help to restore power to the people where it belongs. To the maximum extent possible, please attend the Winter Kickoff event this year, take the training, and let’s win big for the people in 2026. Let’s put real ‘America First’ conservative candidates in office, and let’s keep the federal House and Senate in the hands of Republicans–for the sake of our great President, Donald Trump! President Trump is on the ballot!! Get all your unregistered friends out to vote and keep the Trump Train rolling–for the sake of our future!
And if you haven’t contributed to the MTGOP before, I understand. But this has to change now. We are up against big-moneyed interests that do not want you to have a voice but instead want to preserve the status quo. Let’s send them a message and help reviatlize the NEW MTGOP! Donate, and give generously.
We must win in 2026. Our future is at stake!
See you in Great Falls!
Tracy Sharp
Chair, Lake County Republican Central Committee
December 1, 2025
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The Republican Party Gets Results for Montanans
From the MTGOP website:
When Montana voters elected Republicans to every statewide office and gave us majorities in both legislative chambers, they did so expecting us to deliver on the core tenets of our platform: lower taxes, smaller government, and stronger families. We’re doing exactly that.
Read more from Art Wittich, MTGOP Chairman, HERE!
(Published in Lee Enterprises newspapers, January 24, 2026)
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Funding Our Own Demise
Montana Citizens Action Group points to an interesting article that, among other things, compares government expenditures between entities in Lake County.
Click the image for the article found in the Western Montana Water Rights blog.
January 25, 2026
