A bipartisan effort is now underway in Montana to kill the “Dark Money” trick that corporations use to secretly bankroll candidates.

It’s the fall harvest season, when many farm stands and homes decorate with pumpkins, cornstalks and maybe even a straw man.

How to make a straw man? Easy — stuff a couple of burlap bags with hay and dress your “man” in an old flannel shirt, overalls and a straw hat. But today’s billionaires, corporate elites and other political megadonors have come up with their own version of this creature — stuff a couple of silk pillows with thousand-dollar bills, dress him in a finely tailored suit and — viola! — they turn a common straw man into a congressman. Finally, an effort to reverse the legality of that strategy is underway in Montana.

The stuffing is what allows corporate powers to create a government that routinely serves their avarice at the expense of the rest of us. Indeed, in this election season, they’ve already stuffed about $2 billion into Congress creatures who’ll support their AI data centers, tax........

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