Disability Rights Montana

10/03/2025

The federal fiscal year that ended Sept 30 year tough. The worst I’ve seen in my 24 years working for federally funded protection and advocacy systems. This year hasn’t started any better. I need to take care of my people. That means DRMT will be closed for a little bit. We will be back October 13 and when we return we will be rested and ready to fight some more, with all our hearts as that is the only way we know how.
Even prize fighters need to sit down and collect themselves between rounds.
See you soon. Take care.
In Solidarity,
David

10/01/2025

What you can find over on Substack, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app on our podcast Growth Rings

09/21/2025

Get beyond the medical definition of disability.

08/05/2025

Over a dozen other Montana organizations are with us and asking the same question. Who is Jessica Flint and how is it that a person with no known criminal justice work can replace one of our nations most known () on a criminal justice oversight council?

You, yes you, have the power to change the story of Montana. Let’s reroute Montana toward the last best place it is and not toward a best place we can only find in our memories.

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08/04/2025

It’s more important than ever to stay in the know of what’s going on in the world around us. Disability Rights Montana has no hidden agenda. We are here to protect the civil and human rights of Montanans with disabilities. Support us by signing up for our newsletter and learn how we push against injustice and how you can do the same in your community.

07/30/2025

Hitler’s antisemitism and racial hatred were his own twisted ideology. However, the American eugenics movement significantly influenced development and implementation of N**i eugenic policies, particularly sterilization laws and the concept of racial hygiene.

America wrote a significant amount of the playbook for the eugenics movement and there are people looking to give these ideas a second life. We cannot let this happen.

Speak out against Eugenics.

07/29/2025

Over a dozen Montana organizations call for reinstatement of ACLU of Montana to criminal justice oversight council.

“ individuals entangled in the criminal legal system deserve a civil rights designated, who is deeply connected to our state and it’s people, and who has a known track record of engaging on these issues” Akilah Deernose, Executive Director, ACLU of Montana.

if you share our concern regarding the ACLU of Montana being removed from the criminal justice, oversight council, any member of the public can send a message to Governor Gianforte at https://governor.mt.gov/Contact/

07/03/2025

CALL ZINKE TODAY!

Zinke voting for the reconciliation bill will hurt his neighbors. Over 111,000 Montanans in the first district have health insurance through Medicaid including 45,000 children and 10,000 seniors. Based on Congressional Budget Office estimates 12,000 of them will become uninsured under the house reconciliation bill Zinke previously voted for and the Senate bills Medicaid cuts are even deeper.

Almost 17,000 Montana families in the first district rely on supplemental nutrition assistance program otherwise known as snap to put food on their tables. Half of these families include a person with disabilities, more than a third include an adult age 60 or older, and more than 40% include children. Nearly 10,000 Montanas Ziziki‘s district are in danger of losing some or all of their SNAP benefits and 80% of them live in families with children.

06/19/2025

Get ready for Crow Native Days starting tomorrow! Link to event website in bio.

05/23/2025

We're aren't going to do any of this by ourselves.

We need you to tell us the ways Montana needs to change in order to better the lives of people with disabilities living in the Treasure State.

Our ask? Watch this video, fill out the survey, and share with your friends and colleagues.

This is our ask for you to fill out a survey to tell us how we can move toward making Montana better for your family friends and neighbors with disabilities....

05/12/2025

https://youtu.be/mWQBkQJbtTE

This is our ask for you to fill out a survey to tell us how we can move toward making Montana better for your family friends and neighbors with disabilities....

05/07/2025

Change the landscape of education for Montana students. You can steer this work by filling out this survey: https://forms.office.com/r/1AxSWpVdF2