KURT ALME WILL BE A RUBBER-STAMP FOR HIS PARTY BOSSES

Montanans deserve to know the truth about Kurt Alme’s shocking record of refusing to prosecute sexual abuse cases as U.S. Attorney and answering to Washington D.C. insiders instead of fighting for the people of Montana.

Kurt Alme Blindly Supports his Party on the Costly and Unauthorized Iran War

Kurt Alme was asked directly whether the war in Iran should end. His answer: "I think our best way forward is to continue to support our president." Montana doesn't need another sheep in the U.S. Senate, someone who does whatever his party leadership tells him to do. A senator's job isn't to blindly back a president, regardless of party. It's to carry out the constitutional responsibilities of the office, including forcing a real vote before American troops stay committed to a war Congress never authorized. This war has already cost tens of billions of dollars and Montanans are paying for that every time they fill up their tank or buy fertilizer for spring planting. Kurt Alme has shown Montanans exactly which kind of senator he'd be: one who does what he's told.

Kurt Alme Was Installed on the Ballot by Washington D.C. Insiders, Without a Single Republican Vote

Kurt Alme was installed on the ballot in the final minutes before Montana's filing deadline, after Senator Steve Daines withdrew and personally handpicked Alme as his replacement. Republican congressional candidate Al Olszewski said Daines had "betrayed the trust of all Montanans" with a "deceptive maneuver," warning, "We don't simply accept replacements selected by the deep state and D.C. for them to lord power over us." Montana Conservative Alliance president Roger Koopman wrote that "voters were denied a free market of candidate choice. Democracy was made a sham," calling Alme "the candidate Daines and the money-fueled Gianforte machine decided should become our next U.S. Senator." Former Republican state Rep. Adam Hertz wrote that the maneuver "should trouble anyone who believes in fair elections" and that "Montana has long rejected the idea that party establishments should pick our leaders." Even members of Alme's own party understood what this was: a backroom deal that decided who represents Montana before a single voter had a say.

Kurt Alme Cut a Plea Deal With a Man Who Admitted to Sexually Abusing a Six-Year Old Child

As U.S. Attorney, Alme's office cut a plea deal in 2020 for Mychal Thomas Damon, a tribal police officer who admitted to touching a 6-year-old's genitals and was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge carrying a potential life sentence. Alme's office reduced the charge to felony child abuse, changed the victim's stated age from under 12 to under 14, stripped out the language establishing sexual intent, and moved the case entirely out of the federal sex crime framework, meaning Damon was never required to register as a sex offender.

Kurt Alme Failed to Prosecute the Vast Majority of Sex Abuse Cases Referred to His Office

As U.S. Attorney for Montana, Kurt Alme's office declined to prosecute 70 to 79 percent of sex abuse cases referred to it during his first term. In both 2018 and 2020, his office declined to prosecute every single sex abuse case referred to it that year. Montana has one of the highest rates of sexual assault in the country, and the man now asking Montanans to trust him with a U.S. Senate seat spent his career as the state's top federal prosecutor letting the overwhelming majority of these cases go unpunished. 

Kurt Alme Let a Company Selling Fake Cancer Drugs Walk Away With a Fine and Probation

When a company was caught selling fake cancer drugs to Montanans, Alme's office allowed it to resolve the case with a fine and probation, no meaningful accountability for a company that defrauded desperately sick patients. Alme now wants Montanans to believe he'll stand up to Big Tech billionaires and AI companies worth trillions of dollars. He couldn't hold a fake cancer drug company accountable when he had the chance. If Alme wouldn't hold accountable a company that preyed on cancer patients, Montanans have every reason to doubt Alme's willingness to stand up to predatory practices in Washington, D.C.

Kurt Alme Left Indian Country Sex Crimes Unprosecuted at Alarming Rates

Alme's office declined an average of 40 percent of cases originating in Indian Country during his first term. In one year, 2017, that number reached 61 percent. Of the cases his office declined to prosecute in Indian Country, between 26 and 38 percent were sexual assault, sexual exploitation, or failure-to-register-as-a-sex-offender cases involving both child and adult victims. Separate reporting found that from FY2015 through FY2019, his office declined 64 percent of sexual assault cases overall. When asked about it, Alme blamed "weak or insufficient evidence."

Kurt Alme Declined to Prosecute Cases at Among the Highest Rates in the Country

As a Senate candidate, Kurt Alme has branded himself "tough on crime," pointing to his record as U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana. The data tells a different story. During his first term as U.S. Attorney, Alme's office declined to prosecute between 40 and 47 percent of all cases referred to it, well above the national average and among the highest rates in the country. In fiscal year 2019 alone, his office ranked 7th out of 90 U.S. Attorney's offices nationwide for cases declined.

Kurt Alme Fought to Keep Insulin Expensive and Spearheaded Tax Cuts for the Wealthy

While serving as one of Governor Gianforte's registered lobbyists in 2021, Alme's office formally opposed three separate bills that would have lowered the cost Montanans pay for insulin, including one limiting co-pays to $35 a month, all of which failed. A nearly identical cap passed two years later, once Alme was gone. That pattern goes back further: as Montana's revenue director under Governor Judy Martz, Alme spearheaded efforts to cut income taxes for the wealthiest 2%, then returned to the same playbook as Gianforte's budget director, pushing another top-rate cut that was estimated to deliver $1 in annual savings to working class Montanans versus more than $1,000 for those making more than $500K a year.

Kurt Alme is Backed by AI and Big Tech Money While Refusing to Demand Accountability

A pro-AI group called American Mission spent more than $286,000 on a media buy supporting Alme in May 2026. The group is part of a network of political action committees tied to Leading the Future,backed by OpenAI and other tech investors, which has promised to flood more money into Montana to boost Alme. As AI data centers have become one of the most contested issues in Montana this cycle, Alme has largely avoided taking a clear public position, even as the industry funding his campaign lobbies to build in Montana's backyard.