Progressive Democrats notched another major victory over the moderate wing of the party in Minnesota Tuesday night, when Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan defeated U.S. Rep. Angie Craig in what’s believed to be the most expensive primary in state history. Flanagan’s commanding win, coming on the heels of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate […]

Minnesota voters on Tuesday will head to the polls to choose which candidates advance to the important November midterm election. On the ballot: all constitutional offices, including governor and attorney general; an open U.S. Senate seat; the highly competitive 2nd Congressional District; and all 201 legislative seats. Tuesday’s election will determine which candidates from each […]

MORGAN, REDWOOD COUNTY — If there’s one thing farmers can always agree on, it’s that times are tough. The four leading Democratic and Republican candidates for U.S. Senate acknowledged the tribulations facing farmers at the annual Farmfest, during a final debate on Wednesday before the Aug. 11 primary. Their assessments of the causes and cures […]

Everyday voters are just starting to tune into the contest to replace U.S. Sen. Tina Smith. On the Democratic column of the primary ballot are U.S. Rep. Angie Craig and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who earned the DFL endorsement in May.  On the Republican column of the primary ballot are Michelle Tafoya, Royce White, and […]

The U.S. Forest Service lost more than 100 Minnesota employees and delayed $10 million in grant funding for wildfire mitigation in the Superior National Forest during the chaotic first year of President Trump’s second term.  Democratic elected officials say those setbacks left Minnesota ill-equipped to face the fires that have burned more than 60,000 acres […]

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan traded critiques of one another Monday during their second debate as the duo face off in a competitive and sometimes acidic Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Minnesota Public Radio politics editor Brian Bakst asked Craig and Flanagan about President Trump’s war in Iran, artificial intelligence regulations, […]

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig regrets that she didn’t see it coming: thousands of masked federal agents flooding American streets, arresting law-abiding immigrants without warrants and packing them in disease-ridden detention centers. If she had, she said she would not have voted for the Laken Riley Act, the first piece of legislation President Donald Trump signed […]