López Franzen is the second Democrat to announce a run for outgoing Sen. Tina Smith’s seat, joining Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (KFGO) – Former Minnesota Senate Minority Leader Melissa Lopez-Franzen is running for the US Senate next year ...

A test of the newly established tie between GOP and DFL lawmakers in the Minnesota House came swiftly Monday after Rep. David Gottfried was sworn in. Gottfried, a Democrat, took his seat after winning ...

Two years after Gov. Tim Walz signed free school meals into law, Mankato district Nutrition Services Director Darcy Stueber is in Washington D.C. this week to advocate for ...

Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) defied House Democratic leadership Tuesday when he voted for the GOP’s bill to avert a government shutdown — the only one in the caucus to support the stopgap. Golden’s ...

In terms of its “surprise factor,” Shaheen’s announcement fell somewhere in between those of her two aforementioned Democratic colleagues, neither of whom could be considered old by Senate standards, ...

New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s decision to not seek reelection marks the latest bit of tough luck for Senate ...

Senate Democrats’ already difficult ... Gary Peters’ and Tina Smith’s seats in Michigan and Minnesota. “It’s no secret that we face a tough map,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) ...

House Democrats ... resemble the districts where Democrats were on defense in the 2024 cycle. But the DCCC added a handful of new lawmakers’ districts to their battleground map after Latino ...

Control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is up for grabs again in an election that has already broken spending records for a ...

House Democrats‘ campaign arm is prioritizing investments in Latino-heavy districts for the 2026 midterm cycle after President Donald Trump made significant inroads with Hispanic voters last year. The ...

In 1995, a NDSU student studying electrical engineering cut telephone cables in order to rob an electronics store, and then ...