By DARRELL EHRLICK | Editor-in-Chief
"The days of Trump’s supplicant Senate are over,” – Current Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, who is likely to become the U.S. Senate Majority Leader when the new Congress takes office in 2027.
Montanans overwhelmingly approve 3 ballot measures
by Micah Drew, Keila Szpaller, Jordan Hansen
What had been customary in Montana for nearly a century is now constitutional. On Election Day, Montanans made nonpartisan judicial races part of the state’s DNA by adding an amendment, Constitutional Initiative 132, to the state constitution which ensures those races stay that way, despite a recent push by the GOP to make them party-affiliated. […]
Dems flip seats in Montana Legislature
by Jordan Hansen
Montana Democrats flipped two seats in the state Senate in the midterm election, giving the party 20 members in the upper chamber, the highest number it’s had there since 2019. Republicans will have a 30-to-20 advantage in the 2027 Legislative session and a majority in the House as well, though it likely will be slimmer […]
Congressman-elect Forstag says fight for working Montanans just beginning
by Micah Drew
Sam Forstag, Montana’s soon-to-be first Democratic U.S. Representative in three decades, said on Wednesday that winning his election was just the beginning of the fight for working-class Americans. He is going to Washington, D.C., to fight “so that every person in this country and this state can afford to work one good job and afford […]
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