A man indicted Tuesday on charges he fatally shot the Democratic leader in the Minnesota state House and her husband, and wounded another lawmaker and his wife, confessed to the crimes in a rambling handwritten letter to FBI Director Kash Patel,

President Donald Trump has been in office for less than six months, but the Democratic campaign to replace him seems to have already begun.

Chad McKenna, of Duluth, is the fourth DFL candidate to enter the race. The seat has been held by Republican Rep. Pete Stauber since 2019

See Democratic candidates positioning early for the 2028 election, with strategies focused on pivotal states like South Carolina and New Hampshire.

A host of leading younger Democrats are crafting a new group aiming to prevent the party from being in the “permanent minority,” the New York Times reported Thursday. Members of the group, which is called Majority Democrats,

Sen. John Hoffman, of the state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, was initially hospitalized in critical condition after he and his wife were shot at their Minneapolis-area home.

Rep. Angie Craig (DFL-MN) is among 30 or so “prominent younger Democrats,” as Katie Gluek of the New York Times calls them, who’ve formed a new group determined to save their party from permanent minority status. (But they seem so comfortable in that role!)

Former Democratic congressman for Minnesota Dean Phillips warned the Democratic Party against embracing nominees like New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, saying a victory in the general election would be a “grave threat” to the party’s chances in the 2026 midterm elections.