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ST. PAUL — It takes big bucks to win — or lose — control of the Legislature. Candidates, their allies and opponents spent more than $31 million in 2016's battles in state House and Senate races, according to a Pioneer Press analysis of reports released Wednesday. The massive...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says President Barack Obama's campaign was "eight, maybe 10 years, ahead" of the Republican Party last year in understanding the rapidly changing face of the American electorate. Gingrich tells "CBS This Morning" that GOP strategists...

BISMARCK -- "You are not to bear false witness against your neighbor." Martin Luther wrote a definition for that commandment in 1529. He said, "We are to fear and love God, so that we do not tell lies about our neighbors, betray or slander them or destroy their reputations. Instead...

Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie uses state funds to campaign against a proposed constitutional amendment that would require voters to show photographic identification, two Republican state senators allege in a complaint filed Thursday. Senators Scott Newman of Hutchinson...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie uses state funds to campaign against a proposed constitutional amendment that would require voters to show photographic identification, two Republican state senators allege in a complaint filed Thursday. Sens. Scott Newman of...

Placement of campaign signs and other unauthorized objects in state highway rights of way is prohibited under Minnesota State Statute 160.27, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT).

For more than a year, a member of Secretary of State Jason Gant's staff ran an online company that sold political campaign materials while he was also working in the Secretary of State Office. Pat Powers operated Dakota Campaign Store before and after joining Gant's staff in January...