Minnesota Now: Nov. 9, 2026
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Stephen Miller has taken the helm as President Donald Trump's chief of staff. We'll hear more from a reporter about his role shaping the administration's aggressive immigration agenda and his push against supposed fraud among Somali Minnesotans.
From Stephen Miller to midterm candidates, we'll dig deeper into how anti-Somali rhetoric is animating politics and showed up in campaigns leading up to last week's election.
Plus, Democrats won big last week, but just how big? We'll ask an expert about how things have played out in the past and what the midterm results signal for what's ahead.
And we'll hear about the reopening of a stretch of Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis and why it's taken 50 years.
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Plus, it’s Monday night football for the Vikings, without their starting quarterback.
Our Minnesota Music Minute was “drip dry” by bugsy and our Song of the Day was “Devil You Know” by Winterstate.
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