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Stop thinking just about Election Day. We're in voting season now

Stop thinking just about Election Day. We're in voting season now

Voting for the midterms has started in some states. With more people voting early and mailing in ballots, elections are increasingly less about Election Day and more about what happens weeks earlier.
by Hansi Lo Wang

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Early voting starts for November election

Early voting starts for November election

Minnesota has one of the nation’s longest early-voting periods, which begins Friday. That itself is a campaign issue this year.
by Brian Bakst

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Walz defends state role in Feeding Our Future scandal

Walz defends state role in Feeding Our Future scandal

Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday said the state had raised concerns about Feeding Our Future, the nonprofit at the center of an alleged fraud ring early and called for the investigation of a judge that required the state to restart payments to the nonprofit.
by Dana Ferguson

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One woman's mission to turn out the Native vote in Minnesota's midterm elections

One woman's mission to turn out the Native vote in Minnesota's midterm elections

Early voting in this year's midterm election begins Friday, Sept. 23. After a surge in voter turnout among Indigenous Minnesotans in 2020, guest host Melissa Townsend talks with Nancy Beaulieu her outlook on turn out for this election.
by Melissa Townsend and Sam Stroozas

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Lindell sues to recover cellphone seized by FBI agents

Lindell sues to recover cellphone seized by FBI agents

MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell has sued the Department of Justice and the FBI to demand the return of a cellphone seized from him at a fast food restaurant in Minnesota last week. Agents apparently seized it as part of an investigation into an alleged scheme to breach voting system technology.
by The Associated Press

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Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, will speak with the House Jan. 6 panel

Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, will speak with the House Jan. 6 panel

The committee asked to interview Thomas on her communications with a lawyer pushing for then-Vice President Pence to block the Electoral College count of the 2020 election results.
by Claudia Grisales and Deirdre Walsh

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