Klobuchar Picks Up the Franken Baton

US Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) along with US Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are putting pressure on Chairman US Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to take action and call Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg before the committee. Zuckerberg...

Is Smith’s Campaign Being Scripted by the DSCC?

There is a reoccurring theme being discussed in DFL quarters and it is whether or not the US Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) campaign is being run out of Washington DC by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). This is akin to Central Casting writing formulaic...

Defining the Alignments in the DFL Governor’s Race

Our analysis of the DFL Governor’s race to date has Congressman Tim Walz (D-MN01) as the front-runner, which means he has the target of all of the other campaigns squarely on his back. He represents every other candidate’s worst-case scenario. As the leader of the...

A Wrinkle in the DFL State Convention Agenda

As the process for delegate selection moves through the Senate and County Unit DFL conventions, and the movie version of A Wrinkle in Tie coming out, we thought we would offer our own Wrinkle in the DFL, people should be thinking about where on the agenda the various...

Walz Receives Carpenter’s Endorsement

On Monday, we learned Gubernatorial Candidate Congressman Tim Walz (D-MN01) earn a significant labor endorsement for the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters. This is one of the more active unions which will have a block of votes at the DFL State...