This political assassination, the likes of which have never occurred here in the state of Minnesota, has shook our state at a ...

On one level, the assassination last weekend of Minnesota’s former state House speaker and the grievous wounding of a state senator shocks the conscience in its violence and cruelty. On another ...

Across the country, a rise in political violence is upending norms of democracy and heightening the risks of public service for officials from presidential candidates to Supreme Court justices ...

Community Voices How we react to political violence matters for Minnesota’s future Moments like this shape the future. Let’s make sure we’re building the kind of future we actually want to ...

State Sen. Dave Argall, R-29, Rush Twp. agrees. “The sort of terrible violence we saw over the weekend must never, ever become the way we settle our differences.

Accused political assassin Vance Boelter allegedly sent a deranged confession to FBI Director Kash Patel claiming that Gov.

Robert Pape is a University of Chicago professor who has studied political violence for 30 years. In the past five years, he said, the dynamic of that violence has changed in America and Minnesota ...

“We saw a lot of political violence in the ’60s and ’70s and even in the ’80s, and then they kind of disappeared in the ’90s and 2000s. And so this feels different, having a number of instances in the ...

Police tape blocks off the home of Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman, June 15, 2025, in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Have we normalized political violence? It too quickly fades from memory.

The latest high-profile act of political violence in the United States has left local elected officials very concerned both about the possibility factors that led to the shootings and what lies ahe… ...

Shortly after the shooting, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called the attacks “an act of targeted political violence.” He’s right.