PoliticsPhoto: HT WorldPeggy Flanagan Runs for Minnesota US Senate in 2026
Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota's lieutenant governor and a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nominee, is campaigning for the US Senate seat in the November 2026 midterm elections. She will face Republican Michele Tafoya. If elected, Flanagan will be the first Native American woman in the US Senate. She began her political career on the Minneapolis Board of Education and served in the Minnesota House, focusing on child care and Indigenous issues.
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