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If current vote tallies hold, Montana legislative Republicans are claiming supermajority status after the midterm election. According to unofficial results, they’ll pick up at least three seats in the state Senate and further solidify their stronghold in the House of Representatives ahead of the 2023 legislative session.
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Republicans are two seats away from holding supermajorities in both chambers of the Montana Legislature. That could have big implications for the 2023 legislative session.
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Hardline conservatives and moderate Republicans continued their longstanding clash at the Montana GOP convention in Billings over the weekend.
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Montana Democrats running for the state Legislature are already facing an uphill battle. Republicans hold a solid majority in both the House and Senate. And in two dozen districts this cycle, Republican candidates will go unchallenged.
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State Attorney General Austin Knudsen sent a Montana Highway Patrol trooper to St. Peter’s Health in Helena in mid-October after a COVID-19 patient and her family were denied ivermectin as a treatment. MTPR's Freddy Monares spoke with the Montana State News Bureau’s Holly Michels about the story.
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The Montana GOP has sent out a mailer blasting the Montana Supreme Court and calling for an investigation into the judicial branch. The mailing is Republicans’ latest attack on the judiciary as they press forward with a special committee that Democrats are calling a violation of the constitutional separation of powers.
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Former U.S. Interior Secretary and Montana U.S. Representative Ryan Zinke may be among the candidates to run for Montana’s new congressional seat.
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Republican U.S. Representatives from Montana and Wyoming split Jan. 13 in votes to impeach President Donald Trump over the deadly insurrection at the Capitol. Ten Republicans joined Democrats to pass the single article of impeachment on a 232 to 197 vote.
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Montana state political leaders issued statements condemning pro-Donald Trump extremists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
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The Montana Republican Party is distancing itself from a statement signed by more than a dozen Republican lawmakers condemning the Confederated Salish...