Minnesota DFL’s Ken Martin elected national Democratic Party chair on first ballot. News & Politics. A battle between Midwesterners: Minnesota’s Ken Martin takes the lead in DNC race.

Minnesotans said goodbye to Melissa and Mark Hortman on Saturday with a grand tribute honoring the slain DFL leader’s legacy ...

Martin, who had led the DFL since 2011, was elected to helm the DNC in early February and won overwhelmingly on the first ballot, ending a three-month battle with several other Democrats.

Melissa Hortman will always be remembered as a giant in Minnesota politics and she’ll live forever in the memories of ...

The Minnesota House’s top Democrat helped shepherd a package of liberal initiatives to passage when her party had a narrow majority two years ago.

A Minnesota senator accused of breaking into her stepmother’s Detroit Lakes home in April 2024 heads to trial on Monday.

Melissa Hortman, a top Minnesota Democrat in the state house, and her husband were fatally shot by a gunman impersonating a police officer in what Governor ...

And that DFL Chair Ken Martin had been summoned to the scene to serve as the “point of contact” with law enforcement. This was a big story that needed telling.

A golden retriever that belonged to Melissa Hortman, the Democratic Minnesota lawmaker shot and killed at her home in what was described as an “act of targeted political violence,” was ...

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin said "She wasn’t only a leader — she was a damn good legislator, and Minnesotans everywhere will suffer because of this loss." Minnesota Rep. Dan ...