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Matthew Blake

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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Matthew Blake

    How Lisa Demuth ‘floated to the top’ to lead Minnesota Republicans (opens the original)

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    Editor’s note: This is the second of two stories on Lisa Demuth’s rise to the candidacy for governor. The first focused on Demuth finding home in Cold Spring and entry into politics. Lisa Demuth’s most ardent critics and strident supporters converge on this point: No one pegged her to one day lead House Republicans and, from there, arguably become the most consequential figure in the Minnesota Republican Party. “She was more of an unknown,” said state Rep. Danny Nadeau, R-Rogers. “It was a surpr

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Matthew Blake

    What makes Demuth run: The unlikely rise of a category-defying politician (opens the original)

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    Editor’s note: This is the first of two stories on Lisa Demuth and her rise to candidacy for governor. Lisa Demuth and I sit at school-style desks designed for kindergartners. “Yeah, you can have them,” she says with a smile to a child eyeing the bucket of crayons in front of her. It is another day of gross heat at the Minnesota State Fair. We are stationed in a kids drawing area, between the Lisa Demuth for Governor booth – with its requisite prize wheel, fans and flyers – and an exhibit hawkin

  3. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Matthew Blake

    Republicans are deserting League of Women Voters candidate forums (opens the original)

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    This post comes from our Capitol Conversations newsletter. Sign up here to get Matthew Blake’s takes on the latest Minnesota state government news, delivered to your inbox Thursday mornings. At a capacity meeting room in the Moorhead Public Library Tuesday night, state Sen. Rob Kupec, DFL-Moorhead, and his Republican challenger Austin Peterson were put to the test. Kupec and Peterson each answered on the spot 29 different questions posed by audience members, each involving a substantive issue. H

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Matthew Blake

    Republicans are deserting League of Women Voters candidate forums (opens the original)

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    This post comes from our Capitol Conversations newsletter. Sign up here to get Matthew Blake’s takes on the latest Minnesota state government news, delivered to your inbox Thursday mornings. At a capacity meeting room in the Moorhead Public Library Tuesday night, state Sen. Rob Kupec, DFL-Moorhead, and his Republican challenger Austin Peterson were put to the test. Kupec and Peterson each answered on the spot 29 different questions posed by audience members, each involving a substantive issue. H

  5. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Matthew Blake

    Crime in Minnesota is dropping and we don’t know why (opens the original)

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    This post comes from our Capitol Conversations newsletter. Sign up here to get Matthew Blake’s takes on the latest Minnesota state government news, delivered to your inbox Thursday mornings. The last race for Minnesota attorney general focused on violent crime. In 2022, Republican challenger Jim Schultz accused DFL incumbent Keith Ellison of a “crazy anti-police ideology” and policies “that led to an increase in crime in at-risk communities.” A New York Times article from four years ago claimed

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