According to audio obtained by The New York Times, Republican Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy used racist stereotypes when speaking about Native Americans during a private fundraiser in 2023.

The U.S. Senate race in Montana will almost certainly decide who controls the chamber in 2025. It may also mark the beginning of the end of split-ticket voting in a presidential year, when every election becomes intimately tied to the fight at the top of the ticket.

Montana Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ryan Busse provided 10 years of income tax records on Tuesday as he sought to goad Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte into debating him ahead of the November election.

A three-judge federal appeals panel said that a law passed by Republicans in the Legislature to eliminate double-voting, something already illegal, violates the U.S. Constitution, siding with a federal judge in Montana who stopped the law.

Remaining neck-in-neck with the incumbent Senator from Big Sandy, Tim Sheehy recently took a moment to look beyond his campaign and toward a potential life in government.

The Montana Democratic Party says they plan to appeal the decision in a case which has connections to one of the most consequential political contests in the nation.

Democratic incumbent hopes GOP voters toss him a lifeline in the deep red state

HELENA — 2020 and 2022 were challenging election cycles for Montana Democrats, with Republicans sweeping statewide races and making gains in the state Legislature. Democratic leaders say that was in the background as they planned their get-out-the-vote efforts this time around.

Voters will decide on significant changes to the state’s voting system this November with Constitutional Initiatives 126 and 127 officially on the ballot.

Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen this week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case involving two state election administration laws that were declared unconstitutional by the

Montana's Senate race could determine whether Democrats or Republicans control Congress' upper chamber after the election.