Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold closed off access to the state's online election database, known as "TRACER," over the weekend, amid concerns in the aftermath of the politically-motivated shootings and killings in Minnesota.

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — In the fall of 1998, a young attorney named Melissa Hortman made her first run for public office.

A special election to fill slain DFL House leader Melissa Hortman’s seat will be held at some point before February. Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed early Saturday morning in their Brooklyn Park home.

Texas pastor and podcaster Joel Webbon, who is part of the Christian nationalist TheoBro movement, has also said he attended Christ for the Nations (though he has since denounced it as “straight up heretical”). Webbon is a particularly outspoken member of the TheoBros movement, as I wrote in another piece last year:

Two people have been charged with conspiracy to commit voter registration fraud in a case that shows Minnesota's election safeguards work and prevented anyone from voting illegally, Secretary of State Steve Simon said Friday.

Pa. lawmakers want to give state officials more options for hiring security and keeping their addresses and phone numbers private.

Two Nevada residents, formerly of Minnesota, have been charged with conspiracy to engage in voter registration fraud, according to an announcement by Acting U.S

Hundreds have gathered outside Minnesota’s Capitol for a vigil to remember a prominent state lawmaker and her husband gunned down at their home. As a quintet from the Minnesota Orchestra

The recent shootings of lawmakers in Minnesota are part of a disturbing trend toward politically linked violence, ABC News analysts say.

Campaign efforts come as Democrats hold a one-seat majority in the Minnesota Senate, while control of the Minnesota House is evenly split. In the 2024 House race, Rep. Dan Wolgamott, DFL-St. Cloud, narrowly won his reelection bid with 50.36% of the vote while his opponent, Republican Sue Ek, received 49.40%.

The Minnesota Supreme Court suspended Smith from practicing law after finding she named plaintiffs in Big Lie election cases without their consent.