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Bodnar is part of a wide field of candidates seeking to replace Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, including three Republicans, five Democrats and two Libertarians.

Roger Koopman writes, "As Daines is proud to admit, this sly little maneuver had the intended effect of keeping every well-known Republican out of the primary and every well-known Democrat out of the general."

Democrats expressed a renewed optimism of adding seats in the Legislature and breaking the Republican hold on statewide offices after two incumbent Republicans bowed out of federal re-election races

Term limits are a part of Montana’s Constitution, but they yield to the U.S. Constitution — and the Supreme Court has spoken.

Jim Elliott writes, "I won’t be voting for Kurt, but my hope is that if he becomes our next US Senator that he will still be the same moral and ethical man I once knew and liked."

Montana's two longest-tenured members of Congress both dropped out of their races for reelection and threw their support behind new candidates.

With endorsements already stacked high, Republican and former U.S. Attorney for Montana Kurt Alme filed for the U.S. Senate in the 2026 election on Wednesday, the day filing closed.

Just before the closure of candidate filing in Montana, incumbent U.S. Sen. Steve Daines withdrew from his re-election campaign for a third term.

Kyle Pfannenstiel (Idaho Capital Sun) Idaho’s top election official recently said he will not give the Trump administration access to sensitive personal information about 1 million Idaho registered voters. In a letter to the U.S. Departm...

On the final day of candidate filing in Montana, former University of Montana President Seth Bodnar filed to run as an independent in the U.S. Senate race to unseat Steve Daines.