As filings close, Republican Steve Daines withdraws from U.S. Senate race
Montana U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme is the only remaining Republican on the ballot. Tester lambasted exclusionary timing.
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"The many dangers LaFayette faced included an assassination attempt on the same night Medgar Evers was murdered in Mississippi, in what the FBI said was a conspiracy to kill civil rights workers. LaFayette was beaten outside his home before his assailant pointed a gun at him..."
"LaFayette grew up in Tampa, Florida, where he recalled trying to board a trolley with his grandmother when he was 7 years old. Black passengers had to pay at the front, then walk to the back to climb on. But the conductor began to pull away before they could board, and his grandmother fell. He was too little to help.
"He was beaten in Montgomery, Alabama, and arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, becoming one of more than 300 Freedom Riders sent to Parchman Prison...
"Several of King’s marches were attacked by white mobs..."
https://apnews.com/article/bernard-lafayette-voting-rights-organizer-dies-f2f526a1a0b911edb9ef3c219cee77e8
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Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85. LaFayette laid the foundations of the Selma, Alabama, campaign that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. He helped lead the fight to integrate Nashville, Tennessee, as a student. He was a Freedom Rider and helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. LaFayette was an organizer with the Chicago Freedom Movement and national coordinator of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign.
Colonel John Gibbon and the Making of Montana:
Soldier, Commander, and Reluctant Witness to the Indian Wars
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The history of Montana Territory in the 1870s cannot be examined fully without confronting the figure of Colonel John Gibbon. From his long tenure at Fort Shaw in the Sun River Valley to his pivotal roles in the…for further reading see link below.
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Approval for #Trump’s massive #EastWing #ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings & land in the nation’s capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.
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https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/politics/trump-east-wing-ballroom-commission-vote?cid=ios_app
President Donald Trump’s massive East Wing ballroom project is poised to get its final approval from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation’s capital, despite receiving over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.
The remarkable speed with which the multi-million-dollar project has progressed has underscored an emboldened Trump’s personal interest in unveiling a finished #ballroom before the end of his second term, part of a broader effort to remake the White House & Washington to suit his style & taste.
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Approval by the NCPC on Thursday would mean that any further attempt to halt construction would require intervention from the courts.
The most serious legal challenge comes from a case brought by historical preservationists, who argue that #Trump needs congressional approval to carry out the construction. And there are already questions about the validity of Thursday’s NCPC vote.
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That expected approval would come weeks after the Commission of Fine Arts, another federal agency where #Trump installed political allies, voted to approve the design & days after a federal judge rejected the nation’s top #historic #preservation group’s attempt to block it.
Since returning to office, #Trump has stacked the 12-member commission with loyalists, & earlier this week, the NCPC executive director published a recommendation to “(approve) the preliminary & final site & building plans for the East Wing Modernization Project located on the grounds of the White House,” all but guaranteeing that the project will move forward.
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Objections centering around the “Trumpification” of the White House & fears that the #ballroom represented “authoritarian self-aggrandizement” were a common theme among the tens of thousands of comments urging the commission to reject the plan. The much smaller number of comments in support of the construction cited the need for a larger & more modern space as reason for backing it.
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The National Capital Planning Commission is expected to take a final vote today to approve plans for the #ballroom, marking the latest clearance for the project in a process that has been on a fast track since #Trump suddenly demolished the #EastWing last October. Approval by the NCPC would mean that any further attempt to halt construction would require intervention from the #courts.
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