ONE & DONE | GOP voters scuttle reelection prospects of a dozen one-term incumbents
Populists who rode wave of victory in 2024 don't have the same mojo in 2026
A wave of populist conservatives won seats in the South Dakota Legislature in 2024, fueled in part by an anti-establishment, anti-carbon pipeline sentiment.
But two years later, that class of freshman lawmakers might better be known as the class of one and done.
Several of the GOP legislators who won seats under the populist mantle failed to earn reelection Tuesday. The outcomes in those local races diverged from the top of the ticket, where populist standard-bearer Toby Doeden won the most votes in the governor’s race, triggering a runoff with Gov. Larry Rhoden.
Court rules feds can't revoke visa from foreign South Dakota Mines student
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A postdoctoral fellow at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology can’t have her student visa revoked by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a federal judge has ruled.
