9 Indigenous candidates reach the general election ballot for Congress
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Nine Indigenous candidates, including Alaska's Mary Peltola (Yup'ik) and Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (White Earth Nation), have qualified for the November 2026 general election, making this the highest number of Indigenous federal candidates since 2018; 55% of the nine are women, and if Flanagan wins her Senate race, she would become the first known Native American woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Flanagan is running in a race the Cook Political Report rates as 'Likely Democrat,' but the outcome is not yet decided.
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