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Melissa Hortman lived that every day as a Minnesota House member. Her unique perspective on politics came from her job as the House’s top Democrat and its unusual challenge. She had to defend liberal priorities in a chamber divided 67-67 between Democrats and Republicans while working to see that the even split didn’t keep the Legislature from funding state government.

Threats and violent acts have become part of the political landscape, still shocking but somehow not so surprising.

The attacks on two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers at home are the latest in a grim and alarming spike in political violence.

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A massive manhunt entered a second day on Sunday in Minnesota for the gunman who killed a Democratic state lawmaker while posing as a police officer, a crime that Governor Tim Walz characterized as a "politically motivated assassination.