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Shaylee Ragar

Can't win if you don't run: Montana Democrats look to contest more local races

Sen. Jon Tester, seen at the U.S. Capitol, is up for reelection in 2024. Montana Democrats don't want him to be the lone Democratic candidate up and down the ballot. They're pushing for Democrats to run for local offices. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Democrats in rural Montana recognize they may be considered a bit of a dying breed. But in August, a group of 50 gathered under the shadow of the Beartooth Mountains for a kickoff party of the newly revived Stillwater County Democratic Central Committee.

"When we were preparing for this, people would ask me, 'isn't this type of event kind of preaching to the choir?'" said Tommy Flanagan, a political organizer who co-chairs the committee. "There is no choir to preach to."

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