A leader of South Dakota Canvassing Group, a pro-Trump organization that’s been pushing for an overhaul of the state’s election system, on Thursday called

With the primary election eight months away, two Republican candidates for major South Dakota offices brought their campaigns to Yankton on Thursday.

Former Sen. Ryan Maher was the last Democratic lawmaker who switched to the Republican Party. He switched in 2011 after serving as a Democrat from 2007 to 2010, while representing a portion of northwestern South Dakota and the Cheyenne River Reservation.

Baxter will be running against current Secretary of State Monae Johnson, who is seeking re-election, and Terrence Davis, a former SD State Trooper.

Madison Republican state Sen. Casey Crabtree announced Monday that he is running for South Dakota’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

It looks like Republicans will have at least two candidates when they choose their nominee for South Dakota secretary of state next year. Rep. Heather Baxter of Rapid City said on Monday she’s running.

When South Dakota’s legislators gather at the state Capitol on September 23 to decide whether to approve construction of a new 1,500-bed men’s state prison, they will be doing so at the call of Governor Larry Rhoden.

South Dakota and Kansas. The two states have more in common than being agriculture-dominant economies. Both states produced politicians who are responsible for