Democrats Just Secured a Historic Win in Montana

Montanans voted this week to send more Democrats to the state legislature, smashing a Republican supermajority in Big Sky Country.

Democrats gained nine more seats in the state’s House of Representatives, and two more in the state Senate, even as Montanans voted for conservative lawmakers to represent them in Washington.

It won’t be enough to break the Republican trifecta in Montana, but it will be enough to allow Democrats to block conservative bills and negotiate with Governor Greg...