Flanagan grew up in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, an inner-ring suburb of Minneapolis. She is a citizen of the White Earth Nation. She got her start as a community organizer organizing the urban indigenous community, including for U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone's 2002 reelection campaign. Flanagan was elected to and served on the Minneapolis Public Schools Board from 2005 to 2009. In 2015, she was elected to the Minnesota House, representing a section of Minneapolis's western inner-ring suburbs.

Flanagan was elected lieutenant governor in 2018 and reelected in 2022, both times as Tim Walz's running mate, becoming the first woman of color elected to statewide office in Minnesota, and at the time of her election, the highest-ranking Native American woman to hold elected office in the country.[4] On February 13, 2025, Flanagan announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat to which Tina Smith has declined to run for reelection in 2026.[5]

Flanagan was born on September 22, 1979, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota,[6] where she was raised by her mother, Patricia Elizabeth Flanagan, a lifelong DFL activist who worked for Hubert Humphrey.[7] Her father was Marvin Manypenny, an American Indian land rights and sovereignty activist.[8] She is of Irish and Ojibwe descent[9] and is a citizen of the White Earth Nation.

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