The Secretary of State is the chief elections officer. While elections are administered by local units of government, the Secretary of State’s office certifies elections returns, operates the statewide voter registration system, oversees other election duties. In addition to elections work, the Secretary of State’s office conducts the review, approval, and filings of all businesses and organizations in Minnesota.
Far too many Minnesotans are forced to choose between prescription drugs and other necessities, like rent and groceries. Many are even forced to go without their medications. It’s time to change the rules and create an official body that asks why prescription drugs are priced so high and starts getting these costs under control. We need to tell legislators to pick a side: Minnesota’s families or Big Pharma’s profits.
TakeAction Minnesota is proud to endorse Mary Moriarty for Hennepin County Attorney, a critical public office with broad authority to advance justice. This midterm election matters and there’s a clear choice. We need someone who will move toward interventions focused on public safety and treat everyone equally under the law. Mary Moriarty is the only candidate who will fight for the people in order to deliver true justice for all of us.
BREAKING: The heads of thirteen climate and environmental justice organizations are on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. right now, risking arrest to protect climate justice legislation and denounce Senator Manchin’s #DirtyDeal.
Rent stabilization protects people from steep, predatory rent hikes. It also ensures that we as landlords can still invest in and improve our properties while doing our part to help curb the affordable housing crisis, renting with integrity.
Coming into this week after observing Labor Day, we’ve been reflecting on our collective power as workers. Unions are more popular than ever, workers are winning, and there is a lot
At TakeAction Minnesota, we came into this election season clear on the stakes and challenges of this moment. At every level of government, we know that we need more than Democratic majorities to protect our reproductive rights, climate, and democracy. We need progressive leaders in office who will be champions with us to transition from fossil fuels, transform public safety beyond policing, build a caring economy, and deliver reproductive justice.
Chantal Oechsle is a community leader focused on making sure every student has a safe and supportive school here in our district.
“We’re seeing a department that is likely to be far less transparent or accountable than we’d been pushing for in previous campaigns,” Hadj-Moussa said. “One of the reasons for that is having one commissioner at the top who reports to the mayor, who has no oversight from the city council, is just going to make all functions of public safety fall heavy on that one person.”
This Primary Election, we have a choice between politics as usual, and politics as it should be. Between candidates who will organize for the bold change we need in the face of compounding social, economic and climate crises, and politicians who have proven they won’t.
