I approached the minimum wage door knock I had signed up for yesterday tired and stressed. I wasn’t fully committed to being there but wanted to follow-through on what I
The top three Election Day lessons
Now that the dust has settled, and all the ranked choice votes have been counted, we know that two longtime TakeAction Minnesota members have climbed another rung on the political
Minnesota’s expungement laws targeted
From fair-housing advocates to felons, dozens of people lined up Tuesday to tell lawmakers that laws designed to give reformed offenders a second chance are failing and should be overhauled.
David beats Goliath!: How the little guy beat the mega-corporation
With all the Republican obstructionism and Democratic spinelessness in Washington, not to mention the distractions of the Obamacare website, it can be hard to feel good about politics at all
Can this reality — work very hard, don’t get very far — be ended?
Rep. Ryan Winkler may be a Harvard- and Minnesota-educated lawyer and four-term DFL legislator from Golden Valley, but he’s also a guy from Bemidji who watched his hometown friends and
The Progressive Electoral Wave of 2013
The political and media elites obsessed only with Washington intrigue and the next presidential race thought New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s predictable re-election was the big story of the 2013
Dai Thao is first Hmong-American elected to St. Paul City Council
Dai Thao, an information technology manager who moved to St. Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood from the North End two years ago, has defeated six other candidates to become the first Hmong-American
TakeAction Minnesota Congratulates Dai Thao on Election to St. Paul City Council
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 11, 2013Contact: Greta Bergstrom, 651.336.6722, greta@takeactionminnesota.org St. Paul, MN (November 11, 2013) – TakeAction Minnesota’s Executive Director, Dan McGrath, released the following statement in reaction
Celebrating HOW we won
Last Friday, at our Annual Leadership Awards Celebration, we celebrated the concrete change we have all won that makes our lives and the lives of our loved ones – and
Rosenblum: TakeAction Minnesota helped Target ban the box
Target Corp.’s decision to Ban the Box is a victory for many ex-offenders, and a wise and moral move for the wildly popular discounter. But it would be a shame