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Bernie Sanders revives his movement in Minnesota ahead of Super Tuesday voting
February 29, 2020
“I think that in 2016, I just remember feeling like this is so amazing … but how could this ever happen? There is so much work to do,” said Naomi Hornstein, who spent Friday afternoon texting voters from the TakeAction Minnesota office in St. Paul. “And now I’m seeing it’s really, really possible.”
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TakeAction Minnesota backs Sen. Bernie Sanders
The progressive group, a powerhouse in DFL politics, chooses the Vermont senator in Minnesota’s presidential primary. A powerful Minnesota progressive group has endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders in the state’s upcoming
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Youth, diversity take the reins of power at St. Paul City Hall
It wasn’t until Nelsie Yang volunteered on Dai Thao’s 2015 St. Paul City Council reelection campaign that she realized people of color could be elected officials. “I didn’t even know
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Network-building pays off in Nelsie Yang’s groundbreaking council win
Nelsie Yang’s 3-year-old niece was at her side when she learned that she’d been elected to the St. Paul City Council, after eight hours of ballot counting and 18 months of campaigning.
“I’m just so happy she’s here,” Yang said after her victory in the Sixth Ward race was called Friday. “When I was 3 years old, I never would have imagined myself being here.”
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Election reveals changing face of leadership in Twin Cities suburbs
The newly elected women say the trend has been building over the last few years, and they credit each other for support and inspiration, as well as organizations such as TakeAction Minnesota, Women Organizing Women and Women Winning, aimed at encouraging women to seek public office.
Such women are “feeling a sense of confidence because they are seeing representation now that look like them,” said Pahoua Yang Hoffman, executive director of the Citizens League. “The community is also rallying around them.”
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Dai Thao, Nelsie Yang win St. Paul City Council races after Round 2 of vote count
Buoyed by a series of powerful labor organizations, TakeAction Minnesota organizer Nelsie Yang defeated five fellow candidates on Friday to win the open seat on the St. Paul City Council representing Payne-Phalen and the Greater East Side.
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Michael Bloomberg’s Minnesota largesse preceded presidential bid
Long before he launched a late-stage presidential bid with an ad blitz across Minnesota and other battleground states, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg put his vast fortune to work
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Impatient for change, progressives line up to challenge DFL incumbents
A bevy of progressives are challenging longtime Democratic incumbents in the Legislature in next year’s elections, potentially sending more women, millennials and people of color to the State Capitol while shifting the DFL dialogue to the left.
