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Voter Fraud Alarmists’ Next Big Stand Is In Minnesota, The Most Voter-Friendly State
July 25, 2019
“We can only imagine their intentions and that they’re looking for data to roll back voting rights, because it’s what they do,” said Kenza Hadj-Moussa, communications director of the progressive advocacy group Take Action Minnesota.
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Omar calls Trump ‘fascist’ after his supporters chant ‘send her back’
[…] In her Minneapolis district, a group of supporters led the welcome rally for Omar at the airport. Omar was scheduled to attend a local Medicare town hall later in
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Rep. Ilhan Omar greeted with new chant upon arrival in Minnesota: ‘Welcome home Ilhan’
After Trump supporters shouted “send her back” at a rally in North Carolina, Rep. Ilhan Omar was met with a new chant upon her arrival in Minnesota: “Welcome home Ilhan.”
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Minnesota extends law blocking HMO sales to for-profits
“We’re relieved that the moratorium was extended, but the job is not done,” said Kenza Hadj-Moussa of DFL-allied TakeAction Minnesota in a statement. “The threat of a legal health care heist is still there, it’s just delayed.”
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DFL, GOP angle for 2020 election edge after Legislature’s session
But issues always matter, said Kenza Hadj-Moussa, spokeswoman for the progressive group TakeAction Minnesota. She hopes voters noticed that the DFL House was “extremely responsive to the needs in people’s lives,” including the cost of insulin, paid leave and driver’s licenses for immigrants.
She also sees an emerging concern that could mobilize voters here and across the nation: new state efforts to ban abortions that have “really awakened a lot of people.”
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State lawmakers debate high cost of medication
Claire Henn of St. Paul said the drug she relied on for her rheumatoid arthritis jumped from $60 per treatment to $1,400 per treatment. She went without it for three
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Governor’s budget first step to fixing state health care
The governor’s budget released on Tuesday has the progress and vision Minnesotans in St. Cloud deserve. When I was an infant, I was diagnosed with common variable immune deficiency. I
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Debate reopens over future of health care in Minnesota
[…] An actuarial analysis shows that nearly 1,865 individual claims were covered by the program in the first nine months of last year at a total cost of $84 million.
