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Swearing in People-Centered Candidates and Co-Governing to Reimagine Family Care
October 21, 2020
TakeAction leaders, members, and community activists have sent more than 67,000 text messages and made more than 475,000 calls to Minnesota voters ready to take action and create the joyful
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It’s Our Duty to Hold Elected Officials Accountable.
Like most people of our country, I am angry. Angry with our leaders, angry with our fellow citizens. Watching debates, town halls and talking heads, I am reminded over and
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We Make the Future. Let’s Get to Work.
The news seems hard every day. It’s full of politicians who care more about power than the people they are supposed to serve. COVID numbers continue to climb because people
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Care is on the Ballot
By Debra Fitzpatrick, Children’s Defense Fund It is a radical act to center care for others in our politics and policy. After years of Children’s Defense Fund Minnesota partnering with
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Get ready to be a voter
What are your memories around voting? I’ll tell you a few of mine. I grew up in Eagan, in an area that was frequently door knocked. One time, my dad
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Remembering in November
The first TakeAction Minnesota event I attended was a summit on women of color in 2016. It was the first space I had ever been in that was just women
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Co-governance, Elections, and Our Role in Defending Democracy
Happy October! My favorite thing about October is babies and animals in costumes (please send pictures if you have them!). I also love GOTV (get out the vote), which usually
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Transforming our Righteous Rage into Powerful Action
Mondays are notorious for mixed feelings, especially right now, as we navigate compounding crises of the climate emergency, the global pandemic, and our nation’s inevitable reckoning with centuries of racial