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April 13, 2017

April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention month, according to President Trump…

How are you doing on a physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual level? As TakeAction Minnesota’s Women of Color Organizer, asking this question to leaders at the end of our meetings

April 12, 2017

What’s in the state Health Care budget bills?

I’ve been thinking about health care at the Capitol this year as a three-act play.  Act I: The Legislature passed a $300 million bill in January to assist Minnesotans buying

March 24, 2017

Donald Trump’s budget proposal is visionary. (And Steve Bannon is a romantic.)

“There’s no question this is a hard-power budget. It is not a soft-power budget. This is a hard-power budget. And that was done intentionally.” – Mick Mulvaney, Director of the

March 21, 2017

Thanks to you, hope is on the move across Minnesota

6 cities. 1 day. Nearly 1,000 Minnesotans.   On Saturday, nearly a thousand Minnesotans gathered at six locations across the state for our Annual Meeting – St. Paul, Duluth, St. Cloud,

March 16, 2017

What I’m thinking about this St. Patrick’s Day

Against the famine and the crown, I rebelled, they cut me down…  These words are from an Irish folk song I often sing to my kids before they go to

March 2, 2017

We will never solve health care…

… if we don’t understand the roots of how we got to here. It’s very easy to use the words “Medicaid,” “Medicare,” “MinnesotaCare Buy-in” and “Obamacare” in a sentence, but

February 22, 2017

Is Trump a fascist?

I don’t think so, here’s why.  In answering this question, we’re better off taking the advice of Corey Lewandowski, the President’s one-time campaign manager, who directed his staff to ‘Let