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Liz Loeb, No Going Back
November 14, 2012
When I was 11 years old, a teacher from another classroom decided that the whole school needed to have assigned seats in the lunchroom. We weren’t asked about it, we
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Chris Conry, Big Money is No Match For Our Members
As we enter the final three weeks of the 2012 election season, take a moment to consider your letter carrier. If you live in one of Minnesota’s suburbs, your letter
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Chris Conry, Tipping the Scales Toward the Top 2%
Some decisions are difficult. What to do with the expiring Bush Tax Cuts is not one of them. Immediately after the election the U.S. Congress will meet in its ‘lame
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Mark Schultz, Why Restricting the Right to Vote is Bad for our Land, Farms & Rural Communities
Our Board Chair, Mark Schulz, is the Associate Director of Land Stewardship Project, one of TakeAction Minnesota’s organizational members. This blog is being reposted from their own blog, and can
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Chris Conry, Power, Responsibility, and Voter Restriction
Our economy gets shaped by the rules we make. We decide who’s in and who’s out: who gets to participate and who doesn’t. The rules we make for voting define
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Liz Xiong, Voter Restriction? Let Me Count The Ways
Hmong leaders of our Justice for Veterans campaign know the extreme and painful impacts of being excluded from American society. We value inclusion and dignity for all people and believe
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Justin Terrell, Defeating Voter Restriction & Closing the Racial Jobs Gap
Minnesota is home to over 1 million citizens with criminal backgrounds. Many of them are low level offenders and a disproportionate rate of the incarcerated are people of color. When
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Elizabeth Lienesch, Why Defeating the Voter Restriction Amendment Matters to the Health of Minnesota
TakeAction Minnesota’s health care team doesn’t just work on health care. This fall, the team is also working hard to defeat the Voter Restriction Amendment, an Amendment that would take
