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Organizational Member Spotlight: OutFront Minnesota Makes History
November 14, 2012
Eighteen months ago, TakeAction Minnesota organizational member OutFront Minnesota joined Project 515 to launch Minnesotans United for All Families, the campaign to defeat the amendment. Together, they built the largest
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Justin Terrell, Saying YES to Ending our Racial Jobs Gap
On Monday morning, November 5th, Arthur Cunningham was working on his resume in the computer lab next to the TakeAction Minnesota Northside “Get out the Vote” Action Center. Arthur is
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Chris Conry, Your Vote or Your Job? A New Low in Corporate Electioneering
SuperPACs are old news. As we near November 6th, the trendsetters in corporate electioneering are drafting a disturbing new tool: a letter from the boss. A growing number of C.E.O.s
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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
