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Chris Conry, Big Money is No Match For Our Members
October 17, 2012
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, 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
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Elizabeth Lienesch, More Benefits From the ACA Rolling In
Nearly 1 million MN women guaranteed access to preventive health services at no cost. Thanks again Obamacare! The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has delivered yet another huge benefit this month!
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Chris Conry, Leaving Behind the Aristocracy
America’s founders disagreed about many things, but were united by one desire: they wished to leave behind the aristocratic form of government they’d experienced as a colony of Great Britain.
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Chris Conry, Why You Pay More Taxes Than The 1%
Our current tax system is slanted in favor of the super-rich. That’s the basic judgment that Warren Buffett made when he recently pushed to make billionaires pay a tax rate
