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Get out to caucus!

BE PART OF THE PRECINCT CAUCUSES AND CONVENTIONS.

WE’LL BE THERE AND WE WANT YOU TO JOIN US. WHY? 

We participate in the party process, even when we operate as an independent political alignment, because we believe that in order to build this statewide alignment and political power – we need to support our candidates on their path toward winning elections. To do this, we fill the rooms with our progressive voices. We support and uphold our progressive champions. We make sure our communities are led by people who look like us and understand our needs.

Without engaging in the process it will continue to be closed, confusing, and power will be isolated – held by a precious few who know the rules. We need to be informed and we need to act powerfully by acting together.

NOW LET’S GET TO IT, IT’S CAUCUS TIME

Precinct Caucuses: Tuesday, March 1st from 6:30 – 8:00PM. Find your location here!

  1. Support TakeAction endorsed and/or your local candidates by becoming a delegate – March 1st is the night to ensure you are chosen.
  2. Make your voice heard within the party by carrying a resolution – this lifts up the issues most important to us and building our movement.
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Vision Duluth Launches!

For the last year we’ve been working hard at TakeAction and with other organizations to put together a shared vision for Duluth rooted in equity and democracy. Personally, I’ve participated in hundreds of conversations with people who’s voices are too often invisible and unheard. And I am so inspired by what has come out of these conversations and how it has created a clear path for our work at TakeAction.  After hearing from hundreds of people, and sharing with thousands more, we are finally ready to bring this vision to the larger community. On October 19th we’re launching Vision Duluth!

What is Vision Duluth?

It began as nine organizations thinking together about how to strengthen our capacity to move forward policies that advance equity across our city. It moved into hundreds of VisionDuluthLogoconversations across our city where people began to imagine what a new vision for Duluth could be. It’s about working together, across organizations and with individuals, to address disparities by moving equitable solutions at a city level. Vision Duluth is rooted in the belief that together we are stronger, solutions must be shaped by those living experiences of injustice, and that we do so by being in deep, accountable, and transformative relationships with our elected officials.… Continue reading »

Phonebank for Peggy Flanagan

Join us in reaching out to voters to support Take Action-endorsed candidate Peggy Flanagan. Peggy is a longtime progressive leader running in the special election for House Seat 46A – which comprises St. Louis Park and Golden Valley. We’ll talk to voters about the issues and ideas they have to make MN great, and to remind people to vote on Tuesday, November 3rd.

We will have snacks, training, & child care available. Please let us know if you’d like to attend and have transportation needs.… Continue reading »

Door knock for Peggy Flanagan

Join us in reaching out to voters to support Take Action-endorsed candidate Peggy Flanagan. Peggy is a longtime progressive leader running in the special election for House Seat 46A – which comprises St. Louis Park and Golden Valley. We’ll talk to voters about the issues and ideas they have to make MN great, and to remind people to vote on Tuesday, November 3rd.… Continue reading »

Phone Bank for the Duluth Elections/GOP Watch Party

Join us as we talk to voters about Vision Duluth, earned sick & safe time, and how we elect a progressive Mayor & City Councilors! We want folks representing Duluth that will co-govern with the people and help make Vision Duluth a reality.

We will have snacks, training, & child care available. Please let us know if you’d like to attend and have transportation needs.… Continue reading »

Door Knock for Dai Thao and Amy Brendmoen

Join us as we hit the doors for TakeAction-endorsed champions, Dai Thao and Amy Brendmoen. These progressive leaders are running for re-election to represent Saint Paul’s Ward 1 and 5, respectively. We’ll talk to voters about the issues and ideas they have to make Saint Paul great, and to remind people to vote on Tuesday, November 3rd.

We will have snacks, training & child care available. Please let us know if you’d like to attend and have transportation needs.… Continue reading »

Phone Bank for Duluth Elections

Come join us as we talk to voters about Vision Duluth, earned sick & safe time, and how we elect a progressive Mayor & City Councilors! We want folks representing Duluth that will co-govern with the people and help make Vision Duluth a reality.

We will have snacks, training, & child care available. Please let us know if you’d like to attend and have transportation needs.… Continue reading »

GET OUT THE VOTE IN DULUTH!

Together, we’ve built a bold vision for our city. One where Duluth leads the state in ensuring that no parent has to choose between earning a paycheck and caring for a loved one. Where we protect the green space that makes Duluth unique. Where we invest in every corner of the city, not just some.

Now we need to make sure that we elect candidates who will be champions for this vision to the City Council and the Mayor’s office — and the best way to do that is by getting out and talking to Duluthians across the city.  Join us!

We will have snacks & child care available.  Please let us know if you’d like to attend and have transportation needs.… Continue reading »

GET OUT THE VOTE IN DULUTH!

Together, we’ve built a bold vision for our city. One where Duluth leads the state in ensuring that no parent has to choose between earning a paycheck and caring for a loved one. Where we protect the green space that makes Duluth unique. Where we invest in every corner of the city, not just some.

Now we need to make sure that we elect candidates who will be champions for this vision to the City Council and the Mayor’s office — and the best way to do that is by getting out and talking to Duluthians across the city.  Join us!

We will have snacks & child care available.  Please let us know if you’d like to attend and have transportation needs.… Continue reading »

GET OUT THE VOTE IN DULUTH!

Together, we’ve built a bold vision for our city. One where Duluth leads the state in ensuring that no parent has to choose between earning a paycheck and caring for a loved one. Where we protect the green space that makes Duluth unique. Where we invest in every corner of the city, not just some.

Now we need to make sure that we elect candidates who will be champions for this vision to the City Council and the Mayor’s office — and the best way to do that is by getting out and talking to Duluthians across the city.  Join us!

We will have snacks & child care available.  Please let us know if you’d like to attend and have transportation needs.… Continue reading »

GET OUT THE VOTE IN DULUTH!

Together, we’ve built a bold vision for our city. One where Duluth leads the state in ensuring that no parent has to choose between earning a paycheck and caring for a loved one. Where we protect the green space that makes Duluth unique. Where we invest in every corner of the city, not just some.

Now we need to make sure that we elect candidates who will be champions for this vision to the City Council and the Mayor’s office — and the best way to do that is by getting out and talking to Duluthians across the city.  Join us!

We will have snacks & child care available.  Please let us know if you’d like to attend and have transportation needs.… Continue reading »

GET OUT THE VOTE IN DULUTH!

Together, we’ve built a bold vision for our city. One where Duluth leads the state in ensuring that no parent has to choose between earning a paycheck and caring for a loved one. Where we protect the green space that makes Duluth unique. Where we invest in every corner of the city, not just some.

Now we need to make sure that we elect candidates who will be champions for this vision to the City Council and the Mayor’s office — and the best way to do that is by getting out and talking to Duluthians across the city.  Join us!

We will have snacks & child care available.  Please let us know if you’d like to attend and have transportation needs.… Continue reading »

GET OUT THE VOTE IN DULUTH!

Together, we’ve built a bold vision for our city. One where Duluth leads the state in ensuring that no parent has to choose between earning a paycheck and caring for a loved one. Where we protect the green space that makes Duluth unique. Where we invest in every corner of the city, not just some.

Now we need to make sure that we elect candidates who will be champions for this vision to the City Council and the Mayor’s office — and the best way to do that is by getting out and talking to Duluthians across the city.  Join us!

We will have snacks & child care available.  Please let us know if you’d like to attend and have transportation needs.… Continue reading »

GET OUT THE VOTE IN DULUTH!

Together, we’ve built a bold vision for our city. One where Duluth leads the state in ensuring that no parent has to choose between earning a paycheck and caring for a loved one. Where we protect the green space that makes Duluth unique. Where we invest in every corner of the city, not just some.

Now we need to make sure that we elect candidates who will be champions for this vision to the City Council and the Mayor’s office — and the best way to do that is by getting out and talking to Duluthians across the city.  Join us!

We will have snacks & child care available.  Please let us know if you’d like to attend and have transportation needs.… Continue reading »

GET OUT THE VOTE IN DULUTH!

Together, we’ve built a bold vision for our city. One where Duluth leads the state in ensuring that no parent has to choose between earning a paycheck and caring for a loved one. Where we protect the green space that makes Duluth unique. Where we invest in every corner of the city, not just some.

Now we need to make sure that we elect candidates who will be champions for this vision to the City Council and the Mayor’s office — and the best way to do that is by getting out and talking to Duluthians across the city.  Join us!

We will have snacks & child care available.  Please let us know if you’d like to attend and have transportation needs.… Continue reading »

GET OUT THE VOTE IN DULUTH!

Together, we’ve built a bold vision for our city. One where Duluth leads the state in ensuring that no parent has to choose between earning a paycheck and caring for a loved one. Where we protect the green space that makes Duluth unique. Where we invest in every corner of the city, not just some.

Now we need to make sure that we elect candidates who will be champions for this vision to the City Council and the Mayor’s office — and the best way to do that is by getting out and talking to Duluthians across the city.  Join us!

We will have snacks & child care available.  Please let us know if you’d like to attend and have transportation needs.… Continue reading »

Clinton pulls in big dollars in Minnesota, but state’s progressives are waiting to be convinced

Dan McGrath and his organization’s people are the shoe leather and the passion that could carry Hillary Clinton to victory here.

McGrath’s progressive activist group, TakeAction Minnesota, has more than 60,000 e-mail addresses and 15,000 dues-paying members from every congressional district in the state. His 35-person team aggressively walked precincts four years ago and is widely credited for the sound defeat of of the photo ID amendment that was on the state’s ballot in 2012.

But as Clinton prepares to address a summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Minneapolis on Friday, along with presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley and others, it becomes clear she has some work to do — even in a state that hasn’t gone for a Republican presidential candidate since Richard Nixon in 1972.

Ask McGrath what he thinks of the candidate many once assumed would become the nominee and his mouth turns down.

“The Democrats are letting the opportunity slip through their fingers,” said McGrath, who, despite his deep well of man-on-the-street resources, has not been asked by any presidential candidate for support. “As Donald Trump is offending most of America every day, the Democrats are not really providing a very compelling inclusive alternative vision.… Continue reading »

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Our Women in Leadership Event: A Great Success!

Our Women in Leadership event held in Duluth was a huge success! Thanks to the over 60 community members and their families who shared their evening with us at our picnic style event. We heard stories from five powerful leaders in our community: Rep. Jennifer Schultz, Renee Van Nett, Annie Harala, Rebecca St George & Emily Larson. Each of them highlighted the importance of women holding positions of leadership in our city. We also had tons of fun with the science show for the kids, led by core team leader Elizabeth Kersting-Peterson, and we listened to the great music of talented local artist, Maddy Sitter.

Beth leads a science experiment

Thankfully, we had great weather for the event, and took advantage of the opportunity to celebrate the power of women in leadership with our neighbors.  A huge thank you to our speakers, all the great women, for sharing stories and to Karen Perry for being a wonderful MC of the event. Thanks to Rep. Paul Thissen for attending the event during his visit to Duluth. And last but not least, thanks to our Duluth core team for their deep commitment to make this event happen. Your hard work behind the scenes is greatly appreciated. Now, we’ll let the pictures of the event tell you everything else we’ve missed here.… Continue reading »

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Power in Organizing Training Series: Minnesota Power Analysis

This summer, along with partner organizations, we are working to bring together a series of trainings that will build your public leadership and create space to discuss and collectively combat systems of injustice. Trainings will happen one Saturday and one Tuesday a month.

At all trainings you will gain concrete community organizing skills and a deeper understanding of “politics” in Minnesota/US. Each training will focus on different topic, but all the trainings are based in the reality that if we do not come together and build collective power to address the structural oppressions we face, we will remain hopeless. We’ll be focusing on Minnesota Power Analysis in this training. 

Food and childcare available for all those that register. If you have questions, please email kandacem@takeactionminnesota.org

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How Did Minnesota Stay Blue in the Midterms? By Embracing, Not Running From, Progressive Values

Minnesota bucked the nationwide swing to the right. The national Democratic Party could learn a few things from how they did it.

In the land of Lake Wobegon, progressives still reign.

Republicans gave Democrats a national wholloping during Tuesday’s midterm elections, seizing the Senate, expanding their lead in the House, and gobbling up governors’ mansions in Maryland, Massachusetts and Illinois.

But Minnesota bucked the rightward trend. In the upper Midwestern state known for progressive politics, Scandinavian sensibility and high voter turnout, Al Franken easily held onto his U.S. Senate seat (winning 53 percent of the vote), Governor Mark Dayton convincingly won reelection (by 5.5 percent), and the Democratic-Farm-Labor Party (DFL) held onto five of its eight Congressional seats.

Franken’s and Dayton’s landslide victories were particularly noteworthy because each of them had to endure statewide recounts in their initial runs for office. Franken won in 2008—a “wave year” for Democrats—by only 312 votes. (He later jokingly called that “the most efficient Senate race in history.”) Dayton won his first gubernatorial election in 2010 by less than 9,000 votes.

Republicans did regain control of the State House by ousting 11 DFL incumbents, mostly in rural Minnesota: they now have a four-seat majority (Democrats control the State Senate, which was not up for reelection this year).… Continue reading »

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5 Scary Things That Happen When You Don’t Vote…

On this Halloween, only four days away from a major election, there are a few things I am pretty darn scared for in our state if every eligible voter in our state DOESN’T get out to the polls by 8pm on November 4th.

Here they are:

1. We will continue to have the worst-in-the-nation voting gap between voters of color and white voters. We will not hear the voices, demands, and needs from people of color. Our votes = our representation. No vote. No representation.

For my kids

2. More of us losing our voting rights. Right now, people living in our community who have served their time but are still on probation/parole do not have the right to vote. If we don’t vote, that will just be the beginning of silencing as many voices in our community as possible.

3. Our kids’ future. Our votes determine what kind of laws and policies we are able to create to make our lives and our future better. Future generations are relying on me and you to vote for them.

4. Our countries prisons have become something someone can profit on. The same people who build those prisons, locking people in our community up and out, are the same ones who rely on progressives like me and you to NOT vote, so they can build more prisons and profit more off of our communities.… Continue reading »

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