MN Democrats made history in their primaries, electing first Somali-American...
A changing of the old Democratic guard in Minnesota took place yesterday in primary races across the state. Longtime Minneapolis Democratic Reps. Phyllis Kahn and Joe Mullery lost their primaries, as...
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12 blue states Trump said he can win
As Trump’s campaign spirals into denial and attempts to delegitimize polls that (shockingly!) show that people actually don’t like him, his supporters are going to be falling into the same lines of...
View ArticleFiling complaints against cops is a no-go in Minneapolis
If you don't believe by now that policing in the US is broken, you haven’t been paying attention. Case in point: as calls for police accountability and transparency continue to echo across the land,...
View ArticleAre Rural Voices Still Heard at Kos?
I’ve been blogging here at Kos for over a decade, and blogging about rural issues mostly for the last few years. Used to be I’d often make the rec list or get front paged by one of the communities....
View ArticleMinnesota police chief's defense of officer who killed Philando Castile is...
St. Anthony Police Chief Jon Mangseth was interviewed by The Associated Press and had this to say about Jeronimo Yanez, the police officer who murdered 32-year-old Philando Castile during a traffic...
View ArticleProtect Our Rural Water, Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline!
Water has always been scarce in the middle Dakotas and the tier of states south. There’s the big Missouri River runs right through the middle of the Dakotas, but get a few miles away and you’re in...
View ArticleGame on! $15/hr Ballot Measure in MPLS
Hennepin County Judge Susan Robiner ruled that a amendment to the city charter that will raise the minimum wage in Minneapolis to $15/hr by 2022 will appear on the ballot in November. The supposedly...
View ArticlePolling & Prognostications: Rural Midwest Races
Been waiting for some post convention "bump" polling of the now 3 or 4 way presidential race to appear, and we now have good polls from several midwestern states with results broken out for rural...
View ArticlePhilando Castile, murdered by police, is still making a difference in young...
On July 6, Philando Castile was killed by Officer Jeronimo Yanez during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, MN. The shooting's aftermath streamed live on Facebook by Castile's girlfriend. Castile was a...
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WTF: Minnesota GOP fails to get Donald Trump on Nov Ballot
Per Raw Story’s Sarah Burres: The state Republican party in Minnesota may have missed the deadline to fulfill all the requirements to get Donald Trump’s name on the ballot this November.His name does...
View ArticleMinnesota Republicans "Forgot" To Put Trump On Ballot..
Minnesota Republicans have discovered they made a teenie-tiny error. They “forgot” to put their presidential candidate on the ballot.www.citypages.com/…What could've been an in-house mess went public...
View ArticleMinnesota Congressional District 3 Chronicles: August 28, 2016
As I’ve mentioned in a previous blog entry, I’ve been posting as comments on Erik Paulsen's Facebook wall a daily chronicle of why he should be defeated in November. His DFL challenger is Terri Bonoff,...
View ArticleWhy do the pipeline protesters at Standing Rock outnumber Democratic campaign...
Even during this lull in the pipeline construction action, there are an estimated 4000 to 7000 water protectors camped out in the middle of nowhere, North Dakota protecting the Missouri River from...
View ArticleMinn. state rep doesn't live in district he represents. Surprise! He's a...
The Minnesota Supreme Court has upheld an earlier district court ruling that incumbent State Rep. Bob Barrett (R, is there any doubt) is not eligible to run for re-election on Nov. 8, because he...
View ArticleBreaking - Minnesota Democrats sue to remove Trump and Pence from ballot
The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party, the Democratic party in Minnesota, has petitioned the Minnesota Supreme Court to remove Donald J. Trump and Michael R. Pence from the November general...
View ArticleFederal Judge Denies ND Pipeline Injunction, Federal Agencies Call for Its...
Also: Texas undermines court-ordered remedy to unlawful Photo ID law, new studies reveal (again) how such laws undermine democracy...On today's BradCast we try to make sense of today's whiplash of...
View ArticleMinnesota high school sued because transgender girl acts like a girl
Some parents are up in arms in Virginia, MN, so much so that they have contacted the so-called Alliance Defending Freedom. ADF has filed another lawsuit against a high school for repecting the needs of...
View ArticleWill Trump Be Excluded from the Ballot in Minnesota?
Democrats in Minnesota have filed a petition asking the Supreme Court of Minnesota (SCOM) to order the Secretary of State (SOS) to remove Trump and Pence from the November ballot in MN. Early voting...
View ArticlePresident Trump= Food Shortages by Inauguration?
On the campaign trail Trump has promised to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants in America, and around 9 million of them are working. And according to this Pew Research Center study...
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House Democrats tie Trump to incumbent Republicans in new ad campaign
Democrats are looking to ensure that Donald Trump will be the millstone around the neck of GOP incumbents in four critical House races: IA-3, MN-3, TX-23, and FL-26. The ads aim to pin Trump's...
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