Her’s surprisingly strong challenge came after jumping into the race in August. A campaign spokesman said they knocked on 40,000 doors in their sprint to win nearly that many votes needed for victory.
I think it’s possible to be an optimist about the labor movement and not be rose-colored glasses about it.
The Minnesota state senator won Minneapolis’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement for mayor—but the state-level party revoked it.
Hortman worked closely with Gov. Tim Walz to enact policies that prioritized children and expanded protections for abortion and gender-affirming care.
Students, teachers and staff work “day and night” to protect the rights of international students, often the lifeblood of rural college towns
Workers have a long and storied history of resisting attempts to pit them against each other. We found examples specific to Minnesota’s labor movement, which has a militant legacy that can be learned from today.
As sugar beet harvesting season comes and goes in the Red River Valley, Mark Froemke, president of the West Minnesota Area Labor Council/Red River Valley, AFL-CIO, reflects on worker power in the region.
A hundred years ago, radical Finnish immigrants founded a cooperatively-owned park to escape political repression on Minnesota’s Iron Range. It’s still “a workingman’s paradise.”
The progressive Minnesota congresswoman said her Democratic challenger is "actively courting Republican votes and desperately seeking funding from AIPAC."
If Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are elected this fall, not only would a woman of color lead the country for the first time, but a Native woman would govern a state for the first time in U.S. history too.
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