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**We decide who represents us. We decide what comes next.** Join your neighbors and friends at Cook City Park for an afternoon of inspiration, information, music, and community-making as we make our ...

Democracy Defenders - News 2026-09-27

Join our September 10 No Kings: Vote Early Kickoff Call to learn more about the vision, urgency, and strategy behind the No Kings coalition’s early vote activation and election protection campaign and...

Waking the Giant — Northwoods Solidarity Revival

Democracy Defenders - News 2026-08-30

Numerous pieces focused on the federal immigration-enforcement surge last winter in Minnesota.

Whistles, rebel loons and protest signs emerge as a major theme in this year’s crop art and fine arts exhibitions.

Democracy Defenders - News 2026-08-16

Trump just took steps to make it very difficult to prosecute money laundering, a crime he and his real estate buddies may well have been committing much of their felonious lives. Last week we learned…

Exclusive: Companies that kept policies did just as well financially, even after Trump’s executive order, as those that didn’t

The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.

Trump's claims that this state is an outlier when it comes to fraud don't hold up, and the politicized attacks must not go unchallenged.

Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to ‘unprecedented’ level

The Northwestern professor Phillip Braun says the return of stagflation brings new urgency to the Fed chairman Kevin Warsh’s next moves.

As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.

Nearly two years after invoking CEDAW against Afghanistan, states owe transparency and action on next steps.

Trump's family is profiting spectacularly from proximity to power, providing an opening for Congress to investigate, modeled after the Church Committee.

Secretary of State Steve Simon attributed the turnout to high-profile governor and Senate contests.

Washington Post reporting supports the allegations of a former Forest Service ranger now running for the Legislature.

Minnesota’s Eighth District candidate explains why she is running not for what Congress can give her, but for what she can deliver for the people she serves.

Join us in Minneapolis from August 21 - 23, 2026 to skill-share and coordinate the next iteration of democracy defense in the United States.

Democracy Defenders - News 2026-08-02

Join Indivisible and National Nurses United as we make calls into Minnesota to get voters ready for the upcoming primary election on August 11th and share why we’re supporting Peggy Flanagan for U.S. ...

The Talon Mine

In 2026 we are building our strongest election protection program ever, in all 50 states. We’re going to bring Indivisible’s grassroots organizing force out to ensure that whatever tricks they try to ...

Engaging in generative conflict by asking tough strategic questions was an important step on the road to New York City’s rent freeze.

Democracy Defenders - News 2026-07-19

It hurts ordinary Americans in concrete ways, and the risk has never been greater given today’s unprecedented mixing of private wealth with political power.

The public's health can't catch a break

One major wildfire has moved closer to the Echo Trail and could threaten some resorts, cabins and year-round homes if it moves past the road, St. Louis County Sheriff Gordon Ramsay said.

Although we often hear people say that “women can’t win” in conservative rural areas, strong women have always led the way here. They rally neighbors when someone needs assistance. They activate the p...

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Last year, the House passed the CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633), a bill disguised as “crypto regulation” that actually serves the billionaires and bad actors at the center of today’s crypto chaos. This bill d...

While recent attention has focused on mining proposals near the Boundary Waters, another sulfide mining proposal in central Minnesota is approaching a critical decision point. The Tamarack Mine, a p...

SNAP participation nationwide fell by more than 4 million people (nearly 10 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and March 2026, based on the latest month of data.

Higher oil prices since the Iran war began mean many oil companies have brought in excess profits. Some U.S. lawmakers want to tax those windfall profits and give the money to lower-income Americans.