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Minnesotans remain unified in the face of politically motivated domestic spying and prosecutorial abuse
August 17th, 2026
The current Federal regime deployed several thousand heavily armed and masked Federal agents to the Twin Cities region in Minnesota starting in December 2025, and those agents murdered peaceful legal observers in broad daylight soon after. Rather tha…
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Supreme Court majority continues to expand Presidential power drastically, subverting the rule of law in the process
July 13th, 2026
As explained here previously, the extremist members of the Supreme Court have used the shadow docket to decide many key issues in favor of the current Federal regime. In other words, the Supreme Court majority has decided numerous significant cases w…
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Supreme Court majority eviscerates the Voting Rights Act, inspiring Southern States to interrupt the election process already underway and redraw voting districts to diminish people of color’s representation
June 1st, 2026
Recent rulings by the majority of Supreme Court Justices – all but one of whom were appointed by a President who lost the popular vote – have made the Voting Rights Act essentially useless. These developments are not surprising given the ideologi…
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May Day – International Workers Day – featured a national shutdown to demand democracy inside and outside the workplace
May 4th, 2026
On May 1, 2026, educators and students across the country stayed home from, or walked out of, school for the day, businesses and organizations closed their operations for the day, employees stayed home from, or walked out of, work for the day if empl…
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Many millions engage across the United States to protect democracy and the underlying civil rights and civil liberties under threat
March 30th, 2026
As outlined in prior posts, including on September 1, 2025 and on February 9, 2026, the current Federal regime has attacked vital civil rights and civil liberties and, more generally, the rule of law repeatedly and aggressively since taking power. In…
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Unions and nonprofit community groups lead the opposition to escalating Federal civil rights and civil liberties violations
February 9th, 2026
In January 2026, masked paramilitaries deployed to Minnesota by the Federal regime summarily killed two peaceful legal observers in broad daylight: Renee Good and Alex Pretti. As immortalized by Bruce Springsteen’s immediately top-selling song “S…
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Civil rights and civil liberties increasingly threatened as 2026 begins
January 2nd, 2026
The Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights (“LCCHR”), one of the leading civil rights and civil liberties organizations in the United States, recently published a highly detailed report and related timeline of what the current Federal r…
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Minnesota paid family and medical leave law takes effect in 2026, continuing the progressive trend
December 22nd, 2025
As of January 1, 2026, Minnesota employees have guaranteed paid family and medical leave to use in an array of situations. This imminently implemented law, Minn. Stat. §§ 268B.01, et seq., requires employers to provide paid leave to their employees…
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Supreme Court majority's use of the shadow docket skyrockets and thwarts the rule of law
November 17th, 2025
The shadow docket of the Supreme Court involves decisions by the Supreme Court majority without written briefs submitted by the affected parties, without oral argument by those parties, without questions from the Supreme Court in response, and withou…
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Court losses for, and public opposition to, the current Federal administration increase to historic levels in response to the escalating attacks against basic rights
October 20th, 2025
Among other extreme actions, the new regime has deployed or sought to deploy soldiers in multiple cities and States around the country over the objections of the people and political leadership there. Tellingly, the majority of people living in those…
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