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Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

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U.S. House Democratic Leader, Nancy Pelosi

North Star: MN portal to State Government.

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Campaign Finance Board: A portal for information regarding campaigns, parties and lobbying.

FirstGov: The official portal for the U.S. Government.

Government Guide: A door into the Federal Government.

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Thomas: U.S. Congress on the Web.



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MinnPost, a Daily online Minnesota Newspaper.

• BILL MOYERS ON FAITH & REASON (Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:00:00 GMT)


• BILL MOYERS ON FAITH & REASON (Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:00:00 GMT)


• BILL MOYERS ON FAITH & REASON (Fri, 7 July 2006 18:00:00 GMT)


• BILL MOYERS ON FAITH & REASON (Fri, 14 July 2006 18:00:00 GMT)


• BILL MOYERS ON FAITH & REASON (Fri, 21 July 2006 18:00:00 GMT)

• Sleep On Surgery Choice For Obstructive Apnea (Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:59:00 -0400)
• Arizona Lawmaker, Reporter Disagree On Whether She Pointed Gun At Him (Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:55:00 -0400)
• UK Tabloid Scandal: Former PM Brown Condemns News International (Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:13:00 -0400)
• Key Lawmaker: GOP's Formula Is Lower Tax Rates, 'With Fewer Exceptions' (Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:25:00 -0400)
• U.S. Accuses Syrian Government In Embassy Attacks (Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:00:00 -0400)

• 4 Ways the Murdoch Scandal Points To Rot at the Top (Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:00:01 -0700)
• We Can't Allow the Media to Make Stealing from Social Security Seem Like a Debt Solution (Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:00:01 -0700)
• How the FBI Is Entrapping US Citizens to Show It's Succeeding Against the Phantom of Terror (Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:00:01 -0700)
• Michele Bachmann's Husband's Clinics Practiced Ex-Gay? Therapy (While Pocketing $161,000 of Your Tax Money) (Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:00:01 -0700)
• Turkish Democracy Gives Rise to Turkish Power (Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:00:01 -0700)

• Michael Winship: Democracy Talks — Listen Up (2011-05-25T12:30:59Z)
• Michael Winship: The Importance of Being Tony Kushner (2011-05-19T12:37:40Z)
• Michael Winship: Forget the Rich: Tax the Poor and Middle Class! (2011-05-10T20:41:38Z)
• Michael Winship: Obama/Osama Trump William, Kate — and Trump (2011-05-04T15:47:55Z)
• Michael Winship: Congress: Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks (2011-04-24T19:16:18Z)

• Human Rights Watch: George W. Bush Should Be Prosecuted Over Torture (Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:00:58 +0000)
• Australia Outdoes U.S. by Crafting a Clean Energy Policy with a Carbon Price (Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:53:58 +0000)
• The 2012 Candidates On The Arts : Tim Pawlenty (Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:47:56 +0000)
• Apple/HTC Front Opens In Mobile Patent Wars (Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:44:09 +0000)
• Cisco To Shed 10,000 Jobs While Asking For Giant Corporate Tax Break (Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:40:19 +0000)

MN Progressive Project

Daily Kos

http://feeds.dailykos.com/dailykos/index.xml

Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/syndication/

DFL Education Foundation

Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs

Citizens League

DFL Links Community Forums

Bill Maps Google map of legislators who support specific bills in Congress.

Vote Smart

http://www.votesmart.org/services_rss.php

Progressive Punch

OpenSecrets.org

Open Congress

RSS Feeds: http://www.opencongress.org

Roll Call

Institute for Local Self Reliance

http://www.ilsr.org/feeds.html

Center for Rural Policy and Development

Minnesota Legislative Reference Library

http://www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/rss/rss_just.asp

Growth and Justice

http://www.growthandjustice.org/G_J_News.rss

Minnesota 2020

Fresh Energy

Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition

Minnesota Budget Project


National Research and Analysis

Library of Congress

Brookings Institute

http://www.brookings.edu/rss.aspx

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

http://www.cbpp.org/rss.htm

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

http://www.iatp.org/ - Multiple RSS feeds on Home page

Economic Policy Institute

http://feeds.feedburner.com/epi

Good Jobs First

http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/gjrss.xml

Center for American Progress

http://www.americanprogress.org/rss/

National Institute of Health

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Minnesota Council of Non=Profits

See whose really editing Wikipedia entries at ESER.
GovTrack.us Choose a bill and track it's progress from introduction to Bush Veto! Very handy way to monitor a bills progress and includes sponsor, the text of the bill, committee assignments and more.
Congress.org's Megavote Congressional vote tracking sends you an e-mail detailing how your congressional district's Senators and Representatives have voted on bills and what votes/bills are upcoming. Links are provided to e-mail each legislator.
Maplight.org compares legislative votes and campaign contributions for the US Congress (and California).
Open Secrets.org provides similar campaign/voting info.
The Memory Hole The source of documents that have been found, taken off websites or been FOE requests.
Center for Media and Democracy Home to the Congresspedia and Sourcewatch wikis.

• The Rockridge Era Ends (Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:00:00 -0700)
• Keeping the Community Alive (Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000)
• Weekly Workgroup: Reframing Immigration (Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:30:00 -0700)
• Ask Rockridge: Illegal Immigration Is a Red Herring (Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:00:00 -0700)
• Why We Are Losing the Global Warming Battle (Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:52:23 -0700)
• How Conservatives Have Duped Us in the Global Warming Fight (Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:10:50 -0700)
• Weekly Workgroup: Protecting Homeschoolers, Respecting Parents (Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:30:00 -0700)
• Ask Rockridge: Can a Progressive Support Homeschooling? (Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0700)
• Thinking Clearly, Speaking Out (Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:11:22 -0700)
• Comparing Climate Proposals: A Case Study in Cognitive Policy (Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:46:21 -0700)

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Listings of Minnesota and national News Orgs
Democratic Underground comprehensive page of MN Media Contacts
Air America
The Ed Schultz Show
AM950 Radio Minnesota
Bemidji Pioneer
City Pages
Duluth News Tribune
Fargo Forum
Forest Lake Times
Minneapolis Star Tribune
MPR
Rochester Post Bulletin
St. Cloud Times
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Los Angeles Times
New York Times
Salon
Slate
Washington Post

Aurora Alert
MNBlue (Grace Kelley and The Big E's site)
www.mydfl.org="" http:="" href="http://www.dflers.org></A>DFLers.org</A> -Blog of the DFL<br /> <A HREF=">Minnesota Young DFL
Al Franken's Midwest Values Blog/PAC
Backbone Minnesota
Blog of the Moderate Left
Centrisity
Dan Weinand
Dump John Kline
Inside Minnesota Politics
Minnesota Campaign Report
Minvolved
MN Publius
MN Republican Watch
Minnesota Politics
North Star Politics
Pawlenty Unplugged
New Patriot
The Power Liberal
Truth Surfer
U-DFL Blog

Progresive News

Progresive Views

• Open thread for night owls: Debt ceiling discussion worse than a distraction (Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:30:01 UTC)
• PA-Pres: Keystone State looking competitive, if the GOP nominates Mitt Romney (Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:07:47 UTC)
• Paul Ryan's dinner companions, not the $350 wine, are the story (Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:00:02 UTC)
• Conrad proposes significant defense cuts (Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:15:02 UTC)
• On the table: austerity, and a deepening recession (Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:30:02 UTC)

Defcon -Site that debunks the religious right. Cool bumper stickers.
No Quarter
Eschaton
From the Roots
Kicking Ass
LiberalOasis
MyDD
Political Animal
PolState
MN
Political Wire
Smart Ass
The Stakeholder
Swing State Project
MN
Talking Points Memo
Juan Cole
Atrios
Joe Conason
Daily Howler
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Democratic Underground
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Liberal Oasis
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AmericaBlog
Blogometer
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CommonCause
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DailyHowler
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Joe Conason
Juan Cole
Left Coaster
Liberal Oasis
Matt Yglesias
MaxSpeak
MyDD
NateNewman
Off The Kuff
OliverWillis
Pandagon
Perrspectives
PoliticalWire
PoorMan
ProgressReport
Skippy
Stakeholder
Steve Gilliard
SwingStateProject
TalkLeft
Tapped
TBogg
The Bluestem Prairie
ThinkProgress
TomDispatch
TPMCafe
WarandPiece
Wolcott
Wonkette

Project for a New American Century Neocon Central! THE official Neocon site! This is where the famous doctrine of US domination of the Middle East came from -a good decade before they cynically used 911 as an excuse to put the plan in place!
MN Democrats Exposed -Watch a GOP shill pretend to be a volunteer while he dishes the GOP's famous slime soup on Democrats.
Conservapedia -Conservatism's answer to the "biased" Wikipedia! Fun Hint -look up "cactus". Many entries are actually ones non-conservatives have entered in Steven Colbert type stealth. "The joke entries tend to use better English than the true ones."

• Fwd: Fwd: LAUNCH: Costs of War (Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:50:02 GMT)
• FOCUS: Obama's Secret Wars (Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:14:10 GMT)
• Unconstitutional War (Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:31:01 GMT)
• Fwd: GSN: Pentagon Details Plan for New Nuclear Bomber (Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:53:19 GMT)
• NTI: Global Security Newswire - Gates Hints Budget Constraints Might (Fri, 27 May 2011 22:27:39 GMT)
• World Peace Newsletter - inner peace, outer peace, global peace. (Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:14:48 GMT)
• Cuba: Past, Present and Future - Tuesday, March 15 (Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:39:13 GMT)
• Northwest Neighbors for Peace Presents: (Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:35:18 GMT)
• Ireland upgrades status of Palestinian mission to embassy - Haaretz (Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:13:52 GMT)
• Fwd: [Fwd: Anna in Palestine Voices for Justice Under Threat from (Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:00:56 GMT)
• Hollywood and the war machine - Empire - Al Jazeera English (Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:59:11 GMT)
• British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War (Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:40:45 GMT)
• A Senseless War Begins Its 10th Year (Sat, 09 Oct 2010 20:50:29 GMT)
• The Cost of an Empire (Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:00:55 GMT)
• Fwd: The morality of drones (Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:43:39 GMT)

MN Prog -extensive calendar of peace events, speakers and vigils in the Metro area.
Wellstone Action The best campaign, candidate and advocacy training you can get!
Minnesota Council of NonProfitsThe Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Grassroots Solutions Training and help for candidates and campaigns and non profits. They also work closely with Wellstone Action in putting on Wellstone Camp.
Center for American Progress
Media Matters
MoveOn.org
Mainstreet Moms Operation Blue

ACT
Interfaith Alliance
Michael Moore
Democracy Matters
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