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Minnesota DFL Party
Stonewall Caucus
DFL Feminist Caucus
Senate DFL Caucus
House DFL Caucus
House DFL Caucus
Senate DFL Caucus
MYDFL (MN Young DFL)
Minnesota College Democrats
DFL Feminist Caucus
DFL Progressive Caucus
Stonewall DFL Caucus

Democratic Party Home
Democrats Listen!
Business Democrats
Senator Mark Dayton
MN 1st CD
MN 2nd CD
MN CD3
3rd CD Demographics U.S. Census Bureau
DFL 3rd CD Yahoo Group and Chat Room
MN 4th CD
MN 5th CD
MN 6th CD
MN 7th CD
MN Senate District 32
MN Senate District 33
MN Senate District 41
MN Senate District 42
MN Senate District 43
MN Senate District 49
DFL Technology Project

DFL Candidates
Al Franken for MN Senate

• Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Deliver Democratic Radio Address (Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:00:00 -0500)
• Tim Roemer Delivers Democratic Radio Address (Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:00:00 -0500)
• U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards To Give Weekly National Democratic Radio Address on Record Budget Increases for America's Veterans (Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:00:00 -0500)
• Dean: We Will Do What the American People Have Asked Us To Do and Bring Our Troops Home (Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:00:00 -0500)
• Congressman Hodes Delivers Democratic Radio Address (Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:00:00 -0500)

DNC
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
U.S. House Democratic Leader, Nancy Pelosi


North Star: MN portal to State Government.
MN State Legislature
MN Secretary of State
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.
FedWorld: One more portal for the Federal Government.
Thomas: U.S. Congress on the Web.

Legislative

Congressional Budget Office
General Accounting Office
Library of Congress
U.S. House of Representatives
Senate

Executive Agencies

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
U.S. Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
U.S. Department of State
Department of Veteran Affairs
Department of the Air Force
Department of the Army
Department of the Interior
Department of the Navy
Department of the Treasury
U.S. Marine Corps
The White House

Independent Agencies

Commission of Civil Rights
Environmental Protection Agency
Export - Import Bank
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Election Commission
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Peace Corps
United States Postal Service
Central Intelligence Agency
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Archives and Records Administration
Securities and Exchange Commission
Agency for International Development
United States Supreme Court


MinnPost, a Daily online Minnesota Newspaper.

• VIDEO: Locals React to Tax Report
• Budget Cuts Hit Home at St. Paul Central
• Your Take: Taxes, Education and Economics
• Minnesota 2020 Journal: State Fair Butter Sculpture as Smart Policy Advocacy
• Governments Owe Minnesota Schools More Than Half a Billion

• 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)

• Obama To Pitch Trio Of Economic Proposals In Ohio (Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:18:00 -0400)
• Hermine Lashes Texas As Storm Heads North (Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:53:00 -0400)
• New College Teaches Young American Muslims (Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:02:00 -0400)
• JetBlue Customers Fly High On Special Offer (Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400)
• The Politics Of A Tax Hike (Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400)

• Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less than We Know (2010-08-31T19:15:13Z)
• Remembering The Real Labor Day (2010-08-26T19:39:33Z)
• Michael Winship: Labor Says Mott's Apples Are Rotten to the Core (2010-08-24T17:44:46Z)
• Michael Winship: You've Got to Be Carefully Taught (2010-08-18T14:33:54Z)
• Michael Winship: The Wall and the Mosque: Divide and Unite (2010-08-13T13:53:35Z)

• Nearly Half The Public Is ‘Very Uncomfortable’ With Phasing Out Social Security For Private Accounts (Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:00:49 +0000)
• NM Corrections Secretary Refusing To Penalize Contract-Breaching Private Prison Company He Used To Work For (Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:02:09 +0000)
• Rick Scott’s Immigrant Running Mate Accused Of ‘Evading’ Questions On Immigration (Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:06:27 +0000)
• Montana Tea Party Leader Fired For Advocating Violence Against Gays — But Is Backed By State GOP Candidate (Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:00:53 +0000)
• Top Iowa GOP Candidates Back Unconstitutional Proposal To Deny Education To Immigrants (Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:59:33 +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



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)

COUNTY	LEGAL NAME OF NEWSPAPER	MAILING ADDRESS	STREET ADDRESS	CITY	ST	ZIP	PHONE
Anoka	Coon Rapids Herald		4101 Coon Rapids Blvd NW	Coon Rapids	MN	55433	763-712-3532
Hennepin	Apple Valley/Rosemount Sun-Cur		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829
Hennepin	? ">Bloomington Sun-Current		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829
Hennepin	? ">Brooklyn Center Sun-Post		4080 W Broadway #113	Robbinsdale	MN	55422	952-392-6829
Hennepin	? ">Brooklyn Park Sun-Post		4080 W Broadway #113	Robbinsdale	MN	55422	952-392-6829
Hennepin	? ">Burnsville Sun-Current		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829
Hennepin	Champlin Dayton Press		33 2nd Str NE	Osseo	MN	55369	952-392-6829
Hennepin	China Insight		4635 Shenandoah Ln N	Plymouth	MN	55446	612-987-6540
Hennepin	City Pages LLC		401 N 3rd Str	Mpls	MN	55401	612-372-3780
Hennepin	? ">Crystal/Robbinsdale Sun-Post		4080 W Broadway #113	Robbinsdale	MN	55422	952-392-6829
Hennepin	Downtown Journal		1115 Hennepin Ave	Mpls	MN	55403	612-436-4376
Hennepin	? ">Eagan Sun-Current		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829
Hennepin	Eden Prairie News		250 Prairie Ctr Drv #200	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-445-3333
Hennepin	? ">Eden Prairie Sun-Current		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829
Hennepin	? ">Edina Sun-Current		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829
Hennepin	Excelsior/Shorewood Sun-Sailor		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829
Hennepin	Finance and Commerce		730 2nd Ave S 100 Peavey Bldg	Mpls	MN	55402	612-333-4244
Hennepin	? ">Hopkins Sun-Sailor		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829
Hennepin	Huaxia Times		11677 Ridgemount Ave W	Mtka	MN	55305-1457	612-998-8080
Hennepin	Insight News		1815 Bryant Ave N	Mpls	MN	55411	612-588-1313
Hennepin	Inver Grove Heights/South St P		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829
Hennepin	The Laker	PO Box 82	2365 Commerce Blvd	Mound	MN	55364	952-472-1140
Hennepin	Lakeshore Weekly News		1001 Twelve Oaks Ctr Drv #1017	Wayzata	MN	55391	952-843-4612
Hennepin	Lakeville Sun-Current		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829
Hennepin	Mendota Heights/West St Paul S		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829
Hennepin	? ">Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder		3744 4th Ave S	Mpls	MN	55408	612-827-4021
Hennepin	Minnetonka Sun-Sailor		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829
Hennepin	New Hope/Golden Valley Sun-Pos		4080 W Broadway #113	Robbinsdale	MN	55422	952-392-6829
Hennepin	North Crow River News	Box 204	11 E Central Ave	St Michael	MN	55369	952-392-6829
Hennepin	One Nation News		3010 Hennepin Ave S #121	Mpls	MN	55408	612-861-9006
Hennepin	Osseo-Maple Grove Press	Box 280	33 2nd Str NE	Osseo	MN	55369	952-392-6829
Hennepin	The Pioneer	PO Box 82	2365 Commerce Blvd	Mound	MN	55364	952-472-1140
Hennepin	? ">Plymouth Sun-Sailor		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829
Hennepin	Richfield Sun-Current		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829
Hennepin	South Crow River News	Box 280	33 2nd Str NE	Osseo	MN	55369	952-392-6829
Hennepin	Star Tribune		425 Portland Ave S	Mpls	MN	55488	612-673-7000
Hennepin	St Louis Park Sun-Sailor		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6822
Hennepin	Wayzata/Orono/Long Lake Sun-Sa		10917 Valley View Rd	Eden Prairie	MN	55344	952-392-6829

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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)
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: Blair skips a bit (Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:03:23 GMT)
• Open Thread and Diary Rescue (Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:16:05 GMT)
• Polling and Political Wrap, 9/6/10 (Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:30:05 GMT)
• A Labor Day message from the AFL-CIO (Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:42:04 GMT)
• NH-Sen: Ayotte's $300k Planned Parenthood settlement (Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:50:04 GMT)

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
David Corn
Democratic Underground
MyDD
Liberal Oasis
Altercation
AmericaBlog
Blogometer
BoldPrint
Burnt Orange
Buzzflash
Chris Mooney
CommonCause
CrooksandLiars
DailyHowler
DailyKos
DemBloggers
DemocracyArsenal
Digby
DonkeyRising
DoubleSpeak
Eschaton
Ezra Klein
FireDogLake
Gadflyer
HuffingtonPost
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."

• Re: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: Current Status of (Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:58:32 GMT)
• Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: Current Status of Ira (Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:17:44 GMT)
• Op-Ed Columnist - Broadway and the Mosque - NYTimes.com (Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:18:42 GMT)
• Re: [NWNeighborsforPeace] Rethinking the Afghanistan War’s What-If (Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:24:32 GMT)
• Rethinking the Afghanistan War’s What-Ifs - NYTimes.com (Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:52:47 GMT)
• Fwd: An article from www.mcclatchydc.com (Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:29:30 GMT)
• News Analysis - Afghan Deadline Is Cutting Two Ways - NYTimes.com (Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:46:52 GMT)
• T Minus Two Years (Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:49:38 GMT)
• Op-Ed Columnist - The Courage to Leave Afghanistan - NYTimes.com (Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:45:30 GMT)
• NTI: Global Security Newswire - Iranian Troubles Seen Aiding West in (Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:32:36 GMT)
• Fwd: To the Point: Cost of War is budgetary "Elephant in the Room" (Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:33:27 GMT)
• CNBC VIDEO Obama Nobel Peace Prize (Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:47:37 GMT)
• US Is Doing No Good in Afghanistan (Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:01:18 GMT)
• [Fwd: Please be there! Thurs., 7PM, Spirit of Hope, "India"] (Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:25:33 GMT)
• Editorial - Some Sense on Defense Spending - NYTimes.com (Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:39:51 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
Emily's List
Buy Blue

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