Caucuses in the DFL
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Uncommitted Makes Waves
On March 5th, “Super Tuesday”, Minnesotans showed up in the tens of thousands to Vote Uncommitted in the presidential primary elections. Through phone-banking, text-banking, flyering, and relational organizing, members of our local Twin Cities chapter and DSA national joined in the effort, which garnered 19% of the vote in the Democratic Party primary, nearly 46,000…
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #124: Organizing Everywhere, Macalester Undergrads Want a Union, Camp Nenookaasi Today, and More!
Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #124 Organizing Everywhere, Macalester Undergrads Want a Union, Camp Nenookaasi Today, and More! Organizing Everywhere We usually lay out events further down in the newsletter, but this edition we want to highlight some amazing actions that are going to have the Twin Cities buzzing for the…
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Democratic Socialists in the DFL – The Story So Far
A little over a year ago, I heard of an effort to launch a Democratic Socialists Caucus in the DFL. I have called myself a democratic socialist since about the mid-1980s. I made the transition from anarchist (because of Ursula K. LeGuin, Emma Goldman, and my small but intellectually broad social circle in Atlanta) through…
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