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Scores of Forest Service plans could be upended after Boundary Waters mining vote ⢠Minnesota Reformer
Congressā move to allow mining in a national forest near a wilderness area may have broad ramifications across the country. The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to overturn a mining ban in Minnesotaās Super...
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/17/repub/scores-of-forest-service-plans-could-be-upended-after-boundary-waters-mining-vote/
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Common Dreams
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"The oil industry's allies in Congress are ignoring public opinion and the undeniable realities of the climate crisis by moving to drill on the sacred Coastal Plain and endanger the freedom of local communities," said a critic of Trump's lease sale for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Climate, Indigenous Groups Rip Trump GOP for 'Handing Over the Arctic Refuge to Big Oil'
Indigenous leaders and climate defenders condemned Trump's forthcoming fossil fuel lease saleĀ for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge'sĀ Coastal Plain in Alaska.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-drilling?share_id=9393384
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BUZZARDS CIRCLING THE IRON RANGE - Views Are Mine
YouTube video by ViewsRmine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czeaeou62DQ
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New poll: Democrats' real problem isn't being too liberal ā it's being seen as too weak
Americans, including swing voters, see the Republican Party as 20 points more extreme than Democrats ā and the Democrats as weak and ineffective. So why would the *Democrats* moderate?
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-democrats-real-problem-isnt
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Please Donate! - friends-bwca.org
The wilderness needs you! Please give today and be part of a community that cherishes and protects the Boundary Waters.
https://www.friends-bwca.org/openwater/
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"Movements built on resentment weather badly in daylight. Rage ages faster than devotion."
wendy664.substack.com/p/the-damage...
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The Damage Republicans Never Thought Trump Would Reveal
Why Americaās Comeback Is Suddenly Closer Than Anyone Expected
https://wendy664.substack.com/p/the-damage-republicans-never-thought
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Tell MN-DNR to Cancel BWCA Mineral Lease - friends-bwca.org
https://www.friends-bwca.org/tell-mn-dnr-to-cancel-twin-metals-mineral-lease/
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Live: Smith holding Senate floor to oppose measure opening mining near the Boundary Waters
If passed, the legislation would head to President Donald Trumpās desk for a signature. The final vote is scheduled for the morning of April 16.
https://www.startribune.com/live-us-senate-to-vote-on-measure-that-would-open-up-mining-near-the-boundary-waters/601582244
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April 18, 9:00amā3:00pm Iron Trail Motors Event Center 388 Eagle Ave, Mountain Iron, MN Join us!
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Robert Reich
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It's reverse Robin Hood.
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Keep asking folks you know across the country to call their Senatorsā offices. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121 If you want to follow along live, weāre posting updates here.
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Live Updates from Senate
https://www.savetheboundarywaters.org/live-updates-senate
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Common Dreams
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"Today, more than 80% of the Democratic caucus stood with the American people and voted to block US military aid to Netanyahu and his horrific, illegal wars," said
@sanders.senate.gov
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Senate Kills Bid to Block Sale of Bombs, Bulldozers to Israel
US senators on Wednesday voted down a pair of resolutions aimed at blocking US bomb and bulldozer sales to Israel as it continues its genocidal war on Gaza and devastating bombardment of Lebanon.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-2676749127?share_id=9383420
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Friends of the Boundary Waters
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This is what weāre fighting for! Because of you, calls are coming in strong and your voices are being heard in the Senate. Itās making a difference. Keep going!!! Call 202-224-3121 and tell your Senators to vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140.
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Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president
With Virginia on board, the National Popular Vote Compact is now enacted in states worth 222 electoral votes. Here's what that means.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/14/nx-s1-5742595/virginia-popular-vote-compact
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No War With Iran
Both Republicans and Democrats must decide whether theyāll stand with their constituents, and the majority of Americans who oppose this war, or theyāll support Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegs...
https://front.moveon.org/campaigns/no-war-with-iran/
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Our latest newsletter is available online. Thanks for reading!
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Democracy Defenders News 2026-04-12
Democracy Defenders - News 2026-04-12
https://democracydefenders.work/newsletter2026-04-12.html
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Adam Schwarz
7 days ago
OrbƔn's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
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Harry Litman
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From
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ālots of lessons here for the US - in particular that Magyar went to Orban strongholds for years and persuaded Orban supporters in person that their lives could be better. He knew he had the cities -- and he needed the villages to win this sort of victory.
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Nicholas Grossman
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In competitive authoritarianism, leaders abuse state power to tilt the electoral playing field in their favor, manipulate the media environment and minimize opposition voices, maybe even steal close elections by lying about fraud. But they usually can't overcome a large majority voting against them.
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Timothy Snyder
7 days ago
Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.
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Make the Refusal to Quit Go Viral
People do what the people around them do. That is not a weakness - itās the mechanism. This brief is about how to use it.
https://antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/make-the-refusal-to-quit-go-viral
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Aaron Rupar
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JD Vance abruptly wraps up his very short news conference in Pakistan, and while he walks away ignores questions about the Strait of Hormuz and whether the failure of the negotiations means the US is headed back to war
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Action Together New Jersey
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Missed this yesterday-
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The War on Terror Paved the Way for Trumpās RiseāNow Heās Making It His Own
Only the total abolition of the DHS can restore freedom.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-war-on-terror-dhs/
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Jane McAlevey on How To Organize for Power
The veteran labor organizer on what it takes to actually winā¦
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2019/04/jane-mcalevey-on-how-to-organize-for-power
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MPR News
10 days ago
More than 100 local artists and students contributed pages to the coloring book, āDraw Together.ā The images range from monarchs to a raccoon with birthday cakes, hearts and āloveā written in several languages, and a family of loons with the words āYou belong hereā floating above.
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https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/04/08/draw-together-coloring-book-minnesotas-ice-surge
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Ask Us Anything
Your Iran War questions, money and partisanship, and recovering national credibility
https://wolvesandsheep.substack.com/p/ask-us-anything-2f5
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on why NOT to use the TACO taunt
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Anat Shenker-Osorio
12 days ago
If you're in the room where it happens and you did nothing to stop it, you made it happen. War Criminal Cabinet.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
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How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260407&instance_id=173729&nl=breaking-news®i_id=37269161&segment_id=217882&user_id=74776a5a6d6877836164e17a1523f636
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Anat Shenker-Osorio
11 days ago
Absolutely essential wisdom from
@andreapitzer.bsky.social
laying out why "concentration camps" is not merely apt but essential terminology and rousing us to act now, while we still have the freedom to do so, to
#CloseTheCamps
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#BringThemHome
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Meeting the Moment with Anat Shenker-Osorio and Andrea Pitzer
A recording from Andrea Pitzer and Michael Podhorzer's live video
https://substack.com/home/post/p-193603869
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Frederick Deknatel
11 days ago
āUntil something is relatively more formal than what itās been, itās going to be on a ship-by-ship basis, in which case itās still going to be almost zero flow for the oil market,ā said Neil Crosby, head of oil research at Sparta, an oil analytics firm.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Democracy Docket
11 days ago
NEW: Trumpās effort to push the SAVE America Act has so far been met with resistance. While the measure remains stalled in the Senate, that hasnāt stopped some GOP-led states from proposing their own versions of the bill. Here's a state-by-state breakdown of where those efforts standš
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As SAVE America Act stalls, GOP states are quietly enacting their own proof of citizenship laws
Read Democracy Docket's state-by-state breakdown here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/as-save-america-act-stalls-gop-states-are-quietly-enacting-their-own-proof-of-citizenship-laws/
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Aaron Rupar
11 days ago
Markey: "They were planning an actual genocide -- a destruction of a civilization. That's why Trump should be impeached, that's why Democrats should file impeachment articles against Trump, that's why the 25th Amendment to remove me should be invoked."
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We the People Deployment - Training, July 21 2025
How to deploy the WTP prop in a march or event.
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Andy Greenberg
12 days ago
As Trump threatens scorched-earth attacks on Iran, a joint advisory from US agencies warns Iran-linked hackers have hit US critical infrastructure: "In a few cases, this activity has resulted in operational disruption and financial loss."
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Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure
As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.
https://www.wired.com/story/iran-linked-hackers-are-sabotaging-us-energy-and-water-infrastructure/
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Senator Bernie Sanders
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It is very easy to become accustomed to Trumpās ravings, and laugh them off. Thatās a dangerous thing to do. When Trump states: āA whole civilization will die tonight,ā he is threatening to commit genocide. We canāt allow that to happen. Congress must end this war NOW.
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Adam Mallinger
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I am here for messaging that the THREAT alone - regardless of if it's carried out or walked back - should end his presidency. The die is already cast. You cannot wield the power that man has and say that kind of shit.
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āFor leftist Jews, the Bund is a modelā: the radical history behind one of Europeās biggest socialist movements
A new book by Molly Crabapple documents the rise and fall of a revolutionary Jewish party that fought against Zionism and for āsolidarity across differenceā
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/07/molly-crabapple-new-book-jewish-socialism
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āEconomic Civil Warā: States Push Laws to Shield Oil and Gas Companies From Accountability
Most of the 15 bills being considered are part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo.
https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-alec-leonard-leo-lawsuits-fossil-fuel-oil-gas-immunity
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The Slowdown
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"The danger is that we want to believe it canāt happen here, or it canāt happen again, or it canāt happen to people I know and love, or it canāt happen to me,"
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
shares in episode 1487. Read "The Problem with Early Warnings" by Charles Rafferty:
bit.ly/4crVGoy
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Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender)
I have been hesitating to hit send on this one, because across the world we are all under the shadow of Trump's threat to commit war crimes that will "eradicate a whole civilization" in Iran while Ira...
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/between-the-impossible-and-the-inevitable-the-case-for-defiance-aka-never-f-king-surrender/
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Mueller, She Wrote
12 days ago
NEW: Ratcliffe told Trump that Bibi's war with Iran proposal was "farcical." Rubio chimed in and called it "bullshit." General Caine said it was an "over-sell." Vance said it would cause chaos and untold numbers of casualties. Cheung said people didn't vote for it.
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How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZFA.bSib.udnQ8PbjpC_S&smid=url-share
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Aaron Rupar
13 days ago
āItās difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, āOK, what did he say that was newsworthy?ā So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.ā
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The man who watches Trump all day, every day
Aaron Rupar spends up to 80 hours a week following the US president, from meandering speeches to impromptu press conferences. He says itās āpretty bleakā
https://www.thetimes.com/article/dd968023-2bcf-42e9-9433-d315c60c476a?shareToken=268eae9758a25bba5da53bfe44346e21
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Aaron Rupar
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Rep. Ansari: "Donald Trump is trying to normalize language that essentially threatening genocide, threatening the potential use of nuclear weapons ... how is nobody trying to restrain this madman who is trying to get all of us killed. This is a nightmare scenario. It's apocalyptic."
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Aaron Rupar
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Ansari: "Every person in this country needs to be calling R members of Congress relentlessly. Of all of the issues that have come up over last year, all have been devastating, but we're talking about potential for nuclear war here. That is the language Trump is using & we shouldn't pretend it's not"
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Rachel Maddow
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The Next Coup Attempt
And How to Stop It
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-coup-attempt
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You Can Smell It Now: The Trump Presidency Is in Total Free Fall
A loyal army of followers, a huge disinformation network, and a party of soul-selling cowards can crowd out facts for a long time. But eventually, reality catches up.
https://newrepublic.com/article/208633/trump-presidency-collapse-truth-social-iran
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Weaving a Network of Resistance
Indiana Democrats Light Our Way to Freedom
https://grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/weaving-a-network-of-resistance
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