Category: DFL In the Know

DFL Party Podcast
As we prepare for 2022, the DFL Party is exploring new opportunities to get our message out to Minnesotans, including starting a podcast! We create a short, 3 minute survey to learn what you’d like to hear from a potential DFL Party podcast. Please take a few minutes to fill out our survey and help shape this new DFL Party venture today using this link: https://forms.gle/TW3z8dWJ9UF3798GA

Congress
More than 170 business leaders sign letter urging Congress to accept Biden’s win, CNN
Objecting To Electoral Votes In Congress Recalls Bitter Moments In History,NPR
Democrats ask FBI Director Wray to open criminal probe into Trump after leaked phone call, NBC
Democrats tighten control with House rules changes, Associated Press

Environmental News
Global Warming May Be Triggering Toxic Algae Blooms Along U.S. West Coast, U.S. News & World Report
Trump auctions Arctic refuge to oil drillers in last strike against US wilderness, The Guardian

Continue reading “In the Know: January 5, 2021”

Happy Holidays!
Thank you for reading In The Know throughout 2020! We appreciate your support and hard work helping to elect DFLers up and down the ballot, we couldn’t do it without you. We are off for the holidays for the next two weeks, In The Know will return January 4th! In the meantime, consider volunteering a few hours to help Democrats win the two Senate runoff elections in Georgia. You can do so using this link: https://www.georgiademocrat.org/events/

DFL Party Podcast
As we prepare for 2021, the DFL Party is exploring new opportunities to get our message out to Minnesotans, including starting a podcast! We create a short, 3 minute survey to learn what you’d like to hear from a potential DFL Party podcast. Please take a few minutes to fill out our survey and help shape this new DFL Party venture today using this link: https://forms.gle/TW3z8dWJ9UF3798GA

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Attorney General Keith Ellison
2 MN bars continue fight against Walz order; AG Ellison sues both, Bring Me the News 
AG Keith Ellison files for temporary restraining order against Lakeville restaurant, KSTP

Continue reading “In the Know: December 18, 2020”

Agriculture
BIDEN VOWS TO PAY FARMERS TO PLANT COVER CROPS AND PUT LAND IN CONSERVATION, Successful Farming

Attorney General Keith Ellison
Ellison pledges to hold businesses that defy COVID-19 restrictions accountable, KSTP

Congress
$900 Billion Pandemic Relief Deal Takes Shape, New York Times
McConnell included $600 checks in COVID-19 stimulus plans after hearing that opposition could cost Republicans the Senate runoffs in Georgia, report says, Yahoo News
Lawmakers face shutdown deadline amid ongoing stimulus talks, CNN
McConnell getting much of what he wants in emerging relief deal, The Hill

Continue reading “In the Know: December 17, 2020”

2020 Election 
Could Congress overturn Biden’s Electoral College win? Possibly. Will it? No., New York Times

Congress
Pelosi warns lawmakers they’ll be barred from speaking on House floor without a mask, The Hill

Environmental News
Trump administration delays endangered species protection for monarch butterfly “on the brink of collapse”, CBS 
America’s last wilderness is about to go to the highest bidder for oil drilling, The Guardian

Continue reading “In the Know: December 16, 2020”

2020 Election 
McConnell for the first time recognizes Biden as President-elect, CNN

Attorney General Keith Ellison
AG: We’re sending a message to businesses who defy state orders, KNSI
Minnesota could free man serving life in child’s 2002 death, Associated Press

Environmental News
Can dairy adapt to climate change?, BBC
A ‘frozen rainforest’ of microscopic life is melting Greenland’s ice sheet, CNN

Governor Tim Walz
Minnesota businesses plan to defy Walz shutdown order, Star Tribune
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to announce next steps for COVID-19 restrictions Wednesday, Inforum
Gov. Walz observes first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine arriving in Minnesota, Fox 9

Continue reading “In the Know: December 15, 2020”

2020 Election 
Track Electoral College votes, state by state, CNN
Electoral College set to vote to make Biden’s 2020 victory official, NBC
Supreme Court rejects Texas’ and Trump’s bid to overturn election, CNN
Review largely blames Iowa caucus problems on Democratic National Committee, CNN

Agriculture News
A catastrophic year casts a pall of uncertainty across California’s agricultural valleys, The Guardian
Flush with cash, Chinese hog producer builds world’s largest pig farm, Reuters

Attorney General Keith Ellison
‘The ball is really in their court,’ Attorney General Ellison says of East Grand Forks restaurant as it reopens for a fourth night, Grand Forks Herald

Continue reading “In the Know: December 14, 2020”

2020 Election 
Explaining the Supreme Court lawsuit from Texas and Trump challenging Biden’s win, CNN
‘The moment of truth’: The Electoral College prepares to hand Trump the loss he refuses to accept, USA Today
Pennsylvania GOP State Legislators Urge SCOTUS to Side Against Their State in Trump Election Fight, Daily Beast

Attorney General Keith Ellison
Minnesota adds tobacco giant Altria to ongoing suit against Juul Labs, Star Tribune

Congressional News
‘We cannot go home without it’: Negotiators inch toward deal on $1.4 trillion spending measure, Politico

Continue reading “In the Know: December 11, 2020”

2020 Election 
Explaining the Supreme Court lawsuit from Texas and Trump challenging Biden’s win, CNN

Attorney General Keith Ellison
Attorney General Ellison sues to end Facebook’s illegal monopoly, Office of AG Ellison

DFL News
DFL Chairman’s View: Stauber, Trump eroding legitimacy of US government, Duluth News Tribune

Continue reading “In the Know: December 10, 2020”

2020 Election News 
Embattled Texas AG Sues Swing States in SCOTUS to Save Trump, Daily Beast
YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud, The Hill
‘Very worried that this affects our brand’: Georgia Lt. Gov. tells GOP to accept election results, Politico
27 GOP reps ask for special counsel to investigate election irregularities, The Hill
Arizona Supreme Court crushes GOP chair Kelli Ward’s coup attempt, USA Today
Supreme Court rejects Pennsylvania Republicans’ attempt to block Biden victory, CNN
Nevada Supreme Court rejects Trump campaign’s appeal to overturn Biden’s win, Washington Post

Congressional News
House approves defense bill with veto-proof majority after Trump urges GOP opposition, CNN
Pelosi, Schumer blast $916B White House coronavirus relief proposal, NBC News

Environmental News
The world’s rich need to cut their carbon footprint by a factor of 30 to slow climate change, U.N. warns, Washington Post
Covid lockdowns will only lower 2050 temperatures by 0.01C, predicts UN, The Guardian
Most of America’s dirty power plants will be ready to retire by 2035, Grist
‘We Now Need to Do the Impossible.’ How Greta Thunberg Is Fighting for a Greener Post-Pandemic World, Time

Continue reading “In the Know: December 9, 2020”