
AP News: A high-stakes fight for state political power heats up
From our relationship with the AP News desk: "Political power in legislatures and governors' offices is at stake in the November elections in more than one-third of the states, creating down-ballot drama in the midterms that could have significant implications for President Donald Trump's agenda."

EXPLAINER: When Medicaid Changes Come Home to Minnesota (with flyer)
With the levels of misunderstanding about the systems we rely on day-to-day when we get hospital and clinic care, this Explainer is the first in a series designed to help people understand how the government — and the people we elect to it — serve the common good with the decisions they make about policy and funding priorities. #1: What Minnesotans need to know about how federal Medicaid cuts will impact everyone. Includes a one-page flyer of details.

Publisher’s Commentary on World News Day: Why Our Feminist Media Platform Exists
Today is World News Day, which coincides with the United Nations International Day for Universal Access to Information. More than a thousand newsrooms from more than 100 countries are today pointing out the value of a free press, including Minnesota Women's Press. Here is our essay on the subject.

Publisher’s Commentary: “A Work in Progress” Documentary by Robert Reich
The conversations we can have with each other are not about telling people what to think, but by creating more places to think together. More opportunities to explore the essential ingredients of collective health and personal fulfillment, and to ask what we owe one another as neighbors and citizens. This feels more consequential to me than the horse races, outrage, and gossip that so often define the media landscape.

Trina Swanson Explains Why She Can Win Pete Stauber’s Congressional Seat
"I went to a farmer's home in Aiken County recently. This man had voted for Trump and Pete Stauber every single time. We had an hour-and-a half–long conversation. He explained all the things he's dismayed about. I explained who I was and why I was running and what I was going to support. I left with a $3,500 check."

A Tribute to Karen Clark
The memorial service for retired Minnesota legislator Karen Clark on September 18 reiterated how much she believed that everyone can plant seeds, literally and figuratively, setting the landscape for what is to come.

FOR SHARING: How, Where, When to Vote (updated 10-16)
Everything anyone might need to know about fair and accessible Minnesota voting in 2026. Please share, ask neighbors if they need help getting to a polling place, make a plan to vote with your network and be sure their voting registration is ready.

AP News: Supreme Court rejects Trump mail ballot restrictions ahead of midterms
A report by the Brookings Institution published in 2025 found that mail voting fraud occurred in only about four cases out of every 10 million mail ballots cast.

Truth #1: Truth-Telling About ICE-Related Human Rights Violations
The testimony of seven people about their experiences with ICE agents during Operation Metro Surge, shared at an August National Convergence for Democracy conference held in Minneapolis.

Commentary: What to know about the sulfide mine proposed in Minnesota’s headwaters watershed
With Talon’s proposal, Minnesota now has sulfide-mining proposals in all three of its major watersheds: the Mississippi River, Lake Superior, and the Boundary Waters. A public comment period for one of them ends September 14.

What Data Says About Violence in Minnesota: A Reflection After the Latest Mass Shooting
“Despite widespread media attention to mass shootings committed by estranged people, the majority of homicides are committed by individuals known to the victims.”

Convergence: National Conversations About Defending Democracy Held in Minnesota
National leaders for defending democracy gathered at the Minneapolis convention center August 21 to 23, partly to talk about how Minnesotans organized to protect neighbors from federal agents, and partly to prepare for the next onslaught of federal occupation, likely related to the upcoming November elections. A central message: True power comes from cross-sector collaboration between labor, faith communities, nonprofits, and other community leaders.


For 2025 coverage, Minnesota Women’s Press earned a community leadership award, three photography awards, and four editorial awards, including for coverage of social issues and for our Spring 2025 “Know Your Rights” special section supported by Unidos MN. Our publisher was named Journalist of the Year by Violence Free Minnesota for gender-based violence coverage.