Video:Journalists Fact Check MN GOP Gov Candidate A Lot
The UpTake has reported that journalists say DFL and IP candidates for Minnesota Governor are sometimes vague or wrong when it comes to their facts, but at a recent panel, political reporters devoted...
View ArticleVideo: Baseball Owners petitioned to move the All-Star Game
By Craig Stellmacher- The UpTakeNote: The video may contain an ad. That's how we pay for doing these videos.In Minneapolis at the 601 Graves Hotel, Major League Baseball owners met, and were...
View ArticleNRA "F" Rating Backfires In MN Governor Race
Video by Craig Stellmacher - The UpTakeNormally an "F" rating from the National Rifle Association would not play well in front of a crowd of outdoors and gun enthusiasts. That was not the case on...
View ArticleVideo: Sen Franken On Net Neutrality Importance, FCC Hearing Thurs.
On the eve of Federal Communications Commission hearing about the future of the Internet in Minneapolis, Minnesota Senator Al Franken talks about why net neutrality is so important. The hearing is at...
View ArticleObama:GOP Doesn't Know How To Drive, Doesn't Deserve Keys Back
By Susan Maricle of The UpTakePresident Barack Obama had a populist Labor Day message for an enthusiastic crowd in Milwaukee. He praised America’s Greatest Generation, including in that group veterans...
View ArticleVideo: MN Poll Gives Dem Edge: Tea Party Hurts GOP
Extremist Tea Party Views Could Hurt GOP With Swing VotersVideo from The UpTake's Jacob WheelerToday's Minnesota Public Radio-Humphrey Institute poll shows Minnesota Democratic gubernatorial candidate...
View ArticleBill Clinton Says Share This Video
President Bill Clinton explains what is in the student loan law that Republicans want to repeal. He says if students knew what the bill did and that Republicans such as Congresswoman Michele Bachmann...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann's First Debate-Watch Live 12:30PM CT
It's the most expensive Congressional race in the country and believe it or not there hasn't been a debate involving the incumbent...until today.With less than seven days before the election, Tea Party...
View ArticleGov Walker's Prank Caller- Live Interview at 4:30pm CT
Some call him a folk hero. Others think he's a disgrace to journalism. Ian Murphy of the buffalobeast.com draws strong reactions after his prank call to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker last month. In...
View ArticleVideo:Grocery Guard Bags Pro-Union Protester
Video courtesy of Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en LuchaUnionization of a Minneapolis grocery store was dealt a setback recently when one of the organizers was fired. Protests supporting the fired...
View ArticleObama Not Christian Infers MN House Prayer
Controversial Reverend Bradlee Dean is called to make the opening prayer for the Minnesota House. In it, he says every president "until 2008" has recognized Jesus-- apparently referring to long...
View ArticleNew MN Anti-Immigrant Law Targets The Sick
A provision stuck onto a Republican authored bill during Minnesota's one day budget special session this past July may mean death for seriously ill undocumented workers. The law which goes into...
View ArticleBeing President Can Be Fun
A different kind of year in review. A video of President Obama's playful moments in 2011.Yes, there are perks to being the leader of the free world. President Obama's most playful moments of 2011 often...
View ArticleVideo:Gingrich-Hard Working Dead People Should Keep Their Money
Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich tells a crowd of supporters in Minnesota: “In addition on taxes, we would abolish the ‘death tax’ permanently because we believe that it is very, very...
View ArticleVideo: Class Warfare Could Kill Poor People
"Mean spirited" and "humiliating" to poor people is how Ebony Harris describes a Minnesota proposed law requiring 60-days residency to qualify for welfare benefits. She says people are not moving from...
View ArticleRacial Foreclosure? A Tale Of Two US Bank-Occupy Foreclosures
By Jacob Wheeler/ The UpTake Two Minneapolis homeowners facing foreclosure are apparently getting very different treatments from U.S. Bank. Both have incomes that can pay a mortgage and are being...
View ArticleLawmaker: Require Photo ID To Go To Church- Poll & Video
If Minnesota is going to require a photo ID to vote, perhaps it should consider requiring a photo ID for some of our other rights such as going to church suggests Democratic State Representative John...
View Article2 AM Attempt To Revive Anti-Union Bill Fails In MN House
In the dark of night when public TV was no longer broadcasting the Minnesota House session, a Republican tries to revive the anti-union “right to work” constitutional amendment. However, The UpTake...
View ArticleVideo:Jackhammers Used In Eviction Raid On Occupy Defended Home
In the dark of night, Hennepin County Sheriff’s officers raided a foreclosed Minneapolis home that is being “defended” by Occupy Minnesota according to the group. Occupy says five people were...
View ArticleVideo:Anti-Pot Great-Grandma Changes Her Mind On Medical Marijuana
Joani Whiting is the mother of Stephanie who was diagnosed with skin cancer. Joani opposed doctors who wanted to help her daughter with medical marijuana. Other members of her family finally moved...
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Video: MN Senate's Historic Vote On Same-Sex Marriage
Tuesday, Minnesota will become the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage and the first in the midwest to do it legislatively (Iowa was by court order). Monday, the Minnesota Senate approved a...
View ArticleVideo:GOP Rep. Says Climate Change A Lie & A Conspiracy
Minnesota State Representative Glenn Gruenhagen (R), known for his outrageous statements about homosexual genetics and welfare as a government scheme to pay black men to impregnate women, has added...
View ArticleVideo:Would-be Bachmann Successor Much Like Her
Failed Minnesota Republican candidate for governor Tom Emmer announced Wednesday that he will run for the Sixth District congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Michele Bachmann.Emmer lost to...
View ArticleVideo:Biggest Test Ever Of Ranked Choice Voting Looms In Minneapolis
Ranked Choice Voting will play a huge role in the Minneapolis mayoral race since the local Democratic party failed to endorse any of the six Democrats running. Watch the video to see what Democrats...
View ArticleVideo: Obama's Best Rant Ever Against GOP On Health Care
President Obama makes a direct connection between the "oppose everything Obama wants" attitude of Republicans and the consequences of denying health care to 30 million people.It's the health care,...
View ArticleVideo-Obama:No Other Developed Nation Endures Mass Shootings
President Obama spoke at the memorial service today for 12 men and women gunned down at the Navy Yard.There is nothing normal about our children being gunned down in their classrooms. There is nothing...
View ArticleVideo: GOP Says Exemptions For Big Biz Is Why It Wants To Defund Obamacare
Big business has it too good. It's time for fairness You've probably heard that argument before… but probably not from the Speaker of House John Boehner. Grabbing a rhetorical page from the Democrats...
View ArticleVideo: Obama & Biden Walk To Get A Sandwich
If you listen to the Republican rhetoric on the House and Senate floors you'd think President Obama would be afraid to show his face in public because everyone hates "Obamacare."That wasn't evident on...
View ArticleVIDEO: GOP Justice Candidate Waves Bible, Faces DWI Charge
Minnesota Supreme Court Justice candidate Michelle MacDonald has more than a DWI charge hanging over her head — she also has a bible. With it, she apparently supports a practice that dates back...
View ArticleObama VIDEO: Choose Hope Over Cynicism
"Cynicism passes off for wisdom. But cynicism doesn’t liberate a continent. Cynicism doesn’t build a transcontinental railroad. Cynicism doesn’t send a man to the moon. Cynicism doesn’t invent the...
View ArticleVIDEO:Open Carry Backfires At Target: Moms Celebrate Store's Policy Change
Guns aren't banned at Target. But they're no longer welcome thanks to nationwide pressure from mothers like Rebecca Lowen of Minnesota.Lowen and other members of "Moms Demand Action" petitioned Target...
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Movie To Show How To Win "Unwinnable" Elections
A movie about how marriage equality prevailed in Minnesota shows how "unwinnable" elections can be won. See a preview of it at Netroots Nation on Friday. Everything you think you know about persuading...
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Everything you think you know about persuading voters may be wrong
A movie about how marriage equality prevailed in Minnesota shows how "unwinnable" elections can be won. See a preview of it at Netroots Nation on Friday. Everything you think you know about persuading...
View ArticleVIDEO: Minimum Wage Earners Should Aspire To A Better Job Says MN GOP...
Minnesota Republican candidate for Governor Jeff Johnson says if elected he will slow the growth in the minimum wage. Not unexpected for a Republican, but the way he said it seemed to suggest workers...
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How You Can Fight Back Against Burger King's Tax Evasion Move
Spend and Vote lets consumers vent their anger and make it count.Remember how Walgreens was shamed into not moving its headquarters overseas and joining the corporate tax-dodging "inversion" movement?...
View ArticleVideo: "Race Baiting" Charge Heats Up Minnesota Secretary Of State Debate
Charges of race baiting and incendiary politics flew in a debate between candidates for Minnesota secretary of state Tuesday night.At issue is a proposal from Republican candidate Dan Severson who...
View ArticleVideo: Voting Rights Chokes Up New MN Secretary Of State
Minnesota's new Secretary of State Steve Simon is passionate about voting rights. So passionate he got choked up when speaking about the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.Simon was...
View ArticleLawmaker On Body Cams: "If We Don't Trust The Police...We Have A Deeper Problem"
From The UpTakeMinnesota Rep. Joe McDonald (R-Delano) is a supporter of a bill in the Minnesota legislature to severely limit public access to video data collected by body cams. Under this proposal,...
View ArticleMN “Religious Freedom” Bill Targets Same-Sex Weddings
A proposed law that would allow certain businesses to refuse services based upon religious grounds is drawing the ire of the advocates who fought to legalize same-sex marriage in Minnesota.When he...
View ArticleVideo:Bernie Sanders Wows Overflow Minneapolis Crowd
More than 3,700 people squeezed into a Minneapolis gym to hear presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders lay out his campaign agenda. More people were left standing outside. Upon arrival, Sanders...
View ArticleVideo:Obama Schools Kenya On LGBT Rights
U.S. President Barack Obama says as an African-American he is painfully aware of how wrong it is to treat law-abiding people differently just because they are different in some way. So he supports LGBT...
View ArticleVideo: Obama Cites Confederate Flag, Suppressing Women As "Bad Traditions"
In Nairobe Kenya, President Obama says that “just because something is a part of your past doesn’t make it right. It doesn’t mean that it defines your future.”As an example Obama pointed to the...
View ArticleVideo: Obama Says He Could Win A Third Term As President
President Obama criticizes African leaders who do not abide by term limits and become “president for life”. Speaking to the African Union in Ethiopia, Obama used himself as an example saying he thinks...
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White House Makes Anti-Cheney Video
The White House video about Dick Cheney looks and feels very much like a campaign ad.The White House this morning released a video this morning that takes former Vice President Dick Cheney to task for...
View ArticleVideo: Franken Calls GOP Supreme Court Obstructionism “Absurd”, Duels With...
Senator Al Franken (D-MN) is a former comedian and says he used to make a living identifying absurdity. He finds the reasons from Republicans to block President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland...
View ArticleVideo: Obama Calls Trump Mexico Plan "Half-Baked", "Draconian", "Impractical"
xYouTube VideoPresident Obama responds to a reporter question about Donald Trump's plan to stop remittances from Mexican immigrants in the United States and use them to pay for a wall on the U.S....
View ArticleVIDEO: Student Asks Obama About Cynicism And Gets A 10 Minute Rant That Nails It
College students studying to be journalists got an unexpected treat this week when during a session with White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, President Obama entered the room and took questions. A...
View ArticleVideo: Obama's One Liners At His Final White House Correspondents Dinner
xYouTube VideoPresident Obama takes shots at Republicans, the media and himself at the final White House Correspondents Dinner of his presidency. Or as he put it "It is an honor to be here at my...
View ArticleVideo: Obama Says Mass Shooting Means US Must "Decide If That’s The Kind Of...
President Obama says nation’s most deadliest mass shooting is a reminder of how easy it to obtain a weapon and that “we have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do...
View ArticleTrump Brags About His First Week Of Disruption- Video & Transcript
“It’s about time” said President Donald Trump of his executive order that he says will start the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act. Trump listed that and several other actions he took...
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