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MARCH 6, 2025
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Looking for community, connection, and a way to take meaningful political action? Then join us for Wine, Chocolate & Choice!
Wine, Chocolate & Choice celebrates the power of pro-choice women’s political leadership and helps create a space where we all can be ourselves. Learn more about our political work, hear from Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, and get motivated to take action at Wine, Chocolate & Choice!
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Wine, Chocolate, and Choice 2025
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
The Whim, 655 19th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thank you to our generous sponsors!
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Joanne & Dave Kamper
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Kate Bryant, Traci Esades, Lorrie Janatopoulos, Kate Mortenson, Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Vote Run Lead Action
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Kate Agnew, Cynthia Bauerly, Tracy Fischman, Mary Fisher, NewPublica, Lori Ryan, Jaime Tincher, Sandra Shirek, SeeBotRun, Boriana Strzok & 5ive
Grassroots
Carol E. Ball, Carrie Carroll, Molly Coleman, Lauren Gilchrist, County Commissioner Laurie Halverson, Kathy Heltzer, Ellen Hertz, Melissa Hettmann, Mary McKinley, Holly Kragthorpe Shirley, Alana Peterson, Cassandra Rohlik, Aaron Rosell, Betsy Sitkoff, Stephani Tikalsky, Susan Thompson
Ambassador
Sen. Liz Boldon, Rep. Sydney Jordan, County Commissioner Tara Jebens-Singh, Rep. Athena Hollins, Council Member Katie Cashman, Rep. Tina Liebling, Sen. Lindsey Port, Sen. Ann Johnson Stewart, Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw
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Join us for the final event in our 2025 Candidate Training Series!
[[link removed]] Join Women Winning for the final event in our Candidate Training Series as we gear up for 2025 and beyond!
At our Advanced Candidate Training, we’ll dig deeper to get the lowdown on logistics, insights, and must-knows for a successful campaign!
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Applications for Women Winning’s 2025 PLOT cohort are NOW OPEN!
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The Women Winning Political Leaders of Tomorrow (PLOT) Training Program is designed to help you acquire the tools and connections needed to be a political leader in Minnesota. PLOT serves as an entry point for energized, pro-choice Minnesotans who are interested in a career in politics, especially those who have not yet volunteered or worked on a campaign.
PLOT invests in the next generation of political strategists, volunteers, and candidates in Minnesota through education and training. The Women Winning team supports and develops PLOT participants throughout the program by providing:
- In-depth training in campaign communication, fundraising, fieldwork, and strategy
- Professional development and networking opportunities
- Personalized check-ins and problem-solving coaching
Applications are now open and will be reviewed on a first-come-first-served basis! Apply today below for best priority!
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Minnesota House rejects banning transgender athletes from girls sports
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The Minnesota House of Representatives on Monday rejected a bill that would have banned transgender athletes from competing on girls sports teams.
The proposal came to the House floor after it passed on a party-line vote in the GOP-controlled House Education Policy Committee. However, given the current makeup of the whole House — 67 Republicans and 66 DFLers, and 68 votes needed to pass legislation — the bill had been expected to fail. It did so along party lines.
Trans athletes and coaches, LGBTQ+ advocates and DFL lawmakers pushed back, saying the bill would discriminate against trans women and girls and could pose problems with enforcement.
"This legislation, by design, invites any person to demand a sex check for any girl athlete whenever they feel like it. It is not a simple bill,” Rep. Julie Greene, DFL-Edina, said during bill debate Monday.
“Where’s the oversight? There is none ... so how does this work? Who handles it when there is a sex check from a spectator? The 14-year-old ref? The dad coach? The head pastor?” she added. “This bill creates a path for intense scrutiny and harassment for the 200,000 Minnesota girls who currently play sports ages 5 to 18. This bill puts all girls at risk."
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Pardoned anti-abortion activists plan next steps
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Many of the nearly two dozen people President Donald Trump pardoned in January, who had broken into and blocked access to abortion clinics, are vowing to launch a new wave of civil disobedience.
At a recent online event by the anti-abortion group LiveAction, several of the activists released from federal prison said they will resume efforts in the coming months to shut down remaining clinics in America, and they urged fellow abortion opponents to join them.
“Get out there, whether it’s outside the clinic or inside, or wherever you need to be to actually prevent unborn children’s lives from being taken,” said Herb Geraghty, a Pittsburgh-based anti-abortion activist who entered a Washington abortion clinic in 2020 to disrupt its operations and implore patients to not terminate their pregnancies.
On the heels of the pardons, Trump’s FBI and DOJ dropped several ongoing investigations into threats against abortion clinics and issued a new memo signaling reduced enforcement going forward against such acts. Those developments — along with a new push in Congress to repeal the law Geraghty and others violated — indicate that clinics will reemerge as a front in the battle over abortion access, and a focus of a president who called himself “the most pro-life” in history.
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Federal law protects emergency abortions. Will Trump keep that policy?
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Doctors are bracing for a possible rollback of a federal law protecting their ability to provide abortions in medical emergencies.
Despite issuing executive orders weakening abortion protections, including restricting the use of federal funds to help people access the procedure, President Donald Trump has so far left the Emergency Medicine Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) alone.
The Biden administration clarified that EMTALA requires hospitals to perform abortions when they are necessary to stabilize a patient. That guidance trumped individual state bans on abortion and meant that hospitals had to provide abortions in medical emergencies — and that failure to do so could result in financial penalties.
But the policy’s future remains uncertain. Trump has directed the federal government to identify and rescind policies that support abortion rights. Contributors to Project 2025, the public policy blueprint the Trump administration has largely followed since taking office, have called for reversing the interpretation that EMTALA can protect the right to emergency abortion.
“It was a great show of support by the Biden administration for science and evidence-based medicine that they specifically issued guidance about how EMTALA could be interpreted in cases where abortion was medically indicated,” said Dr. Jonas Swartz, an OB-GYN and abortion provider in North Carolina, where abortion is legal up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. “Changes in that feel like someone’s pulling the rug out from under you.”
Trump administration officials have not clarified how they would approach the Biden policy, which requires active enforcement by the federal government. The White House did not respond to requests for comment on whether the policy would remain in place or be enforced.
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📌 MUJERES CREADORAS: An art experience to commemorate International Women's Day, led by artist Constanza Carballo in partnership with the Minnesota Latino Museum
* Date: Saturday, March 8
* Time: 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
* Location: Solar Arts Building, 711 NE 15th Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55413
📌 Reproductive Freedom Lobby Day with Pro-Choice Minnesota & Unrestrict Minnesota
* Date: Monday, March 10
* Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
* Location: Minnesota State Capitol, 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard., St Paul, MN 55155
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