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Want an ad-free, simplified place to catch the results on Election Day? Check out Barn Raiser’s live election results page, featuring an interactive map, real-time updates and results from The Associated Press. barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…

“I’m extremely concerned about the harm that corporate consolidation and monopolies are having on farmers and rural communities generally throughout our state,” Ellison says in a statement to Barn Raiser. barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…

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From our friends at Dirtroad Organizing @DirtroadOrg: Embracing a multi-season approach to rural power-building dirtroadorganizing.substack.…

Nearly 420,000 votes have been cast in-person or by mail during the first five weeks of early voting. How Minnesota responds to corporate power and an increasingly authoritarian federal government now lies in the hands of its voters. barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…

ICE resistance, antitrust enforcement and a state fraud scandal fuel attacks on Keith Ellison barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…

Trio of “Farm Bureau Refugees” demand rapid policy change to save Iowa’s water barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…

Over his past two terms, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has challenged unlawful federal action and corporate abuses. Now dark money PACs are pouring millions to support his Republican challenger Ron Schulz, a lawyer with nearly $2 million in stock holdings from the same corporations he will be expected to prosecute. @clairekelloway barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…

A new anthology assembles more than 70 voices of movement leaders across time and place barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…

Red Wing locals redefine what campaign organizing looks like barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…

The public is entitled to know where factory farm pollution exists. A new map makes that possible. barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…

A new map makes it possible to see where factory farms exist. It’s just the first step voters can take to find out if their water is polluted and where their representatives stand on one of the major public health issues of our day. barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…

In an era of nationalized campaign strategies and divisive politics, a campaign in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District is doing something different: letting local organizers lead. barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…

How do people and political movements find hope when obstacles mount and success seems far from certain? Author Paul Rogat Loeb probes this question in a newly updated book that includes more than 70 essays, poems, letters and stories by famous and not-so-famous activists from around the world on how they persevered in the midst of struggle. barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…

A trio of row crop farmers in Iowa are doing what was once unthinkable: challenging the status quo of industrial ag in the fight to save Iowa’s water quality. By speaking out ahead of the midterms, they’re building a following to pressure candidates to take swift action. barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…

Rural America is not a monolith. The people the New Pennsylvania Project is trying to reach are more varied—and often more dispersed—than broad descriptions of the “rural vote” suggest. barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…

“I think our message is reaching Republicans and conservative people because it is people-first policies, and for anybody with a good conscience or goodwill, I think that resonates.” barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…