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Tomorrow morning when the recount in Minnesota's very close US Senate race starts the score will be "zero to zero" according to Al Franken's campaign manager Andy Barr. The State Canvassing Board today ordered the recount which is required when the margin is less than .5%. Below are videos as...

Senator Norm Coleman's lead over Al Franken shrunk again from 206 to an even 200 votes after counties from all over Minnesota turned in their audits Friday. The hand count audits were only of 3 to 5 precincts in any given county and are done after every election in Minnesota...

Senator Norm Coleman and his staff have been less than completely forthcoming in their responses to questions about Coleman's financial relationship with wealthy businessman Nasser Kazimny.  Court documents from a case in Texas now reveal why the campaign and Coleman may have been choosing their words so carefully.

Kaziminy is...

Al Franken now has another thing in common with the late Senator Paul Wellstone. They've both been sued by Senator Norm Coleman shortly before an election.

Franken is running against Coleman in a very expensive US Senate race in Minnesota. Today Coleman's campaign announced the Senator is suing Franken...

Rep. Michele Bachmann caught the national spotlight recently when she told MSNBC's Chris Mathews that Barack Obama "may have anti-American views."

Although Bachmann's statement may have come as a surprise to people outside her home district in central Minnesota, she has a history of making statements that are inflammatory,...

John McCain supporter Gayle Quinnell told the crowd at a McCain Rally in Minnesota that "Obama is an Arab." McCain took away the microphone but failed to address Quinnell's unabashed bigotry or the incidents of anti-Arab,...

Iraq Veterans Against the War marched to the convention center in St. Paul yesterday intending to present Senator John McCain with a list of demands regarding U.S. military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The veterans conducted a similar exercise in...

Police raided locations in Minnestoa this weekend, including the homes of activists in Minneapolis where protesters were organizing actions for the Republican National Convention set to commence today. Well-known bloggers Jane Hamsher and Glen Greenwald visited the homes, arriving after the raids...

More at http://www.theuptake.org. Falun Gong supporters march on downtown Denver at the Democratic National Convention 2008.

DENVER -- Anti-abortion protesters, including Randall Terry, national director of Operation Rescue, blocked the entrance to the perimeter of the Pepsi Center yesterday, holding signs aloft and praying. Thirteen of the thirty protesters, including Terry, were arrested.

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Salimah Ebrahim asked Jamal Simmons, Senior Democratic Advisor to Barack Obama, about Michelle Obama's speech on the opening night of the DNC Convention. Calling her both vulnerable and strong, Simmons believes the potential First Lady took Republican criticisms head-on in...

At the Democratic National Convention interfaith service both secular and fundamentalist protesters were ejected from the service.

One of the protesters tossed from the service said "She (the leader of the service) said these are all people of faith. I'm not a...

Recreate68 is one of the controversially-named progressive groups organizing demonstrations and other activities at the 2008 DNC in Denver. The UpTake's Chuck Olsen interviews one of the group's founders, Mark Cohen, and documents the first big protest of the DNC. The...

Michelle Obama addresses the DNC during "prime time," a speech that will be seen by millions of people. There's a lot riding on that speech. For some perspective, we talked to Wendi C. Thomas, a columnist from The Commercial Appeal Memphis who...

The UpTake's Chuck Olsen interviews author Irwin Tang about his book, "Gook: John McCain's Racism and Why It Matters." McCain first used the work "gook" in the mass media in his 1973 article for U.S....

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At the Netroots Nation conference this past week, Al Gore made a surprise visit and struck out hard against Republican "hair of the dog" solutions to the connected energy and global warming crises.

"The idea that we're...

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At the National Conference for Media Reform 2008, a producer for FOX's The O'Reilly Factor, Porter Barry, ambushes PBS's Bill Moyers and peppers him with questions regarding...

The UpTake was on hand to live stream and record Barack Obama's Democratic primary victory speech from the Xcel Center in Saint Paul Minnesota on Tuesday evening.

With a run...

Bloggers at The Uptake present live streaming coverage of Barack Obama's speech today at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, the same building where John McCain is scheduled to accept the Republican Presidential nomination in September. Obama is scheduled to take the stage after the Montana race is called...