Its chairman was surgeon Viktors Kalnbērzs and its membership for most of its existenceincluded currency exchange businessman Juris Žuravļovs.

Since 2005 Motherland was represented on the Riga City Council, being elected in a coalition with the Socialist Party of Latvia.

[5] SDK Dzimtene was renamed Par Jaunu Saskaņu (For a New Harmony) in March 2020, garnering 1,7% of votes in the 2020 snap Riga City Council election under the leadership of Tatjana Kargina.

[6] In June 2022 the party leadership was taken over by the activists of the association People's Servants, a group founded during the COVID-19 pandemic to oppose restrictions.

The leader of the group, Aivars Smans, became the new chairman of the party that was subsequently renamed People's Servants for Latvia.