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Officially convention season is over. Here in Minnesota anyway. I don’t know what is happening elsewhere. Back on February 3rd this whole thing got started when I attended my precinct caucus and signed up to be a delegate to all the organizing units I could—Senate District 61, the Minneapolis City Convention, and our Hennepin County Endorsing Event. At Senate District 61, I was honored to be elected as an alternate to two further conventions, Congressional District 5 and the State Convention, and now I have been to them all. Thanks to those of you that helped me get there.

I have no regrets, but it has been a haul.

Hennepin County Convention, the last of them, happened yesterday. I had been looking forward to this, thinking the work was over, but —sigh— democracy doesn’t work that way. The State Conventions took place two weeks ago on May 29 - 31st, made me see how endorsing is just the first step. Gearing up for the Minnesota’s primary election on August 11th is next. If the collective wisdom that grew from that first meeting at the precinct caucuses is to be honored, there will be more work to do, even if it is just talking to all of my friends and neighbors about what we decided and why.

I’m starting that today with this rising crescent of a New Moon.

Make a plan to vote!

In Minnesota, early voting for the primary will begin in Minnesota on Friday, July 24. I already know I will be casting my ballot at the Early Vote Center in Minneapolis as Family Camp conflicts with the primary.

Here is where you can find information on Minnesota voting: Elections & Voting. Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the Constitution, known as the “Elections Clause,” gave states the responsibility of overseeing elections. If you live in another state and don’t know where to find out about voting, here is a link to the National Association of Secretarys of State (NASS) “Can I vote?” page. NASS is a non-partisan website created by state election officials to help people figure out voting. Disenfranchisement is happening by leaps and bounds just now, so helping yourselves and others early to make a plan just makes sense.

Understanding “organizing units”

At the very beginning of this process, I drew myself a map to try to understand which candidates would be endorsed at which event. My little drawing had each convention on one side with the list of offices that would be endorsed on the other. It took that activity to help me see these “organizing units” that I kept hearing about as containers of constituents for various levels of government. It took a shift in perspective to understand how my precinct(the smallest container that defines my direct neighborhood) fit into the Venn Diagram that was State Senate District, Minneapolis City District, and Hennepin County District, each bigger container encompassing the previous. My drawing included a section that grew out from our State Senate District showing that delegates would be chosen from there to go on to two further conventions and endorse federal candidates. The US Congressional District was where our US Representative was endorsed and the Minnesota State DFL Convention where State Auditor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, and US Senator, and Governor.

How being a delegate is powerful

Some of these offices were a mystery to me. State Auditor? County Commissioners? But by last February, in the midst of Metro Surge, when I was signing up to be a delegate, I was beginning to understand that some of these county positions in particular were going to play an outsize role in responding to the stressors caused by a federal administration determined to punish our state specifically and, more generally, punish the most vulnerable of its citizens.

Once you become a delegate or alternate to a particular convention (you do not have to do them all!) your name is on a list and the candidates that are seeking your party’s endorsement begin to call you and knock on your door and try to find out what issues you care about and if they can earn your support. And that was why Faith in Minnesota urged all leaders to go to their caucuses with The People’s Agenda in hand and get candidates talking about how they could bring this vision of the future into reality. The People’s Agenda was created through deep listening sessions with Minnesotans across the state. Over 10,000 people weighed in—across race, faith (or no faith), age, gender. This values-based agenda has mass appeal and spells out a future that is rooted in affordability, dignity, and community. Our coalition of delegates and alternates at the DFL State Convention was over 200 strong.

A Convention and its Norms

Hennepin County was last on my list, because it came last in order. Technically the Hennepin County Convention was an “endorsing event” because the only business conducted there was candidate endorsements. As a Faith in Minnesota Delegate, I arrived with the mission to secure the endorsement of the candidate that we felt would be the best at partnering with us to pass the budgets, policies, and programs that bring our vision of The People’s Agenda into reality. In the auditorium at St. Louis Park High School we were assigned to sit by districts, as was the case in most of the conventions I attended. Finding where that is involves jostling through crowds and deciphering codes left on aisle rows with post-it notes. The aisles are full of delegates wearing the t-shirts of their cause/candidate/union of choice and also volunteers and candidates. And it is while everyone is settling in and trying to figure out what is going on that you also introduce yourself to those around you and have persuasive conversations. I did my best to ask what made them get involved in the process and followed that up by asking if they were familiar with Faith in Minnesota and The People’s Agenda and who they were considering for County Attorney.

At yesterday’s convention, we got stuck on our very first candidate. And that was surprising because she was an uncontested incumbent. The endorsement of Dawanna Witt for Hennepin County Sheriff went into five rounds of voting without her clearing the 60% mark needed to receive the endorsement, despite the fact that she had no one running against her.

During the voting, I was sitting beside a young person who explained that they signed up to be a delegate to this convention after Alex Pretti was killed in their neighborhood. In the aftermath of his murder the neighborhood was understandably agitated. I felt the unrest from my neighborhood three miles away. The Hennepin County Deputies had been called in to keep the peace on Nicollet Avenue. What they described seeing on the street that day was a line up of deputies with backs to ICE agents, as if those armed agents were in danger from the citizens with whistles. My convention neighbor described how disturbing and demoralizing this image was in the face of Alex Pretti’s violent and very visible death earlier in the day. They explained that in front of citizen witnesses, ICE agents had been out of control and violently killed an innocent bystander and rather than keeping the peace, those officers were further traumatizing citizens by protecting the ICE agents over neighbors and Constitutional Observers. My seat neighbor described what a large number of Witt’s constituents have questioned. Did her deputies come to the aid of ICE agents despite the separation order of the city? Many of her constituents were motivated to be present at her endorsing convention because they believed her department had cooperated with ICE, despite the fact that she has declared that is not the case.

At a convention, one of the first things you do is ratify the rules of the convention. The parliamentarian makes sure we are following the rules. The chairs and vice-chairs attend to timing and can rearrange business in order to make sure we are efficiently using our time. At times, delegates will make motions to suspend the rules in order to change the order of things to make things more advantageous for their candidate or issue. Or to insure their issue gets attended to early, so they can leave for the day. There are lots of shenanigans and very often it is confusing and hard to track.

At the beginning of the day, we ratified rules that required that nominations would be seconded by at least fifteen people. Once they are nominated, each candidate gets an eight minute speech to explain why they are deserving of the endorsement followed by all candidates participating in a twenty minute Q&A. One delegate speaker declared that requiring fifteen seconds is an example of the convention system being undemocratic. Requiring fifteen people to second a nomination is an illustration of the push-pull of the convention process. On one hand it speaks to saving delegates the eight minutes of time for a speech from a candidate who is unlikely to win an endorsement. Or does it keep a citizen from their chance to speak their truth and shape the whole delegation? Many of the rules feel like six of one, half dozen of the other.

Despite the confusion and the time-investment, the grassroots nature of caucuses makes it possible for most everyone to get involved in the process of democracy. Anyone can get involved as long as they show up at the designated time and stay through the confusion to speak their mind, shaping the party and the candidates and each other in the process. On the other hand, all the ways leaders try to hurry it up or make it less unwieldy has a tendency to exclude participants.

The rules we ratified Saturday morning said that only after three rounds of voting would a motion for no endorsement be allowed. The parliamentarian judges whether something is allowed by the rules, or if it is “out of order.” Once the third round of voting for Witt’s endorsement was completed without a clear 60% going either direction, a delegate made a motion of “no endorsement.” After it was seconded (only requiring one), there is a period of time where three delegates can speak out for the motion and three delegates can speak out against the motion. Delegates step up to microphones on either side of the room and tell the delegation why they should vote for no endorsement, “she worked with ice.” Or why they should vote against, “I was in the room at the very tense moment when she very clearly said to Homan, I will not cooperate with ICE.” Or yes again: “Maybe she wasn’t participating, but her deputies were out of her control.” And no again: “There is a GOP supported candidate running against her.” And yes: “Her election is certain, this ‘no endorsement’ will be the slap on the hand she deserves.” and on until there is no one left to speak. Sometimes these speakers are so helpful in illuminating to the confused delegation what is going on behind the motions, that you cannot help be grateful to the delegates that go up to offer “points of information” and ask for clarification.

After the period of debate, then the body can take a voice vote. The chair asks everyone to say aye, if you approve. A pause while the delegates respond. Or nay if you don’t. If the results are not clear by listening, they follow that up with “acclimation,” which is raising ballots for the designated tellers to come around and count.

Here I can’t really remember what is what. I think voting by acclimation can happen on uncontested candidates or a motion as long as it is a simple yes or no. And in the case of this “no endorsement” motion, we went to acclimation where delegates raised their badges for a yes vote, which were then counted. Followed by all those who vote “no” raising badges, and after that, even counting who abstained. I believe a “no endorsement” required 2/3 approval by the delegation before it would pass. We did not reach that proportion and proceeded to two more votes before Witt chose to no longer seek endorsement.

Some unrelated notes from the DFL State Convention in Rochester

The charging station on the floor was great fun! Along the wall Convention volunteers set up charging areas. Bundles of power cords emerging from the wall along a counter height table. I spent a good 15 minutes there talking up a Faith in Minnesota candidate to another delegate seeking power from the cords snaking out of the wall there. It was also where I met up with my dear high school friend Constance Lindstrom, formerly Luhman, as she was a delegate from congressional district 7.

“No Data Center” movement has lots of support from a wide demographic range.

The GOP State Convention held 30 seconds of silence for Derek Chauvin, the officer who killed George Floyd, just 2 days after the 6 year anniversary of his death. No, Chauvin is not dead, he is in prison for murder. We got news of this action while we were on the convention floor.

Out of the 29 total delegates from Senate District 61, 27 showed up. Amazing! So only two of the Alternates got a permanent upgrade. The rest of us had to wait in the wings for our opportunity. It’s a complicated formula to know who would be the next person to deserve an upgrade. Especially in districts like ours where we did walking caucuses and there was a lot of competition for the spots. Each sub caucus group delivered a list of candidates and alternates with a priority order based on election results. As an alternate, I got to know the process, and I appreciated the way the credential committee volunteers stood available to consult on whether and how I could get on the floor. And, despite the electronic voting issues, it was a good failsafe as in the case of people being on the floor after their delegate returned.

My delegate was so kind to check out just to give me time on the floor. And as an alternate, I got to hit the sack at a more reasonable hour than the delegates. They were on the convention floor until 1 in the morning both nights. When it got to be 10 at night and we only had our perch from the balcony to look down on the action, “like angels” someone said (it felt more like lurking), so we went back to the Airbnb and to bed.

Short Updates Section:

due to extensive Convention Breakdown the recent

Funding of DHS is all I will cover -

Early in the morning of June 5, 2026, the republicans funded DHS. In addition to the original amount of $191 billion to fund all of the Department of Homeland Security, about $75 billion of it for ICE from HR1 (as I heard people calling it lately) or the “Big Beautiful Bill” they added funding of about 70 Billion dollars that covers the remainder of Trump’s term and calls for no regulation of ICE pr BPD officers.

Quote from Heather Cox Richardson’s letter of June 6, 2026:

Putting more billions behind ICE and CBP now will mean those agencies are funded through the rest of Trump’s term. Even if Democrats take control of Congress after the midterms, the funding will be in place, preventing Democrats from using funding to demand reforms.

How those tax dollars are being spent is a question. In February, twenty-one Democratic senators wrote to the Congressional Budget Office to note that there had been no public accounting of how that money was being spent. Adriel Orozco of the American Immigration Council reports that while the OBBBA gave ICE $45 billion for detention through September 2029, former Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem decided to use $38 billion of it to buy warehouses and convert them to detention centers.

Read more of what she accounted here.

Here is a quote from the DC Bureau of the Reformer’s accounting of Donald Trump signing it into law on June 10, 2026:

Nearly every Republican in the House voted to approve the measure, though New Jersey Rep. Thomas H. Kean, Jr., who has been absent due to an undisclosed illness, and South Carolina Reps. Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman, who were competing in their state’s gubernatorial primary, missed the vote.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was the sole Republican to vote againstapproving the legislation in that chamber, writing in a statement negotiators should have worked out a bipartisan solution in the annual funding bill instead of using the complex budget reconciliation process to get around procedural votes that would otherwise have required the support of 60 senators.

“By choosing to appropriate funding for three fiscal years instead of one, this measure weakens the normal budgeting process and sets another precedent for avoiding it when we find ourselves in disagreement,” she wrote. “In doing so, it reduces Congress’ ability to apply reasonable checks on immigration policy for the remainder of this administration and into the next.”

Murkowski added that she would have voted for the package had it “provided immigration funding for one year, included clear restrictions on what those funds can be used for, and eliminated any potential for taxpayer dollars to be allocated to the administration’s brazen ‘anti-weaponization’ fund.”

This is a travesty and I am publishing here to account for this astonishing waste of taxpayer funds and disregard for the protections that keep citizens safe.

for your musical solace and consolation:

For Your Soul, Josh Ritter— YouTube or Spotify

The Room Where it Happens, Leslie Odom Jr. — YouTube or Spotify

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Below you will find what I am calling “the short list” of movies and books that explore living under authoritarian rule and/or ways to resist it. It’s the short list because it is selected by me and by the nature of my own ignorance there will be glaring omissions. Seriously, I don’t know what I don’t know. And neither can anyone else. Let’s be kind to each other though. I thank you for letting me know what’s missing.

As part of the mystery of resistance, I have included items that may not fit with the traditional ideas of what resistance looks like, instead I included philosophies that by their very nature are a radical act against this climate of extraction. My hope is to offer us something that is different than our normal playbook, something that supports our resilience as we hold our ground. To me, resilience isn’t the same as endurance, resilience has the freshness of new growth about it.

The first Short List was published on the Full Moon of February 12, 2025, just days into Trump’s second term, and has now been updated by new times, new experiences, a new reality. And in this version below, I have especially focussed on many perspectives on American History and it’s cultural heritage. To use the words of Bob Marley’s Buffalo Soldier - “If you know your history/then you would know where you coming from/then you wouldn’t have to ask me/who the heck do you think I am”

May the future of this list continue to swell and change with the energy of the Full Moon and your resistance.

Books

Fiction

• American Gods by Neil Gaiman

• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

• Tracks by Louise Erdrich

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

• The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

Non-Fiction

• The Price of Democracy by Venessa Williams

• Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

• Pleasure Activism: the politics of feeling good by adrienne marie brown

• Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade

• Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown

• Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer

• Erasing History by Jason Stanley (also How Fascism Works)

• Hope in the Dark: the untold history of people power by Rebecca Solnit

• How to Be Brave by Mariann Edgar Budde

• In This Economy: how money and markets really work by Kyla Stanlon

• On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

Movies and TV Shows

• Mrs. America (miniseries)

• The Get Down (miniseries)

• Nuremberg (2025)

• American History X (1998)

• Brazil (1985)

• Clockwork Orange (1971)

• The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

• JoJo Rabbit (2019)

• Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

• Do the Right Thing (1989)

• Chi-Raq (2015)

• The Power of the Dog (2021)

• The Zone of Interest (2023)

Documentary Films

• Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny, American Masters

• The American Buffalo (2023)

• Awake: A Dream From Standing Rock (2017)

• Fell in Love With Fire (2024)

• Join or Die (2023)

• Occupy Love (2012)

• Rick Steve’s Story of Fascism in Europe

• What is Democracy? (2018)

and as an added bonus, something to listen to:

a Spotify playlist for surviving and thriving

May you read/watch/listen in good health and equanimity, then resist with ferocity.

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This is what it has been like.

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Martin Luther King Day was established as a federal holiday in the United States by President Ronald Reagan in 1989. It is recognized every year on the third Monday of January, which comes around again a couple days. In 1994 President Bill Clinton signed into law legislation written by House Representative John Lewis and Senator called the King Holiday and Service Act. It is the only federally recognized holiday that encourages active citizenship in pursuit of a more equitable society.

Dr. King’s career was shaped by the challenges he faced while sharing his message of civil rights. His work had made him both a celebrated leader and a target of intense opposition. By the time of his assassination, he experienced waning public support and intense government efforts to stifle his influence. He carried the full weight of FBI surveillance. The arc of his leadership offers us a chance to look at what is at stake when resistance becomes a threat for those in power. Dr. King persisted, fully aware of the dangers he faced. He called for a moral revival that would undercut the nation’s persistent blindness to inequities and bring about repair. In the months leading up to his assassination in 1968, King launched the Poor People’s Campaign.

His legacy urges us to remain vigilant and courageous in the face of adversity. With large scale ICE operations in our state and specifically the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, we are seeing how a federal government threatened by people’s resistance to power behaves. I will publish more about experiences here on the ground tomorrow when the New Moon comes around, but I wanted to make a link post available to you today.

So the work continues in our hearts and communities, let King’s words and dedication inspire your continued participation in bringing about reckoning and repair that this country so desperately needs. Thank you for all you do already 🙏🏼

I will start this list with this link to YouTube Clip from a PBS special that includes portions of King’s speech and the story of his assassination. It is excerpted from a documentary of how the year 1968 changed America. It includes references to King’s concerns about protests turning violent, both in Memphis with paid FBI operatives and the Poor People’s Campaign they were planing for in Washington DC in May. Watch here.

As King himself taught us, the arc of the moral universe is long. And below are many more links for your reading, listening, and watching pleasure. Let your reading be a first small step in a year of resistances—one that carries forward Dr. King’s dream of a just and compassionate world. Please continue at your own pace. Love to you and yours.

Further Resources:

This short article by Dr. James Peterson outlines “The Blueprint for the Beloved Community” in Wurd Magazine. It lays out the essential attributes of the Beloved Community and offers a framework for fostering justice and equality in our daily lives.

If you are an NPR Member you can listed to this Throughline Episode where Jonathan Eig is interviewed about Dr. King’s last days.

Here is a link to Dr. King’s article that was written in 1966 for The Nation where Dr. King makes a call for economic justice.

Here is The Minnesota Reformer’s publication of Dr. King’s speech entitled “The Death of Evil Upon the Seashore.” Read how it begins in the quote below:

Jullian Hest is a professor and researcher on journalling and note-takers shares an essay on Dr. King’s notes.

This podcast from NPR’s Code Switch about how Dr. King’s perception changed over time and how his image has been coopted to support things he wouldn’t have supported. Some of the interviewee Hajar Yazdiha’s words and concepts: White-lash, white-washed, sanitized, selective image, how media sustained the backlash, “epistemology of ignorance” coined by Charles W. Mills. It also substantiates the article below from The Economist, talking about how people on the right are taking him out of context being to refute Critical Race Theory. How MLK’s vision relied on a long time scape.

This article from The Economist is about the ways that MLK has been misunderstood and his statements misrepresented. He became more radical in his views as time went on and was very unpopular and criticized for his stance against the Vietnam war. He wrote a lot and people often take his quotes out of context. This article is about a recent biography about him, and it begins and ends with leaders against the Critical Race Theory misrepresenting MLK’s words and point of view in order to claim he was colorblind.

This article from Vox discusses MLK’s “I have a Dream Speech” in some detail, highlighting three parts of it that people are less likely to remember. The speech was delivered in 1963, 100 years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It sets up the iconic part of the speech that was improvised and most remembered "judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." It sets up the historical context. The need for inclusions, capitalizing of the energy that was present. Listing the articles of inequality that the civil rights movement were fighting. Including a link to the full speech.

Below is a link to a Documentary and Panel Discussion about Dr. King’s visit to Mankato, Minnesota in November of 1961:

If you want to learn more of Dr. Reverend Marin Luther King Jr.’s visits to Minnesota, here is a link to an episode of PBS’ Minnesota Experience including Dr. King’s speeches in St. Paul at the University of Minnesots in 1967 and an interview discussing the way toward a society that is good for all. https://www.tpt.org/minnesota-experience/video/martin-luther-king-in-minnesota-54jkuf/

This article describes Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Dr. King’s relationship and goes into Dr. King’s later life and actions. Heschel’s experience of joining Dr. King in the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. And the concerns he had about King speaking out against the Vietnam War. In a speech for King’s Birthday, just 10 days before his assasination, Heschel described King as the “hope of America.” This includes reference to biblical symbolism and the passion that infused the movement. Heschel sites the story of Pharaoh and the “tragedy” that his heart could not be softened. Heschel maintained that that was the first conference on race, and it is still has going on (from a 1963 speech): https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/leadership/two-friends-two-prophets

Here is a speech of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel in which he characterizes racism as an “eye disease” and begs us to be “prophets” of civil rights and throw off our neutrality. There is an end that we want and we know what it is. Josh’s admired Heschel and certainly heard this plea in 1963 and took action in his own life (I have since read a letter where his grandmother talks about going to see Heschel speak in St. Paul and 1967). Read what Heschel says about Radical Amazement here.

Mankato FreePress article describing Dr. King’s visit to the city, were to find the transcripts, and quotes from residents who went to see him when he came. Also covered some of the moves made to commemorate Dr. King and his visit in the time since. https://www.mankatofreepress.com/news/local_news/civil-rights-leader-spoke-in-mankato-in-1961/article_23bc3c42-f7a7-11e7-a21e-8f25f869b8a1.amp.html

A link to a piece from the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation and how a meeting with one person changes the trajectory of one’s whole life. They met for the first time in 1966. It was this meeting which inspired Dr. King to begin speaking out against the Vietnam War despite trepidation about the difficulties it would create for the movement. Almost a year later Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. King met again. In the meantime King had recommended Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize. https://thichnhathanhfoundation.org/blog/2017/8/9/when-giants-meet

This article covers the timeline of Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. King’s friendship and how TNH pledges to devote his life to building MLK’s Beloved Community. https://tricycle.org/article/martin-luther-king-thich-nhat-hanh/

Heather Cox Richardson leads the post linked below with what makes a hero and includes this portion of King’s “I’ve been to the mountaintop speech” from the night before he was killed (below). He knew he was in danger as he worked for a racially and economically just America.

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