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SD31 DFL NEWS MAY 2025

We hope you have been managing in the heat… and don’t get hit now with hail or tornadoes.  The world seems to keep getting hotter, and more climate-chaotic— despite Trump’s efforts to silence National Weather Service and climate science. Thermometers don’t lie (unlike Trump and the GOP)!

SD31 DFL News April into May 2025

As we note on our website, momentum is growing— protests are spreading. Maybe it is even safe to say that people are starting to “wake up”? Please make use of our website to locate events such as protests and other gatherings. There is a lot going on and we want to keep this newsletter manageable!

SD31 Annual Conference Notes 8 April 2025

Agenda and Notes SD31 Business Meeting Conference  Andover Community Center – Meeting Room A 15200 Hanson Blvd NW, Andover, MN 55304 April 8, 2025 Call to Order: 6:30 PM Registration Opens: 6:00 PM Minutes I. Opening Business 1. Call to Order at 6:30 2. Pledge of Allegiance 3. Adoption of Agenda approved 4. Appoint of […]

Call or Write your Representative Today!

If you can do just one thing:  Keep on contacting your Legislative and Congressional Reps!  Be persistent, every week or every day.  Call or email.  Pick the topic you care most about.  Keep it simple.  Demand they explain if they are not supporting the Constitution, or if they are supporting MAGA-corruption. US Senator Amy Klobuchar: […]

SD31 DFL News April 2025

SD31 DFL NewsApril 2025 VoteBlueMN.org http://dflneighborhoodnetwork.net Greetings DFL Friends— It is Business Meeting Conference Time!Every year our local Senate District has a Business Meeting Conference/Convention, with different tasks for even-numbered years and odd-numbered years.  This year we elect officers for the 2025-2026 cycle.  See below for the Invite material— but PLAN TO ATTEND on TUESDAY […]

Minnesota’s Healthcare Crisis– Symposium March 9

From our Neighbors in SD46, here is a great opportunity to learn more about the crisis facing Healthcare in Minnesota: DFL46 hosts an EduCivics Speaker Series on pressing issues.  Our next event addresses Minnesota’s health care crisis. Please pass along to your groups. The presentation will be led by two experts on the American health care […]

END OLIGARCHY.  FIGHT FOR WORKING FAMILIES

Please follow Bernie Sanders and his “Tour to Fight Oligarchy.” https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/14/headlines/bernie_sanders_launches_national_tour_to_fight_oligarchyhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bernie-sanders-launches-tour-to-fight-oligarchy-here-s-where-he-s-going/ar-AA1yZqFXThe tour started on February 21 in Omaha, Nebraska. Sanders is looking to visit “working class” districts that former President Joe Biden won in the 2020 election, but Republican House members took in 2024.He also spoke out on the Senate floor about oligarchs on February 11.The Vermont senator, like many of […]

Government is Too Small!

From Thom Hartmann: They’re lying to us again. The American government isn’t too big or too bloated: it’s too small. And the result of it being too small is a steady erosion of Americans’ freedom over the past forty-four years. As Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his March, 1933 inaugural address: “A necessitous man is […]

February-March 2025 Update SD31 DFL News

VoteBlueMN.org http://dflneighborhoodnetwork.net Greetings DFL Friends and Happy Almost-Spring!Please take a quick look at events that are almost here– one is tomorrow night–then come back for reminders of other events and links that stretch into March… URGENT ACTION ALERT for EVENTS: Meet the Candidates for State DFL Leadership– Right here in Coon Rapids– TOMORROW, TUESDAY 2/25!Who […]