Days Until the Election: 69
DFL Action Center
69 Days OUT – Let’s get to work!
Thanks for tuning into the Democratic National Convention! Now let’s go win in November! If you’d like to help the DFL Party fight for criminal justice reform, better schools, wages, our environment, and health care, click here to get more involved there are events happening in your area!
Biden-Harris Yard Signs
We’re excited to announce that Biden-Harris yard signs are now available! Click this link to order yours today! As you may have heard, Donald Trump is spending over $14 million on ads right here in Minnesota, and every sign you order helps us fight back by funding the DFL Party’s grassroots organizing program!
Agriculture
‘Make Farmers Black Again’: African Americans Fight Discrimination To Own Farmland, NPR
USDA DISTRIBUTES $4.1 MILLION FOR URBAN AG AND INNOVATIONS, Successful Farming
Heat, Smoke and Covid Are Battering the Workers Who Feed America, New York Times
Congressional News
The House passed a bill that would rescue a key immigration agency from a budget crisis, Vox
Donald Trump
Michael Cohen slams Trump in new ad, CNN
Trump’s campaign paid $2.3 million in donor money to his private business, filings show,Business Insider
Prominent UAW leader Cindy Estrada blasts Trump as ‘always anti-union’, Detroit Free Press
Environment
Democrats’ climate plan takes aim at the fossil fuel industry’s political power, Grist
Climate change: Removing CO2 could spark big rise in food prices, BBC News
Environmental groups sue to block Alaska’s Arctic drilling, Associated Press
Governor Tim Walz
Walz announces plan for new COVID-19 saliva testing lab, KARE 11
Healthcare
On health care, there are some lies Trump just can’t shake, MSNBC
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Joe Biden backs Mission Hospital nurses’ unionizing effort, Asheville Citizen-Times
Joe Biden responds to first night of Republican National Convention, Yahoo! News
AP FACT CHECK: Biden’s stance on suburbs twisted at RNC, AP News
Biden campaign says China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims is “genocide”, Axios
Biden promises to upend Trump’s hostile actions towards federal employees, Washington Post
Kamala Harris: Voting is the best way to honor generations of women who paved the way for me, Washington Post
Check out our brand new Biden for President merchandise in the DFL Store!
Click here to see our new shirts, signs, and stickers!
Minnesota News
Kanye who? West makes the Minnesota ballot, but at least two electors unaware, MN Reformer
U of M regents agree to delay in-person classes on Twin Cities, Rochester, Duluth campuses, MPR
Duluth finally getting $75M cleanup of U.S. Steel Superfund site,Star Tribune
Can a ‘pandemic pod’ stem the widening education gap? One neighborhood group wants to tr, MPR
Milan, Minnesota swelled with immigrants. But will the census count them?, MN Reformer
Representative Jim Hagedorn (CD1, R)
E-mails show U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn involved with constituent mail decisions, Star Tribune
Republicans
Daniel Dale: ‘A whole bunch of false claims’ on RNC night 2, CNN
Trump adviser Larry Kudlow is referring to the still raging coronavirus pandemic in the past tense, The Week
GOP candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene spread conspiracies about Charlottesville and ‘Pizzagate’, CNN
Commentary: To President Trump and the GOP, America is just a prop, Los Angeles Times
Republican convention speaker and congressional candidate Burgess Owens plagiarized large portions of his book, according to new report, Business Insider
GOP Policies Are Shortening American Lives, Huff Post
RNC speaker pulled from schedule hours after she tweeted anti-Semitic conspiracy thread referring to QAnon, CNBC
Senator Amy Klobuchar
Klobuchar, Smith and Minnesota secretary of state speak out against recent USPS policy changes, KSTP
Senator Tina Smith
Senate Democrats unveil climate crisis plan, KEYC
U.S. Senator Wants To Legalize Cannabis And Regulate It Like Tobacco, Green Entrepreneur
Federal bill seeks to boost investment in rural transit systems, Transportation Today
State Auditor Julie Blaha
Even without a State Fair, Minnesota’s crop artists are in full flower, Star Tribune
U.S. News
Tracking Coronavirus Cases at U.S. Colleges and Universities, New York Times
Two people are dead and a third injured in an overnight shooting in Kenosha, police say, CNN
Trump’s $300 in extra unemployment aid: More than half of states approved, CBS
Jerry Falwell Jr. to receive $10.5 million in compensation for resigning from Liberty University, CNN
World News
Pompeo speaks to GOP convention from Jerusalem in controversial speech, The Hill
Facing The Biggest Challenge Ever To His Power, Lukashenko Looks To Russia For Help, NPR
With New Arrests, Hong Kong’s Police Try to Change the Narrative, New York Times
Upcoming DFL Events
With COVID-19, we suggest you check with the hosting organization to see if meetings, etc. are being held.
- Today through August 27 at Midnight — Window for DFL Virtual State Central Committee Delegates. Here’s the link.
- August 27, 7:00 to 8:30 PM — Caring for Our Unhoused Relatives, more information and RSVP here.
- August 29 — DFL State Central Virtual Meeting, this will be a full agenda
- 8:00 to 10:00 AM — Delegate credentialing
- 10:00 AM — Meeting called to order
- August 31, 5:00 to 7:00 PM — DFL Annual Women’s Leadership Virtual Event, more information and RSVP here.
- September 1, 7:00 to 8:30 PM — SD40 DFL Virtual Central Committee Meeting, contact them for specifics.
- September 2
- 6:30 to 8:30 PM — SD50 DFL Virtual Central Committee Meeting, contact them for specifics.
- 7:00 to 9:00 PM — SD33 DFL Virtual Central Committee Meeting, contact them for specifics.
- September 3, 7:00 to 9:00 PM — SD46 DFL Virtual Central Committee Meeting, contact them for specifics.
- September 7 — Labor Day
- September 10
- 7:00 to 9:00 PM — SD36 DFL Virtual Central Committee Meeting, contact them for specifics
- 7:00 to 9:00 PM — SD48 DFL Virtual Central Committee Meeting, contact them for specifics.
- September 11 — Patriots Days
- September 14
- 7:00 to 9:00 PM — SD44 DFL Virtual Central Committee Meeting, contact them for specifics.
- 7:00 to 9:00 PM — SD49 DFL Virtual Central Committee Meeting, contact them for specifics.
- September 16, 7:00 to 8:30 PM — No CD3 DFL Central Committee Meeting this month
- September 18 through 20 — Rosh Hashana
- September 18 through November 2 — General Election Early Voting
- September 21 — Anoka County DFL Meeting, contact them for specifics
- September 22 — Fall Equinox
- September 27 to 28 — Yom Kippur
- September 29 — Presidential Debate, Case Western Reserve University, more information and it becomes available.