Days Until the Election: 42
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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!
Early voting!
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Agriculture
U.S. CORN, SOYBEAN HARVEST PACES STAY IN SINGLE DIGITS, USDA SAYS, Successful Farming
Crop Watch: Harvest Begins with Iowa Soybeans, Kansas Corn, AgWeb Farm Journal
SOYBEAN MARKET SHOOTS UP ALONG WITH U.S. EXPORTS TO CHINA, Successful FarmingEducation:A Look At How Schools Are Responding To COVID-19 Cases, WCCOFargo public high school, middle school students shifting to distance learning, INFORUM
Attorney General Keith Ellison
Attorney General Ellison secures repayment, permanent charitable-sector ban against former Journey Home Minnesota president, Red Lake Nation News
Democratic Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
‘Trump panicked. The virus was too big for him’: Joe Biden rips Donald Trump in visit to Manitowoc, Milwaukee Journal SentinelJoe Biden: Replacing Ginsburg should wait because ‘we’re in the middle of an election’, WTMJ TV
Joe Biden looks to expand election battleground into Trump country, The Hill
FF locals have surprise encounter with Biden in Duluth, Fergus Falls Journal
Kamala Harris to tour Flint small businesses Tuesday before events in Detroit,Detroit Free Press
Supreme Court fight could elevate Kamala Harris’ profile, ABC News
Environment
The United States Has Become a Disaster Area, Atlantic
Healthcare
Rural Hospitals Teeter On Financial Cliff As COVID-19 Medicare Loans Come Due, NPR News
The future of Obamacare is at risk again. Here’s what’s at stake, CNN
Social Security and Medicare are on the ballot this November, The Hill
RBG Is Gone, and Trump’s Attack on Preexisting Conditions Is Alive, The National Interest
Governor Tim Walz
Gov. Walz talks importance of voting, ABC 6
Minnesota Legislature
QAnon on the ballot: Six GOP-endorsed Minnesota candidates back conspiracy theory, Star Tribune
Minnesota News
MDH: ‘Armed Individuals’ Threatened Minnesota COVID Survey Team, CBS Minnesota
Why Donald Trump Thinks He Can Flip Minnesota, Time
Minnesota Suffers Second-Largest Data Breach, Infosecurity Magazine
Republican Presidential and Vice Presidential Donald Trump and Mike Pence
Trump’s ‘good genes’ comment at Bemidji rally draws condemnation, Star Tribune
‘It affects virtually nobody’: Trump downplays virus threat to young people, Politico
CDC retraction shows chaos of Trump’s Covid response, CNN
Trump Could Be Investigated for Tax Fraud, D.A. Says for First Time, New York Times
Donald Trump’s campaign blew almost $1 billion and now they’re in deep trouble, Business Insider
Republicans
Op-Ed: Voting GOP Means Voting Against Health Care, New York Times
Trump Rally-Goers Loudly Boo GOP Lt. Governor for Promoting Face Masks, Daily Beast
Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party play victims. Don’t let them., USA Today
Romney backs vote on Supreme Court nominee, clearing way for Trump, Politico
Secretary of State Steve Simon
Some states won’t start counting votes until election night, including Minnesota, Fairbault Daily News
Senator Amy Klobuchar
GOP senators “don’t have to go lockstep” with President Trump on Supreme Court pick, Amy Klobuchar says, CBS News
Klobuchar, Smith say SCOTUS replacement needs to wait until after election, Wadena Pioneer Journal
Senator Tina Smith
Sen. Tina Smith, Jason Lewis spar over Supreme Court vacancy, Star Tribune
Supreme Court
Health care law faces another Supreme Court showdown, this time without Justice Ginsburg’s vote, USA Today
Look at all these GOP hypocrites, Business Insider
Chuck Schumer Rips McConnell For Ignoring ‘Principle and Consistency’ on SCOTUS Vacancy: ‘It’s Enough to Make Your Head Explode’, Mediate
How the RBG vacancy proves the Senate is totally broken, CNN
Lindsey Graham tries, fails to justify breaking his word, MSNBC
Profiles in hypocrisy: Grassley, Ernst sidestep previous positions on Supreme Court nominees, Des Moines Register
U.S. News
Reopening Colleges Likely Fueled Covid-19 Significantly, Study Finds, Wall Street Journal
Louisville police declare state of emergency ahead of Breonna Taylor decision, CBS
At Least 8.7 Million Americans At Risk Of Losing $1,200 Stimulus Checks, Forbes
World News
As COVID Fatigue Fuels Infections in Europe, Italy Resists the Second Wave, Wall Street Journal
Boris Johnson’s early Christmas present to Britain: Six months of coronavirus gloom, CNN
U.S. doubles down with new sanctions on Iran as many countries wait to see what happens next, Washington Post
DFL Headquarters Office Hours
Looking to buy yard signs or Biden-Harris merchandise? Stop by the DFL Headquarters on 255 East Plato Blvd in St Paul, we are now open to the public from 12:00-5:00PM Monday-Friday.
Upcoming Events:
- Today through November 2 — General Election Early Voting
- September 22 — Fall Equinox
- September 25
- 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM— DFL Pop Up Shop, 6990 Alpine Trl, Eden Prairie, MN 55346
- 2:00 to 6:00 PM — DFL Pop Up Shop, Plymouth, MN, location TBD, more information here.
- September 26, 2:00 to 6:00 PM — DFL Pop Up Shop, 4733 W 99th St., Bloomington, MN 55437
- September 27 to 28 — Yom Kippur
- September 28
- 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM — DFL Pop Up Shop, 14350 Excelsior Blvd, Minnetonka, MN 55345
- 2:00 to 6:00 PM — DFL Pop Up Shop, Wayzata, MN, location TBD, more information here.
- September 29, 8:00 to 9:30 PM — Presidential Debate, Case Western Reserve University, more information and it becomes available.
- October 1, 7:00 to 9:00 PM — SD46 DFL Virtual Central Committee Meeting, contact them for specifics.
- October 5
- 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM — DFL Pop Up Shop, Excelsior, MN, location TBD, more information here.
- 2:00 to 6:00 PM — DFL Pop Up Shop, 6770 Chaparral Ln, Chanhassen, MN 55317
- October 7
- 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.
- October 8
- 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM — DFL Pop Up Shop, Brooklyn Park, MN, location TBD, more information here.
- 2:00 to 6:00 PM — DFL Pop Up Shop, Maple Grove, MN, location TBD, more information here.
- 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.
- October 10, 1:30 to 3:00 PM — SD40 DFL Central Committee Meeting, contact them for specifics.
- October 12
- 7:00 to 9:00 PM — SD44 DFL Central Committee Meeting, contact them for specifics.
- 7:00 to 9:00 PM — SD49 DFL Central Committee Meeting, contact them for specifics.
- October 19, 7:00 to 9:00 PM — Anoka County DFL Meeting, contact them for more information.
- October 21, 7:00 to 900 PM — CD3 DFL Central Committee Meeting, no meeting this month, please focus on supporting campaigns in your district.
- October 22 — Presidential Debate, more information as it becomes available