SD63 Update for November 10
In this Update:
- Our annual post-election celebration is this week!
- Around town
- Community outreach groups and caucuses
- Mission statement and editorial policies
Our annual post-election celebration is this week!
Join us Wednesday night at Parkway Pizza Longfellow to celebrate this year’s wins. We’ll be there 6-8pm. And while you’re there, help us plan for 2026!
Donations at this fundraiser will be matched
Thanks to a generous pledge from one of our SD63 neighbors, the first $500 raised at this year’s pizza party will be matched 1-for-1! You can make your donation to the post-election fundraiser now, and it will be matched. Double your support of SD63 DFL today!
Around town
Events
Monday, November 10
- Windom Neighborhood Safety Walking Group 6pm, Windom South Recreation Center (5843 Wentworth Avenue, more info)
- Kenny Environmental Committee Meeting Virtual meeting. 6pm (more info,)
- Kenny Community Engagement Committee Meeting Virtual meeting. 7pm (more info,)
- Standish-Ericsson Neighborhood Association Monthly Board Meeting 7pm, Lake Hiawatha Recreation Center (2701 East 44th Street, more info)
Tuesday, November 11
- Seward Neighborhood Group Community Development Committee 7pm, Redesign Inc (2619 East Franklin Avenue, more info)
Wednesday, November 12
- SD63 Post-Election Pizza Party and Fundraiser! 6pm, Parkway Pizza – Longfellow (4359 Minnehaha Avenue)
Thursday, November 13
- Windom Community Council Board Meeting 6:30pm, Windom South Recreation Center (5843 Wentworth Avenue, more info)
- DFL listening tour with Chair Richard Carlbom State DFL Chair Richard Carlbom is touring the state to hear from you, to hear how the DFL can do a better job showing up in communities across this state, and what issues matter to you. 6:30pm, Sabathani Community Center Auditorium (310 East 38th Street, sign up for updates and more information)
Monday, November 17
Windom Neighborhood Safety Walking Group 6pm, Windom South Recreation Center (5843 Wentworth Avenue, more info)- Nokomis East Environment Committee Meeting Virtual event. 6:30pm (more info)
- Seward Neighborhood Group Community Engagement Committee Meeting 7pm, Redesign Inc (2619 East Franklin Avenue, more info)
Tuesday, November 18
Longfellow Community Council monthly board meeting Online meeting. 6pm (more info)- Armatage Neighborhood Association monthly meeting 6:30pm, Armatage Recreation Center (2500 West 57th Street, More info, or email Karen)
- Kenny Board and Community Meeting Hybrid meeting. 7pm, Kenny Park (1328 West 58th Street, more info)
Wednesday, November 19
- Windom Neighborhood Environment & Land Use Committee 6:30pm, 5843 Wentworth Avenue (more info)
- Board of Directors meetinghtml:</span> @@ 6:30pm, McRae Recreation Center (906 East 47th Street, more info)
- MYDFL monthly meeting 7pm (more info)
Thursday, November 20
- Statewide Senior Caucus board meeting 5:30pm (more info)
- Nokomis East Community Engagement Committee Meeting Virtual event. 6:30pm (more info)
Monday, November 24
- Windom Neighborhood Safety Walking Group 6pm, Windom South Recreation Center (5843 Wentworth Avenue, more info)
Tuesday, November 25
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Community outreach groups and caucuses
In the DFL, sometimes we organize based on geography (like us: the DFL in Senate District 63!). But the DFL’s community outreach organizations and community caucuses are based on shared identities and interests. All DFLers are invited to participate in any of these interest groups. You can use the contact information linked below to find out about the process for joining each organization, and for any meetings beyond what we’re able to list on our calendar here.
The DFL’s community outreach organizations include:
- African American Caucus
- Asian Pacific American Caucus
- Democratic Socialist Caucus
- Disability Caucus
- Environmental Caucus
- Feminist Caucus
- Hmong American Caucus
- Latino Caucus
- Minnesota Asian Indian Democratic Association
- Minnesota Young DFL
- Muslim Caucus
- Native Peoples Caucus
- Progressive Caucus
- Rural Caucus
- Senior Caucus
- The Senior Caucus has regional subdivisions, and there is additional information for the Minneapolis Area Senior Caucus chapter.
- Somali American Caucus
- Stonewall DFL
- Veterans Caucus
There’s a full list of community caucuses on the DFL website. We are happy to add other community outreach organizations active near Minneapolis to this list; please contact us with details.
Our meetings
The next SD63 Central Committee meeting will be on December 3, 2025, at 6:30pm. Our meetings are hybrid: the upcoming in-person session will be at the Walker Library, 2880 Hennepin Avenue, and the online session will be via Zoom.
All SD63 Central Committee meetings are open to the public.
Support SD63
Donations to SD63 are used to run caucuses and conventions, maintain web and email servers, support campaigns, and hold issue forums and other community events. We have no paid employees.
- Support us online at secure.actblue.com/donate/sd63dfl
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Support us by check to MN DFL Senate District 63, and posted to
MN DFL Senate District 63 Attn: Treasurer 3616 41st Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55406
Mission statement and editorial policies
The mission of the SD63 Update is
- To promote the DFL and the DFL’s values, activities, endorsed candidates, and platform,
- To develop community support, volunteers and material support for the above, and
- To raise public awareness and involvement in civic and other community processes as a means to implement DFL values and platform items,
especially as originating from and applying to Minnesota Senate District 63, and especially with the target audience of SD63 DFL participants and supporters. The editors and contributors of the Update shall execute this mission in a manner consistent with DFL policies and codes of conduct.
Inclusion of official public material
The Update may include content from or references to newsletters and announcements from community groups and elected officials when, at the sole good-faith discretion of the Update editor, these materials support the mission of the Update. Such official, non-campaign materials may be excerpted or referenced even when originating from an elected official who was not endorsed as a candidate by the DFL. Excerpts of and references to such material shall not be understood to be an endorsement, material support or other support of any kind of any candidacy by DFL SD63.
Contested endorsements
Between Election Day of one year and the convention of the relevant DFL Endorsing Unit of the following year, the Update editor may choose either:
- To provide coverage of campaign events, volunteer opportunities, and material support opportunities of all candidates who have informed the Update editor of their intention to seek DFL endorsement for a particular endorsement contest, or
- To cover no candidates for that endorsement contest.
If a DFL Endorsing Unit (and the SD63 DFL, if different than the Endorsing Unit) declines to endorse any candidate in some endorsement contest, then this policy shall also apply to that contest between the Endorsing Unit’s convention and the subsequent primary election or ranked-choice general election.
Some notes on the Contested Endorsement policy:
- Excerpts from and references to the announcements of public officials as described in the Policy on Inclusion of Official Public Material shall be seen as separate from campaign activity for the purposes of this policy.
- Note that the editor may opt to cover some endorsement contests but not others, as deemed feasible and appropriate by the editor. The editor’s two options in this Contested Endorsement policy are intended to provide fairness to the candidates for endorsement in any given endorsement contest. The statement of two options for each contest shall not be interpreted to compel or forbid coverage of candidates in any particular contest.
- The description of informing the Update editor of candidacy for endorsement described in Option 1 of this Contested Endorsement policy shall be satisfied by a direct communication to the Update editor, or by inclusion in an announcement recorded in the minutes of a meeting of the SD63 Central Committee. The Update editor may also take note of announcements in public forums, or of campaign activity oriented to potential caucus-goers or convention delegates, to serve as such a declaration. However this policy shall not be interpreted to expect the Update editor to discover endorsement candidate intentions outside of the two forms of declaration specified in this note.
No part of the Contested Endorsement policy is intended to contradict the prohibition of supporting candidates opposing a DFL-endorsed candidate, nor shall it compel any SD63 editor or contributor to do so.
Promulgation of this statement and policies
From their approval, the full text of this statement and these policies shall be included below the web publication of all Update issues. Moreover, a reference and link to that web publication shall be included in all email or physical transmissions of the Update. These publications of this statement and policies shall be taken as sufficient disclaimer that the contents of the Update represent a good-faith effort to adhere to all DFL policies and codes of conduct, including but not limited to the avoidance of endorsement of non-DFL-endorsed candidates in the context of an election including one or more DFL-endorsed candidates.
Questions and comments
Questions, comments and concerns regarding this policy or any content in the SD63 Update should be directed initially to its editor via email to newsletter AT sd63dfl DOT org. Further inquiries may be directed to the SD63 DFL Chair, or to DFL Party Affairs.