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SD63 Update for January 28

In this Update:

Caucuses are next week

We are getting ready to welcome you on Tuesday, February 3 for the 2026 DFL Caucuses! In SD63, caucuses attendees will…

The endorsing conventions for our delegates are:

Delegates to the congressional district and state conventions are selected at the senate district convention.

More information about our caucuses is available on the SD63 website.

Register now — one registration form for both absentee and in-person

Whether you plan to attend in person, or submit a non-attendee form to be considered for convention delegations and suggest resolutions in your absence, SD63 residents should this convenient online form.

Fill out your caucus registration today!

Caucus with everything going on, really?

Caucus especially with everything going on!

We protect our democracy by participating in it, by making our voices heard, by standing up for our values. This year more than ever, successful caucuses show that Minneapolis will not be intimidated into giving up on how we know our city, our state, and our country work best.

It is true that there are valid worries and concerns. The DFL is lining up resources for the possibility that federal agents show up at our caucus sites to try to intimidate or abduct our neighbors.

And many of our neighbors will be afraid to show up on caucus night. There are two things that we can all do to support these neighbors too: we can encourage them to register as non-attendees for caucus night, expressing on their registration both their interest in becoming convention delegates, and their worries about attending. And we can make sure that our absent neighbors are included in our convention delegations.

Your caucus conveners will have more information about how we will protect ourselves, protect our neighbors, and preserve our neighbors’ voices in our democracy.

Know Your Rights — a Town Hall meeting this Thursday

Our SD63 legislators Zaynab Mohamed, Sam Sencer-Mura, and Emma Greenman will join our federal Representative Ilhan Omar, Rep. Mohamud Noor, and representatives from the ACLU-MN and COPAL to talk about our rights in response to ICE’s presence in Minnesota.

The event is open to all, but space is limited — register today! Doors open at 5:30pm, the program begins at 6:30pm, and finishes at 8:00pm. More information about security arrangements, and the registration form, are available here.

Save these dates to get together after caucuses

Mark down these two evening events on your calendars — Saturday, February 21 with the SD63 DFL at Parkway Pizza Longfellow, and Tuesday, February 24 with the Minneapolis DFL at Pillar in Northeast. These events are both social events to connect DFLers with each other and with candidates seeking endorsement, and fundraisers with affordable suggested donations.

We’ll have more information about them coming soon!

Campaign events through caucus night

Campaigns: register with the Minneapolis DFL to have your events included here.

Wednesday, January 28

Thursday, January 29

Friday, January 30

Saturday, January 31

Sunday, February 1

Monday, February 2

Tuesday, February 3

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.

Looking forward to seeing you at caucuses!

Mission statement and editorial policies

The mission of the SD63 Update is

  1. To promote the DFL and the DFL’s values, activities, endorsed candidates, and platform,
  2. To develop community support, volunteers and material support for the above, and
  3. 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:

  1. 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
  2. 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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

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