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SD63 Update for October 9

In this Update:

There’s still time to Take The Challenge!

Have you taken the Voter Engagement Champion Challenge?

We are now all hands on deck! We need to get out the phone, knock on doors, make calls, send out texts — all of us. This election will be close, but a DFL sweep is in reach. Help us turn out all of our voters. Help SD63 be the voting engine behind a DFL victory one more time!

Direct personal contact, connecting person-to-person over our shared values, is what gets people to the polls. To make the difference in getting our whole community engaged and voting we all need to accept this challenge!

Get more information and commit here

We have signs ready for you

Get our DFL candidates’ names out there, show your support to the neighbors who trust you and share your values — your SD63 makes it easy to get lawn signs for your preferred candidates’ signs in your yard.

Remember to make space for the candidates in down-ballot races. These are the races where lower turnout makes the race tighter. So put up a sign to get out the names of our Attorney-General, Auditor, School Board, and County Attorney candidates!

Go to our one-stop-shop form, fill it out, and a volunteer will get them to you.

Get signs for your yard or apartment window now

Get out the vote!

Ongoing

Friday, October 9

Saturday, October 10

Sunday, October 11

Monday, October 12

Tuesday, October 13

Wednesday, October 14

Thursday, October 15

Friday, October 16

Saturday, October 17

Sunday, October 18

Tuesday, October 20

Wednesday, October 21

Thursday, October 22

Saturday, October 24

Sunday, October 25

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Support our endorsed candidates!

State Senate and House

U.S. Senate and House

Statewide offices

Hennepin County offices

Minneapolis School Board

And support our sister district candidates too

Our meetings

Nokomis Library The next SD63 Central Committee meeting will be on December 7, 2026, at 6:30pm. Our meetings are hybrid: the upcoming in-person session location to be announced, and the online session will be via Zoom. All SD63 Central Committee meetings are open to the public.

Support SD63

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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

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.