Sunrise Twin Cities is partnering with Singing Resistance and PACAT (with support from Big Animal Productions) for a BIG-action Mass Funeral and March based in Minneapolis. It’s happening on the morning of July 4th for a Mass Funeral/March for ICE Detention Deaths to share grief, healing, and demands for liberty and justice.

What does that look like in the Twin Cities? On Saturday, July 4th people will meet at 9:30am at Chute Square in Minneapolis for a Mass Funeral and March for ICE Detention Deaths – sharing grief, healing, and demands for liberty and justice. You can participate as a marcher, singer, or pallbearer. The march will be 1.8 miles and end by 12pm.

‍What can you do? Send an email!

• Send an email to PCFederalRegister@usps.gov

• Use subject line of “Ballot Mail,”

• Send by 5pm ET on Thursday, July 2.

• Include your name and address of the commenter.

• Include your comment. You can use or build upon this list of comment templates created by MN Democracy Defense Table.

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The Midterm Elections will be here in no time. We are talking to partners and colleagues about some specific actions to help protect and promote the vote. We will send more details as soon as we can. For now, we’re asking you start the Get Out the Vote conversation with everyone you know. Every vote counts and it turns out the messenger is more important than the message.

In the meantime, we are sharing some voting tips that will ensure that you are the messenger with the knowledge your people need! (All of this comes from the MN Secretary of State.)

Rise and Remember George Floyd happened on May 25, 2026 at 38th & Chicago with a vigil at 8pm. On the sixth anniversary of his murder, we mourned with his family and friends. We shuddered as we thought back to that summer of masks, armed agents, tanks through the streets, curfews, protests, and riots. We recognized the significance of his death to our history and our community. We are thankful for our community. We do our best to honor his memory.

On May 4, 2026, OutFront Minnesota hosted their Lobby Day at the Minnesota Capitol to rally with the community and talk about the state of LGBTQ+ policies here in 2026.

In recognition of the United States Semi-quincentennial, ERA Minnesota.org/ and state & national partner organizations welcomed the national “Driving the Vote for Equality” tour and their 1914 Golden Flyer II historic car to the Minnesota Capitol Aurora Promenade on May 15th at 12 PM. The Suffragist-Era Saxon Roadster to Stop in St Paul on its Tour to advance the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). A Meet & Greet and Press Conference will outline the purpose of this historic tour that is retracing the 26-month journey that Suffragists took 100 years ago.

May 14, 2026 marked the 11 months since House Emeritus Speaker Melissa Hortman & her husband Mark were murdered and State Sen John Hoffman & his wife Yvette were injured. MN House Speaker Lisa Demuth was refusing to introduce SF4067, a gun violence prevention bill the Senate has already passed. So, the House DFLers planned a 24-hour sit-in starting 5 pm. The sit-in lasted much longer.

Buoyed by constituents cheering them on outside the House Floor, Legislators (and supporters) spent days asking Demuth to hold the vote. They tried introducing a duplicate bill. They held space.

The gun reform bill vote never happened. Below are videos from the days (and nights) of the sit-in.

No Kings Twin Cities was the flagship event for No Kings 3 and the local No Kings Coalition was proud to work with national to shine a light on how Minnesota successfully thwarted Operation Surge as well as benefit from some national connections. We were thrilled to have 200,000 join us in St Paul. (We’re tallying results around the state. In fact, please let us know if you marched elsewhere and have an estimate of attendees.)

As reported in the Star Tribune, Bruce Springsteen will be singing “Streets of Minneapolis” as part of the 2pm CT program at the Capitol. The Twin Cities is the national flagship No Kings event, featuring U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, Jane Fonda and other national advocates, musicians, and hometown heroes.

We are social activist marathoners in the Twin Cities. We have been in serious and difficult training for months. On March 28, we get a chance to celebrate our success with the No Kings marches. And just as we have runners, volunteers, cheering sections and bands who play as runners march by – we are inviting you to choose your role for the day.

 On Saturday, March 28 at noon CT, Minnesotans will kick off the third, and largest No Kings event yet, marching from three Saint Paul locations then joining together for a rally at the Capitol.

The 2pm CT program at the Capitol is the national flagship No Kings event, featuring U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, Jane Fonda and other national advocates, musicians, and hometown heroes.

On Saturday, March 28, more than two dozen Minnesota musicians will open No Kings Twin Cities with local bands, soloists, and choruses welcoming audiences at two kickoff marches, as well as at the Capital. 

The local music pre-programs start at 11 AM CT at Saint Paul College, 235 Marshall Ave., and Harriet Island, 110 Harriet Island Rd., both of which are kickoff march locations.

Lt. Gov. Flanagan, Attorney General Ellison, Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, Jane Fonda, and other state and national leaders join flagship No Kings rally

Today was a beautiful, warm day with a pink sunset to celebrate International Women’s Day. The Women’s March MN team was out on the town recognizing the event in many ways.

• WMM Hosts a Period Products Drive at ABOTO

• International Women’s Day March with MN AAC and MIRAC

• Women’s March MN IWD Statement

• IWD on Mostly MN Music with Katy Vernon, Jillian Rae and Kashimana and Thomasina Petrus

Saturday January 24, federal agents attacked and shot Alex Pretti. He was a helper, a nurse for the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, an American, a Minnesotan. He was in the Whittier Neighborhood of Minneapolis amidst ICE activity. He was filming. You can see from the videos that he is helping a woman when the federal agents jump on him and kill him. Our heart goes out to his family, his community and our own community.

Subzero temperatures could not stop, nor slow down, the ICE Out of Minnesota: A Call for Freedom and Truth, a Minnesota general strike on January 23. The request was:

• No Work

• No School

• No Shopping

On January 7 when after ICE had been terrorizing our immigrant neighbors, they murdered Renee Good. She was a mother, a wife, a poet, a legal observer, a US citizen and a Minnesotan. Our hearts go out to her family, her community and our community. Our actions over the following days were intended to show respect for Renee and let ICE know that we want them out of Minnesota.