If you would like to learn more about any of the races, or any of the groups involved, or politics in Minneapolis more broadly, or if you’d like to support the people whose work I turn to when I’m writing my election guide, there are in fact a LOT of people whose original reporting and data-gathering I rely on heavily, and I’d like to list some of them along with Patreons and fundraisers and so on.

John Edwards of WedgeLive, who provides social media coverage of a whole lot of events on Bluesky, writes a blog about local politics, and does amazing interviews on his podcast, which you can find via a podcast app (it’s called the WedgeLive podcast) or on YouTube. Something distinctive about his interviews is that he likes to interview people while biking or engaged in some other physical activity, which means you often get a much more genuine and authentic look at the candidate or politician than you would normally, because they’re just a little bit distracted. I listened to many, many of his interviews with local candidates, followed his coverage of conventions, and deeply appreciate his work. Support his Patreon here.

Taylor Dahlin has done a ton of research on the PACs that have been throwing money around the Minneapolis city races. You can find her on Bluesky here and her blog (full of useful coverage of those PACs) is here. I don’t think she has a Patreon but she does have an open GoFundMe to support her ongoing fight against breast cancer.

Josh Martin documents meetings and also has this absolutely AMAZING set of spreadsheets (link is to his Google Doc that rounds up all the stuff he does) that give you summaries of (and links to more) campaign finance stuff, endorsements, his “campaign viability matrix” where he tries to calculate the people who might actually win, just a TON of stuff. I could not find a Patreon.

The League of Women Voters Minneapolis hosted a TON of forums this year, all staffed by volunteer moderators and livestreamed. You can donate to the LWV Minneapolis here. LWV St. Paul also hosted a forum. You can donate to LWV St. Paul here. They’re also both always looking for volunteers; volunteers run all those forums but also register voters, answer questions about voting, and educate people about voting. Volunteer with LWV Minneapolis / Volunteer with LWV St. Paul.

Racket is an online arts and politics weekly that is staffed by people who once worked for the City Pages. It’s terrific and you can subscribe to it here.

Sahan Journal does immigrant-focused news coverage and is my go-to source for anything related to the Feeding Our Future scandal (other stuff as well, to be clear). It has no paywall, and you can support it here. MPR News and MinnPost also provide paywall-free coverage of local politics at least some of the time.

I also pretty regularly use coverage from the Star Trib (you can find that on your own) and the Pioneer Press (ditto). The Minnesota Reformer has moved away from local political coverage in an unfortunate way (the decision they made resulted in extremely fine-grained coverage on everything Fateh has ever done wrong, and no coverage of anyone else) although they’ve been a key source for me in the past.

(I’m probably forgetting someone, so I may come back and add stuff.) Anyway, if you value news, please support journalism!