Greetings to everyone coming to my site on their phone from a voting booth! For your convenience I’ve put links to (hopefully) all of this year’s races. If you scroll and don’t find what you’re looking for, try searching a candidate name, but remember, I only write about races that appear on the ballot in Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

People looking for information on races outside Minneapolis and Saint Paul: If it’s a partisan race, just vote for the DFLer. You can find MPR’s statewide voter’s guide here. Here’s my post from 2023 about researching a race from the voting booth. If you’re voting in a judicial race with an incumbent, vote for the incumbent (especially if the challenger is GOP-endorsed). (There is one judicial race that is for an open seat. It’s well out of my area, though — Duluth — so you’re kind of on your own for that one.)

On to my recommendations!

US President: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz (obviously)

US Senate: Amy Klobuchar

US House 04: Betty McCollum
US House 05: Ilhan Omar
(Both links lead to the same post)

MN State House 61A: Katie Jones
(This one got a separate post because Katie Jones is running against a Green, rather than a Republican)

MN State House 51A, 59A, 59B, 60A, 60B, 61A, 61B, 62A, 62B, 63A, 63B, 64A, 64B, 65A, 65B, 66A, 66B, 67A, and 67B: Just vote for the DFLer

Constitutional Amendment 1 (Statewide): Yes (also, be sure to vote on this! leaving it blank counts as a “No.”)

Minneapolis School Board Member At-Large: Shayla Owodunni

Minneapolis School Board Member District 6: Greta Callahan, but this is one you should definitely go look at to see if you agree with me

Minneapolis School District Question 1: Yes

Saint Paul City Question 1 (Early Learning Subsidies): No, but this is another one you should go look at to see if you agree with me

Saint Paul City Question 2 (Moving City elections to Presidential years): No

Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court: Natalie Hudson

Associate Justice – Supreme Court 6: Karl Procaccini

Judge – Court of Appeals 12: Diane B. Bratvold

Judge – 2nd District Court 3 (Ramsey County): Timothy Carey

Judge – 2nd District Court 29 (Ramsey County): Timothy Mulrooney

Judge – 4th District Court 24 (Hennepin County): Matthew Frank

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I do not have a Patreon or Ko-Fi but instead encourage people who want to reward all my hard work to donate to fundraisers. This year I am fundraising for YMCA Camp Northern Lights. Camp Northern Lights is a family camp, which is a camp that whole families attend together. My family went to Camp Du Nord (the other YMCA family camp) for many years, and my daughter Kiera has worked as a counselor at Camp Northern Lights for the last two summers. One of the things that makes Camp Northern Lights unique is their serious commitment to inclusion of families from communities that have been underrepresented at YMCA camps.

Last summer, Camp Northern Lights had a bad fire early in the summer — no one was hurt, but they lost their commercial kitchen and the housing for the counselors-in-training. They are hoping to raise enough money to rebuild an expanded kitchen. I have set up a fundraiser towards that goal. If you’d like to express your appreciation for the usefulness of this blog, you can show your love by donating to my fundraiser!