John Marty

04/15/2026

If you missed out on my Town Hall with Rep Gottfried, we got a link below.

Senator John Marty and Representative David Gottfried's virtual town hall on Saturday, April 11, 2026.

04/07/2026

So happy to have a great ally in this work.

Read the Attorney Generals commentary at the link in my bio.

04/07/2026

I was overjoyed to be invited to speak at the inaugural True North New Alliance rally this morning and make a new friend!

We are working to protect democracy with local news while so much of our national media steps toward authoritarians.

So grateful for the work of out local news leaders!

03/05/2026

One of the best days of the year!
As always thanks to the

02/06/2026

A beautiful ice sculpture on the MN state capitol plaza.

A crystal clear ice sculpture with a crystal clear message for protecting our democracy and constitutional rights:

"Prosecute ICE"

ICE agents who violate laws & constitutional rights should be prosecuted as anyone else would be.

01/30/2026

Dark Days for Democracy

Most Americans have no clue that the US could quickly become a police state.

ICE’s budget is bigger than most European armies.

“The Dept of Homeland Security has, in effect, become a tool of a dictator, our Ministry of Interior”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/30/ice-olympics-backlash-gestapo-comparison/

DHS has been "remade into a paramilitary force: heavily armed, lightly restrained, and increasingly insulated from meaningful oversight”

ICE has transformed "into a domestic security apparatus operating in communities" that looks "like internal security services abroad.” tinyurl.com/SteadyStateSC

The Steady State | by Steven A. Cash

01/29/2026

My colleague seems to think we should focused on protecting ICE agents right now. Not our neighbors who are being terrorized by them in the streets? I'm sorry, I disagree.

01/28/2026

Lured by the promise of easy money, major league owners & politicians alike embrace online sports betting while ignoring its devastating impacts.

Legislators who think legalizing predatory sportsbooks is a good idea should read "EVERYBODY LOSES" which articulately shows how sportsbooks are destroying the integrity of sports, harming athletes, and driving countless people to gambling addiction.

01/26/2026

These CEOs say they “have been working every day behind the scenes” with the White House?

And they think this blather is a bold response?

ICE agents are acting with cruelty, ignoring constitutional rights – brutally abducting the customers and workers of these businesses. They detain even preschool children, demand people show papers to prove they are citizens, they attack and kill people on the streets. They are roaming our communities looking for people to arrest because their darker skin leads some ICE agents to believe they don’t belong here.

The explicit racial targeting of non-white people is appalling. It violates everything that these businesses claim to stand for. The atmosphere for people of color is akin to that for Jewish residents of Berlin in the 1930s.

YET THE ONLY THING THESE CEOs WILL DO IS CALL FOR “FOCUSED COOPERATION” AMONG POLITICAL LEADERS?

SHAME!

The wealth and economic clout of these CEOs could get Trump’s attention. If they truly care about their customers, employees, and the community, they will demand the President pull ICE out of Minnesota before they kill more people on the street, before they terrorize more of our neighbors.