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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 1d

It’s SPOOKY season! Join TCDSA’s Queer Liberation for Fright the Right Night! Every ticket purchased goes to financially support LGBTQIA+ folx fleeing Red states.

RVSP Link in Bio

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 2d

Tuesday, TCDSA took to the streets to demand an end to the genocide, an end to the apartheid, and an end to US funded violence with our tax dollars. Join our Palestine Solidarity Working Group Thursday evenings. Calendar link in bio.

FREE FREE PALESTINE!

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 2d

Meet our St. Paul branch! Want to get plugged into supporting our unhoused neighbors, fighting for a fair St. Paul budget (no to Melvin Carter's proposed cuts to libraries and firefighters😡) and raising the minimum wage?

Join us for our next meeting on Wednesday, Nov 12 at 6:30pm: buff.ly/zO2paJT

Picture of DSA members in-person and online at the October Saint Paul Branch Meeting

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 4d

As of today, we're four weeks away from election day in Minneapolis! Our chapter has continued to be a force, knocking on thousands of doors for our endorsed candidates. If we're going to win this November, we need everyone we can to sign up for a shift door-knocking. RSVP: buff.ly/m7OlJTx

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 5d

🇵🇸PROTEST: TWO YEARS ON, END THE GENOCIDE 🇵🇸

We cannot give up two years into this fight.
Join us to say, end the genocide and blockade! Divest now! End the occupation!

Federal building (300 S 4th St)
October 7th, 2025 at 5 PM

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 8d

📣 October SocFem book club! Meet us on 10/19 at 6 pm at the TCDSA office: 2708 E Lake St #204, Minneapolis, MN 55406. Even better, join us for the general SocFem meeting, which starts at 4:30 pm, same day and location.

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 10d

Fact: only hot cool people door knock for TCDSA candidates!!! 😌🌹✨ And if that's you, we'd love to see you at an upcoming date to spread the word about electing democratic socialists. Check out our October door knocking dates and sign up here—the next one is tomorrow! buff.ly/mQR2ekW

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 11d

Our chapter had a great time tabling at the Harvest Moon Community Solutions Festival hosted by @epni-urbanfarm.bsky.social at Cedar Field Park on Saturday!

Twin Cities DSA tent with four volunteers at the event

Twin Cities DSA tent with three volunteers at the event

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 11d

September ends today! Please donate and help us meet our goal if you haven't already!

Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 14d

Help us meet our September fundraising deadline! We're $5,000 away from reaching our goal of $22,000 before the end of September.

As early voting continues, we need to make sure our endorsed candidates raise enough money to fund vital campaign resources! Donate here: buff.ly/8AmUeaf

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 11d

Join Twin Cities DSA in door-knocking for @omarfatehmn.com and our other endorsed candidates this October!

Never door-knocked before? We'll have a training and pair you with a buddy! We will also have a social & BBQ after each door-knock on the weekends. RSVP and find more info at buff.ly/mQR2ekW

Door-knocking information with pictures of candidates that is all found on the link tcdsa.org/2025doorknocks

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Cole Hanson @coleinmidway.bsky.social · 14d

Putting miles in today, knocking doors with @twincitiesdsa.org before celebrating a friend's housewarming across town. Hard to resist weather like this 🌞

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 14d

Our chapter has endorsed @omarfatehmn.com, @robin4mpls.bsky.social, @sorenwithward8.bsky.social, @jchavezmpls.bsky.social, @aishaforward10.com, @adamformplsparks.bsky.social and @michmichaelforparks.bsky.social this year.

Sign up to door-knock for them here: buff.ly/mQR2ekW

Text reading: "2025 TWIN CITIES DSA ENDORSED CANDIDATES, VOLUNTEER: tcdsa.org/2025doorknocks, DONATE: tcdsa.org/2025donate" and pictures of each candidate and their names and position they're running for: "Senator Omar Fateh for Minneapolis Mayor, Robin Wonsley for Minneapolis City Council Ward 2, Soren Stevenson for Ward 8, Jason Chavez for Ward 9, Aisha Chughtai for Ward 10, Michael WIlson and Adam Schneider for Park Board At-Large."

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 14d

Help us meet our September fundraising deadline! We're $5,000 away from reaching our goal of $22,000 before the end of September.

As early voting continues, we need to make sure our endorsed candidates raise enough money to fund vital campaign resources! Donate here: buff.ly/8AmUeaf

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 16d

Twin Cities DSA fundamentally opposes this Islamophobia. We stand in solidarity with all working people, across religion, race and every other way the ruling class tries to divide us.

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 16d

This rhetoric extends beyond just right wing conservatives. The constant Islamophobic smears by Mayor Frey's PACs have consequences and are putting Senator Omar Fateh, his family and his campaign volunteers in danger.

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 16d

Earlier this week the campaign office of @omarfatehmn.com was vandalized with an Islamophobic message that said "Somali Muslim—This warning is no joke."

Just months after the assassination of Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband a few miles away, we take these threats seriously.

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 16d

Join us this Sunday at 5 PM ET for a special edition of Socialist Cash Takes Out Capitalist Trash, featuring @RashidaTlaib!

RSVP before registration closes on Saturday at 1 PM ET: bit.ly/socialistcas... ☎️

This event is for members only, join today! bit.ly/joindsanec 🌹

Raise Socialist Cash with Rashida Tlaib!

Sun, Sept 28th 2 PM PT, 5 PM ET. RSVP at bit.ly/socialistcashrashida. DSA members only.

Rashida Tlaib pictures on the left hand side, wearing a keffiyeh speaking at a podium. DSA candidates pictured from left to right: Joel Brooks, Willie Burnley Jr, Denzel McCampbell, Adam Schneider, Michael Wilson, Robin Wonsley, Soren Stevenson

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 16d

Omg you caught us yearning for cozy autumnal activities and a mayor who will actually fight for the working class. 🫶🍂 Make a plan to vote early in person, by mail, or on Election Day (November 4!) here: buff.ly/zOPjiv8

How are you celebrating 🧡 Fateh Fall 🧡 after voting?

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 18d

RSVP link in bio | In person or virtual!
Forty years ago, 1,700 meatpacking workers struck the flagship Hormel plant in Austin. Hear the story from Peter Rachleff who chaired the Hormel Twin Cities Strike Support Committee, and join the discussion!

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 19d

"Asked what democratic socialism means to him, Fateh, whose first child was born last month, had a straightforward answer. "It’s pretty clear-cut," he said. "You want to take care of everyone."

Read more at in @jacobinmag.bsky.social here: jacobin.com/2025/09/omar...

Text reading: “Encouraged by a friend to attend a Democratic Socialists of America meeting, he went. At the meeting, he recalls, there were some disagreements among the members who favored getting involved in electoral politics and those who did not, a debate that he notes is still ongoing. But Fateh felt, then as now, that more unites than divides socialists. “We debate the process” of how to build a better world, he says, “but the vision is still the same.””

Text reading: “In 2020, the same year that Zohran Mamdani won his state assembly seat, Fateh ran for state senate as a socialist and won. There, Fateh has been a leader in the statewide push to democratize higher education, winning tuition-free college for all students with household incomes under $80,000. Because tuition is not the only economic barrier for working class people pursuing higher education, Fateh also pushed for and won stipends for childcare, transportation, housing, and food, as well as grants for colleges to establish food pantries for students as well as mental health support. For the first time in over a decade, in a time of declining college attendance nationwide, Minnesota has seen an increase in enrollment across all its public institutions.”

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 19d

"Municipal socialism is an increasingly popular idea, and not only in NYC, where Zohran Mamdani is favored to become mayor in Nov. New polling in the Mpls race for mayor shows democratic socialist challenger @omarfatehmn.com gaining on the incumbent, Jacob Frey, a centrist Democrat.”

Text reading “Minneapolis’s Omar Fateh on His Run for Mayor by Liza Featherstone” with a picture of Omar Fateh

Text reading: “The son of Somali immigrants, Fateh says he grew up hearing his father talk about the US Civil Rights Movement. But like many of his generation, Fateh wasn’t engaged in politics until he was inspired by Bernie Sanders’s 2016 bid for the presidency. He remembers hearing the socialist senator and former mayor of Burlington, Vermont, speak for the first time, and “not knowing what democratic socialism was, but saying, hey, I identify with everything that he’s talking about.”

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 22d

🚨 EARLY VOTING STARTS TODAY! 🚨 Here are some FAQs on voting early in person/by mail, TCDSA endorsed-candidates (hi @omarfatehmn.com), and how ranked choice voting even works.

Make your voting plan and find absentee ballot/early voting location info here: buff.ly/hQb8XgK

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 23d

RSVP link in bio | In person or virtual!
Forty years ago, 1,700 meatpacking workers struck the flagship Hormel plant in Austin. Hear the story from Peter Rachleff who chaired the Hormel Twin Cities Strike Support Committee, and join the discussion!

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 23d

URGENT MUTUAL AID NEEDS!

TCDSA Street Corps is calling on you to support the community! Tap into your networks; ask your family/friends, neighbors, faith community and local businesses.

Tips on open lots to [email protected].
Cash Donations buff.ly/EZGbS3A

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 24d

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UFCW Local 663 @ufcw663.bsky.social · 24d

Vertical Endeavors workers ratified their first contract! They just won…

- 36 hour minimum scheduled hours for full time workers
- PTO for part time workers
- an average of 16.67% in wage increases over the life of the contract

www.ufcw663.org/blog/2025/09...

Vertical Endeavors Workers Win First Union Contract - UFCW 663

Minnesota’s first unionized indoor rock climbing gym secures significant wage increases and benefits FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 17, 2025 Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN – On Thursday, September 11,…

www.ufcw663.org

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