For most of us here in Minnesota, the first days and weeks of 2026 have been a blur and have seemed to stretch months or years. We’ve lost any sense of time, or normalcy.

Our “fresh” year was swallowed by a real-life monster.

Even more, we’ve lost our felt sense of a sacred place that is our home, as it’s been chaotically trampled upon and routinely violated by masked, gun-toting wannabe soldiers frivolously treating our very real lives like a video game — one that they’ll win the more they embody cartoon villains and inflict maximum damage.

I know you know this, dear reader.

I know you’ve seen the many photos and videos my courageous fellow Minnesotans have captured and shared with the world. Or you’re here and you’ve experienced this yourself. And I know you know how much experiencing things like this can permanently leave negative and harmful imprints on a people, a community.

But here’s the thing.

We Minnesotans won’t let that happen.

Because from the beginning of this hostile invasion, we’ve been asserting and practicing our sovereignty wherever we can. We’ve intuitively known, despite what the invaders wanted us to believe, that we belong to each other. And we’ve collectively agreed that lawless thugs — even if they’ve been handed power by our government — have no power over us. Most importantly, we’ve decided to harness our inherent power — collectively.

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