Oct 2026 Newsletter

You can vote in person today. Right now the Campus Drive elections office is the place in Olmsted County to do it.

Walk in — or vote from your car if you want to. Phone when you arrive and they will come out to you.

Other locations open later in the month, on limited dates and with conditions attached. Rather than print a schedule that changes, we keep it current in one place:

For voting information kept up to date — vote.olmstedgop.org

We are checking Republican voters off the list one at a time, and the ones we lose are usually the ones who simply could not get there.

Email [email protected] to schedule a ride to Campus Drive — for yourself, or for someone you know. Now, not on November 3. A vote banked this week is a vote nobody has to chase in the last fortnight, and a ride given today is worth two given on Election Day.

If you can drive, say so at the same address. We need drivers this week and every week between now and November 2.

If you would rather speak to somebody:

A variety of candidates for the nonpartisan local races have indicated they will attend the open forum tomorrow night, after the Vikings.

Everything, always current, on the calendar.

Even to people who think Jake sounds like a Republican, everyone can admit a clear difference: Finstad would cut your taxes, and Jake would raise them.

The Finstad v Johnson debate is October 13 at 6PM — watch party at the office. Judge it yourself.

If you want to know what a candidate actually said, we have put the forums and debates where you can search them rather than take anyone's word for it.

🔍  Search the debates — by candidate, by topic, by phrase.

📅  The calendar — everything coming up, in one place.

🗺  The district map — find your precinct, your districts and your candidates.

🗳  Voting information — vote.olmstedgop.org for registration, locations and deadlines.

The Volunteer Action Team matches people with work that fits the time they actually have. An hour. An evening. A week. Door knocking, phone banking, literature drops, driving a trailer, or re-supplying the walkers from your car if walking is no longer your thing.

VAT meets 6:30 PM every Monday at the office, 3518 55th St NW, until after the election. A Right Insight training with the Finstad team runs from 4PM beforehand.

Door knocking every Saturday, morning or afternoon — one hour, three hours, or all day. Walk a precinct in pairs. Maps, literature and a script provided.

Email [email protected], or sign up for the candidates' most-needed volunteer requests.

At the League of Women Voters forum, Tina Liebling was asked about fraud and the cost of living. She had just cited a billion-dollar Medicare fraud conviction in South Florida:

The newly released data shows Minnesota has the highest rate of fraud suspects of any state.

If someone you know denies the scope of it, send them the evidence rather than the argument.

The Center of the American Experiment's Fraud in Minnesota program is now available to watch — for anyone who missed it in Rochester.

A conversation at the door goes better when you can say what the law actually is rather than what you have been told it is. Two things worth having to hand:

The Constitution of the State of Minnesota — read it at the Revisor's office. It is shorter than people expect.

What the Legislature is actually doing — bills, committees and votes, from the source rather than from a headline.

Wider reading: Alpha News · Center of the American Experiment.

Yard signs are still in stock for every candidate. Come and get one.

Caps, visors, t-shirts and sweatshirts for the cold days are in as well — cash, cheque, debit or credit. Photographs are on the Olmsted County GOP Facebook page.