Tim Walz

It might be shoveling your neighbor's walk.

It might be being at a food bank.

It might be pausing to talk to someone you haven't talked to before.

but to show the goodness to rise up to to make sure that we're being very very clear about this that we expect our constitutional rights to be respected that law enforcement is local that we expect accountability of our elected leaders and that we are not going to go quietly

And we're not going to give up on those things that matter so much to us.

And what grade will we learn about the millions of white Europeans dragged off in chains by North African pirates while the world looked away?

When's the lecture on black slaveholders in the South?

It's time for the truth, the history they don't teach in public schools.

It's Real History with Matt Wilkamp.

When things looked really bleak, it was Minnesota's first that held that line for the nation on that July 3rd, 1863.

And I think now we may be in that moment, that the nation's looking to us to hold the line on democracy, to hold the line on decency, to hold the line on accountability, and more than that, to rise up as neighbors and simply say, we can look out for one another.

We can have differences.

but we've proved to the world going on 250 years that our democracy could hold, it feels to me like we're at one of those inflection points.

In Minnesota, I'm declaring tomorrow at 10 a.m.

on January 9th, I'd ask everyone to pause for a moment of silence to remember Renee Goode, also to remember all that's good and right about this nation.

And I'm going to ask folks, if they can, I'd ask employers to give their people some space.

I'd ask each and every one to find a way to contribute in your community.

It might be shoveling your neighbor's walk.

It might be being at a food bank.

It might be pausing to talk to someone you haven't talked to before.