Proposed 29th Amendment:  Opinion, Polling Data, and Local Support
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Proposed 29th Amendment: Opinion, Polling Data, and Local Support

The proposed “29th Amendment” aims to modernize and strengthen American governance by addressing a range of issues—campaign finance, government transparency, digital rights, and social welfare. Unlike more narrowly focused amendments, it takes a comprehensive approach, reflecting widespread voter frustration with entrenched interests and outdated structures. This broad scope can be both an asset and a challenge. However, when looking at public sentiment, there is plenty of optimism about many of these reforms and how they might reinvigorate democracy.

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Welcome to Minnesota District 6, Home
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Welcome to Minnesota District 6, Home

that's exactly why I want to represent Minnesota District 6, Because the memories are so varied and many, all I want is to see this place grow. All I want is to see the people in it do well, It is home after all. I sometimes tend to focus on a lot of national things or international things; because more often then not, national  and international is presented to me via news. but at the end of the day, I based the solutions on what I think is best for our district and our home for Minnesota. Like me, we all have to admit Minnesota is a pretty great place to live. Are there some things I wish they did better sure, but this could be easily said about anything or anywhere. I think I had to leave for a short while too understand, Just how different it can be living in different states.

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Speech is Freedom
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Speech is Freedom

It is entirely in our power to curtail free speech, while not limiting it. We do not have to force ourselves to become word police, or book banners simply because we do not like the way other people use their free speech. We can use our free speech to insult and otherwise verbally shame them. We do not have the right to take their free speech.

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Who cares Whose Fault it is, Climate Change.
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Who cares Whose Fault it is, Climate Change.

We have the ability. We have the technology. All we requires the willpower to make the changes required to fix the problem; We cannot lay down in the face of existential threats. We must stand deliver for our children, for ourselves, for everyone and everything on this beautiful blue ball we call home, This is not an unsolvable problem.

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The Opportunity of Education
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The Opportunity of Education

We have the opportunity to reimagine the public school system; we can expand it to serve the modern era by investing in smaller but more numerous schooling facilities, after all more schools in more communities. Expand our support staff, Invest in a universal education program. restore the concept of freedom of religion, maintaining the separation of church and states in school as it was intended to be in the Constitution and by our founders. We do indeed have the ability to fix little problems in the US like education; with a little imagination and a dash of willpower we can accomplish anything as a country.

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The Crisis of Homes
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The Crisis of Homes

Only by rapidly developing communities, Can we drive down the price of homes. Homeownership  will allow more people the dignity of living in a home; the ability to pass down intergenerational wealth via your home, The ability to grow a family in a safe and secure location. Keeping the elderly in their home where they can receive the standards of care, support, dignity they deserve. Every one of the issues I have discussed with possible solutions will take us a step closer to solving the housing crisis in America. allowing people in my generation and every subsequent generation; the ability to own a home to grow as a person to take a step into the middle class. We should not lose the American dream of homeownership, higher education, better wages for everyone. not just the select few, who by luck of the draw have been more fortunate than others.

We should be using the American dream to uplift everybody

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Regulation, the carrot, or the stick?
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Regulation, the carrot, or the stick?

For example, to bring it down to a personal level or on a local level. if your city were to walk up to you and say we want you to get rid of all this junk around your house or we'll fine you, likely you'd become defensive and want to put up a fight. The same can be true about organizations like small farms and cooperatives and business. But if the city were walk up  saying, We’d like you to clean up all this junk, is there anything we can do to help you accomplish this. That changes the whole tone on the subject, making individual people be less defensive and more cooperative. In efforts to better the world.

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If skill doesn’t hustle, hustle beats skill, Plastic Man LLC
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If skill doesn’t hustle, hustle beats skill, Plastic Man LLC

After for years of dedication, bootstrapping, and just all-around demanding work had made something beautiful something uniquely mine, Plastic Man LLC. It was lacking only one thing industrial level power. My home was in the country at first, I found to be difficult as my infrastructure was generally lacking and overly outdated. However, the Solve was relatively simple, simply operate a step-up power inverter. I intended to kill two birds with one stone as the garage was built after the house the power ran directly into the house so what I hadn't intended to do was install solar panels on the on the garage, install a battery bank in the house to help reduce demand and rerun The power line to the garage. While it was a simple solution, it was a costly solution. I believe in all the power rework would have cost around $15,500 and some change. after largely completing the factory itself, I went back to work various jobs pizza delivery driver, factory labor generally low commitment positions. one of the things I've discovered is when you start your own business. a lot of places are less likely to hire you. they would consider you a “flight risk,” if things took off and they relied on you and you took off, it would screw them over a long run. so out of abundance of caution they pass you over for positions, just one of life’s catch 22s.

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The Forgotten American Socialism Experiment,Social Security
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The Forgotten American Socialism Experiment,Social Security

. This was and is a redistribution of wealth from current working generations to past working generations, using a federal tax in order to collect and distribute payments to the various people of the United States. The program originally excluded professions like farm workers, domestic workers, as well as government employees. Although The Social Security program has gone through many changes over the years including the removal of these restrictions to make the most inclusive social safety net systems in United States history.

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Gerrymandering an existential threat to democracy
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Gerrymandering an existential threat to democracy

 The correct response to a corrupt action should never ever be to copy the corrupted action, The correct response to a corrupt action is to rectify the corrupt action. Democrats have fought with imitation of the Republicans for too long and this is a practice they must stop. if people are to take them seriously as a political party. We need to be less reactionary; We need to be acting every moment. We need to be showing up regardless of the election year. Which is why we should invest in national redistricting laws that are neutral in nature. Because well yes States have the right to determine how elections are run, They do not have a right to determine how to disenfranchise people 401 political party or the other, Freedom of political affiliation to me is similar to freedom of religion and that it gives you the choice, The Liberty and the freedom of picking your party or not.

America is the land of freedom and Liberty for all regardless of political party.

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The NEXT President of the United States
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The NEXT President of the United States

 If we wish to restore the soul of the country that we all hold dear This is something we simply must do. We must not hold on to what George Washington would call the spirit of revenge. For that is what will undo America. We must continue to remember We are a union; We are the United States of America.

 There will be a time after Donald Trump and the Republicans, he is not forever.

You and me we are enough to see it through.

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The working-class shift,How COVID19 cost Democrats the Presidency
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The working-class shift,How COVID19 cost Democrats the Presidency

This is what largely accounts for the working-class shift, You take the uneven recovery with the inflationary pressure felt. somebody without a bachelor's degree would have been struggling at the time. Combined that with the messaging from the White House, along with an over focus on the middle class and not the working class. It is easy to see. Why, the shift in working people happened? Particularly low-income people who as illustrated by this graph had longer and more sustained job losses.

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Freedom of Religion We have forgotten
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Freedom of Religion We have forgotten

To work and build our own American dream, not having the American dream imposed upon us.

Our culture is the world, we have never been defined by religion, we have never been defined by class or  race. What has driven America is the struggle, the need for equality for all of us to be treated as equal as humanly possible. as unfortunate as it is there are some among us who would seek to see things become less equal, to see us fighting amongst ourselves. Because for them it's beneficial, they thrive, and we fight over their scraps. Americans have always deserved better than  that behavior, we revolted from a king for that kind of behavior. As Americans as our history has taught us, we should set aside our petty differences of religion. Focusing  instead on what similarities there are between all of the religions believe it or not they all do share commonalities. I'm quite often, the commonality are more frequent than the not.

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The Plastics problem, unspoken solutions
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The Plastics problem, unspoken solutions

The second thing we have to accomplish is making a massive investment and push in our society, political system and manufacturing facilities towards biopolymers, but investing in the recycling program and rehabilitating it We can decrease the amount of new plastics being introduced while simultaneously increasing the amounts we develop in biopolymers, by using this dual approach we can transition off of the olefin plastics everybody hates. While biopolymers have come a long way over the years there is still research to be done so they can surpass other types of plastics. As well with biopolymers we can use them to replace the subsidies farmers now enjoy from ethanol because we also want to transition away from gas and oil entirely, we don't want our farmers to suffer because we want a better world.

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The unrepresented majority of America
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The unrepresented majority of America

To fix this country we must, hold our political leaders accountable, move to a public funding for elections and remove the ability ALL PAC spending, The problem with money in politics didn't start with citizens United It began in the 1970s after the Wealthy got sick of paying their fair share and decided we are not worth their money. So since the 1970s the wealthiest tax rate has continued to go down. As a result they have personally ran up the credit card of the country, for their decades of tax breaks. And they expect us to vimo off their debt, as if there's some sort of bad roommate who spent all their money and now needs a $50. At this point I'm calling for 90% tax rate on the top 1% not because they need to be penalized but because if we don't, The country will go bankrupt. But don't worry They got all the crypto in the world you'll need.

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Occupied Washington DC, Reunion day.
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Occupied Washington DC, Reunion day.

 There is however is one dividing line among the people of this country namely your tax bracket, The haves and Have not’s. The oligarchy class Is seeking the destruction of the Union, represented by Republicans Donald J. Trump and some right-wing Democrats. They seek to divide us on race, religion, humanity socioeconomic status and any other label they can stick on you.

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Gerrymandering not the correct path for America!
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Gerrymandering not the correct path for America!

the newest trend emerging, gerrymandering a state. Again they are limiting your freedom of choice and choosing which side gets to win, they are they're essentially eliminating freedom of choice. Instead of gerrymander you will no longer have the choice between a Democrat, a Republican or an independent. Regardless of where you fall in the Overton window your choice will be made for you. By designing districts to predetermine outcomes, politicians strip voters of real choice. Any leader who advocates gerrymandering   in their own state or someone else’s  is confessing they don’t believe in free and fair elections. They’re terrified of genuine competition because it threatens their jobs, their power and the comforts of elected office. Their rallying cry that “we must gerrymander everywhere or we won’t have fair elections” is a decades‑long misdirection meant to normalize this abuse.

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The Wage war on Wealth Tax Plan
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The Wage war on Wealth Tax Plan

Hello! to the fine people of Minnesota District 6, Austin Winkelman is Back with a new message. Wage war on the wealth Tax The wealthy, Save the country. Now what does this mean? Wage war on the wealthy? To put it in simple terms, we tax the wealthy at exorbitant rates. Simply Because when the 1% had a chance to Pay their fair share, they turned it down and took a tax break instead. Simply, the government is going broke Because we are taxing the poor, who have nothing as it stands. It has gotten to the point where they have cut everything possible, Healthcare for the Elderly; Food programs for those in need including for children, the elderly, and working-class people everywhere; as well as the federal government staff to just make everything not function as well. Because it is pretty easy to point at the government and say it does not work when you do not fund it. so how do we fund the federal government? We tax the wealthy.

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The Illusion of Choice: Overlapping Donors Between Centrist Democrats and Conservative Republicans
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The Illusion of Choice: Overlapping Donors Between Centrist Democrats and Conservative Republicans

In American politics, voters are often presented with two seemingly opposed options: Democrats and Republicans. Yet beneath the surface of partisan rhetoric lies a web of shared financial interests that binds key factions of both parties together. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the overlapping donor networks of centrist Democrats—often influenced by think tanks like Third Way—and conservative Republicans, many of whom align with the Heritage Foundation.

This report explores how shared donors, particularly wealthy individuals and corporate PACs, contribute to both Third Way-aligned Democrats and Heritage Foundation-backed Republicans. It reveals how such dual-sided giving shapes policy outcomes, mutes transformative change, and narrows the scope of political choice available to the American public.

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The Illusion of Choice: How Elite Networks Hijacked American Democracy
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The Illusion of Choice: How Elite Networks Hijacked American Democracy

We’ve all been told that America’s political divide is between left and right, Democrat and Republican, red and blue. But what if that’s just a distraction? What if the real divide isn’t horizontal, but vertical — between the powerful few at the top and the rest of us at the bottom?

As we dig into the connections between Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and the political ideology known as the “Third Way,” a disturbing pattern emerges: both major parties may have been co-opted by overlapping elite interests that maintain power through a carefully managed illusion of choice. This isn’t about conspiracy — it’s about structure, incentives, and the quiet machinery of influence.

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