Fellow Minnesotans,
In January and February of this year, I sounded the alarm loud and clear. On January 2, in my open letter “Protecting Your Trust in a Time of Coercion,” I exposed the MNGOP leadership’s heavy-handed tactics—demanding blind pledges to their convention endorsement or cutting off voter data access. I refused then, and I stand by it now. Your trust is not for sale to a broke, compromised apparatus more interested in control than victory.
On February 6, following a powerful dream from the Lord about humble obedience when structures fail, I wrote “A Faithful Path Forward: Stepping Outside the Paywall Circus to Heal and Reclaim Minnesota.” I warned that the May state convention—riddled with $5k–$10k candidate fees, crushing costs for delegate families, rushed timelines, and insider gatekeeping—would produce division, not deliverance. We chose the primary path, honoring the people’s voice over pay-to-play theater. The dismal February 3 caucuses proved the machine’s hollowness.
Then, on February 25, in “Unity Behind the Primary Winner,” I laid bare the deceptive endorsement trap: a rigged process designed to splinter Republicans, exhaust the base, and protect the real enemy—the criminal syndicate looting our state. I called for unity behind the primary winner, not convention theater that serves grifters and hands wins to the DFL machine.
My warnings and predictions were dead on.
Fast forward to late May 2026. Two state conventions—Republican in Duluth, DFL in Rochester—convened by tiny groups of delegates. These events, hyped as the “will of the party,” were built and stage-managed by small cliques of misguided loyalists and outright nefarious operators. They spent months misleading and exploiting roughly 2,000 attendees each, feeding them false narratives, procedural chaos, and pressure to fall in line. Voting glitches, marathon ballots, backroom maneuvers, and post-convention finger-pointing exposed the dysfunction. Yet the insiders declared victory and demanded obedience.
These spectacles do not represent 3.7 million Minnesotans. They don’t speak for the 80% of working families, farmers, veterans, and faith-filled people who are sick of being labeled, looted, and lied to. They represent controlled chaos—engineered disfunction that keeps good Republicans fighting each other while the syndicate laughs all the way to the bank.
The DFL convention in Rochester rubber-stamped their machine ticket, complete with the usual grift-enablers tied to daycare fraud scandals, COVID relief theft, union racketeering, and election manipulations. No surprise there—the syndicate protects its own.
On the Republican side in Duluth, the process devolved into technical failures, disputed ballots, and immediate post-convention drama where even the party chairman had to issue statements reaffirming (or walking back) results amid doubts. Good delegates showed up in good faith, but the structure—built over years by insiders—channeled their energy into division rather than decisive action against the real criminals. Nefarious players within Republican ranks exploit this dysfunction intentionally: plant false narratives, amplify infighting, depress turnout, and ensure the general election remains a safe space for the DFL looters. It’s not incompetence; it’s by design to preserve the parasite economy.
Meanwhile, my team and I have led with a different vision. We bypassed the trap. We focused on the primary, grassroots truth-telling through Freedom Talk with Phil and Truth Reckoning Sundays. And now, the Lindell-Parrish ticket stands as living proof of what Minnesotans actually want: bold leaders willing to merge forces, set aside ego, and directly confront the criminal networks—political, nonprofit, corporate, and street-level—draining our state dry. This partnership exemplifies servant leadership rooted in faith, integrity, and raw determination to win the primary, rally the base, and crush the syndicate in November. No more feeding the dysfunctional beast. No more exploitation of good people.
Scripture warns us: “By their fruit you will recognize them” (Matthew 7:16). The fruit of these conventions? More division, more cynicism, more protection for the thieves. The fruit we offer? Unity behind the people’s choice, relentless exposure of fraud, audits, RICO prosecutions where warranted, asset seizures from the grifters, and a reclaimed Minnesota where families thrive, farms prosper without suffocating rules, children are protected, veterans honored, and constitutional republic principles—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under God—reign supreme.
To every genuine Republican, every disillusioned independent, every faith-driven Minnesotan tired of the rot: Stop pouring energy into the old negative machine. The conventions do not bind us. The primary empowers us. Rally now behind leaders who name the syndicate, expose the networks, and fight with Christ as our anchor. The battle is the Lord’s, but we must stand obediently in the gap.
Here I am, Lord. Send us. Let’s heal this state, dismantle the looting, and build the Minnesota our children deserve—secure, prosperous, and free.
In Christ alone,
Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota 2026
Lindell-Parrish Ticket for Governor
Please email:
Campaign Manager Heidi Wanty at heidi@parrish4mn.com
Or by phone: 1 (612) 460-1717
parrish4mn.com | @phillipcparrish
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