Dear Minnesotans,
On August 11th 2026 you will find that you have put yourself in one of three groups. Yes you, you put yourself, you will choose, no one did it to you, you actively or passively put yourself in a group that is filled with and operates on a level of hate that is ultimately evil, or a group of cynical defeatists waiting in vain for those operating in hate to stop hating, or you will choose to get up, stand tall, be the light the people need, shine a light on the wicked, and be determined to not let those that intend our children, families, and communities harm.
August 11th is Primary Election Day in this constitutional republic. The ballot forces the question into the open. Which group claims you?
The first group runs the syndicate. These are the DFL machine players, the nonprofit grifters, and the enablers who turned programs meant to feed hungry Minnesota children into personal ATMs. Look at the Feeding Our Future case: a nonprofit that claimed to serve millions of meals during the COVID crisis while stealing more than $250 million in federal funds. The ringleader was sentenced to more than 41 years in prison; dozens of others have been convicted or pleaded guilty. Luxury vehicles, real estate in Minnesota and overseas, international travel — all paid for with money meant for kids. Shell companies, wire transfers, and a web of connected sites that existed mostly on paper. This is not incompetence. This is organized looting dressed up as compassion. The same pattern shows up in other safety-net programs where weak oversight and political protection let the money flow to the connected while the vulnerable get the scraps. These people hate the light. They hate real audits, real prosecutions, and real asset seizures. Their evil is not abstract — it is the deliberate exploitation of the weakest among us to feed their own power and bank accounts.
The second group are the cynical defeatists. They read the indictments. They see the convictions pile up. They know whistleblowers have been flagging daycare fraud schemes, COVID relief theft, election vulnerabilities, and union games for years. Then they shrug. “Nothing ever changes.” “The machine is too big.” “What can one person do?” They wait for the same foxes who guarded the henhouse to suddenly guard it better. They do not loot themselves, but their passivity keeps the lights off and the grift running. They put themselves in this group every time they choose comfort over confrontation, every time they refuse to back candidates who actually intend to dismantle the networks instead of managing them.
The third group stands up. These are the ones who get off the sidelines and decide the darkness does not get the last word in Minnesota. They are the farmers who refuse to be coerced off their land. The veterans who chased terrorist financiers in uniform and now refuse to let financial terrorists in suits and nonprofits finish the job at home. The church and school administrators who cleaned up books by demanding cash-basis truth instead of creative accounting. The parents, workers, and faithful who see their state being drained and say enough. They shine the light by demanding full forensic audits of every program and every nonprofit dollar that touched public funds. They back real RICO prosecutions and asset seizures that make the guilty sweat when their overseas properties and luxury purchases get clawed back. They support candidates with the spine and the plan to do it — not the ones offering more tough talk while the networks stay intact.
Edmund Burke warned that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. The first group chooses evil. The second group chooses nothing. The third group chooses to act.
Our Savior Jesus Christ did not call His followers to curse the darkness from a distance or to wait politely for evil to reform itself. He called us to be the light of the world — a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden. The guilty hate that light because it exposes their works. When the books are opened, when the wire transfers are traced, when the shell companies are unwound, the sweat starts. That is the point. We are not here to manage decline or to politely request that the syndicate stop looting. We are here to end it.
Picture the Minnesota we can actually deliver. A state where every dollar meant for a child’s meal reaches a child instead of a grifter’s overseas account. Where elections in this constitutional republic are clean, every legal vote counts once, and no phantom infrastructure props up the machine. Where farmers and producers keep the fruits of their labor instead of watching it siphoned to parasites. Where parents raise their children in faith and freedom without the state or its connected allies undermining the family. Where veterans and the disabled see a government that hunts thieves instead of shielding them. Where power is returned to the people who actually produce and protect this state, not the networks that treat it as a resource to be strip-mined.
That Minnesota is not a fantasy. It is the one worth fighting for. On August 11th you will choose which group you belong to. The syndicate is counting on the defeatists to stay home or stay silent. They are terrified of the ones who stand up.
Choose the light. Get to the polls. Research who has actually fought these networks instead of managing around them. Support the Lindell-Parrish ticket that is running to expose, dismantle, and reclaim this state without donor-class strings or machine permission. Then stay in the fight after the primary. Share the truth. Back the candidates who will audit, prosecute, and restore. Pray for courage. Act with resolve.
The darkness only wins when good people decide it is too big to confront. It is not too big. It is already unraveling in federal courtrooms. The rest is up to us.
Stand tall. Shine the light. Push back the darkness.
In faith and determination,
Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, 2026
Lindell-Parrish Ticket
Press Contact:
Phillip C. Parrish, Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota 2026
Campaign Manager Heidi Wanty
Phone: 1 (612) 460-1717
Website: https://parrish4mn.com
X: @phillipcparrish
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