Above (from left): Seth Kuhl-Stennes, Green Party candidate for Secretary of State; Ngone Niang, Green Party candidate for State Senate, District 39; Cam Gordon, co-founder of the Green Party of Minnesota; and Jane Kirby, Green Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
For a June 2026 interview with Steve and Jane, click here.
The Green Party of Minnesota is a people-powerd party dedicated to building a more affordable, sustainable, and democratic North Star state. We had six candidates on the ballot in yesterday’s midterm elections. Along with the candidates mentioned above, there were two others: Bruce Johnson for Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District 4; and Rachel Braaten for Three Rivers Park Board, District 3.
I voted yesterday morning before work. Given where I live in south Minneapolis, only three of the six Minnesota Green Party candidates were on my ballot – Steve and Jane for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and Seth for Secretary of State. I voted for all three of them.
Although all our candidates campaigned strongly over the last six months, none of them won their races yesterday. As disappointing as this was, we were definitely heartened by the thorough troussing received by Republicans across the country, resulting in their loss of control in both the House and the Senate in the U.S. Congress.
We got over 50,000 votes.
Our message of human and animal liberation, ending war and genocide, protecting our sacred Water and habitats and prosecuting the criminal federal thugs terrorizing our communities resonated with Minnesotans in every county in the state. We received 1.82 percent of the votes, with almost no money at all. We didn’t buy your support. We showed you a reasonable, sustainable and just plan of action. The Green Party has always been for universal healthcare, education and housing. It is the least we can do for each other.
Electing someone who wasted millions of dollars to attack their opponent and shine up their morally repugnant record of status quo racism, war mongering, and doing the bidding of the corrupt pedophiles is not the lesser of two evils. It’s just evil.
Peace be with you all, and may we continue to take care of each other, loving our dear neighbors without distinction.
Jane notes that the Green Party received 1.82 percent of the votes in yesterday’s midterm elections. This means that, as at other times in our history, we qualify as a minor political party in Minnesota.
A minor party qualifies for campaign subsidies under the state income tax checkoff and can issue political contribution refund receipts. A minor party does not have, however, any of the other rights and privileges of major parties.
According to state election laws, in order for a political party to receive minor party status, at least one candidate “must have received votes in each county” and “in total, the candidate must have received votes equaling at least 1% of the total number of individual votes cast in the election.”
“A party whose candidate meets these requirements becomes a minor party as of January 1 following that election and retains such status for at least two consecutive general elections, even if the party fields a candidate who does not win the requisite votes. If the party fails in each of two consecutive general elections to field a candidate who meets these requirements, however, the party will lose minor party status as of December 31 following the latter of the two elections.”
We intend holding onto our minor party status and building upon it in the years to come.
If you’d like to join us in this endeavor, click here
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• “On to the General!”: The Green Party Candidates in Minnesota
• Campaigning With the Green Party of Minnesota
• With the Green Party at Twin Cities Pride
• MPR’s Major (But Unsurprising) Failure
• Andy Thomas Schuler: Quote of the Day – October 10, 2026
• Pāʻele Kiakona: Maui’s Green Party Candidate
• Walid Hakim: Green Party Candidate for South Carolina Governor
• Butch Ware on Why Third Parties Are Crucial
• Third Parties and the Historical Record
• Elise Labott on How Third Parties Can Revitalize Democracy
• Mickie Kato: Quote of the Day – October 21, 2026
• Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
• Meet Some of the “People-Powered” Green Party Candidates for 2026
• “It Is Our Responsibility to Make a Third Party Viable”
• Something to Think About – December 8, 2024
• Jill Stein on the Importance of the Green Party
• “We Give Reasons for People to Come Out and Vote”
• Butch Ware on “Red & Blue vs Green Politics”
• Building Solidarity on the Left
• “The Moment Is Ripe”: Butch Ware on Building a “True Oppositional Alternative” to the Duopoly
• Butch Ware: “You Can Actually Vote Your Conscience”
• The “Green Smoothie” Option
• Politics 101
• When Democrats Undermine Democracy
• Something to Think About – August 15, 2024
• “Americans Deserve Choices”: Jill Stein on Breaking Points – 4/30/24
• Nick Cruse: “‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ Is the Privileged Position”
• Howie Hawkins: “The Democrats Are Not the Answer to the Trump/Fascism Problem” (2020)
• “The Next Step Is a Green Step”: Cornel West Endorses Jill Stein (2016)
• Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein: Is a “Historic Collaboration” in the Making? (2016)
• Demolishing the False Narrative About Jill Stein and the 2016 Election
• Hope Over Fear: Voting Green
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