Akhilesh
@akhileshmenawat.bsky.social
Most of all though, thank you to Aisha. You were my everything throughout this nearly impossible year. And you supported me while running and winning your own race (kicking Lydia’s ass by the way) while being outspent 3-1. Ward 10 loves you, and so do I.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Most of all though, thank you to Aisha. You were my everything throughout this nearly impossible year. And you supported me while running and winning your own race (kicking Lydia’s ass by the way) while being outspent 3-1. Ward 10 loves you, and so do I.
Thank you to Omar Fateh for running for showing us we can believe in something better and for really taking Frey to town in those debates. You really grew into a great candidate and I’m very proud of you. I’m sorry we took you away from your newborn son so much.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Thank you to Omar Fateh for running for showing us we can believe in something better and for really taking Frey to town in those debates. You really grew into a great candidate and I’m very proud of you. I’m sorry we took you away from your newborn son so much.
Thank you to DGP and Natasha for helping us win a convention, and for your deep friendship throughout. And to every single one of our thousands of volunteers that I can’t name here due to the limitations of space.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Thank you to DGP and Natasha for helping us win a convention, and for your deep friendship throughout. And to every single one of our thousands of volunteers that I can’t name here due to the limitations of space.
Thank you to Walter for your incredible volunteer work in field and political, and especially for your humor. Thank you to Jackie for your comms work in the last few days, and for staffing Omar.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Thank you to Walter for your incredible volunteer work in field and political, and especially for your humor. Thank you to Jackie for your comms work in the last few days, and for staffing Omar.
Thank you to Abdirahman, Nadirah, Musab, Ismail, and our entire East African team. You ran an exceptional program and got so many people to early vote!
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Thank you to Abdirahman, Nadirah, Musab, Ismail, and our entire East African team. You ran an exceptional program and got so many people to early vote!
Thank you to Brayden for your essential work, getting us through convention, and for taking all my calls. Thank you to our field team: Chol, Joe, Noah, and the student team.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Thank you to Brayden for your essential work, getting us through convention, and for taking all my calls. Thank you to our field team: Chol, Joe, Noah, and the student team.
To Sean, our designer. You created a brand that excited people. Thank you for making every graphic that came into our silly brains and helping us visually appeal to so so many.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
To Sean, our designer. You created a brand that excited people. Thank you for making every graphic that came into our silly brains and helping us visually appeal to so so many.
To Kai Shelley for coming on and running our comms at the end; we wouldn’t have gotten through it or built the final momentum without you. Thank you to Faisa, Sara, Ayanna, and Farah for being essential parts of the comms team too.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
To Kai Shelley for coming on and running our comms at the end; we wouldn’t have gotten through it or built the final momentum without you. Thank you to Faisa, Sara, Ayanna, and Farah for being essential parts of the comms team too.
To Mara, our brilliant finance director. You raised so much money. Our budget was a pipe dream when we wrote it. You made it a reality. To Raquel, for running our Field. You ran an incredible program with thousands of volunteers knocking more doors than we'd ever dreamed.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
To Mara, our brilliant finance director. You raised so much money. Our budget was a pipe dream when we wrote it. You made it a reality. To Raquel, for running our Field. You ran an incredible program with thousands of volunteers knocking more doors than we'd ever dreamed.
To Arianna, you got us off the ground and were an incredible political and operations director. We couldn’t have achieved anything without you. I'm so glad we got to start and finish this thing together.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
To Arianna, you got us off the ground and were an incredible political and operations director. We couldn’t have achieved anything without you. I'm so glad we got to start and finish this thing together.
I want to thank our team. First, to my co-manager, Graham, it’s been an absolute blast doing this with you. Thank you for saying yes to my crazy idea. I’ve come to the conclusion that we’re pretty good at this.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I want to thank our team. First, to my co-manager, Graham, it’s been an absolute blast doing this with you. Thank you for saying yes to my crazy idea. I’ve come to the conclusion that we’re pretty good at this.
For the next 4 years, keep fighting Frey. And in 2029, we cannot let Frey or the next iteration of him win. In ‘17 and ‘21, our coalition got close. In ‘25 Fateh was inches away from a win. We will win next time. The city is changing and soon Frey guys will be the minority.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
For the next 4 years, keep fighting Frey. And in 2029, we cannot let Frey or the next iteration of him win. In ‘17 and ‘21, our coalition got close. In ‘25 Fateh was inches away from a win. We will win next time. The city is changing and soon Frey guys will be the minority.
But losing a battle doesn’t mean we stop the long-term fight. This election will only embolden Frey and his inhumane tactics. Beware of how much he sells us out beyond our biggest fears now. He has nothing to lose anymore. This city's at the whim of the exploiters and his donors.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
But losing a battle doesn’t mean we stop the long-term fight. This election will only embolden Frey and his inhumane tactics. Beware of how much he sells us out beyond our biggest fears now. He has nothing to lose anymore. This city's at the whim of the exploiters and his donors.
We tried everything to win. We raised the money (nearly $700K), we knocked over 200K doors and increased turnout, we ran very strong communications, and got the broadest range of endorsements. We even got the DFL endorsement, although only briefly. It wasn’t enough.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We tried everything to win. We raised the money (nearly $700K), we knocked over 200K doors and increased turnout, we ran very strong communications, and got the broadest range of endorsements. We even got the DFL endorsement, although only briefly. It wasn’t enough.
I’ve been asked: How could someone as hated and unpopular as Frey keep winning? Well, establishment power is hard to defeat. It takes trying even after defeat, getting up off the ground and fighting these smug, self-serving motherfuckers again and again.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I’ve been asked: How could someone as hated and unpopular as Frey keep winning? Well, establishment power is hard to defeat. It takes trying even after defeat, getting up off the ground and fighting these smug, self-serving motherfuckers again and again.
I want to thank all of you who supported our campaign and joined our movement. Especially because many of you were skeptical when we launched a year ago. But Omar made us believers. He gave us a genuine hope for something better and allowed us all to plug in, in the fight.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I want to thank all of you who supported our campaign and joined our movement. Especially because many of you were skeptical when we launched a year ago. But Omar made us believers. He gave us a genuine hope for something better and allowed us all to plug in, in the fight.
Frey's Twitter bros have been pretty sore winners. I can't imagine running an IE that racist and full of lies and then being that smug and proud of it after. Frey's team believed that winning was more important than caring for the most vulnerable in our city. We can't trust them.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Frey's Twitter bros have been pretty sore winners. I can't imagine running an IE that racist and full of lies and then being that smug and proud of it after. Frey's team believed that winning was more important than caring for the most vulnerable in our city. We can't trust them.
This wasn't a vanity project for Omar the way it is for Frey. Frey's approach to governing is self-serving and hostile to anyone who doesn’t have power. That was the main difference in this election: who each side was fighting for. And again, big money and entrenched power won.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This wasn't a vanity project for Omar the way it is for Frey. Frey's approach to governing is self-serving and hostile to anyone who doesn’t have power. That was the main difference in this election: who each side was fighting for. And again, big money and entrenched power won.
When we started this campaign a year ago, most people thought Omar had no shot, in the end over 44% of voters chose our vision. It’s because we ran a campaign about the issues that matter to working people, and the change we want to see in our city. While being outspent over 4-1.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
When we started this campaign a year ago, most people thought Omar had no shot, in the end over 44% of voters chose our vision. It’s because we ran a campaign about the issues that matter to working people, and the change we want to see in our city. While being outspent over 4-1.