Dear John,

With your support, we've had an incredible year advocating for life, family, and religious freedom in Minnesota. From public policy at the state legislature, speaking engagements, media appearances and showing up in the courts, the work of True North Legal is critical to protecting and defending our Minnesota values. I am proud to report in 2024 we continued to increase in our impact and influence both in Minnesota and at the national level. And I can’t wait to see what we will do together in 2025 with the Lord’s blessing and your ongoing support!

As an initiative of Minnesota Family Institute, True North Legal is part of a year-end matching challenge, where your gift of up to $25,000 will be TRIPLED by generous donors. That means your gift of $50 toward True North Legal’s crucial work becomes $150. Your gift of $100 becomes $300, and so on. Will you prayerfully consider supporting our crucial legal work in your year-end giving?

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Before I share some of True North Legal's 2024 highlights below, I need to share something that has been on my heart, and recently been keeping me up at night. We started True North Legal because we recognized a need to serve Minnesotans by blunting the trajectory of the progressive attacks on our families and our Minnesota values!

We have a vested interest in the citizens of this state and the future of Minnesota. At True North Legal, we don't just engage in lawsuits or advocate for legislative policies that happen to be in Minnesota. Each case and controversy I take on has a personal impact. I can tell you countless ways in which the work that I do every day through True North Legal impacts my friends, my neighbors, and even my own children. Minnesota is at a crossroads--we are in the thick of the culture war, fighting to protect Minnesota families and Minnesota values. However, being in Minnesota also gives us an opportunity to set legal precedent and even policy gains that could impact the entire country. 

In order make those gains and keep up with the demands legal services and advocacy at the Capitol, True North Legal needs to grow! With your help, we can grow our team to include additional attorney support to be more active in the courts against government overreach and add administrative assistance to help manage our day-to-day operations that facilitate our legal and policy engagement. You can help True North Legal secure even more wins by serving even more people in 2025!

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John, True North Legal's impact has exceeded expectations. We've accomplished even more than we imagined in 2024 through engagement in issue education, public policy, and in the courts.

 

Below are just some of the BIG WINS that True North Legal is celebrating as we reflect on 2024:

  • True North Legal's Renee Carlson was featured as a Minnesota expert on law and policy on various national media outlets and podcasts, including national Fox News channel regarding egregious policies signed into law under the Walz administration

  • Successfully defended Somali-American families who were unfairly discriminated against by St. Louis Park schools when the parents simply requested that their elementary aged children be opted-out of LGBTQ lessons teaching about sexually explicit material inconsistent with their religious beliefs
  • Featured as a speaker at national rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in a critical case defending life
  • Successfully advocated to restore protections for religious freedom in the Minnesota Human Rights Act at the state legislature
  • Alongside other close allies successfully defeated the so-called "Equal Rights Amendment" (ERA)
    • True North Legal's Renee Carlson testified in the state legislature, delivered remarks at the Press Conference alongside other faith leaders in the state, and also organized and emceed a rally at the Capitol with over 550 people in attendance to voice concerns AGAINST this harmful legislation, helping ensure this measure expanding abortion rights, erasing women, and religious liberty did NOT go to the ballot box.
  • Filed multiple amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court in cases impacting Minnesotans such as:
    • Hecox v. Little, protecting and defending women’s sports,
    • FSC v. Paxton, protecting children from the online pornography industry, 
    • Idaho v. United States, ensuring life is valued and protected since the issue has been returned to the states
  • Filed a brief in our own Minnesota Supreme Court in JayCee Cooper v. USAPL in support of USA Powerlifting's policy to keep male athletes out of female only powerlifting competitions 
  • Defended religious liberty alongside co-counsel Upper Midwest Law Center, where we sued the Minnesota Department of Corrections after it removed a faith-based recovery program for inmates based on its biblically based teachings about men and women. (This case is ongoing).
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John, these are only SOME of our 2024 WINS. Rest assured, we are just getting started! True North Legal’s influence keeps expanding and our wins keep increasing. Although the government continues to encroach on or try to remove our cherished rights to life, family, and religious freedom, we are ready to defend these rights even more vigorously in 2025.

 

Our work is always focused on Minnesota, but much of it also has a national impact. And even more important, a Kingdom impact. Will you consider a year-end gift to True North Legal? Remember, it will be doubled, so that $50 toward our work becomes $150. Your gift of $100 becomes $300, and so on. 

 

We believe our work in the legal and policy arenas is one of the biggest opportunities to defend and amplify the gospel witness in Minnesota, by safeguarding our freedoms. Do you agree? If so, please partner with us with a year-end gift (TRIPLED Up to $25,000)!

Renee Carlson, General Counsel

True North Legal & Minnesota Family Council

 

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