Campaign Launch NOV 2026
Special Election NOV 2027
Extreme, out-of-control
money power is corrupting
the America we love.
It’s time to make it stop.
Campaign Launch NOV 2026
Special Election NOV 2027
Extreme, out-of-control
money power is corrupting
the America we love.
It’s time to make it stop.
The runaway money power of billionaires is corrupting our country. We all see it.
Billionaires are armed with dangerously extreme amounts of money. They keep pushing more and more extreme plans on us, like replacing people with AI. They keep taking away what we need to live free, like healthcare. They keep weakening our country and driving us deeper into debt.
It’s time to say, “Enough!” It’s time for a campaign to do something about it. It’s time to team up: Independents, Republicans, Democrats. Contributing Americans, from richer to poorer.
If you’re alarmed by the gulf in America between out-of-touch billionaires and all the rest of us, this is your campaign.
If anyone is ready to step up and deal with this crisis head-on, it’s Minnesotans.
We’re in a moment when we need to be clear-eyed enough to see the core problem, focused enough to stay on mission, and relentless enough to get results. That’s our Minnesota.
Hello Minnesota neighbors, Erik here. We may not know each other just yet, but I hope we’ll have many chances to meet and talk over the course of this campaign.
Here’s a start: I’m a product of the Big Woods in Rice County. I’ve been a specialist on the rise of China in modern Asia. I’ve made a career out of using honest, clear language to help protect civil rights, the environment, and healthcare. I’ve spent my life taking on challenges and building on the best political imagination.
If you put me in the Senate, here’s what you can expect: You’ll get my relentless focus on fighting the corruption of our country by extreme money. You’ll have a champion to keep the promise of the American Dream for all.
– Erik Sahlin
A typical Senate campaign does three things: (1) it works to convince voters that an individual candidate is special and great, (2) it takes positions on a laundry list of issues, and (3) it tries to stay “on message” and “on brand” with “talking points” approved by political consultants.
Sahlin for Senate is anything but a typical campaign.
This campaign is about so much more than just a single candidate. It is focused on a clear core mission, and Sahlin for Senate will stay true to that mission.
Our mission is to save the America we love from billionaire abuse of power. That’s abuse of power in our economy, abuse of power in our culture, and abuse of power in our democracy.
Our campaign is an opportunity for Minnesota voters to say “Enough!” to the billionaires who pull at the levers of our lives. That’s all of us—office and factory workers, parents, farmers, teachers, students, business owners, caregivers, and all other contributing Americans—across party lines, from richer to poorer.
How do we do that? This declaration of independence from billionaires is a starting point. But it will take a lot of new ideas, and a real joint effort to reduce and restrain the corruption of our country by a small number of people armed with dangerous amounts of money.
It’s a pretty challenging mission. Let’s team up.
The same ways Minnesotans always have. We innovate in fields from medical science to agriculture to recreation. And when there are big problems to solve, and when our neighbors are struggling, Minnesotans always show up and step forward.
It’s time to meet the moment, lead the way, and stand up to billionaire abuse of power.
Sahlin for Senate commits to an America with liberty and justice for all. Of, by, and for the people. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Young Americans really knowing the promise of the American Dream. American standards of equal freedom, equal security, and equal opportunity.
We make this America possible when we protect healthy balance against unhealthy extremes. That means reducing the gulf in America between billionaires and all the rest of us.
It’s not personal. Billionaires are just real people. Not super-humans. Not sub-humans. They’ve got the same range of strengths and flaws of us all.
But with extreme money comes extreme power over the lives of all Americans. Billionaires can wipe out healthy competition in business and corrupt healthy competition in politics. They can waste massive amounts of resources without real consequences to themselves. Billionaires can push any extreme plan on all Americans.
When billionaires abuse their extreme power, we need to hold them responsible, and to counter-balance or reduce that power.
Minnesotans can see that Senator Klobuchar will very likely be elected Governor in November 2026. She will have to resign her Senate seat to be sworn in as Governor in January 2027. Then, after a temporary filler appointment, it will be time for our state to elect a new Senator in the Minnesota Special Election of November 2027.
The time is now for new voices, new ideas, and new teamwork. If we just wait around for all this to play out, it only benefits the same career politicians we already have. And this is not a time for politics as usual.
The mission of Sahlin for Senate is to protect our American way of life from billionaire abuse of power. And for that we’re going need a leader like Erik, focused and relentless and with a key set of qualifications.
Billionaires may see Minnesota as “flyover country” and Minnesotans as “non-player characters” when they play America like a video game. But Minnesotans know better. Minnesota is where change starts.
Erik grew up in the Big Woods region of Rice County. It’s the place that made him who he is today. It’s the source of the Sahlin for Senate campaign spirit of “from the Big Woods to a better America.”
So much of what Americans need in order to live with real freedom is now in the hands of billionaires: healthcare, information, housing, transportation, energy, entertainment, and even our food supply. That leaves our lives too dependent on the choices of billionaires. Billionaire abuse of that power has become bigger than any single issue area.
Erik gets that so many separate issues are connected by the outsized influence of billionaires. If we’re going to be the real decision makers for our lives, we’ll need to counter-balance or cut back extreme billionaire power.
We need lots of new ideas to do something about billionaire abuse of power.
In January 2026, Erik released a blueprint to reduce dangerous extremes and achieve healthy balance in America.
It’s a declaration of independence from billionaires: the Big Woods Declaration.
We’ve got a lot of big, important decisions to make in America. But only billionaires and others already in power benefit when those decisions are allowed to be “too complicated to explain” to the rest of us. That’s not OK.
Erik knows how to cut through complexity and insist on honest, clear language for issues like healthcare and foreign policy. He made a career of it. Americans deserve leaders who can be clear and straight with them on everything from AI to private equity to cryptocurrency.
Many Americans are losing faith in our major political parties, and that makes sense. Our current political leadership is not offering an answer to the widening gulf in America between billionaires and all the rest of us. The mission to stop billionaire abuse of power will take a more independent spirit.
While a Democrat himself, Erik champions “tri-partisan” solutions—Independents, Republicans, Democrats—to the problem of billionaire abuse of power. Erik talks about what matters in his own words. He doesn’t rely on political consultants, opinion polls, focus groups, or AI to tell him what to say.
The mission to save the America we love from billionaire abuse of power requires a big team effort. No one candidate, and not even one campaign, can expect to do this alone.
Erik Sahlin is our candidate. That’s “Erik” with a “k.” That’s “Sahlin” like “Celine” (suh-LEEN). That’s the name on the ballot.
But Erik knows Sahlin for Senate is not just about him, it’s about the mission. And he’s ready to team up with other candidates and leaders across the country.
Billionaires easily lose touch with real America: what it means to make a real contribution, the treasure of our natural environment, the value of the American dollar. They can play America like a virtual game.
But billionaire games have real consequences. Erik sees these consequences from his own Minnesota home. Industrial data-center plants draining our water and energy. Masked men with guns targeting our neighbors. Loss of funding for healthcare, education, and science. Skyrocketing prices for life essentials.
Erik knows that people’s real lives always matter more than the whims of out-of-touch billionaires.
Billionaires operate on a global scale, in part to evade efforts to restrain or reduce their abuse of power. And when crude oil and conflict prevent international understanding and cooperation, billionaires benefit.
Erik is ready and able to work at the international level as a Senator. As a younger man, he served as a youth ambassador to Russia, Ukraine, and Japan. He later trained for the U.S. Foreign Service. He then went on to become a specialist on the rise of China in modern Asia. Erik has also worked to protect USAID, as well as to advance international social and environmental standards.
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