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We believe in a results-driven DFL — one that improves people's lives, strengthens communities, and governs through democratic institutions. Not one that pushes DSA policies that don't work and that Minnesotans don't want.
Hubert Humphrey fought the communists for control of the DFL because he understood that a party pulled far from the mainstream cannot govern, cannot win, and cannot deliver for working people. His answer wasn't to retreat — it was to offer a liberalism so grounded in results and democratic institutions that it could earn broad public trust.
That's what The Humphrey Project is here to do. We fight for a DFL that delivers — on public safety, affordable housing, good jobs, and strong schools — not one focused on ideological battles against the very system that makes progress possible.
Read Humphrey's storyHumphrey's DFL believed in expanding opportunity, protecting workers, and strengthening democracy — within the constitutional system. They funded police, engaged the world, and backed free markets over central planning.
Today, a growing faction inside the DFL holds a very different agenda — one rooted in the DSA platform that calls to abolish capitalism, defund police to zero, nationalize major industries, and rewrite the Constitution. They are running candidates under the DFL banner.
The Humphrey Project exists to make sure voters know the difference — and to fight for the DFL that actually delivers results.
Fund and reform law enforcement
Support free markets — not central planning or crony capitalism
Reform institutions through the Constitution
Support NATO and American global leadership
Pass laws that help people today
Defund police — "cutting budgets annually towards zero"
Abolish capitalism and nationalize industry
Rewrite or abolish the Constitution
Dismantle NATO — "dismantle the empire"
Wait for revolution rather than reform
See the full policy comparison — DSA vs. DFL
Hubert H. Humphrey — Mayor, U.S. Senator, 38th Vice President
As Minneapolis mayor, Humphrey desegregated the police and created one of the country's first human rights commissions. At the 1948 DNC, he demanded a civil rights plank from the podium — and Southern delegates walked out. He didn't blink. As senator, he shepherded the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through a 57-day filibuster. He was a pragmatist who believed in winning real change through democratic institutions — not waiting for a revolution.
"The moral test of government is how it treats those in the dawn of life, the twilight of life, and the shadows of life."
In the 1940s, communists attempted to take control of Minnesota's DFL. A young Minneapolis mayor named Hubert Humphrey led the liberal fight against them — and in doing so, forged the DFL into the most effective progressive coalition in the country.
Read the full historyFive deep dives on who the DSA are, what they've done, and where their money comes from.
Fund and support law enforcement while pursuing meaningful accountability reforms.
Regulate and reform capitalism — don't abolish it. Grow the pie, share it fairly.
Reform institutions through the system we have — don't tear up the Constitution.
Protect collective bargaining and worker dignity within a free market economy.
Stay in NATO, support allies, engage the world — don't "dismantle the empire."
Pass laws that help people today rather than waiting for a revolution that never comes.
Humphrey wasn't just a historical figure — he was a framework for governing. Here's how his principles apply now.
Humphrey desegregated the Minneapolis police — he didn't try to abolish it. He would fund police, demand accountability, and fire bad officers — not defund the department "towards zero."
Humphrey championed public investment in opportunity — affordable housing, homeownership programs, and strong tenant protections. He would build, not freeze rents and collapse construction.
Humphrey was a New Deal Democrat who believed in free markets, not central planning or crony capitalism — not abolition. He would fight monopolies and protect workers within a market economy, not nationalize banks and agriculture.
Humphrey helped build NATO's ideological underpinnings. He believed America should lead the free world — not "dismantle the empire." He would stay in NATO and engage adversaries from strength.
Humphrey understood that a party out of step with the public cannot win their trust — and without public trust, no progressive legislation is possible. He stood up for liberal values because he wanted to win, then govern.
Humphrey passed the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty — not by waiting for a revolution, but by building coalitions, making deals, and delivering results for real people today.
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