The Coalition
Dec 1, 2025
Why Minnesota, why now, and who needs to be in the room.
I have laid out the problem, the mechanism, and the legislation. Now comes the hard part: passing it.
Why Minnesota?
I assume I will be asked why I am not starting at the federal level.
Agility: Federal legislation is where good ideas go to die. States are where working models are built.
Precedent: Minnesota recently passed the comprehensive MNCDPA. The policy infrastructure and appetite for leadership exist here.
Home: This is where I live. This is where I intend to serve.
Future: This could be the testing ground for a much larger scale framework.
The Coalition We Need
I am building a working group to refine this bill before introduction. I need four types of collaborators:
Technical Reviewers: To stress-test the cryptographic assumptions. Are the W3C and NIST references in the draft correct?
Legal Reviewers: To find the constitutional vulnerabilities. Does the unlinkability mandate conflict with federal AML laws?
Policy Allies: Legislators and staffers who understand that privacy requires new infrastructure, not just new compliance forms.
The Unusual Suspects: This bill creates rights for AI agents. This will attract both accelerationists and safety advocates. I want both arguments heard now, not later.
The Ask
Read the bill. Red-team it. If you are in Minnesota and you understand the stakes of the Authentication Cliff, I want you in the room.