HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this special, urgent, must-listen conversation, Brittany Packnett Cunningham helps us understand what’s happening in Minnesota right now—and why it’s not an isolated moment. She explains how years of organizing made Minnesota ready to resist state violence, why this moment is more dangerous than 2014 or 2020, and what it actually means to move from watching in horror to taking action. Brittany lays out what every one of us can do today—wherever we live—to protect our neighbors, build real organizing infrastructure, and prepare for what’s coming next. This is a wake-up call. And a roadmap. You can listen to our prior conversation with Brittany Packnett Cunningham – How to Create Unbreakable Bonds HERE. About Brittany: Brittany Packnett Cunningham is a leader at the intersection of culture, justice and policy. Brittany is Founder of the social impact agency Love & Power Works, Host and Executive Producer of the news and justice podcast UNDISTRACTED. A St. Louis native, Brittany was instrumental in the coordination of the Ferguson Protest following the 2014 police murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown. After George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis in 2020, Brittany became one of the most visible national movement voices for policy, budget and electoral change. As the world watched the executions of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE within – both within 2.2 miles of where George Flloyd was murdered – as well as the execution of Keith Porter Jr by ICE in California, Brittany is leading us in connecting this police state violence – including the killing of Geraldo Lunas Campos, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Luis Beltran Yanez–Cruz and more than 50 other deaths in ICE detention – toward collective liberation. You can find her @MsPackyetti on all social media. Follow We Can Do Hard Things on: Instagram — ⁠https://www.instagram.com/wecandohardthings⁠ TikTok — ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@wecandohardthingsshow⁠

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0:00.0	Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. This is a crucial conversation with one of the most important
0:09.9	activists, organizers, and thinkers of our time, Brittany Packnet Cunningham. She is with us for this
0:18.5	hour to help us look at Minnesota and understand the infrastructure and circumstances that have allowed Minnesota to become the beacon that it is for all of us right now.
0:31.7	Brittany's going to talk to us about what we need to do right now to not just sit and stare and marvel at Minnesota, but to become Minnesota in our own places so that when our moment comes and it will, we will be ready like they were.
0:46.1	And also, Brittany's going to talk to us a lot about how, for a lot of people, none of this is a surprise and how we might be able to rebuild now in a way that
0:56.4	this does not happen again, how we break patterns, American patterns that keep us repeating the same
1:03.8	old story in this country, how we write a new one finally by acknowledging the truth of the
1:09.7	beginning. This is a gift.
1:11.7	Brittany Packett Cunningham is an absolute gift. Let's get to her.
1:20.8	Brittany Packett Cunningham is a leader at the intersection of culture, justice, and policy.
1:28.8	Brittany is the founder of the Social Impact Agency Love and Power Works, host and executive
1:34.2	producer of the News and Justice podcast, Undistracted. A St. Louis native, Brittany was instrumental
1:40.3	in the coordination of the Ferguson protest following the 2014 police murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
1:47.1	After George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis in 2020, Brittany became one of the most
1:52.5	visible national movement voices for policy, budget, and electoral change. As the world watched
1:58.0	the executions of Renee Good and Alex Preddy by ICE, both within 2.2 miles of where George Floyd was murdered, as well as the execution of Keith Porter Jr. by ICE in California, Brittany is leading us in connecting this police state violence, including the killings of Geraldo Lunas Campos, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caseras, and Luis Beltran-Janez Cruz,
2:21.0	and more than 50 other deaths and ICE detention toward a collective liberation.
2:26.2	Brittany, you are so generous in sharing your voice today.
2:30.1	You are the voice we are looking to as well as those voices on the ground in Minnesota right now
2:35.8	to help us to understand and connect this moment to decades and centuries of violence that we're
2:44.8	experiencing in this country. We are recording this on Monday, January 26th. This episode will go up on Wednesday, the 28th.
2:53.9	Where would you situate us in this moment where people will be hearing this on Wednesday?
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