Nils Palsson
Summer Update, Birthday & NEDfest 2023!

I hope you are well! It has been a while since I’ve shared an update, and as we near my 38th birthday (on August 2nd!) — along with the two-year anniversary of the completion of my treatment for cancer and the beginning of a long recovery journey — I wanted to reach out with a few kind words and good tidings of what’s to come.

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Summer Update, Birthday & NEDfest 2023!
Nils Palsson
Only Getting Nedder!

I hope your springtimes are progressing in vivid color, and that your summer is shaping up to be a great one. I just wanted to share with my loved ones out there a couple of pieces of good news. 

First: My MRI scan a couple of weeks ago yielded another negative result, showing no evidence of disease and further documenting my complete remission! I welcome and celebrate the clean bill of health!

Only Getting Nedder!
Nils Palsson
Annual Letter, 2022-23

2022 has been an amazing, humbling, sweet year — one of physical rehabilitation, family connection, spiritual expansion, celebration of life, and working to create a rich, new definition of “normal” after last year’s remarkable struggles and powerful lessons. It was also a year replete with its own challenges and surprises — but are these not essential aspects of the privilege of being alive?

What can we do but smile and give thanks for it all?

Annual Letter, 2022-23
Nils Palsson
Happy NED Year!

After a couple of really challenging years — a dance with cancer that included major surgery, brutal chemotherapy, and months of uncertainty with irregular scans ever-trending in the right direction but stopping just short of the longed-for resolution of “complete remission” — it finally happened.

I went in this November for another CT scan… and at long last...

It was NEGATIVE!

Happy NED Year!
Nils Palsson
A Graduation for Us All

…If you caught my last post, you saw that I just celebrated my 37th birthday (while on an overnight train in northern Finland, no less)! Over the next few weeks, as I settle back into life at home, I’ll be integrating my experience and sharing stories and media from the road (to augment the brief photo chronicles I’ve already shared on Instagram and Facebook).

For now, though — as I pivot somewhat abruptly to Back-to-School Mode — I wanted to take the opportunity to share a video of a very special occasion that took place earlier this summer.

Watch the video

A Graduation for Us All

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Read Nils Palsson's Responses to Ballotpedia Candidate Survey

Read Nils Palsson's Responses to Ballotpedia Candidate Survey

Nils Palsson participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on May 11, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Nils Palsson's responses follow below.

What would be your top three priorities, if elected?

1) Getting money out of politics and reclaiming our democracy.

2) Ensuring top-quality education, universal health care and affordable housing for all.

3) Bold leadership on the crises of climate change, wealth inequality and racial injustice. Achieving social, racial, environmental and economic justice for all.

A Candidate with a Contract

A Candidate with a Contract

Palsson has joined with Florida independent candidate for Congress Tim Canova and over 60 other candidates for federal office in signing a candidate contract committing these public servants to taking concrete action to eliminate corruption and create a more transparent and accountable government, including overturning Citizens United and linking Congressional salary to the median household income in America. 

#NotForSale: Nils Signs the American Promise Pledge

#NotForSale: Nils Signs the American Promise Pledge

Independent Nils Palsson from California joins the hundreds of candidates across the nation who have proudly proclaimed they're #NotForSale by signing the American Promise Candidate Pledge. A 28th Amendment is an issue every candidate, regardless of political party, should be behind. Palsson: “Real integrity means standing with out people and planet — not huge corporations and their lobbyists. This campaign accepts NO money from corporate special interests. I stand with our families and communities. Let’s take back Congress!”

Feel the Turn - Nils Featured in the North Bay Bohemian

Feel the Turn - Nils Featured in the North Bay Bohemian

Can Bernie backer Nils Palsson unseat incumbent Mike Thompson?

Nils Palsson is running against Blue Dog Democrat Mike Thompson in California's 5th congressional district, decrying the incumbent's long list of big-money contributions from the corporate world as he's launched a Sanders-friendly campaign—and accepting individual contributions of $27.

There is No Republican!

There is No Republican!

I'm writing with big news: after successfully filing as a candidate for the 2018 election, I learned that there is no Republican in the race this year! The most conservative man on the ballot is probably the ten-term 'Democratic' incumbent I'm challenging. There is also a Green who is not a serious contender, and one other No Party candidate who has no website, and whose Facebook profile says he lives in New Mexico. What I'm trying to say is: WE GOT THIS.