I jumped the terminals on the meter and surprise, everything started working. Thank you for clarifying the ground/positive. I assumed it was a ground, but now it makes sense.

The only bug in this is that I had just hooked up a brand new voltmeter to ignore the ammeter in the dash. If the problem was in the ammeter, the new voltmeter should have solved it (at least I thought it would..)

This all started after I hooked up the horns and horn relay. After "honking" the horns the first few times, everything started. This kind of repair makes me nervous I still have a problem and am risking a fire while driving down the road.

Thank you to all!