Even Republicans are calling this “utterly stupid, morally wrong,”

This legislative session, our DFL legislators fought hard for the safety and dignity of all Minnesotans — and they need to hear from us!

The state’s busiest Level 1 trauma Center, Hennepin Health Care Medical Center, is in a financial crisis and is at risk of closing.

On April 6, Children’s Minnesota announced that it has resumed all services in its Gender Health program. 

The STAR act responds to the cruel and reckless federal immigration enforcement that has terrorized families, devastated schools and small businesses, and trampled our constitutional rights. 

The MN Patient Centered Care plan would remove managed care organizations from the Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare programs.

Hyperscale data center proposals demand unprecedented energy, water and land, and are coming at Minnesota towns more quickly than we have infrastructure or regulatory framework to receive them. 

Any day now, the U.S. Senate could vote to approve a federal bill that would allow copper-nickel  sulfide mining in the watersheds of both the BWCA and Voyageur’s National Park.  But the Minnesota Legislature can prevent that from happening.

The US Senate is scheduled to deliberate and vote on the appointment of the Director of The Bureau of Land Management at 8:30 a.m. Central Time, Wednesday, Feb. 25. The person chosen to lead the Bureau wields extraordinary power over wildlife habitat, and land-use decisions. This agency controls 245 million acres of public land. The President’s nominee is an avowed anti-public lands advocate with strong ties to the oil and gas industry.

The SAVE Act make it difficult for tens of millions of us to vote: requiring voters to show a U.S. passport or birth certificate — when they register to vote, photo identification when they cast a ballot; and force states to provide the federal government access to state voter registration rolls, and mandate monthly purges of those rolls.  Online, automatic, and mail-in registration would no longer be allowed.  

Congress needs to act to assert its powers and prevent Trump from illegally starting a war with Iran.

The current administration seeks to prohibit federal funding under Medicare and Medicaid (for hospitals) and Medicaid and CHIP (for other healthcare providers) for what it calls “sex-rejecting procedures” for children under the age of 18 (under 19 for CHIP payments). The proposed rules would deprive children who qualify for public benefits of the gender-affirming healthcare they and their doctors decide is appropriate.

Republicans are moving quickly to pass a bill, called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, requiring voters to show proof of citizenship both to register and at the polls ahead of the 2026 midterm elections — a move that experts warn could disenfranchise millions of Americans.  They are also considering other, more radical versions of the bill, including the Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act

Hennepin County Sheriff Witt claims that her department does not aid ICE except “when protecting people’s safety.” However on multiple occasions at the Whipple Building Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office deputies have violently arrested protesters who were non-violently exercising their First Amendment rights. 

Governor Walz has the unique authority to declare an emergency that would allow him to impose an eviction moratorium. The cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and more than 70 organizations, have called on the Governor to enact this moratorium.