Policies

Elections

• Designate Election Day be a state holiday.

• Establish ranked choice voting in state elections. 

• Pass a constitutional amendment to establish term limits on the Office of Governor and Lieutenant Governor to 2 terms.

Housing

• In the short term, we need to pass rental assistance to prevent homelessness in our communities.

• Support capping rent increases to 3% each year, and abolish pet rent.

• Expand protections for tenants and tenant unions, including the right to pursue a rent strike.

• Minnesota needs to limit the amount of housing that private equity firms can buy.

• Fund Housing Infrastructure Bonds (HIBs) to build more housing across the state.

Jobs & The Economy

The future of commerce is in worker cooperatives that reject the profit motive, and use revenues to boost quality of life for worker-owners and expand business operations. The biggest struggle is accessing capital to start a business. 

• Appropriate funds for worker cooperatives and cooperative financers to provide grants and/or loans. 

• Support a robust technical assistance department to help startup worker co-ops and small businesses looking to convert to a worker-owned enterprise. This technical assistance should be provided to all cooperative models: agricultural, producer, worker owned, and consumer cooperatives. 

• Make an appropriation for a revolving loan fund for startup worker cooperatives and conversion of small businesses to worker cooperatives.

• Require a $25 minimum wage for all publicly traded companies.

Farmers

• Expand farmer financing options. 

• Expand pathways into agricultural cooperatives

• Full, dedicated funding for the Agricultural Growth, Research and Innovation (AGRI) program.

• Prioritize funding for sustainable local agriculture. 

• Continue funding the SNAP Farmers Market Program.

Taxes

• Establish a progressive corporate franchise tax rate.

• Establish a 2% wealth tax on persons with $10 million+ in assets.

• Raise the income tax rate on incomes above $270k.

• Establish a tax deduction for loans to worker cooperatives to incentivize financing local community cooperative enterprises.

Unions

• Designate May 1st to be a state holiday and require all publicly traded companies to participate in a labor union election.

• Strengthen workers’ right to organize in the workplace.

• Allow workers on strike to participate in Unemployment Insurance for the duration of the strike.

Healthcare and Disability Services

• Medicare for All is the greatest investment you can make in folks with disabilities, the elderly, farmers, families, those who lose their jobs, the self-employed, worker cooperatives and small businesses. When the One Big Beautiful Bill wants us to cut healthcare and services for Minnesotans, we must stand together to ensure everyone receives the healthcare and services they deserve.

• Protect and fund Section 340B which provides funding for Medicaid shortfalls to prevent rural and urban hospitals from closing.

• Phasing out the Sub-minimum wage while prioritizing programs that provide quality jobs for folks with disabilities that provide accommodations and flexibility.

• Invest in career pathways for people from marginalized communities to pursue a career in healthcare.

Education

• Guaranteeing all teachers in the state of Minnesota a minimum salary of $60,000 per year, or $80,000 per year when a teacher has a Master’s Degree and 10 years of experience.

• Support protections for educators to teach the real history of Minnesota, the US, and the world, including LGBTQIA2S+ and Black history. 

• Support indexing funds for schools to keep pace with inflation. 

• Investments in teachers to pursue graduate education in the field of education.

• Provide funding for skills based and trades programs. 

• Teach and integrate cooperation and group-based instruction in the classroom to prepare students for the future of commerce. 

• Expand funding for local youth mentorship programs.

• Guarantee universal childcare because children are more prepared for school when they spend their early childhood years learning and developing social and reading skills.

Environmental Protections

• Enacting a moratorium on data center construction in Minnesota at least until a robust regulatory framework is enacted.

• Require energy companies to receive a Certificate of Need only if the energy produced is needed by residents in Minnesota & surrounding area, as opposed to the need of “producers”. 

• Require mining companies to prove that a similar mine has been in operation for at least 10 years without polluting, and has been closed for at least 10 years without polluting the environment, often called a Prove It First law.

• Prohibit Minnesota from issuing nonferrous mining permits to corporations that have violated certain international laws, including corruption, bribery & environmental destruction.

• The bare minimum is requiring mining companies fully fund a financial assurance package upfront to ensure MN taxpayers are not left on the hook for potential multi-billion-dollar clean-up costs from a devastating environmental catastrophe. 

Indigenous Sovereignty

• Expanding legal protections for Manoomin, also known as Wild Rice, to protect the habitats it's grown in, and allows indigenous leaders to decide the future of Manoomin.

• Land acknowledgements are not enough, we must return state lands back to indigenous communities, including returning Upper Red Lake and surrounding state forests to the Red Lake Nation.

• Establish a Right of First Refusal for tribes to buy land within reservation borders.

• Honor treaty rights that govern the state’s relationship to tribal nations. Ignoring treaty rights is unacceptable.

• Establish an equitable funding source between tribes and counties. 

• Ensure tribes receive funding from Housing Infrastructure Bonds.

Economic and Racial Justice

Support Economic and Racial Justice by fighting for The United Black Legislative Agenda.

• Creation of a Business Capital Fund to support African and African American businesses.

• Adopt Recommendations of the Urban Initiative Board for Workforce Development.

• Support summer jobs programs in Minneapolis and St. Paul that target disconnected youth of color ages 16-19 who experience an unemployment rate doubles that of white youth at 23.1%.

• Support the Working Parents Act.

• Grand Jury Ban for Police Involved criminal proceedings.

• Support funding the ReConnect Rondo land bridge with state dollars.

• Sentencing Guidelines Recommendations Adoption, efforts to stop recommendations from taking effect should be blocked.

• Voting Rights Restoration.

• Establish a strong Body Camera policy and funding for Minnesota.

• Hate Crime Penalties Increase.

• Address Somali Community Needs- Job Training, Youth Development, and Education.

LGBTQIA2S+ Rights

• Ensure continuity of gender affirming care despite federal budget cuts.

• Amend Minnesota statute to allow trans individuals who have changed their name to have those cases sealed and unsearchable. 

• Prevent gender discrimination in homeless shelters based on trans identity.

• Protect trans kids’ right and safety to exist in schools and discuss their gender identity. 

• Expand sex education to include LGBTQIA2S+ topics.

Public Safety

• Amending Safe Harbor statute from “persons aged 24 years old and under” to “persons of any age” to protect individuals engaged in sex work. 

• Decriminalize the purchasing of sex.

• Expand Safe Harbor funding to fight sex trafficking.

• Require law enforcement agencies to insure police officers in the event of negligent actions.

• Limit the role of qualified immunity of law enforcement officers. 

• Enhance the POST Board’s authority to hold individual law enforcement officers accountable. 

• Prioritizing funding for community supports and services over increases to police budgets.

• Reclassify possession of small amounts of illicit substances from criminal offenses to civil penalties.

Community Protection

• Establish a protocol for expediting resources to community organizations during state emergencies while safeguarding against fraud.

• Work with the Attorney General to prosecute ICE officers.

Transportaion

• Institute a Road Usage Charge which is a mileage tax for electric and hybrid vehicles to offset the loss of revenue for roads, bridges, and highways.

• Expand regional public transportation across the state.

Reproductive Freedom

• Support for the single-payer healthcare system includes contraception, birth control, and abortion access. 

• Comprehensive sex education in the curriculum that includes contraception education. 

• Prevent physicians from using age as a reason not to perform reproductive surgeries.

• Passing the Building Families Act to require insurers to cover basic fertility work up and management.

Pro-Palestine

• Prevent state pension systems from investing in companies facilitating Israeli settlements or military supplies to Israel. 

• Eliminate and prohibit contracts to companies that sell to Israeli settlements.

• Repeal Section 3.226 which prevents the state from entering into contracts with vendors that refuse to do business with Israel.