The PLan.
Four pillars. Real policies. Clear about what happens on Day One and what requires the legislature.
I will not promise I can do all of this alone. What I can promise is I will fight for every one of these. MN Listens is already running. Text me today. On Day One as governor it becomes an official state operation. Your voice is not a suggestion box. It is the foundation.
Pillar 1: Government Transparency and Accountability
Minnesota lost billions to Medicaid fraud while the federal government uses that same fraud as a weapon to cut funding we depend on. That stops. You deserve a government that is honest about what it spends, who it pays, and why.
What I will do:
MN Listens. You text me. Real response in 24 hours. Someone follows up in a week. Your input becomes a public record.
Independent Inspector General with subpoena power and a public tip line. No more investigations that disappear into a press office.
All state bills posted publicly before a vote. No more billion dollar legislation rushed through in the dark.
No pay to play. Companies bidding for state contracts cannot donate to the campaigns of the people handing out those contracts.
Day One: Direct all state agencies to publish budget data in plain language. Launch MN Listens. Direct the DHS and Education Inspector Generals to operate with full independence.
Fight For It: Independent statewide Office of Inspector General needs the legislature. Pay-to-play law needs the legislature.
Pillar 2: Make Life Affordable
Housing. Childcare. Healthcare. These are not luxuries. They are the floor. Minnesota families are being squeezed out of their own state and the government has been too slow to respond.
What I will do:
The Minnesota Dividend. Eight revenue sources funding a direct investment back into Minnesotans. Covers the gaps when Washington cuts us off.
The Minnesota Guarantee. If Washington cuts Medicaid, food assistance, childcare, housing, or eldercare, Minnesota covers the gap. We do not wait for federal permission to take care of our people.
The Civic Corps. Two years of service. A living wage while you serve. A dividend at the end toward a home, a business, or an education. Six tracks filling workforce gaps communities actually have.
Housing. We build more. We make it possible for people to live in the communities where they work. Affordable does not mean identical.
Childcare. We treat it like the infrastructure it is.
Day One: Pilot the Civic Corps through existing AmeriCorps and ServeMinnesota infrastructure. Direct state agencies to identify federal funding vulnerabilities and begin building state alternatives.
Fight For It: Minnesota Dividend, Minnesota Guarantee, and full Civic Corps funding all need the legislature.
Pillar 3: Protect Rights
Your rights were not given to you by power and they cannot be taken by it. But right now they are being tested in ways most of us did not think we would see in our lifetime. Families are being separated. People are being detained based on how they look or who they love. The government is entering homes without judicial warrants and ignoring First Amendment rights. Gun owners are being told they are dangerous for exercising their Second Amendment rights. The Constitution is being ignored by the people sworn to uphold it.
Minnesota will not participate in that. And Minnesota will not be silent about it.
What I will do:
Free Voter ID for every Minnesotan who needs one. Your right to vote cannot be contingent on your ability to pay for documentation.
State legal aid hotline staffed 24 hours for anyone detained or picked up in Minnesota.
Real ID and passport assistance clinics in all 87 counties so every Minnesotan has documentation that protects them.
Constitutional challenge to federal coercive spending. When Washington uses funding as a weapon to force states to violate their own citizens' rights, we fight it in court.
MinnesotaCare public option for citizens and legal residents who need it.
Day One: Launch the state legal aid hotline. Begin multilingual preparedness guide distribution. Direct state law enforcement to require federal agents to identify themselves and follow Minnesota law.
Fight For It: Free Voter ID, Real ID assistance clinics, MinnesotaCare public option, and the constitutional challenge all need the legislature or the courts.
Pillar 4: Prepare Minnesota
Washington may walk away. Minnesota will not be caught flat-footed when it does.
We are already seeing federal funding cut, court orders ignored, and essential programs threatened. The question is not whether disruption is coming. The question is whether Minnesota is ready for it. We are going to make sure the answer is yes.
What I will do:
MN Listens. Real-time connection between what Minnesotans need and what exists to help them. Text, call, or email. Real response in 24 hours. Real follow-up in a week.
The Neighbor Network. Fund and amplify what Minnesotans are already doing. Organizations like Stand With Minnesota, Monarca, Neighborhood House, and hundreds of others are already moving food, rent money, legal help, and childcare. We make the state their partner.
Emergency preparedness for the world we are actually in. Updated plans for federal funding disruption. Pre-positioned food and medicine reserves. County level preparedness with state support.
Real ID and passport assistance in all 87 counties so no Minnesotan is without documentation that protects them.
State funded legal aid hotline available 24 hours for anyone detained in Minnesota.
Day One: Launch MN Listens. Launch the public mutual aid directory. Launch the legal aid hotline. Direct all state emergency management agencies to begin updating plans for federal funding disruption.
Fight For It: Neighbor Network grant program, Real ID assistance clinics, and regional supply reserves all need the legislature.
This is the whole thing.
No corporate money built this plan. No lobbyist signed off on it. No party told me what I could and could not say.
This came from Minnesotans. From what you told me was broken. From what I saw with my own eyes. From what I believe government is actually supposed to do. And it will keep changing. Not because I don't have convictions but because I do. One of them is that a plan that never updates is a plan that stopped listening. I will always bring my values to this work. I will always bring you too.
If it resonates, join us. If you think something is missing, text me.