Minnesota House DFL

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We are the Minnesota House of Representatives Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Caucus.

BREAKING: Elon Musks’s AI company is suing Minnesota to try to stop a new law banning nudification technology that can generate explicit images of minors. They’re opposing a law that would prevent AI from generating nude images of children. Why does Elon Musk think that should be legal?

They're taking away health care from seniors and children and people with disabilities, all so they can punish the states that didn't vote for him. This isn't solving any of the problems they're pretending to care about.

US pauses $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota

The Trump administration is pausing $1 billion in ​Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota over "suspected fraud and noncompliance," U.S. Health Secretary ‌Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday.

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Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.”

Minnesota stands with Maine as they experience the all-too familiar horror of ICE agents killing an innocent individual in their streets. This cannot keep happening. We’re sick of saying enough is enough. ICE’s unchecked terror in our communities must end.

You know who should be grateful that SCOTUS just rejected Donald Trump's attempt to weaken mail-in voting? Donald Trump. Trump trusts mail-in voting when he’s using it, but is doing everything possible to take it away from you.

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Happy Juneteenth, Minnesota! Today is a reminder of the cost of freedom deferred — and it is also a celebration of the resilience and hope of African Americans who were forced to fight to earn the freedom they always deserved.

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Today marks one year since Melissa and Mark Hortman were killed in a horrific act of political violence. Both of them, along with their dog Gilbert, lived lives defined by their service to others. They were the best of us. We miss them every day. May we all work to honor their legacy.

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Today marks six years since George Floyd was murdered. Six years. Minnesotans have been through a lot in six years. But what was true six years ago remains true today: George Floyd should still be alive, and the struggle for justice must continue.

The Minnesota House just adjourned for the year, and it ended with every Republican voting against bills to keep our communities safe from gun violence and hold ICE accountable. After the year our state has had, the GOP voted no. This session may be over, but our fight for Minnesotans is not.

BREAKING: We just passed critical legislation to save HCMC, the largest safety-net hospital in the state, from shutting down! The hospital was at risk of closing due to the Trump/GOP cuts to Medicaid. This is one of the biggest, most impactful policy victories of the YEAR. It's a BFD.

UNBELIEVABLE. Speaker Demuth is now hiding a major ICE accountability bill as well as the comprehensive gun package. Minnesotans deserve better than elected leaders who won't give them a straight answer. It's indefensible to see the harm done to Minnesotans in the last year, and look the other way.

Lisa Demuth has 12 more hours to uphold her promises to the parents of Annunciation children lost to preventable gun violence and HOLD A VOTE. 12 hours to show that she hears the pleas and the stories of Minnesotans affected by gun violence over decades. 12 hours to do one thing right.

Rep. Sencer-Mura, talking about a six-year-old who was shot at Annunciation and now struggles with long-term health effects from the bullet shrapnel inside his body: "Lead poisoning from a bullet from a school shooting. That is a story that would only happen in America. Happy 250th anniversary."

Powerful speech from Mike Moyski, the father of Harper Moyski, the ten-year-old who was shot and killed in the Annunciation shooting, as the DFL's 39-hour sit-in concludes: Even though Speaker Demuth is hiding this bill now, she's kidding herself if she thinks this issue is going to go away.

BREAKING: We have now held the House floor for 24 HOURS STRAIGHT. We are continuing our sit-in to demand that the GOP stop blocking a historic gun violence prevention bill and hold a fair vote. We’re still here, and we’re still fighting. LFG.

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An update from the Capitol: DFL legislators have now been holding the House floor for 12 hours straight. We've been here since last night, and we'll be here all the way until the Speaker gavels the House back into session. It's time for a vote on comprehensive gun violence prevention legislation.

Once again, Republicans have chosen the gun lobby over the safety and lives of Minnesotans. We aren’t done fighting. Not at all. But every Minnesotan deserves to know that every Republican just blocked comprehensive gun safety legislation.

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HAPPENING NOW: After ten days of House Republicans blocking and hiding a comprehensive gun violence prevention bill — and after 260 days since the tragic mass shooting at Annunciation church — we're demanding the GOP listen to Minnesotans and allow a vote on the House floor.

WATCH: Republicans have now blocked *three* separate attempts from Minnesota Democrats to vote on a gun violence prevention bill that already passed the Senate. Republicans are trying to bury this bill to avoid a vote. One GOP legislator even admitted that he'd been "instructed not to report it."

In Minnesota, GOP leadership has been hiding a gun violence prevention bill in a desk drawer to prevent it from coming to a vote. In response, DFL legislators just announced that they will begin a sit-in to hold the House floor overnight unless Speaker Demuth allows for a fair vote within 24 hours.