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In just four months, the DFL majority:

  • Established a “fundamental right” to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy;.
  • Declared Minnesota a “refuge” for children seeking sex changes;.
  • Passed the “Take Pride Act,” which will prohibit nonprofits that serve minors from discriminating based on “gender identity” in hiring practices;.
  • Passed protections for women who travel to Minnesota for abortions;.
  • Repealed protections for babies who survive abortions;.
  • Stripped pregnancy resource centers of state funding;.
  • Gutted reporting requirements for abortion facilities;.
  • Expanded medical assistance to include abortion (taxpayer-funded abortion);.
  • Repealed an informed consent law for abortion;.
  • Legalized recreational marijuana use;.
  • Increased government spending by 40 percent;.
  • Raised the gas tax by indexing it to inflation;.
  • Created a new delivery fee on all retail orders over $100;.
  • Increased sales taxes and fees for vehicle purchases and registration;.
  • Passed a metro-wide sales tax increase;.
  • Enacted automatic voter registration;. Passed pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds;
  • Joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact;.
  • Funded a study on ranked-choice voting;.
  • Passed a bill to provide driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants;.
  • Passed a bill to provide health care to illegal immigrants;.
  • Restored the right to vote to violent felons who are on probation;.
  • Created a commission to design a new state flag;.
  • Replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day;.
  • Declared Juneteenth a state holiday;.
  • Raised the threshold for a political party to attain or maintain “major party” status from 5 percent to 8 percent beginning in the 2024 general election;.
  • Passed a bill to require Minnesota’s electricity grid to be 100% carbon-free by 2040;.
  • Banned so-called “conversion therapy;”.
  • Passed two gun control bills, including a red-flag law and universal background checks;.
  • Provided free college at state institutions to students in families with income under $80,000;.
  • Passed a bill to provide free lunch and breakfast to all Minnesota students regardless of family income; Increased spending on K-12 education by 10.2 percent;.
  • Banned Native American mascots;.
  • Raised fees for fishing, boating, and visiting state parks;.
  • Created a hate speech database; Banned no-knock warrants;.
  • Created a program that will allow inmates who complete certain programming to serve just half of their prison sentences;.
  • Created a state-run paid leave program that will raise taxes on employers and employees;.
  • Established a new legal avenue for prosecutors to seek lower sentences;.
  • Funded a new Office of Restorative Practices that will propose alternatives to incarceration for juveniles who commit serious crimes;.
  • Commissioned a study on abolishing cash bail;.
  • Created a new public database that will assign climate scores to large businesses;.
  • Capped rebate checks at $260 per filer, with income limits, and down from the $1,000 initially proposed by Gov. Tim Walz.