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Speaker of the Minnesota House.

Her campaign says she was elected to the Minnesota House in 2018, served on the ROCORI School Board, and ran a small business before that. In 2025 she became Speaker, and the site says she was the first Black lawmaker and the first Republican woman in that post.

• She says her first priority as governor would be helping families afford their lives, including lower income-tax brackets, lower car-tab fees, and an end to the state tax on Social Security benefits.
• She says she would create a nonpartisan inspector general to look for fraud in state programs before money leaves the door.
• She says she would back police, firefighters, and other first responders.

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U.S. senator and former Hennepin County attorney.

Her campaign says she led Hennepin County's prosecutor's office for eight years and has served in the Senate, where she highlights bipartisan bills and a law letting Medicare negotiate drug prices. She is running for governor and says she wants state government to be more accountable.

• She says she would work to lower health care, housing, child care, and utility bills, and to build more homes.
• She says she would root out fraud and make it easier to start a business and get a permit.
• She says she would take on organized crime and gang violence and help local police hire and keep officers.

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Former NFL sideline reporter and broadcaster.

Her campaign says she is a four-time Sports Emmy winner who covered NFL games for NBC, including five Super Bowls, and left the sideline after Super Bowl LVI. She is running for the Senate on what she calls accountability and family-first leadership.

• She says she would cosponsor a bill to deport an immigrant convicted of fraud and would seek mandatory federal prison terms for fraud.
• She says she would push to withhold federal money from a state that will not put anti-fraud controls in place.
• She says Minnesota's criminal-justice experiment has failed and that she would stand with victims and law enforcement.

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Lieutenant governor of Minnesota.

She says she grew up with a single mother, relying on food stamps and Medicaid, and that she is now lieutenant governor. She says she is running for the Senate because leaders in Washington have failed working people.

• She says she wants a fair economy so people can afford the lives they want for their families.
• She says she will not take corporate PAC money and wants to reverse Citizens United and limit dark money in elections.
• She says Washington works for special interests and that she would make the government answer to Minnesotans instead.

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Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate.

Her campaign says working people are not being heard and that inflation, debt, and undeclared wars are the result of federal overspending. She frames the race as a demand to take back rights she says the public has lost.

• She says the country should stop funding wars that Congress has not declared.
• She says overspending and printing money are driving up the cost of groceries and gas.
• She says the two major parties, the military industry, banks, and corporations are not being held accountable.

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Trial lawyer, Army veteran, and former law-firm chairman.

His campaign says he grew up on a Minnesota dairy farm, served in the Army, and is a partner in a national litigation firm, where he was chairman from 2019 to 2024. He says he is running because the state needs an attorney general focused on crime, fraud, and the rule of law.

• He says fighting fraud and protecting tax dollars would be a top priority, and that he would try to stop fraud before it starts.
• He says seniors, families, and small businesses need a consumer-protection lawyer who will take on scammers and powerful companies.
• He says he would enforce the law and put public safety ahead of political headlines.

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Attorney general of Minnesota.

His campaign says Minnesotans first elected him attorney general in 2018 and that he calls the job the people's lawyer. The site says the office has gone after insulin prices, opioid companies, scams, and medical debt.

• He says the office has lowered costs, including cutting the price of insulin, and has taken on price-gouging, medical debt, and opioid companies.
• He says he is protecting tenants, going after scammers, and standing up for student borrowers.
• He says he is challenging the Trump administration because no one is above the law, and that he is defending reproductive rights and access to gender-affirming care.

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Former legislator, county commissioner, and judge.

His campaign says he has been a legislator, a county commissioner, a judge, and a small-business owner. He is running for secretary of state on a plan he calls Trust the Vote.

• He says he would require a photo ID to vote and work to limit voting to U.S. citizens.
• He says he would work with local, state, and federal partners to clean up voter rolls.
• He says he would try to prevent fraud in public programs and make business filings and other office services more reliable.

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Secretary of state of Minnesota.

His campaign says his family fled persecution in Lithuania and settled on the Iron Range, and that his father's illness later made voting in person hard. He says that experience led him to write the law that lets eligible Minnesotans vote from home.

• He says his top priority is protecting the freedom to vote for every eligible Minnesotan.
• He says he has worked for an election system that is fair, accurate, honest, and secure, including for seniors and students.
• He says he has opposed federal efforts to add voting restrictions and to collect sensitive information on Minnesota voters.

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Green Party candidate for secretary of state.

His campaign says he was born and raised in Baudette, studied political science near St. Cloud, and has worked in cooperatives, businesses, and nonprofits, including as a union steward. He says he now works for the Land Stewardship Project.

• He says he would keep paper ballots, early and absentee voting, and same-day registration, and he wants Election Day to be a paid state holiday.
• He says he would expand voting rights to Minnesota residents regardless of U.S. citizenship or a criminal conviction.
• He says he would end the legal split between major and minor parties and support ranked-choice voting for state executive offices.

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Libertarian candidate for secretary of state.

His campaign says he grew up in Eden Prairie, worked as legislative counsel to a member of Congress, and has aligned with the Libertarian Party since 2016. He says he is running to bring a third-party view to the office that runs elections.

• He says the chief elections officer should be unbound from the two major parties so voters in either party can count on impartiality.
• He says he would push to remove barriers that keep independent and minor-party candidates off the ballot.
• He says same-day registration should stay, and that ballots from voters whose eligibility is not clear on Election Day should be counted only after eligibility is confirmed.

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U.S. representative for Minnesota's 1st District.

Brad Finstad's office says he is a fourth-generation farmer from the New Ulm area who won a special election in 2022. He and his wife Jackie, who met on the school bus in second grade, have seven children and run an agriculture business alongside their family farm. He earned a University of Minnesota degree in agricultural education.

• His office says his work as Minnesota's USDA Rural Development director supported rural infrastructure, business development, homeownership, schools, public safety, health care, and high-speed internet.
• He previously served three terms in the Minnesota Legislature and held executive roles with the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association and the Center for Rural Policy and Development.

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Math teacher running for Congress.

Jake Johnson's site says he grew up in Stewartville, is a math teacher and father of four, and that he and his wife Molly, a paraprofessional, are raising their boys in southern Minnesota.

• He says he will vote to end tariffs and the Iran war that he says are raising grocery, gas, and fertilizer prices, cut taxes for working families, and raise taxes on big corporations and the very wealthy.
• He says he supports a balanced-budget amendment, term limits, a ban on members of Congress trading stocks or becoming lobbyists, and recovering money lost to fraud in Minnesota.
• He says he will push a bipartisan farm bill, a right to repair for farm equipment, protection of Social Security, Medicare, and veterans' benefits, and a moratorium on data centers until protections are guaranteed.

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Minnesota state senator running for Congress.

Eric Pratt's site says he has lived in Prior Lake since the 1970s, worked in banking, served on the Prior Lake–Savage school board, and has been a state senator since 2012. He and his wife, Tina, have been married 34 years and raised two children in the district.

• He says he will focus on lowering costs, supporting small businesses, and restoring an economy that working families can afford.
• He says he supports law enforcement and first responders, and that laws should be enforced consistently from neighborhoods to the U.S. border.
• He says he will crack down on fraud and abuse, pointing to his banking work against financial scams and his Senate work on taxpayer accountability.

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Former Lakeville mayor and state senator running for Congress.

Matt Little's site says he was born and raised in Lakeville, served as mayor, state senator, and city councilor, and owns a law firm representing seniors and people with disabilities. He says he lives in New Market Township with his wife, Coco, and their daughter.

• He says he is fighting for Medicare for All, affordable child care, tax breaks for everyday Americans, and a tax on the ultrawealthy.
• He says he wants a moratorium on data centers, an end to Citizens United, and corporate PAC money out of politics.
• He says he will champion women's reproductive freedom and keep Minnesota a refuge for LGBTQ people.

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Contractor and small-business owner running for Congress.

Tyler Bass's site says he is a contractor, small-business owner, and former licensed life and health insurance agent who has worked since he was 10, including roofing, siding, and factory jobs. He says he started a business with a $250 paycheck after college.

• He says he will secure the border, support ICE, and remove people who are here illegally no matter how long they have been here, and cut H-1B loopholes so jobs go to Minnesotans.
• He says he will fight Washington's hand in local property taxes and will not vote to ban AR-15s, restrict magazine capacity, or add new hurdles for law-abiding gun owners.
• He says fraud that robbed children with autism and Minnesota taxpayers has to be confronted, and that his opponent has not spoken up about it.

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U.S. representative and OB-GYN.

Kelly Morrison's campaign says she is a sixth-generation Minnesotan who practiced as an OB-GYN for more than 20 years and is the first pro-choice OB-GYN elected to Congress. She says she grew up and raised three children in the west metro, and that her husband John is an Army combat veteran.

• She says she is fighting health-care cuts she says would push Minnesotans off insurance and force hospitals to close, and that no one should go bankrupt to get care.
• She says she is working to exempt small businesses from tariffs and get them refunds, and to lower the costs of housing and child care.
• She says she takes no corporate PAC, federal-lobbyist, or dark-money money, supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, and backs a ban on stock ownership by presidents, vice presidents, and members of Congress.

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Engineer running for Congress.

Paul Wikstrom's site says he is an electrical engineer and University of Minnesota graduate who has spent 35 years in medtech and aerospace, not a career politician. He says he and his wife Liz have been married 30 years and raised three children in Shoreview.

• He calls for mandatory audits of major federal spending and for fraud-prevention controls as a condition of funding.
• He says he would protect and expand tax cuts, including no tax on tips or overtime, a larger child tax credit, and an end to the estate tax, and increase energy, food, and housing supply by cutting regulation.
• He says he would secure the border to stop fentanyl, back local police with federal grants, and fund investigators aimed at large-scale taxpayer fraud.

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U.S. representative for Minnesota's 4th District.

Betty McCollum's office says she has represented Saint Paul, Ramsey County, and most of Washington County since 2001, and that she was the second Minnesota woman elected to Congress since statehood. She serves as the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee.

• Her office says she champions education, environmental protection, health-care access and affordability, fiscal responsibility, and international engagement that pairs diplomacy and development with a strong national defense.
• She says she wants higher education kept affordable and public schools accountable to parents and local officials, and she supports universal health coverage and the Affordable Care Act.
• On defense, she says funding should keep the armed forces trained and equipped, with priority for military health care and ending military sexual assault.

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Retired Minnesota State Patrol lieutenant running for Congress.

John Nagel's site says he is a lifelong Saint Louis Park resident who spent 30 years with the State Patrol, including highway patrol in Hennepin County and the governor's security detail. He says he has been married to Connie since 1988 and is a father and grandfather.

• He says he will cut taxes, fight inflation, and eliminate fraud and waste that he says are driving up prices.
• He says he will work with the attorney general so violent criminals are kept off the streets, schools are protected, and law enforcement is funded and supported.
• He says he will keep the border secured, support legal immigration and faster processing for people who follow the rules, and treat border security as national security.

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U.S. representative and the first African refugee elected to Congress.

She says her public service started at 14 interpreting for her grandfather at DFL caucuses, and that in 2016 she became the first Somali-American Muslim legislator in the country. In 2018 she became the first woman of color to represent Minnesota in Congress.

• She says she has fought to codify Roe v. Wade, pass climate legislation, address opioids, and ban assault weapons.
• She says she negotiated a public-safety bill with local investment and accountability, and funding that fed more than 30 million children during the pandemic.
• She says community projects she brought home include veteran housing in Robbinsdale and help for entrepreneurs in north Minneapolis.

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House majority whip representing Minnesota's 6th District.

Born in 1961 and raised in Minnesota, he says he was first elected in 2014 and now serves as majority whip. He says he brings a Minnesota work ethic and common-sense leadership to Washington.

• He says he is fighting high grocery, gas, and electricity costs and backed a tax law that keeps cuts in place and ends taxes on tips, overtime, and adds relief for seniors.
• He says he led the border bill H.R. 2 and supported the Laken Riley Act so people in the country illegally who commit crimes are deported.
• He says he supports the SAVE Act's proof-of-citizenship requirement, school choice, and ending the U.S. Department of Education.

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Election-administration expert and attorney running for Congress.

Doug Chapin's site says he is a father, educator, and attorney who has spent almost 40 years on election policy, including a decade at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School, where he founded a certificate program in election administration. He says he has also worked in Congress, the executive branch, and the courtroom.

• He says he will fight for single-payer health care so people can get care without going broke, and to reverse Medicare and Medicaid cuts.
• He says he will eliminate the income cap on Social Security taxes and repeal tax cuts for billionaires in the White House budget bill.
• He says he will defend Congress's power over spending, taxes, tariffs, and war, and support immigration laws with a clearer, less costly path to citizenship.

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U.S. representative for Minnesota's 7th District.

Michelle Fischbach's office says she has represented western Minnesota since 2021 and serves on Ways and Means and Rules. She was a Minnesota senator from 1996 to 2018, the first woman to serve as Senate president, and the state's 49th lieutenant governor. She and her husband Scott live on a hobby farm near Paynesville and have two children and seven grandchildren.

• She says she stands up for agriculture, Second Amendment rights, respect for law and order, and defending the unborn.

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County employee and former small-business owner running for Congress.

Erik Osberg's site says he is a husband and father, a former small-business owner, and a county employee who has worked in finance, the public sector, media, and the trades. He says he and his wife have lived in Wadena for about 20 years, where they raised three children, and that he graduated from Hamline University.

• He says he will defend constitutional rights and fair elections, and he supports a constitutional amendment to end Citizens United and a ban on members of Congress trading individual stocks.
• He says health care should be more affordable and accessible for rural families, seniors, and towns that depend on local clinics and hospitals.
• He says he will back federal funding for public schools and support for farms, small businesses, housing, child care, and public safety.

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U.S. representative for Minnesota's 8th District.

Pete Stauber's office says he is a Duluth native in his fourth term, a former Duluth police officer, Hermantown city councilor, and St. Louis County commissioner. He played hockey at Lake Superior State and in the Detroit Red Wings organization. He and his wife Jodi, an Iraq War veteran, live in Hermantown with six children.

• He says he is focused on the economy of northern Minnesota, American energy independence, and ending reliance on foreign minerals as chair of the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee.
• He says being shot while off duty as a police officer convinced him that more must be done to support law enforcement and safer communities.

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Former federal immigration official running for Congress.

Trina Swanson's site says she grew up in Hermantown, the daughter of a nurse and a millworker, and spent about 25 years in federal service, rising to director of international operations at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. She says she left that career rather than carry out directives she believed were unethical, then came home and started a law firm.

• She says work should buy a life with dignity and that people should not go bankrupt if they get sick, and she is fighting for affordable health care in rural communities where hospitals can be hours away.
• She says mining built the region and union jobs built the middle class, and that economic development and environmental stewardship can coexist.
• She says every young person deserves an affordable path through college, trade school, or an apprenticeship so talent stays in northern and central Minnesota.

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