Minnesota and North Dakota Voter's Guide

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Minnesota US Senate

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    Peggy Flanagan
    (DFL)

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    Alycia Gruenhagen (Write-In)
    (Rep)

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    Marisa Simonetti
    (MIP)

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    Michele Tafoya
    (Rep)

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    Rebecca Whiting
    (Lib)

Biographical Information

If elected, what will your top three priorities be and why? (750 characters)

What will you do to support a vibrant economy across the United States, and to address inflation? (500 characters)

What, if any, actions would you take to address threats facing the United States due to climate change? (500 characters)

What, if anything, should our country do to ensure a secure social safety net for all, including access to food, housing, education and medical care? (500 characters)

What measures do you support to improve and secure elections, and to ensure voting access in our country? (500 characters)

How do you view your responsibilities as a congressperson and what will you do to fulfill them? (500 characters)

What if anything do you think should be done to reform our federal court system? (500 characters)

Campaign Website http://www.peggyflanagan.com
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My top priority is helping Minnesotans afford the lives they want to live. We’ve got to make Congress work for Minnesotans instead of corporations, billionaires, and special interests. That starts with banning corporate PAC money, overturning Citizens United, and establishing ethical standards for electeds so they represent their constituents. Second, I’ll fight for Medicare for All. Until we get there, I’ll fight to lower the cost of all prescription drugs, end prior authorization, and restore Medicaid cuts. Third, I’ll focus on affordability by raising the federal minimum wage, establishing universal childcare, investing in affordable housing, banning Wall Street from buying up homes, and fighting for the Social Security Expansion Act.
In America one good job should be enough. There are policies that I will fight for so that our economy works for everyone, not just those at the top: from raising the minimum wage to a national paid family leave policy, to government issued loans for small businesses and ensuring entrepreneurs aren’t paying more in taxes than giant corporations, to expanding the Child Tax Credit. All of these actions will put more money back in people’s pockets and ultimately strengthen our economy for all.
We need to take big actions to fight climate change, protect our planet, and invest in climate adaptation. I would restore Trump’s rollback of investments in clean energy and strongly support growth of our wind and solar energy sectors. We need to develop new technologies like biofuels including Sustainable Aviation Fuels, and green steel and green ammonia from green hydrogen. And we need to hold people and companies accountable when they refuse to comply with environmental standards.
I was raised by a single mom and always felt like the bottom could fall out. We relied on Section 8 housing, SNAP, childcare assistance, and Medicaid. I’m here because of these programs and am a testament to how government can work for people. That’s why I’ll fight to pass Medicare for All, raise the federal minimum wage, pass universal childcare, invest in affordable housing, give farmers the right to repair their own equipment, and fight to pass the Social Security Expansion Act.
The reality is that in Minnesota and across the country voter fraud is incredibly rare. What is at stake is people’s ability to participate in our election process which the Trump administration is actively trying to do. Minnesota has led the way in election protection and ensuring eligible voters can make their voices heard. I am proud of what our state has accomplished and believe we should replicate it on a national level with early voting and same day registration.
My job is to represent the voices of Minnesotans in Washington. I’m the only candidate in this race who made the choice not to take corporate PAC money because I refuse to be beholden to anyone but Minnesotans. Special interests have enough representation in the Senate, I will work only for the people. To represent folks, you have to show up and meet people where they are – you’ve got to listen. I’ve held over 270 events since launching this campaign and that’s exactly how I’ll keep showing up.
I support exploring all options to restore the trust in the role of the federal judiciary, especially the Supreme Court. Americans are losing trust in the Court’s ability to rule based on the law instead of politics, which undermines our Democracy.Recent stories of justices taking lavish trips paid for by wealthy donors further hurts the credibility of the Court. All options have to be on the table for Court reform, including a code of ethics, term limits, and adding seats to the court.
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Campaign Twitter Handle @Alycia4usa
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My top three priorities would be protecting life and constitutional liberties, restoring fiscal responsibility and economic opportunity, and securing our communities and borders.
Reduce unneccessary regulations. We need policies that encourage domestic production, energy independence, competition and good-paying jobs while protecting taxpayers from waste and runaway federal debt. A free market can fix itself - we need to keep this principle front and center. The government is never here to help - it only needs to uphold the constitution and allow working families to succeed.
The United States should pursue responsible environmental stewardship, allowing industries to develop, creating American jobs making energy more affordable. I support innovation, conservation and an all-of-the-above energy strategy that include American oil, natural gas, nuclear, renewables and other technologies. I dont believe in climate change - policy should be based on sound science, practical solutions and measurable results—not mandates, made up theory, and further burdens working familie
We need to adress abortion, supporting single mothers, fathers, families. We will not have an economic or social future without children. The family unit is the basis for healthy society. America should prioritize protecting people who genuinely need help while promoting independence and opportunities for work, education and skills training. I support strengthening programs that provide food, housing and medical assistance to vulnerable Americans but with AUDITS to eliminate fraud, waste, abuse
I support voter identification, accurate voter rolls, strong chain-of-custody protections, transparent election procedures and comprehensive audits. Eligible citizens can have reasonable opportunities to vote while still maintaining integrity. Elections should be transparent, consistent and designed to protect access and the integrity of every lawful vote.
Summed up: I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed, a democracy in a republic, a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.

–William T. Page 1917, The American Creed
No more lifetime appointments. Judges should be elected and fully accountable to the people.

Federal judges must be independent, impartial, and faithful to the Constitution and the law. I support reforms that improve transparency, accountability, and timely access to justice while protecting judicial independence. Judges should remain accountable and committed to a fair process rather than political outcomes. The Constitution—not political pressure—must remain the foundation of federal courts.
My top three priorities are dismantling administrative overreach, enforcing absolute institutional transparency, and protecting individual sovereignty. First, we must restrict federal power to the strict text of the Constitution. Second, we must stop a weaponized system that uses unlimited public resources to wear regular people down into submission while hiding evidence and denying due process. Third, we must restore systemic fairness by holding corrupt state actors personally accountable. When a system becomes an engine of exhaustion rather than justice, true public servants do not accommodate it—they systematically tear down its unauthorized leverage and restore baseline fairness for every citizen.
To support a vibrant economy, we must address how the system itself is structurally designed to keep everyday people distracted and overworked, preventing them from challenging institutional overreach. Inflation is a direct tax on human time and energy. True fairness means halting reckless spending, dismantling predatory compliance traps that drain small businesses, and ensuring an open marketplace where individuals can build wealth without being crushed by bureaucratic exhaustion.
Any approach to environmental stewardship must balance ecological care with economic fairness and constitutional limits. We should focus on clean technological innovation driven by the free market rather than top-down federal mandates that crush local industries. Protecting our natural resources requires transparent, localized conservation efforts and infrastructure resilience, rather than expanding the administrative state through sweeping regulatory overreach that hurts working families.
The absolute best social safety net is a thriving, fair economy that rewards hard work and keeps cost of living low. To ensure genuine access to housing, food, and care, we must remove government-created monopolies and artificial regulatory barriers that drive up prices. True fairness means empowering local communities, charities, and states to design decentralized systems that are directly accountable to the people they serve, rather than relying on inefficient federal systems.
Securing our elections requires a uniform return to clear, fair, and verifiable baseline standards. I support universal voter ID requirements, regular auditing of voter registries, and ensuring all voting mechanisms are completely transparent. True access means every eligible citizen has a clear path to cast their ballot, while strict security safeguards ensure that public trust in our democratic outcomes is never compromised by administrative ambiguity.
As a senator, my primary responsibility is to serve as a strict guardian of the U.S. Constitution and a voice for the sovereignty of the people. I will fulfill this by voting against any legislation that exceeds the federal government's enumerated powers, reviewing every bill for clarity and fairness, and maintaining absolute accessibility to my constituents. My duty is to protect your rights, minimize federal interference, and ensure a stable, simple rule of law.
We must eliminate absolute prosecutorial immunity to end systemic weaponization. Too often, prosecutors act as catspaws to exact personal revenge against adversaries, a practice that has arguably become common. This directly subverts Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78, 88, which holds that a prosecutor's primary interest "is not that [they] shall win a case, but that justice shall be done." True reform means holding corrupt state actors personally accountable for administrative overreach, enfo
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The League of Women Voters of Minnesota and North Dakota crafted the questions sent to the candidates in the Spring of 2024. They reached out to candidates based on contact information in their public candidate filings. Candidates with email addresses were invited and reminded with emails. Candidates with only mailing addresses were sent a letter. Candidates with phone numbers received a phone call as well.

Candidate responses are published as they responded and have not been edited, except when responses were longer than the given character limit. In those cases, the responses are truncated.

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