ISSUES

Lower Minnesota’s tax burden by restraining government spending and allowing families and businesses to keep more of what they earn.
Remove unnecessary barriers to free enterprise, investment, and economic growth. Prosperity comes from Minnesotans working, creating, investing, and building—not from an ever-expanding state government.
Restore government to its proper role. Limited government does not mean weak government; it means government focused on its fundamental responsibilities and fulfilling them well before asking taxpayers for another dollar.

Protect the public treasury before fraud occurs through stronger oversight, scrutiny of organizations receiving public funds, and stopping payments when warning signs appear.
Aggressively investigate and prosecute fraud while holding agencies and elected officials accountable for failures that allowed taxpayer money to be stolen.
Eliminate waste instead of responding to every government failure with another bureaucracy. Fraud steals from taxpayers and from vulnerable Minnesotans who legitimately depend upon public programs. We need better government, not more government.

Put academic achievement, high standards, discipline, and parental authority back at the center of education. Schools should not lower expectations or conceal important information about children from their parents.
Expand school choice so parents have greater control over where their children are educated and schools must compete to provide safe environments and quality education.
Demand accountability for education spending and stop passing unfunded state mandates onto school districts and local taxpayers.
Keep controversial gender ideology out of the classroom and focus schools on their fundamental educational mission.

Protect private property rights and reduce unnecessary permitting delays, fees, restrictions, and regulations that make housing more difficult and expensive to build.
Let the private sector respond to housing demand rather than attempting to subsidize our way out of high housing costs. Government should first examine what government itself is doing to increase costs.
Favor local decision-making over centralized state control when government action is necessary, while ensuring local control does not become an excuse for unnecessary interference with property rights or development.

Support a strong legal immigration system that welcomes people who come to America to work, contribute, obey our laws, and pursue citizenship through the lawful process.
Enforce our immigration laws and protect American sovereignty. Minnesota should cooperate with lawful federal immigration enforcement rather than encourage obstruction, and law-enforcement agencies should work together to protect public safety.
Hold government to the same rule of law. Immigration enforcement must remain within constitutional limits, including the Fourth Amendment. Enforcement and constitutional rights are not competing principles; government has an obligation to uphold both.

Give law enforcement effective tools to protect life, locate dangerous criminals and fugitives, find missing persons, and investigate serious crimes.
Protect Minnesotans from unnecessary government surveillance. Technologies such as Flock cameras should not become a permanent database of innocent citizens’ movements, and unrelated data should be automatically deleted after a reasonable period.
Require local control, transparency, strict access limits, appropriate legal process, and serious consequences for abuse. Public safety and individual liberty can—and must—be protected together.

Approach restrictions on private industry cautiously, while recognizing that large data centers can place substantial demands on local resources.
Require proposed developments to demonstrate that they can operate safely and responsibly without imposing unreasonable burdens on surrounding communities before further development is approved.

Protect access to voting while requiring reliable verification of voter eligibility. Mail-in voting, early voting, and same-day registration should all be subject to strong election-integrity safeguards.
Oppose partisan gerrymandering. Voters should choose their representatives—not representatives their voters.
Keep major political decisions accountable to the people and their elected representatives, rather than unnecessarily delegating legislative authority to unelected bodies.

Defend the individual right to keep and bear arms. Law-abiding Minnesotans should not lose constitutional rights because of the actions of criminals.
Oppose unnecessary restrictions on commonly owned firearms, magazines, and firearm accessories that burden responsible gun owners without meaningfully improving public safety.
Protect the lawful ownership and acquisition of firearm suppressors and oppose state restrictions that unnecessarily burden their possession or use.
Focus enforcement on violent criminals who misuse firearms, rather than creating additional barriers for citizens who responsibly exercise their Second Amendment rights.