Dear Neighbors, We’re wrapping up our 5th week on the 2026 Legislative Session. This week, after the Minnesota Senate successfully passed rental assistance with bipartisan support, my DFL colleagues and I in the Minnesota House tried to do the same. Not much can go right unless you have a safe and secure place to call home - that’s true in our community, and in every corner of Minnesota. Operation Metro Surge forced many of our neighbors into impossible situations. Regardless of immigration status, people were afraid to go to work. With ICE running rampant and abducting Minnesotans, the safest place for many families was their home. In these moments, Minnesotans stepped up. They did what they could to support their neighbors through mutual aid, peaceful protests, and a level of organizing that the federal government clearly didn’t anticipate. Minnesotans did what they could to keep their neighbors fed, sheltered, and cared for. It didn’t go unnoticed. Just this week, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced that its 2026 Profile In Courage Award would go to the people of the Twin Cities. As someone who’s seen what our community has been capable of these last few months, that doesn’t come as a surprise. Where we really need to see some courage now is with our House Republican colleagues. After we brought forward our bipartisan bill to deliver rental assistance, every House Republican voted it down. |