MoveOn is proud to endorse Peggy Flanagan for Minnesota Senate!

Leadership and Experience

With more than two decades of experience as a community organizer, child advocate, and public servant, Peggy Flanagan has dedicated her career to ensuring that our government works for everyday families. An enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, Peggy grew up in St. Louis Park relying on Section 8 housing, SNAP, and Medicaid—experiences that deeply shape her understanding of policy, power, and equity. Her career in public service began on the Minneapolis Board of Education, followed by serving as the Executive Director of the Children’s Defense Fund-Minnesota and training tens of thousands of grassroots activists through Wellstone Action.

In 2015, Peggy was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives, where she co-founded the People of Color and Indigenous Caucus. Since 2019, she has made history as Minnesota’s Lieutenant Governor, serving as one of the highest-ranking Indigenous elected officials in the country. Throughout her executive tenure, Peggy has centered children, families, and workers, leading successful fights for paid family and medical leave, universal free school meals, and raising the state’s minimum wage. She is now running for the United States Senate to bring her proven record of compassionate, systemic change to Washington, working to become the first Native American woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.

How he’ll help your community:

• Building a Fair Economy: Peggy is focused on easing the financial strain on working-class budgets. She will advocate for a federal framework that guarantees one good job is enough to pay monthly bills, save for the future, and afford a dignified life.

• Universal Childcare and Family Support: Drawing on her advocacy roots and experience as a mom, Peggy champions federal investments in universal childcare. She will push to expand the federal Child Tax Credit to lift families out of poverty and permanently boost household budgets.

• Affordable and Accessible Healthcare: Having navigated the healthcare system as a parent fighting insurance companies for her daughter’s medicine, Peggy will battle corporate special interests to lower prescription costs, expand mental health parity, and protect patients’ rights.

• Dignity for All Workers: A lifelong champion for labor, Peggy co-chaired the successful campaign to index Minnesota’s minimum wage to inflation. In the Senate, she will fight to pass the PRO Act to strengthen unions and bolster workers’ rights to organize nationwide.

His position on key issues

• Expanding Care Safety Nets: Peggy firmly opposes gutting critical services like SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid to pay for billionaire tax cuts. She will fight to reverse past cuts to food and healthcare assistance so that no child or senior goes hungry.

• Ending Corporate Influence: Grounded in a commitment to transparency, Peggy refuses to let campaign special interests rig the system. She supports banning elected and appointed officials from lobbying and advocates for sweeping campaign finance and judicial reforms.

• Protecting Reproductive Freedom: Peggy stands as a fierce defender of bodily autonomy and reproductive health, advocating for federal protections to ensure that healthcare decisions remain strictly between patients and their doctors.

• Support for Rural and Farm Families: Peggy supports stabilizing the agricultural sector through a full, multi-year farm bill, investing in biofuel infrastructure, and establishing “Right to Repair” laws so farmers can service their own equipment without corporate price-gouging.

To learn more about Peggy, visit her website: https://peggyflanagan.com/