Rep Rick Hansen

Family Farm ☕️Breakfast🥓🥞🍳🧈🧇this morning☀️March 11, 2026.

NEWS: Democrat Shawn Harris has forced a runoff in the special election for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s deep-red Georgia seat (Trump +37).

With ~70% in, Harris leads with 38.3% to Trump-endorsed Republican Clay Fuller’s 34.5%.

Runoff set for April 7. A major warning sign for MAGA.

SESSION DAILY: Lawmakers are proposing an excise tax on plastic beverage bottles to help municipalities replace or upgrade current water facilities to address pollutants like lead, PFAS and nitrates. #infrastructure

Read more at Session Daily ⤵️
www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily...

#mnleg

Lone tree in old fenceline in Fillmore County, Minnesota. 3/8/26🌾

✅With Team MAPE at Senate District 53 DFL Convention in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. 💙 Proud to be MAPE and DFL Endorsed🇺🇸

Thank you to Suzanne Savanick Hansen for your continued support during these campaigns. Evan too! 💙 DFL / Labor Endorsed✅🇺🇸

Thank you St Paul Fire Department 🚒for freeing Peter Fischer and I from a stuck elevator in the Centennial Office Building. One hour in elevator

Thank you again! 3/3/26

Minnesota Hockey🏒Hall of Fame public meeting at City of Inver Grove Heights.

✅Mark Schiller of Loon Liquors in Northfield testifying today on Minnesota Department of Agriculture AGRI grants. The AGRI 💵appropriation in FY26 is $18.257 million.🇺🇸

www.mda.state.mn.us/grants/agri

✅This Wednesday, March 4 in South St Paul, Minnesota. 🇺🇸🍽️💵

🍎Houston County 💙DFL Convention. 2/28/26. LaCrescent, Minnesota ❄️

Minnesota has lost 1,300 farms in two years, many more on the brink Applications for $12 billion in USDA bridge payments opened up this week, but farmers say it will only cover a fraction of losses due to trade wars.

Trump Ag policies already shuttered 1300 Minnesota farms, IN ONE YEAR!

Trump's last non-COVID year for farmers (2019) was one of the worst years in the last 50 years.

Biden had one of the best farm economies ever!

And most of you guys picked Trump... www.kare11.com/article/news...

Honored (and excited) to testify next week to the Minnesota House Agriculture Committee, presenting aspects of my book Barons.

Special thanks to @reprickhansen.bsky.social for inviting me.

✅Early ☀️morning City of South St. Paul, Minnesota 🇺🇸Local Issues☕️this morning. February 25, 2026

Google announces Minnesota data center in Pine Island, near Rochester An agreement with Xcel Energy includes an investment in clean energy the utility provider says will help the state meet carbon-free goals.

NEW: Google will build a data center in Pine Island, near Rochester. The tech giant will also pay for a significant amount of new wind, solar & battery power.

Google has been eyeing the state for at least a year, but had been quiet about its plans:

www.startribune.com/google-annou...

In 2025, we passed the Farm to Food program, which supports local farmers & gets food to Minnesotans experiencing food insecurity; connecting local food to local people.

Full grant details on Farm to Food Security webpage: www.mda.state.mn.us/business-dev... Applications due by 4 p.m. on 3/31/26

✅At Pheasant Fest talking about 🇺🇸Farm Bill, conservation 🌾 and pollinators 🐝. Minneapolis, Minnesota. 2/22/26. 🌱

Lines. ❄️ February 20, 2026

Proposal for emergency rental aid stalls in housing committee - Session Daily - Minnesota House of Representatives The Legislature should step into disaster-mode in the wake of recent immigration enforcement actions, say proponents of a bill that would provide emergency rental assistance.

Amara Strande died in April 2023 at the age of 20 from fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma. She linked her illness to “forever chemicals” that contaminated the water supply in her hometown of Oakdale.

Read more at Session Daily ⤵️

www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily...

#mnleg #mnhouse

Olympic athletes, some of whom are teenagers, are held to a higher level of expected maturity than the most powerful man in the world.

GOLD for the USA! 🇺🇸🥇

Congratulations to the U.S. Women’s Hockey Team, with so many Minnesotans leading the way — including Taylor Heise with the game-winning assist in overtime! 🏒

The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced issuance of five stamps by ornithological artist and guide book author David Sibley. The issuance and ceremony will be held May 14, 2026 in Wabasha, Minnesota, home of the National Eagle Center and the Eagle Capital of America. 🇺🇸🦅

Opening of the 2026 Minnesota House of Representatives legislative session🌱

‘Not the same town anymore:’ ICE surge hit businesses in Worthington, where 1 in 3 are immigrants • Minnesota Reformer WORTHINGTON — Typically about 10 to 15 cars and their new owners drive off the lot each month at Los Partners Auto Sales in Worthington, a small city in southwest Minnesota where roughly one in three ...

Greater Minnesota, too: ‘Not the same town anymore:’ ICE surge hit businesses in Worthington, where 1 in 3 are immigrants minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/13/n...

Early ☀️morning Municipal Legislative Commission (MLC) breakfast ☕️on February 13, 2026. Listening to panel on Housing✅

✅Annual Dakota County Legislative ☕️Breakfast. 2/11/26

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

🌱The USDA announced 2026 enrollment periods for Continuous and General Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), marking 40 years since the program was first opened

✅Offers will be accepted for Continuous CRP beginning February 12. The General CRP signup will run from March 9 - April 17. 🌾🌾🌾

Open your eyes! Soil in the Snow everywhere. Millions of public $$$ spent on voluntary conservation practices, but the simple fact of more of the same corn & soybean acres means more soil flies away and runs off and carries with it….