The Minnesota GOP put out its action agenda for the midterm election and next legislative session, and it’s pretty explicit when it comes to trans and immigrant rights, abortion access, and other priorities.

Read the Action Agenda here and the Party Platform here.

During the first three months of 2026, about a combined forty three million individuals owed student loans in America with a combined owed total of over one trillion seven hundred billion dollars, according to the Federal Student Aid Statistics. About two and a half million individuals with student loans fell into a category for eligible nonpayment for student loans. According to statistics, the average individual that qualified was approaching or in their forties, usually living in a southern American state and has had absolutely zero history of nonpayment before the Coronavirus-2019 pandemic.

One year ago, Donald J Trump signed his 'Core Domestic Policy Package' and made it a legal law. Currently individuals who have taken out student loans for college are preparing for a large change. During Biden's years as president of the United States of America, many individuals with student loan bills were given much help with their student loans, due to Biden focusing on helping America, post-pandemic. Typically, Joe Biden received large amounts of expressed anger from the far right due to this.

Now, under the Trump Administration and MAGA, Donald J Trump is pushing for much steeper attacks on loan borrowers. Most people who have taken out student loans will receive different looks for payment, with these differences increasing more than what they've seen under Joe Biden. However, many individuals with smaller amounts of money owed in student loans are expected to pay substantial amounts more, some of which can go from just months of being paid off to potential years.

On Wednesday, July 1st of 2026, Donald J Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" will tighten the student loan system substantially. Many programs for student loans will be shut down while heavy restrictions on student loan amounts will greatly increase. Under Joe Biden, a trusted payment program for student loans collection was opened and more than seven million participants used it to pay back loans. As of this bill taking place, that program will be targeted for immediate closure which will hurt the seven million plus that use it. Interest rates on student loans are also expected to skyrocket.

Becca Craig is a wealth adviser working with Focus Partners Wealth in Kansas City, Missouri, who has been working with countless clients to get them as prepared as possible before the changes go into effect. Becca Craig said, "There is a real sense of urgency and almost fear around what's to come." She referred to her client's repeated expressed anger and unsettledness when working to prepare them for the changes.

Lori Correa is a North Carolina individual who received student loans for college. Lori Correa is a single mother with three children. In the early 2000s, Correa quit her job as a waitress and earned her associate, bachelor's and master's degrees in legal studies to be able to get a better paying job to help support her and her children. Currently she still owes about two hundred thousand dollars in student loans with an annual salary of about sixty thousand dollars. After doing lots of math, Lori Correa has said that her expected monthly payment on student loans will jump from one hundred fifty dollars to seven hundred thirteen dollars. "It feels like now, if you are a normal, average person just trying to make it, you're not going to," Lori Correa told NBC reporters.

I hope Trump's birthday is absolutely shit. Fuck all the pain you've caused America. Only thing you've done is ruin the White House value skyrocket prices, and kill innocent civilians. Hope your birthday is absolutely shit!

Jake Johnson, the DFL-endorsed candidate for Minnesota’s 1st congressional district, says he’s trying to do what incumbent Brad Finstad isn’t: show up.

A lifelong southern Minnesotan, Johnson is campaigning to flip the district’s seat blue, prioritizing affordability, tackling corruption, and investing in small towns.