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Matt Little
D Democratic-Farmer-Labor nominee for U.S. House, MN-02
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- On the general election ballotNov 3, 2026 · Minnesota US House 2
- Where to vote
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- Top priorities
- Fighting for the Future
- Fighting to Regulate AI and Data Centers
- Fighting to Get ICE OUT of Minnesota Now
- Fighting for Lower Prices & An Economy that Works for Everyone
- Fighting for Medicare for All
- Money
- $1.5M raised, $1.3M spent, $205.3K cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 19% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 86% from Minnesota · largest committee giver MINNESOTA DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR PARTY, $10.4K
- Outside groups
- $759K supporting, $17.4K opposing Little
- Backed by
- Keith Ellison · Julie Blaha · Erin Maye Quade and 67 more. As the campaign lists them
19 priorities from littleforcongress.com, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
If we’re going to get Washington working again, we need elected leaders who are bold and brave enough to take on the Washington establishment–not join it.
I’m fighting for Medicare for All, a moratorium on data centers, an end to Citizens United and the dark money that flows through our government, and a tax on the ultrawealthy. I believe bold, brave, progressive leadership is what CD2 needs now more than ever.
I’m running for the underdogs, for families struggling to get ahead, and for my home district, where I was raised and now raise my family.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues
I’m running to fight for my home. I’m fighting for every underdog who works hard but still can’t get ahead, and for families who can’t afford groceries, child care, health care, or assisted living. I grew up in Minnesota’s Second Congressional District (MN CD2) in my folks’ home in Lakeville, went to high school in Rosemount, and I now live in New Market Township. I understand what people in this area need.
I’m running because the American Dream shouldn’t be out of reach for anyone.
I’m fighting for a future where Americans are still free. Free to pursue the American dream; free to peacefully protest, and free from reckless, incompetent, and cruel federal policies. Policies that carelessly wreck the economy, stoke inflation, and slash vital public services that seniors, veterans, and children depend on.
Sure, I’m in favor of cutting red tape and eliminating wasteful spending, but this administration has made incoherent, overnight cuts to life-saving programs either accidentally or deliberately, and then refused to fix their own mistakes. If you’re going to cut medical treatments and food supplies for kids who need them to live, at least have the guts to look those kids in the eyes. Cruelty isn’t kindness. It isn’t Christian. It isn’t policy. And it sure as hell isn’t American.
I’m running for Democracy; standing up for all the rebels, mavericks, and misfits. People who believe that Democracy and the rule of law are what separates America from tin-pot dictatorships, and the worst devils of our natures. Lying to judges, arresting people without due process, and disregarding legitimate court orders are all examples of how democracies die, but now they are happening here, in America.
I’m fighting for the healthcare my Mom needs, the retirement my Dad needs, and the future my daughter deserves. I’m running because if we don’t win back Congress, there will be nothing left of our country for her to inherit.
People don’t expect much from Congress anymore. That’s about to change. I’m willing to fight. Are you willing to join me?
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues/why-im-running-for-congress
Big Tech is coming to Minnesota, and they want to drain our aquifers, gobble up our farmland, and hand the bill to taxpayers. Most AI corporations are fighting to remain completely unregulated, with no safeguards against the potential existential risks AI poses to our planet, our economy, and our democracy.
A single hyperscale data center can consume as much water as 12,000 households. A proposed data center in Farmington alone is estimated to drain 900 million gallons from the community’s aquifers – roughly double the water consumption of the entire city.
Meanwhile, one hyperscale facility could increase Minnesota’s electricity demand by 4% – the equivalent of adding 285,000 homes. Data centers threaten to drive up energy bills for working families and businesses.
I’ll ensure that if data centers want to operate in Minnesota, they pay their full costs. No taxpayer dollars should go to the world’s richest corporations. No draining our aquifers. Transparent, public decision-making – not secret NDA deals. And if we’re going to build them, they must be powered by clean energy and meet our environmental standards.
That’s why I’ll fight for a national data center NDA ban, moratoriums on building data centers to let local and state governments assess the real costs without being rolled by mega-corporations bullying them, and serious environmental protections that safeguard our neighborhoods and peaceful communities.
And for the AI images and content these data centers produce? I’ll require companies to build guardrails, and I’ll fight to create public-interest safety oversight agencies for these groups and to establish legal causes of action to hold corporations accountable.
The US needs to lead the way in creating binding international agreements that establish a global AI safety regime as we do with many other dangerous technologies, such as those used for biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons and energy technology.
Deepfake videos are often deceptive attempts to mislead constituents, undermine elections, cheat consumers, and harass children and adults with nonconsensual sexual content churned out by these AI companies with little to no recourse. The concerns about AI taking jobs are real, too, and we have to find ways to balance the real-world use of AI with the outright harm it causes to working families and individuals.
The ability to create highly realistic images and sound, combined with the ability to transmit them to millions instantly, poses risks to our democracy and to all free societies worldwide. Only governments have the resources and power needed to hold in check a potential tide wave of lies, deepfakes, identity theft, and disinformation that threaten our nation.
AI technology holds the promise of accelerating many beneficial discoveries in fields as far-ranging as medicine, engineering, and urban planning. But none of that promise can be realized without government safeguards and public input. Many of these mega-corporations possess more money and power than many entire nations. Left on their own, they have proven inconsistent in self-regulation at best, disastrously reckless at worst. A consistent, public-first set of guardrails is a vital prerequisite for making AI safe enough to actually serve the public good rather than only AI’s billionaire (or trillionaire!) shareholders.
By creating legal guardrails and oversight, we put AI where it belongs: back in the hands of public accountability, not in the hands of malicious actors and corporate bosses seeking to mint more billions for themselves.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-to-regulate-ai-and-data-centers
Let’s be clear about one thing: Renee Good should still be alive. Whether you embrace or reject protesting, she did not deserve to die. ICE agents in Minnesota have shown a callous indifference to the value of life- all lives- whether you’re a citizen, a documented immigrant, or an undocumented immigrant. Nothing has kept people safe from the strategic brutality of ICE in Minnesota.
ICE agents in Minnesota are trying to scare and provoke us. They’re NOT actually here to investigate fraud, reduce crime, or even deport undocumented immigrants. If that were their real mission, they wouldn’t have sent the largest ICE force in history to a state with one of the lowest populations of undocumented immigrants, and they wouldn’t be roaming our neighborhoods like lawless street gangs. The one thing law enforcement must do is follow the law. Armed forces that don’t follow the law are nothing more than thugs.
Never before has Minnesota been invaded by over 3,000 federal agents. Never before has Minnesota needed to defend its own citizens against the federal government. Never before have federal forces so recklessly endangered our communities, ignored our laws, damaged our economy, blatantly and repeatedly lied to courts and judges, and then tried to blame their own cruelty on us.
But they have failed. We are not afraid. We will not give up. And if elected to Congress, I will not forget. If elected, I will fight for this Anti-ICE Bill of Rights:
- Cut ICE funding immediately to pre-Trump levels, then Replace ICE with a federal immigration agency that Americans can trust and that obeys the Law and Constitution.
- Launch full Congressional investigation into ICE’s illegal, unconstitutional, and abusive actions, including senior administration officials
- Ban federal agents from wearing masks in the course of their duties
- Require federal agents to identify themselves, their agency, their mission, and charges when detaining or arresting someone.
- Ban federal agents from detaining or arresting people without probable cause or a judicial warrant
- Restrict qualified immunity for federal agents by amending section 1983 of the civil rights act to explicitly include all federal agents, and codify and extend the Supreme Court’s Biven standard to include law enforcement actions.
- Require federal agencies to notify families and attorneys of the locations where their relatives are being detained and what charges they face
- Protect First Amendment rights by changing federal agent guidelines on the use of force guidelines to narrowly define what counts as impending or obstructing federal agents to
- Automatic budget cuts for Homeland Security agencies that fail to follow federal court orders as soon as practically possible.
- Revised the Posse Comitatus and Insurrection Acts to restrict the circumstances under which a President can send military forces or National Guard troops into states
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-to-get-ice-out-of-minnesota-now
I’m fighting for an economy where prices are affordable, opportunities are accessible, and dreams are achievable for everyone, not just the richest Americans.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues
The American Dream is for Everyone ↗ (opens littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-lower-prices-an-economy-that-works-for-everyone at this heading)
Inflation, tariffs, and economic inequality are eroding the American Dream. From housing and health care to child care and groceries, everyday prices are out of control, and government services are too slow to help when people need them most. More and more Americans feel like they don’t have a fair shot at success.
Our tax code should promote fairness and opportunity for working people, small businesses, and family farms. That includes things like the permanent expansion of the Child Tax Credit and standing up to reckless tariff policy that hurts Minnesota farmers, construction workers, and tradespeople who make an honest living building houses and products we use every day. It means telling the richest Americans that they don’t get to live by a different set of rules than the rest of us.
I’m a union guy to the bone. There’s no better way to raise pay and benefits for working people than organizing and bargaining together. It’s about power, community, and knowing that someone’s always got your back. It’s also the only realistic way to match the collective power of massive corporations. Most people don’t understand that unions raise everybody’s pay, whether you’re in a union or not. So the work that union members do, they are doing for every person earning a paycheck in America.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-lower-prices-an-economy-that-works-for-everyone
I’m committed to making quality healthcare affordable and accessible for all Minnesotans because I’ve seen firsthand how devastating medical costs harm families.
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Increasing Affordability and Accessibility ↗ (opens littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-healthcare at this heading)
When my Mom was seriously sick, she spent years battling the health care system, so trust me, this fight is personal. America has the best medical care in the world – if you can afford it. But too many families are just one illness or accident from bankruptcy. Outrageous out-of-pocket emergency or critical care costs make it nearly impossible to save enough to cover a serious medical condition.
In the State Senate, I led the fight for affordable insulin and improved prescription drug coverage. The federal government has the power to fix this; it provides health services and has massive purchasing power. But big insurance and pharmaceutical companies are standing in the way, protecting their profits. Medicare only began negotiating drug prices in 2025, but the current list of drugs is too limited. We should expand Medicare and Medicaid’s ability to negotiate for lower prices on most prescription medicines. That would not only lower costs for patients, but it would save billions in taxpayer dollars.
Medicare for All: We CAN guarantee affordable healthcare for everyone by simply making Medicare available for all Americans. Beware of people pushing for more incremental patchwork fixes- that has failed for over fifty years. Medicare for All will lower the cost of both Medicare and private insurance by lowering the average age and utilizing a cost-neutral system that already exists. Despite what so many people want you to think, this problem can be solved if we just have the will to fight for affordable health care for everyone.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-healthcare
I will champion an end to violence, genocide, and war, to build a peaceful, prosperous future for Israel and Palestine and the entire Middle East.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues
The Hamas terrorist attack of Oct. 7, 2023, was an act of wanton slaughter against innocent civilians. All people should condemn the deaths, taking of hostages, and the anti-Semitism that followed. However, Israel’s response has now crossed the line from justifiable self-defense to disproportionate, inhumane acts of genocide. Refusing to allow basic food, health, and shelter to millions of civilians is unacceptable even in wartime. As a nation, we must distinguish between people and their governments; between necessary and disproportionate force.
The United States must end all military aid and weapons sales to Israel to send a clear signal to the Israeli government, and ensure Israel fulfills all its obligations in the recently negotiated peace agreement with Palestinians, permit all necessary humanitarian aid to Gaza, rebuild Gaza and the surrounding areas destroyed by Israel’s attacks, retract illegal settlements in Palestinian territories, and ultimately negotiate a two-state solution to create a just and lasting peace for both nations.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-a-just-lasting-peace-in-israel-palestine
I'm fighting to preserve our freedoms because no American is truly free when government power goes unchecked.
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Protecting Liberty ↗ (opens littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-freedom at this heading)
Every freedom-loving American should be fighting mad right now.
Whose freedom is safe now? I’m fighting for a future where Americans are still free. Free to pursue the American dream; free to peacefully protest, free to control their bodies, and free from reckless, incompetent, and cruel federal policies. Policies that carelessly wreck the economy, stoke inflation, and slash vital public services that seniors, veterans, and children depend on. By slashing funding that Congress appropriated to help fight disease, find cures for cancer, and bring food to disabled seniors and veterans, they are wrecking the checks and balances system vital to our democracy. America won independence from a King before; we can do it again.
The President has ordered the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute citizens by name for treason just because they criticized the President or his policies. The Administration is trying to ban journalists and revoke licenses for news outlets that publish stories it doesn’t like. I can’t believe this is happening in America. Taking back Congress is the only way to check this abuse of power!
Democracy and the rule of law are what separate America from tin-pot dictatorships, and the worst devils of our natures. Tyrants persecute, silence, and imprison their critics because they are too cowardly to confront their mistakes. Democracy can’t be brushed aside because it’s inconvenient or annoying to some. Lying to judges, arresting people without due process, and disregarding legitimate court orders are all examples of how democracies throughout history have died.
Our democracy is what makes America great. I’m running to make sure we stay free, and I won’t back down.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-freedom
I will champion women's reproductive freedom, ensuring every woman can actually exercise her rights through accessible, affordable healthcare in every community.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues
Women’s Health and Right to Choose ↗ (opens littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-womens-reproductive-rights at this heading)
Perhaps no issue of freedom is more intimate or important than controlling your own body. Women, like everyone, should have the right to control their bodies and make choices about their own health care, and reproductive rights. But that isn’t just about overturning Dobbs and restoring Roe as the law of the land. It’s about making those legal rights practical and possible for every woman.
Freedom you cannot actually use is not freedom at all. Women must have real opportunities to receive the health care and reproductive freedoms that they choose. Too many small towns and many city neighborhoods alike exist within health care deserts – places where there are no nearby clinics, hospitals, OBGYNs, birthing clinics, mental health counselors or even a nurse. And, of course, even if health care services are available, if you can’t afford them, you still don’t have the freedom to choose. Without affordable, accessible health care services, no woman is truly free to control her destiny. I will fight to guarantee women’s reproductive rights, both in law and in life.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-womens-reproductive-rights
Since the start of Trump’s second term, Minnesota has become a safe haven for LGBTQIA2S+ community members. I’m committed to keeping it that way. Right now, the Trump administration is bent on cruelty, throwing social services, access to accurate identity documents, and basic human rights into a tailspin. For anyone to thrive in our country, we must right the ship, and with it respect the identities of our LGBTQIA2S+ community members.
Below are my commitments to keeping Minnesota a place where LGBTQIA2S+ community members, young and old, can thrive.
Matt Little’s LGBTQIA2S+ Bill of Rights ↗ (opens littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-fot-lgbtqia2s-rights at this heading)
- Pass the Equality Act (119th Congress: HR 15; S 1503) which amends the Civil Rights Act, among other laws, to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex in employment, housing, public accommodations, public education, medical care, criminal justice system, credit, and federal funding, federal employment, jury service, and social services.
- Protect Obergefell v Hodges and ensure everyone has the right to marry.
- Ban conversion therapy at the federal level.
- Overturn US vs. Shilling, the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the military to ban transgender people from serving.
- Restore LGBTQIA2S+ history to national monuments, military bases, government facilities, and federal websites.
- Protect legal recognition of parentage, expand access to IVF and fertility options, and protect LGBTQIA2S+ individuals’ rights to adoption and fostering children.
- Issue passports that have YOUR preferred gender marker, not the gender marker the federal government wants you to have.
- Reinstate funding for social service programs, nonprofits, and research that seek to uplift and support the LGBTQIA2S+ community.
- Protect and advocate for LGBTQIA2S+ youth. Including overturning Supreme Court decisions that allow for discrimination in schools, and reinstating critical federal protections for LGBTQIA2S+ youth in foster care.
- Expand nondiscriminatory access to medical care, visitation, and care homes for HIV/AIDS positive patients.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-fot-lgbtqia2s-rights
As a parent, I believe no one should have to choose between their career and their children due to astronomical childcare costs.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues
Supporting Families and Children ↗ (opens littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-affordable-childcare at this heading)
I love my daughter, Poppy. And I know firsthand that childcare costs are astronomical even with just one kid and two parents working full-time. Raising a child is the most important thing I’ll ever do. I don’t want anyone to be forced to choose between earning a paycheck and doing right by their kids.
To make childcare accessible in this country, we need to expand the supply and reform the subsidies so they reach more people. Affordable, accessible childcare requires an expanded Child Care Tax Credit, revising burdensome regulations that make small-scale child care financially impossible, recognizing home-based providers should be part of the system, and providing public support for working families that can’t afford childcare and can’t afford not to work.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-affordable-childcare
My campaign is powered by people, not AIPAC, not super PACs, health insurance PACs, and certainly not corporate PACs like big oil and big pharma. Our elections and our politicians shouldn’t be bought and paid for. That’s why I’ve rejected big PAC money, AIPAC money, and that’s why I’ve created my Anti-Corruption Bill of Rights.
Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and its allies are interested in one thing: getting richer on the backs of working families. Together, let’s win back the House and put an end to this blatant and rampant corruption. When I’m elected to Congress, I will fight for my:
Anti-Corruption Bill of Rights ↗ (opens littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-anti-corruption-policies at this heading)
- Overturn Citizens United and Buckley v. Valeo
- Bar members of Congress and the Administration from trading stocks
- Ban Super PACS
- Require the President and close family members to divest all business assets and place the value of those assets in a blind trust, and require them to be covered by the same federal conflict-of-interest laws that apply to all federal employees.
- Amend the Constitution to ban preemptive pardons and create a pardon board that includes the President, the Speaker of the House, and the Chief Justice of the United States. In addition, include a provision in this amendment that bars the president from issuing pardons to family and close advisors.
- Bar lobbyists and corporations from directly or indirectly fundraising for candidates at the federal level, and prevent corporations from contributing or donating to government events or functions
- Close the congressional “revolving door” between members of Congress, their top aides, and powerful lobbying firms
- Create legislation to require disclosure of campaign donations by corporations and PACS
- Create an effective and fully funded public financing system for political campaigns
- Pass legislation clarifying that the Emoluments Clause forbids the President from personally profiting from private or public business dealings with foreign governments
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-anti-corruption-policies
I’m advocating to fix our tax system so that hardworking Americans – not just the wealthy few – can finally get their fair share of our nation’s prosperity.
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Tax Cuts for Working Families ↗ (opens littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-tax-cuts at this heading)
There is no way to sugarcoat it: over the last 60 years, the middle class got a raw deal. As America grew richer, nearly all the gains went to the top 1%. Our tax system, meant to create opportunity for millions, is now working for fewer and fewer Americans.
But we can fix that.
True financial responsibility means everyone pays their fair share, so we can lower the deficit and put more money in the pockets of working families. By raising the corporate tax rate, increasing taxes on the highest earners, and eliminating loopholes like Carried Interest, we can finance the most effective tax breaks for working people to help more people afford a home, build a family, or start a business.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · littleforcongress.com/key-issues/fighting-for-tax-cuts