Meet your choices for State Representative:

Republican
Jessica Johnson

Democrat
Josiah Hill

Addressing the skyrocketing cost of living

Stillwater dad and teacher Josiah Hill is focused on helping working families keep more of their hard-earned money by fighting against corporate greed. He voted to crack down on price gouging, cap prescription drug prices (1), and will work to ban surveillance pricing where companies use customers’ personal data to charge different prices for the same products.

Josiah Hill knows greedy corporations are to blame for many rising costs, and as our State Representative will be focused on holding those corporations accountable to ensure Minnesotans can afford the basics we rely on– like food, energy, and housing. He will work to make it easier to buy a home you can afford, and is committed to addressing skyrocketing home insurance costs and rising property taxes.

Jessica Johnson would join those who caved to pressure from pharmaceutical industry lobbyists, opposing capping costs on common, life-saving prescription drugs (2), forcing local hospitals to pay more for medicine (3), and forcing thousands of Minnesotans off of their health insurance. (4)

And Jessica Johnson is running on a platform that calls for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations which could drive up local taxes and costs for working families. Her party platform also calls for creating massive new sales taxes on everything we buy, including groceries, clothing, and prescription drugs. Their new sales taxes would be used to cut taxes for the wealthy and big corporations, shifting the burden to the rest of us. (5)

Preventing fraud and corruption

Josiah Hill is taking on fraud in Minnesota. He voted to establish an independent, non-partisan Office of Inspector General to investigate fraud across state government (6), hiring more prosecutors to catch Medicaid fraud (7), as well as increasing criminal penalties on anyone who commits fraud, regardless of their party. (8) Josiah Hill supports a top to bottom audit to fix systemic problems that led to fraud.

Minnesota Republicans like Jessica Johnson are letting Donald Trump and his billionaire friends get away with blatant acts of corruption–using the presidency to enrich himself and his family, cutting a deal to get immunity from IRS scrutiny, using our tax dollars to build himself a ballroom, and proposing a slush fund for the January 6th rioters. (9)

Fighting back against Federal overreach and costly tariffs

Josiah Hill worked to put an end to Operation Metro Surge, voting to prohibit ICE officers from wearing face coverings, preventing their entrance into schools and daycares without a warrant, and allowing Minnesotans to sue ICE for violating their civil rights. (10)

He will continue working to safeguard Minnesota from federal overreach–protecting Minnesotans’ access to healthcare, right to vote, and ability to make ends meet without the continuing costs associated with Trump’s tariffs and war in Iran.

Jessica Johnson strongly supports Trump and his MAGA agenda. She claimed the 2020 election was stolen, and defended the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol. (11, 12) 

She would be a rubber stamp for Trump’s agenda and would join those who voted to give Minnesotans' personal voter data to the Trump administration and bring Trump's Medicaid cuts to Minnesota, which could take health insurance away from 140,000 seniors and people with disabilities. (13, 14, 15)

After Trump sent ICE agents to target Minnesotans, Jessica Johnson stayed silent. She would join those who voted to let ICE agents enter our schools without a warrant and traumatize children, and who blocked legislation that would have protected daycares and hospitals from unconstitutional ICE raids, banned ICE agents from hiding their identities with masks, and let Minnesotans sue ICE for violations of their civil rights. (16)

Giving our kids a world-class education

An English teacher at Stillwater Area High School and St. Scholastica, Josiah Hill knows that strong public schools are part of what makes Stillwater and the state of Minnesota a great place to raise a family. That’s why he voted for universal school meals, and is committed to fully funding our public schools, reducing class sizes, and investing in the next generation.

Jessica Johnson has run for and lost election for school board three times because of her extreme, anti-public education views. She wants to roll back Minnesota’s successful universal school lunch program and ban books from our schools. (17, 18, 19) She also supports shifting taxpayer dollars from our public schools to private and parochial schools instead. (20)

And you should also know…

Jessica Johnson is one of the most extreme candidates running for State House. She doesn’t believe 9/11 happened, (24) is a QAnon conspiracy theorist, (25) and has peddled countless amounts of misinformation online.

Check the Facts:

  1.  [HF 6, House Journal, 3/2/23]

  2.  [SF 2744, House Journal, 5/17/23]

  3.  [HF 3609, House Journal, 3/23/26]

  4. [SF 4612, House Journal, 5/7/2026]

  5. [mngop.com, accessed 7/28/26]

  6. [SF 856, House Journal, 5/7/2026]

  7.  [HF 2354, House Journal, 5/16/2026]

  8. [HF 2115, House Journal, 5/19/2025]

  9.  [NYTimes, 1/20/26]

  10.  [HF 5149, House Journal, 5/17/26]

  11. [J. Johnson Facebook.com, 10/16/24]

  12. [heartlandsignal.com, 10/16/24]

  13.  [HF 4220 A5, House Journal,  5/6/26]

  14.  [SF 4612,House Journal, 5/7/26]

  15. [www.mprnews.org, 4/17/26]

  16. [HF 5149, House Journal, 5/17/2026]

  17.  [Stillwater Gazette 33B Forum, 10/3/24]

  18. [Stillwater Gazette, 11/3/23]

  19.  [J. Johnson Facebook.com, 7/5/23]

  20. [J. Johnson Facebook.com, 2/2/23]

  21. [House Session Daily, 6/9/2025]

  22. [HF 4077, 3/9/2026]

  23. [HF16, House Journal, 6/9/25]

  24. [heartlandsignal.com, 10/16/24]

  25. [J. Johnson Facebook.com #1, #2 2/19/14, #3 4/15/21]

Protecting Minnesotans from secret, unregulated AI data center projects

Josiah Hill is working to prevent shady non-disclosure agreements that keep communities in the dark. (21, 22) He’ll continue fighting to protect our neighborhoods and natural resources from AI exploitation.

Jessica Johnson would join those who supported hundreds of millions of dollars in tax giveaways to bring AI data centers to Minnesota–despite residents’ concerns about the impact they could have on our utility rates and water. (23)