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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 01/10/2026

Even their own ridiculous AI bot understands why a copper-nickel mine doesn’t belong near the Boundary Waters

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 26/09/2026

New Richland endured nine inches of rain from just one storm, flooding the town and forcing residents to evacuate. The anxiety from residents is palpable. It’s going to take an all-hands-on-deck effort to recover, clean up the damage and get the community back on its feet.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 25/09/2026

Visiting with farmers in Lamberton today and their message was clear. Producers need stability and consistency so they can plan for the next season, not more chaotic trade wars and price hikes due to the war in Iran.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 25/09/2026

Trusting the same DOJ that covered up the Epstein Files to protect us from frontier AI… What could possibly go wrong?

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/09/2026

Lots of ways to finally help young people afford their first home. 7% mortgage rates (and climbing) thanks to another endless war in the Middle East is not one of them.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 22/09/2026

It’s not just a question of how long farmers can hunker down and endure high diesel prices. It’s a question of how many farms will go under because it’s just too much.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 14/09/2026

If it looks like a cage and acts as a cage… it’s a cage. Calling these “calming areas” at Alligator Alcatraz is some dystopian doublespeak.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 03/09/2026

Apple Tree Dental in Hawley, Minnesota has provided more than 353,000 dental visits to more than 35,000 patients across the Northland. They’ve often been the only provider in the area willing to see patients on Medicaid.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 03/09/2026

Anyone who has lived or driven around Moorhead knows the train crossings along 11th Street can be a giant headache.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 31/08/2026

The Blatnik Bridge between Duluth and Superior has reached the end of its useful life after serving us for 65 years. By 2030, it will have been deemed unsafe and decommissioned. But the bridge is the linchpin that connects the bustling, proud cities that make up the Twin Ports.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 31/08/2026

New Blatnik Bridge design 👀

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 27/08/2026

Tomorrow is the grand opening of the Minnesota State Fair, and it also marks 365 days since the lives of Annunciation School families were irrevocably broken by gun violence. I think about the Annunciation School community all the time.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 26/08/2026

Small towns and rural communities are seeing a troubling trend of labor and delivery services being cut at rural hospitals. It means when expecting mothers go into labor, they have to drive farther to get the care they need, which can be dangerous for both baby and mom.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 26/08/2026

The average age of America’s farmer is nearing 60 years old, yet our young farmers tasked with taking over are being boxed out from starting their own operations. How can they be expected to compete with corporate investors buying land?

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton performs at the Minnesota State Fair (1993) ❤️🕊️

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 23/08/2026

So great to be in Little Falls, an amazing community in central Minnesota that’s using federal programs to help their small businesses update historic buildings to meet their needs while protecting the history of the town. Thank you for taking the time to show me around!

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 23/08/2026

A lot of people are surprised to hear that Minnesota produces the fifth most honey in the country. Mann Lake LTD employs about 140 people in Hackensack and is a key supplier for professional honey producers and backyard beekeeping enthusiasts.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 21/08/2026

First Liam Conejo Ramos. Now Liam Tadeo. How many five-year-old boys need to be taken by ICE before Republicans will admit to the cruelty of this mass deportation campaign? Where is our humanity? How can we justify putting a five-year-old through this?

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 21/08/2026

In cities, towns and rural communities alike, I hear the same thing: the dire need for affordable childcare. Parents can’t start jobs because there’s no one to watch the kids. Businesses can’t expand because there’s no one to fill the jobs.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 20/08/2026

Farmers and ranchers need options. They need choices. They need more than just whatever the four big corporations that control meat processing in this country offer. That’s why the new Farmers Union Processing and Meats facility in Staples matters.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 20/08/2026

Cuyuna Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a 25-bed hospital in Crosby with clinics across north-central Minnesota. Patients can access primary and specialty care without having to trek to a big city, and it’s a perfect example of the kind of facility that Minnesotans rely on to stay healthy.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 19/08/2026

I was able to tour a home being built by Lakes Area Habitat for Humanity in Brainerd as part of a conversation on the housing crisis. Organizations like Lakes Area Habitat are helping solve the housing crisis by building more homes, but tackling skyrocketing insurance costs is the next step.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 18/08/2026

Minnesotans strongly support protecting the Boundary Waters. We are a mining state, but not this mine in this place. The Trump Administration and Republicans in Congress ignored the science and overturned protections for the Boundary Waters, but the fight continues here at home.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 04/08/2026

TODD BLANCHE: Rest assured that we’re working hand in hand with HHS and the FDA and the White House and President Trump’s team to get permanent solutions so that the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 16/07/2026

Booking it back to Minnesota to visit folks on the front lines of the wildfires up in Ely and around the Boundary Waters. Stay safe, Minnesota.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 14/07/2026

The entirety of the Boundary Waters is being evacuated due to wildfires, led by eight fearless Wilderness Rangers paddling around to campsites. 1,000,000 acres. 2,000 campsites. 4 teams of rangers. 2 rangers per canoe.

Paddlers make their way towards the Fall Lake entry point of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness as wildfire smoke fills the air on Monday, July 13, near Ely, Minn. (Erica Dischino/For the Minnesota Star Tribune)

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13/07/2026

Thank you to all the first responders and firefighters putting themselves in harm’s way to combat the wildfires up near the Boundary Waters. Everyone in the area should listen to the guidance of state and local officials. Stay safe Minnesota!

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 10/07/2026

ICE agents feel emboldened because they know their higher ups will protect them by lying to the public about what happened. How can we trust any sort of investigation solely done by an agency that does whatever it wants, whenever it wants, with no repercussions? Justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 09/07/2026

Intrigued by the pickle pie at the Minnesota State Fair this year. Not opposed, just…intrigued.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 01/07/2026

Karen was the longest serving openly lesbian legislator in the United States. Her time in the Minnesota House spanned nearly forty years from 1980-2019. She played an instrumental role in Minnesota’s transformational law to legalize gay marriage.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 01/07/2026

I’m so sad to hear that today, on the last day of Pride Month, we have lost a long time Minnesota state legislator and a fierce fighter for justice and freedom for all people: Karen Clark.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 30/06/2026

Children born in the United States are citizens of the United States

Photo of a loon and it’s hatchling under the text “whether you hatched here or migrated here, your children belong here.”

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/06/2026

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

Donald Trump via Truth Social: Today's Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed
SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National
Emergency. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President
DJT

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 21/06/2026

Happy Father’s Day to the most fun-loving father and grandfather anyone could ask for. We love you Archie!

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 08/06/2026

Let's play Kahoot! (Screwworm Edition)

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 08/06/2026

Let’s check in with folks at home and see what they think of the Iran War as we surpass 100 days into the conflict

In your opinion, what has been the overall impact of the war so far on American interests, at home and abroad? By party identification

(An overwhelming majority of independents and Democrats hold negative views of the war. 1/3 of Republicans have similar views.)

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 03/06/2026

Being a hedge fund billionaire landlord who rents out farmland doesn't make you a farmer. It makes you part of the problem!

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 15/05/2026

Straight from DC to the State Capitol in solidarity with Minnesotans pushing for gun safety legislation. Enough is enough. Hold the vote!

Photo of US Senator Tina Smith arriving in the Minnesota State Capitol to press for the House of Representatives to vote on gun safety legislation.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 12/05/2026

“Don’t worry buddy, Kristi Noem isn’t around here anymore.”

Photo of Senator Tina Smith holding a small puppy.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 06/05/2026

Thank you to the staff and faculty for showing me the new geothermal systems!

Photo of Senator Smith speaking with a staff member in Winona, MN.

Photo of Sen. Tina Smith holding a round table discussion in a school library.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 06/05/2026

The system regulates the school temperature by harnessing the earth’s natural heat as energy to keep the building warm in the winter + cool in the summer. It’s a cheaper way to heat/cool the school, doesn’t tie them to the ups and downs of a global oil/gas market and is clean, American-made energy.

Photo of Tina Smith receiving a tour of a geothermal dehumidification system.

Photo of a pipe with text that reads “CHILLED WATER RETURN SECONDARY”

Pipe with the text “HEATING WATER RETURN”

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 06/05/2026

Two of Winona’s public elementary schools installed something great. It’s nerdy, so bear with me… ✨geothermal dehumidification systems✨

Photo of a Winona, Minnesota elementary school.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 06/05/2026

Thank you to the staff and faculty for showing me the new geothermal systems!

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 06/05/2026

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 06/05/2026

Two of Winona’s public elementary schools installed something great. It’s nerdy, so bear with me… ✨geothermal dehumidification systems✨

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 16/04/2026

Since they’re abusing the Congressional Review Act to get around the filibuster, I am reserving some of my time so I can make closing remarks in the morning before the final vote. Maybe they’ll listen to reason after a night’s sleep. Stay tuned. Save the Boundary Waters.

Photo of my desk with a boundary waters canoe area forest service sign next to the Minnesota state flag and a framed photo of my parents.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13/04/2026

The Boundary Waters don’t just belong to Minnesotans. They’re the birthright of every single American. Why would we let a foreign mining company ruin them just so they can mine OUR resources, ship them off to China and enrich their shareholders?

Map showing the pollution a proposed copper-nickel mine would have on the Boundary Waters, Voyageurs National Park and Quetico Provincial Park.

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