VICTORY: Minnesota House of Representatives Flips to Gun Safety Majority

Everytown Spent $10 Million to Elect Moms Demand Action Volunteers, Flip State Legislative Chambers, and Build Trifectas in Key Battleground States

WASHINGTON - Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and its grassroots networks, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, declared a major victory today as voters flipped the Minnesota House of Representatives to a gun safety majority, establishing a gun safety trifecta.

"Minnesota voters just broke the tie in the state House, and they broke it in favor of gun safety," said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. "After two years of gridlock in St. Paul, Minnesotans are eager for the new gun safety majority to champion commonsense laws to protect their families."

"Minnesota volunteers spent the last year packing the Capitol and refusing to let lawmakers look away, and now they've helped elect a House majority that will listen," said Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of Moms Demand Action. "Four of our volunteers are part of that majority. Our movement will be back in St. Paul in January to see it through."

"Minnesota families have waited too long for lawmakers to act on gun safety," said Todd Jelen, a volunteer with the Minnesota chapter of Moms Demand Action. "We knocked doors and made calls because we knew a gun safety majority in the House was within reach. Now we're ready to finish the job."

Everytown's top state-level goal this cycle was building trifectas: establishing gun safety Everytown's top state-level goal this cycle was building trifectas: establishing gun safety majorities in both legislative chambers alongside a gun safety champion in the governor's office. Across Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund, and Everytown for Gun Safety VF MN invested $10 million, running paid media campaigns supporting Moms Demand Action volunteers in key state legislative battleground districts and partnering with the Democratic Governors Association to elect gun safety governors in those states. Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers made more than 15 million voter contacts in support of gun sense candidates up and down the ballot.

These candidates were among 547 Moms Demand Action volunteers who ran for offices up and down the ballot across 47 states this cycle, including 40 in all who ran for Congress. Many were trained through Demand a Seat, which Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund launched in 2021 to train grassroots volunteers and gun violence survivors to run for office. The program has trained more than 1,600 volunteers across 49 states and Washington, D.C. Since 2021, more than 600 former volunteers have been elected, including six who were already serving in Congress before this election.