State Representative Emily Dievendorf

Policy is strongest when it’s built with the people doing the work. This I’m proud to join state legislators nationwide in the campaign. Workers, like our caregivers, farmworkers, and gig employees, must have a permanent seat at the decision-making table. Learn more: stateinnovation.org/listen2workers

I have signed onto a letter to ICE with my colleagues in the legislature.

“We are writing to request a meeting to discuss these concerns, to ask that you allow us a tour of the North Lake Processing Center to observe detainee living conditions firsthand, and to ask for a written response regarding actions ICE will undertake to immediately address the concerns regarding inadequate medical care, food and living conditions at the North Lake Processing Center.”

Today, many across the state are also fasting in solidarity with the detainees who are participating in a hunger strike. I have included a graphic for you to share if you want to join us in this fast.

Thank you to Stephanie Chang for leading on this!

Today, I introduced HB 5951 to limit the use of chemical weapons and kinetic energy projectiles against protestors. Michiganders have a constitutional right to peacefully assemble and make their voices heard. This bill helps protect that right while promoting transparency, accountability, and de-escalation.

Be honest…how many times have you had to grab the remote because an ad got WAY louder than your show?

Yeah. Same.

Federal law already protects consumers from extra loud commercials on cable and broadcast television, but those protections have not kept pace with the shift to streaming.

HB 5924: The Michigan Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (MiCALM) brings those same protections to streaming services, where most people watch today.

House Republicans have bills to roll back Michigan’s 2023 clean energy standards, framing it as “reliability” and “affordability.” But rolling back clean energy doesn’t lower costs, it locks Michigan into more expensive, volatile fossil fuels, weakens our energy independence and sets Michiganders up for higher bills long-term.

This comes down to a simple choice: Build cheaper, homegrown energy for the future, or stay locked in the fuels from the past.

Still feeling the positive vibrations from Saturday’s No Kings rally!

We stood together with teachers and union workers, veterans and students, farmers and faith leaders, first-generation Americans and families whose roots in this Michigan soil go back generations, to a time before any European had put a foot down.

“Different faces, different stories, different paths, but one purpose.

We are here because we love this country enough to fight for it. We love this country not with an ignorant love but with a love that learns from mistakes and our history and seeks to do better.

The Constitution is not a suggestion. The rule of law is not optional. And the will of the people, our will, is not negotiable.

We have not fought all this time to let our power be manipulated for corporate greed while the health of our environment is threatened. We do not consent to our military being used for world domination or colonization. We do not agree with a rogue bro army being deployed to replace public services while it terrorizes and disappears our neighbors, unchecked. We demand order.

We demand the vision we believe in and that includes all of us.

I want our dollars going toward food and shelter, not war. That includes no more war on women. No war on Transgender folks. No war on our homeless neighbors. No war on immigrants. No war on our Black and Brown Neighbors. No more wars on the people.”