Brad Finstad

Minnesota’s 1st (MN - 01)

Updated: September 9, 2026

Overview

Brad Finstad is selling out Southern Minnesota and our way of life to his corporate donors. Finstad is taking their cash and voting to line their pockets while they tear up our communities to build data centers, buy up farmland, and raise costs for Southern Minnesotans. 

SUMMARY

Starting 6 weeks before Election Day, voters in the Minneapolis-St. Paul media market, Rochester, and Mankato need to see ads on broadcast TV and cable and independents and non-MAGA Republicans, 18-39 year olds, and women need to read mail and see digital ads on CTV, YouTube, and other streaming platforms about how:

• While taking more than $40,000 in campaign cash from corporations and the utility industries building and profiting from data centers, Finstad voted to make it easier to build data centers in Southern Minnesota and to give them billions in tax breaks. Finstad voted to allow data centers to make secret deals to build them in our small towns, make us pay their utility costs, and tear up our communities. When data centers get built in Minnesota and your costs go up, Finstad takes their cash and does their bidding. 
• After taking thousands in campaign cash from a PAC tied to a Chinese company, Finstad voted against making it easier to track and monitor companies buying up American farmland. Meanwhile, he voted to take jobs away from Minnesotans and drive up the cost of food and groceries.

Additional Resources

• Further polling regarding what voters are hearing and seeing and how it is impacting their vote choice in this election should be conducted seven weeks before the election, the week of September 15th.
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• Brad Finstad (MN-01) Research Report

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