State Representative Emily Dievendorf

05/01/2026

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

05/01/2026

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!

04/30/2026

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.

04/30/2026

The Michigan Legislative LGBTQ+ Caucus denounces Frank Liberati’s transphobic tactics against Joanna Whaley’s campaign. We demand better from those seeking to represent the people of Michigan.

04/29/2026

As Governor Whitmer put it earlier this week, “Michigan workers are the foundation of our economy.”

This Workplace Rights Week, we must take action to ensure all workers in the state of Michigan are protected. HB 5141 would remove outdated exclusions and help ensure every worker has a fair shot at safe working conditions, dignity on the job, and a voice in the workplace. 🌾🏡✊

04/28/2026

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.

04/28/2026

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.

04/28/2026

This last week, I was on my way home from a movie when the emergency vehicles sped past me on MLK toward what we would soon learn was a mass shooting in Downtown Lansing. The shooting happened 3 blocks from my destination and a few more blocks from my home. Like many of you, gun violence in Lansing isn’t abstract to me. It is happening in our backyard, to our neighbors. In the case of this last week, the neighbors injured included two kids. I listened as first responders rushed to apply a tourniquet to a small child.

That night I listened to the response on the scanner and trusted our community violence intervention folks to do their good work with first responders. As usual, this community came together to reject the violence and push for continued progress on prevention. I am thankful for our community’s increasingly coordinated response to violence.

Gun violence has plagued our community and there is no excuse for it.

And while there is no excuse for the violence there are explanations that are rooted in the ways our neighbors and young people are struggling in their daily lives. Our community is working hard to support our neighbors in ways that can prevent future violence.

This is why I have sponsored funding requests at the state level for Advance Peace and the Lansing Empowerment Network.

This is why I continue to support common sense reforms that increase our safety, including a bill I’ve sponsored to require hands-on training in order to be licensed to use a firearm.

It is why I am committed to tackling “ghost guns” and ensuring manufacturer and dealer accountability.

Legislators at the state level have been committed to gun violence prevention and our work has resulted in several important reforms, including "red flag" laws (Extreme Risk Protection Orders), universal background checks for all firearm purchases, and safe storage requirements. I have also worked to ensure we are guarding against inequitable enforcement of these laws, to prevent bias from determining who is impacted by restrictions.

We address gun violence together, using comprehensive, proven approaches that come at this crisis from all sides. Realistically, fairly, and with urgency.

I thank all those who show up to support our neighbors impacted by gun violence, and who work to prevent violence and to interrupt the cycle of violence in Lansing. We all can play a part in peace and keeping each other safe.

Get involved. Pour in. Let’s build the safety we know we need.

04/22/2026

Out-of-touch House Republicans have mishandled the economy, ignoring devastating tariffs, skyrocketing gas prices, and rising inflation. Now they want to slash funding to critical programs and services, making it even harder for you to get by.

Defunding these programs makes it clear whose interests are being represented. It tells families, seniors, veterans, and communities that they are expendable.

While House Republicans hold your tax dollars hostage, we’re focused on investing in what people care about: lower costs, health care, education, local communities and economies, and our democracy.

03/31/2026

Research has shown that conversion therapy is both ineffectual and harmful to LGBTQIA+ individuals, especially young people. Asking people to reject who they are is cruel and should never be considered legitimate science or health care.

This decision is wildly irresponsible. One can now imagine a world where harmful conversion therapy practices are unable to be regulated on the basis that regulation might infringe on another individual’s free speech rights. If that sounds convoluted, it’s because it is. But that is exactly the kind of world this ruling could create — a world where illegitimate and harmful so-called ‘health care’ is allowed in the name of free speech.

At a time when the conservative-leaning Supreme Court and Republican-led federal government are hell-bent on stripping away civil liberties and rights from a myriad of underrepresented communities, I will do all I can to safeguard civil rights for all people. Hate and fear have no place in science and they certainly have no place in health care. To the LGBTQIA+ community, I stand with you, and I will never stop fighting to protect your right to exist.

The justices ruled, 8-1, that the First Amendment prohibits states from using their licensing power to prevent therapists and other professionals from sharing particular views with patients.

03/30/2026

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.”