Minnesota
July 23, 2026 — Scott Johnson
It turns out that Trump-endorsed Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Mike Lindell has a plan. It’s a six-month amnesty plan for illegal aliens. The Washington Examiner reports: “Mike Lindell proposes six-month amnesty for illegal immigrants if elected Minnesota governor.” Fortunately, Mike Lindell will never be elected governor of Minnesota. Unfortunately, if he prevails in the August 11 primary, he may bring down Republicans in state and federal races all over the state.
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July 22, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I decried President Trump’s endorsement of clown gubernatorial candidate Mike Lindell last week in “Put a MyPillow over it.” Lindell is running in a multicandidate primary field. According to a KSTP/SurveyUSA poll, Lindell now predictably appears to have extended his lead over competitors including endorsed candidate Kendall Qualls and House Speaker Lisa Demuth. That is a shame. Lindell is a joke. I would have said that before it was reported
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July 21, 2026 — John Hinderaker
In a long-overdue action, the federal government is moving to protect taxpayers against systematic fraud in California and Minnesota: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday he’s stopping more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota over suspected fraud. “We are not sending Medicaid dollars out the door until we have confidence that they are being spent lawfully and appropriately,” Kennedy said
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July 21, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Twenty years ago I covered Keith Ellison’s first campaign for Congress extremely closely. I talked to sources all around the United States in the course of the campaign. I have an Ellison file six inches thick deriving from my work on that campaign. Star Tribune reporter Rochelle Olson covered that campaign for the Star Tribune. Her coverage essentially performed public relations on its behalf. Her motto was not there’s no
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July 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Star Tribune columnist Rochelle Olson has cheered on the pardon conferred on child rapist Tou Vue Vang by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson. Olson’s congratulatory comments are unsurprising. She is a core supporter of the Democrats. At right in the photo below Olson was on her way to cover the 2024 Democratic convention that would nominate Walz its
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July 19, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Media in Minnesota are desperate to win a fifth-consecutive election for governor for the Democrats. But they know that they have an uphill battle. So, they are working overtime to portray the Democrat nominee Amy Klobuchar (now a sitting U.S. Senator) as a moderate, centrist, middle-of-the-road politician. The Minneapolis Star Tribune is carrying this water by the tanker truck, As Democrats move left, Klobuchar makes a business-friendly pitch in governor’s
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July 19, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Joe Biden-appointed Judge Jeffrey M. Bryan leads Minnesota-based federal district judges in defying an 8th Circuit court of appeals’ ruling on the detention of illegal aliens awaiting deportation. Aliens have been filing habeas corpus cases in record numbers, seeking release from ICE detention at facilities around the state as part of a nation-wide trend. We are approaching 1,400 habeas cases filed, just in Minnesota, since the first of the year.
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July 18, 2026 — Scott Johnson
St. Paul Academy parent Matt Bauer and his son have sued the school for breach of contract and other claims related to the son’s dismissal for the upcoming academic year. The son did nothing wrong. That is undisputed in the lawsuit. Mr. Bauer did nothing wrong either, but he has offended head of school Luis Ottley with his opposition to the Ottley regime. Ottley has invoked what I call “The
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July 17, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Abdikerm Eidleh, defendant No. 2 in the massive Feeding Our Future food fraud scandal, made his first court appearance since his extradition from Somalia to face numerous felony charges. Your correspondent was there this afternoon at the federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul. Even as an international fugitive, Eidleh’s name appeared more than 100 times in the official exhibit list for the courtroom trial of Feeding Our Future CEO Aimee
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July 17, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I dubbed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz “Governor Isuzu” a while back. The blather and lying come so naturally to him. It’s a gift of some kind. He perfected it during his reign as our one-man ruler by emergency decree during the Covid nightmare. You know Walz is lying when his lips are moving. Walz knows he’s lying. We know he’s lying. He knows that we know he’s lying. He remains
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July 16, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Successful Transfer of Abdikerm Eidleh from Somalia to Minnesota to Face Charges for Role in Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme. A headline that I would not have thought possible as recently as last month. Eidleh is defendant No. 2 (out of 80) in the half-billion-dollar free-food scandal, and was a former employee of the nonprofit company Feeding Our Future. Since the scandal broke in
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July 15, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Republicans have not won a statewide election since Tim Pawlenty was reelected governor in 2006. We have a road that has been made more difficult this year by the performance of ICE during Operation Metro Surge. The performance of ICE has done much to offset the disgust of Minnesotans with the massive fraud that has proliferated under Governor Tim Walz. It resulted in Walz abandoning his quest for an
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July 14, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Comments by MN state Clemency Review Commission members raise more questions about the controversial pardon of convicted child rapist, Tou Lue Vang. From Fox News, Exposed docs reveal why Tim Walz board awarded repeat child rapist pardon: ‘No future’ Tue Lue Vang, convicted of raping a girl starting at age 10, has been deported to Laos after Rubio intervened By now, everyone is familiar with the three-person membership of the state Board of
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July 12, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The pardon of child rapist Tou Vang by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison continues to reverberate. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security posted on X today, So, if deporting a single child rapist doesn’t make the state better or safer, how about deporting a thousand rapists? 10,000? Comments like these appear to deny the existence of a tipping point. It’s the logical fallacy of faulty generalization:
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July 12, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has begun announcing their endorsements for the 2026 election cycle. First up was their re-endorsement of state Sen. Omar Mahmood Fateh, representing a district in south Minneapolis. Sen. Fateh has played a prominent role in the infamous Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, among other irregularities. Of course, none of this has/will matter to voters in south Minneapolis. Sen. Fateh is
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July 11, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Minnesota produces more news than can be consumed locally. From the U.K. Daily Mail, Former Obama staffer accused of stealing from colleagues to fund drug habit. The Daily Mail reports, Adam Fetcher, 42, was let go from his role as Chief Communications Officer for the City of Minneapolis last week amid a police probe, The Minnesota Star Tribune reported. According to the outlet, Fetcher, who earned $186,495 a year in
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July 10, 2026 — John Hinderaker
This is something I haven’t seen noted anywhere–the New York Times is expanding geographically, by adding “local newsletters” for metro areas outside of New York. The first one will be in the Twin Cities: The New York Times is piloting a local newsletter for the Twin Cities. It said: "Our hope is that The Local: Twin Cities can serve as a model for similar future efforts elsewhere around the country"
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