In my session preview on Monday, I wrote that “the Republicans are leading with fraud” while “the DFL is prioritizing immigration.” This was quickly born out. Yesterday, MinneapoliMedia reported on…
Fahima Egeh Mahamud became the 79th defendant charged in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud case, and the first to be charged in 2026. She is currently being held in…
Junior de Jesus Herrera Berrios, aged just 18, is a popular man. We have not one but two separate habeas corpus petitions seeking his release from ICE custody. First, some…
Grace and Kathryn dig into Governor Walz’s $10 million “relief package” proposal to bail out businesses negatively impacted by the ICE surge. How can we trust this administration to hand out more money without losing it…
North Dakota will soon be experimenting with team-taught classroom models. The Peace Garden state recently became the first state in the nation to be approved by the U.S. Department of…
A new interactive tool from Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab gives school leaders, parents, and community members the ability to assess how public school staffing has changed in recent years. The…
Minnesota’s legislature convenes tomorrow. What can we expect in terms of economic policy? Not too much, perhaps, given its partisan composition. The House remains tied between Republicans and Democrats and…
Economic growth Fox 9: Small business owners address ICE economic impact KSTP: Uptown businesses dealing with economic impact due to ICE presence, but help is on the way Sahan Journal:…
Will the wind-down of Operation Metro Surge mean fewer new habeas corpus cases getting filed? We’ve hit the 900 mark in the number of habeas corpus cases being filed so…
Operation Metro Surge is winding down. What should state government do going forward? In the last couple of weeks, I have tried to use polling data to discover what Minnesotans…
The Walz administration debuted its fraud “fact check” to much acclaim earlier this week. Tag line, The place for Minnesotans to find accurate information about our fight against fraud. From…
Center of the American Experiment today launched MNFraudFiles.com, a website that will serve as a clearinghouse for information on Minnesota’s epidemic of fraud in state government. The site was in production…
Minnesota consistently ranks among the highest-taxed states in the country. At the same time, per-pupil public education spending continues to rise, even as academic outcomes remain underwhelming. For parents, this…
Back in December, Minneapolis City Council approved an 8% tax levy increase. KSTP reported that: City of Lakes homeowners, like Julie Hudak, are feeling the impact, as they also support…
All good things must end. <sniff> From the New York Post, Border czar Tom Homan announces end of ICE surge in Minnesota Homan announced that he will remain in Minnesota…
Like a relic appearing from a lost age, “Minnesota leaders” unveiled a new “climate action plan,” just in time for its immediate obsolescence. From WCCO-4 TV, Minnesota leaders on Wednesday…
Democratic federal judges are inventing new legal doctrines to free illegal aliens from ICE detention. From Politico, Federal judges may have found a workaround to reject the Trump administration’s mass…
Anthony Waddell Jefferson and Lester Brown, both of Philadelphia, were in federal court in downtown Minneapolis to enter guilty pleas for their involvement in a fraud against the now-discontinued housing…
Check out the American Experiment Podcast! Welcome back! This week on the American Experiment Podcast… Grace and Kathryn break down the insane footage from inside a Minneapolis CorePower yoga studio,…
Jose Alberto Ramirez, age 28, appeared in federal court in downtown Minneapolis this afternoon and faces charges of making online threats against a federal officer. Ramirez was picked up at…
Beginning February 17, Minnesota legislators will convene for the 2026 legislative session. Lawmakers will likely have to decide, among other things, whether and how much to spend on an infrastructure…
Recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data, highlighted by The Washington Post, show that for the first time in decades, workers with associate degrees or skilled trades training now experience lower…
Habeas corpus cases have soared past the 800 mark in Minnesota for 2026, so far, even as higher courts look to limit the practice. As of this afteroon, some 819…
Last week, I noted that in its first two weeks of operation, Minnesota’s paid family and medical leave (PFML) scheme was seeing a rate of approvals that was 54% higher…