A final update on the campaign finance front on this election day 2025. The final last-minute donation to report is $75,000 from the Multi-Housing Association to the “moderate” All for…
With the usual long list of caveats, I’ve updated the money flowing into Minnesota elections in this odd-year, off-year of 2025. The top 25 donors (or so): In total, I’ve…
I’m digging into the campaign finance reports filed earlier this week and a new, big player has appeared on the scene: Working Peoples Project. The Project is a special purpose…
2025 is an off-year for elections in Minnesota, except for the municipal contests in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Still, there is information to be gleaned from off-year campaign finance filings.…
Back in late August, Attorney General Keith Ellison (himself a Democrat) announced the indictment of five men in a $9.5 million alleged PCA fraud.
The former DFL state representative from St. Paul’s District 67A owes more than $4,000 in fines and penalties to the state campaign finance regulator (CFB). The agency sued Thompson in…
Three-term state Rep. Ruth Richardson (DFL-Mendota Heights) abruptly resigned via Twitter (X) last night, as the long Labor Day weekend began. Little additional explanation was given for her sudden departure.…
23 of America’s richest billionaire families donated to Minnesota Democrats (DFL) in the past three years. Collectively, they donated over $6.2 million to the MN DFL in that time. These…
Tech giants from the left coast were big donors to state Democrats in this last election cycle. The names of some Silicon Valley heavyweights can be found among the big-dollar…
Picking up where we left off in Part 4 of our Minnesota For Sale series on campaign finance, we dig up more names and money in the shadowy world of…
Tracing the Minnesota influence of a different shadowy international billionaire. There is a famous H.L. Mencken quote that goes, Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they…
Digging deeper into the world of “dark money.” We’ve mentioned a couple of times the possibly non-existent Toolbox Fund, which contributed $232,000 to the Democratic party effort last year, through…
The controversial Hennepin County Attorney is much in the news. Just three months into her first term as the county’s prosecutor, Moriarty has been removed from a high-profile murder case…
In this Part 6 of the Minnesota For Sale series, we dive into the recent political donations of the controversial New York family. On a number of occasions, we’ve highlighted…
Now that were are up to Part 10 of our Minnesota For Sale series, we pause to provide the reader with a recap. The series documents how Minnesota Democrats sold…
We document more than $30 million flowing into Minnesota last year to support Democrats. If you’ve wondered why state Democrats are pursuing such a radical policy agenda, more befitting California…
In this fourth edition of our Minnesota For Sale series, we dive into the dark money supporting Democratic candidates in Minnesota. Democrats in Minnesota and elsewhere are famously opposed to…
It’s surprisingly cheap to purchase the politics of a mid-sized state in flyover country. Now that all the campaign finance reports are in for 2022, we can add up the…
With the 2022 election behind us, we can now total up the money. In this Part 2 of Minnesota For Sale, we focus on the state Democratic party. Minnesota Democrats…
For about a year, I have been documenting how wealthy coastal donors bankrolled the Democrats’ successful takeover of our state government in the 2022 election. Now that all the campaign…
For a little over $2 million, a bored Texas billionaire can impose a brand-new voting system on a state 1,200 miles away.
The saying used to go, “All politics is local.” Not anymore. To be competitive in Minnesota politics, at least within the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party, you need to have a…
The political campaign of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz returned a maximum $4,000 donation from Nishad Singh, a key figure in the FTX cryptocurrency scandal. The money was originally donated by…
Nishad Singh, Director Engineering for failed cryptocurrency firm FTX, pled guilty in New York today to criminal charges arising out of the firm’s collapse late last year. The counts included…