Yes, it’s true. You the Minnesota taxpayer are underwriting the get-out-the-vote effort every election cycle on behalf of the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party (the Democrats). And all of this is…
Stop the fraud or win elections. This is the choice now facing Democrats in Minnesota. Want to guess which one will prevail? The ethnic-Somali population in Minnesota (including refugees and…
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…
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…
Yesterday, former Legislative Auditor Jim Nobles published a commentary in the Minnesota Star Tribune under the headline, Former legislative auditor: Is the Walz administration finally awake about fraud? The recent…
We take an early look at the DFL money game for 2025. The election calendar this year will be dominated by city-level races in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Also, there…
The Education Minnesota teachers union and oil-heiress Alida Messinger continued to dominate the DFL money game last year. You will recall my Minnesota For Sale series of years past, tracing…
Despite being on the short end of a 66-67 party split in the Minnesota House of Representatives, Democrats say they will not show up next week for the start of…
As if Minnesota politics couldn’t get any weirder, a candidate for the state House of Representatives has been charged with two felony counts related to the theft of lawn signs…
Jason Metsa, former DFL state representative from the Iron Range (2013-2019), and former Deputy Commissioner of the state agency Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board (IRRRB), was arrested yesterday and…
State senate Democrats fired their top staff person, yet you the taxpayer are on the hook for $203,000. It may all sound like a tempest-in-a-teapot, and the $ amount may…
Earlier this week, the Minnesota State Senate moved forward to legalize the construction of new nuclear power plants in the state by including it in an omnibus bill for further…
On Tuesday I wrote about how 123 candidates for office in Minnesota have signed a pledge to oppose the Walz administration’s attempt to impose California car mandates on Minnesota. One…
It didn’t take long for a bipartisan group of Iron Range legislators to clap back against the letter written by 18 metro-area DFL lawmakers urging Governor Walz to cancel all…
According to the Star Tribune, eighteen liberal Democratic lawmakers from the Metro area are calling for Governor Tim Walz to suspend all state permits for PolyMet’s proposed copper-nickel mine in…
Lori Sturdevant wrote an editorial in the Star Tribune last weekend about how Republican lawmakers should embrace "clean energy" or face certain disaster at the polls in the 2020 elections.…
I was also on the King Banaian show last weekend to talk about how renewable energy mandates and subsidies, not markets, are responsible for the eroding market share of coal-fired…
Last weekend I was on American’s For Prosperity Radio with Jason Flohrs discussing our latest report on the energy proposals supported by Governor Walz and the DFL house. A 50…
U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan didn’t hesitate when asked why the 8th Congressional District — once solidly Democratic blue — again turned Republican red in November’s election. “It’s because of the…
MPR recently ran a piece describing the issue of mining may have on the upcoming elections. The story cites our research, and then goes on to describe the positions politicians…