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…
The website fatehformayor.com has gone live and Blois Olson reports that the state senator has a city hall press conference scheduled for tomorrow (Monday). We had earlier reported that Sen.…
Palo Alto’s Emerson Collective LLC appears to have done exactly that in the case of an Assistant Commissioner slot at the state Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). In…
It’s a saga worthy of George Jefferson himself. The controversial Democratic Congresswoman from Minneapolis was back in the news today. More precisely, her eldest daughter was in the news for…
Abdulahi Osman has NOT been charged with any crime. Nor does his name appear in any indictment or search warrant in the Feeding Our Future list. However, his name does…
Today is Super Tuesday, and the 2024 political campaign kicks off in earnest for Minnesota and the fifteen other states holding primary elections. So, it’s time to check in with…
House Democrats heard a bill in the Elections Committee this week to address what they think is a disturbing trend in Minnesota: people actually paying attention to local school board elections. Life…
The failed Minneapolis city council candidate is trying again in a race for a suburban state House of Representatives seat. The folks behind the trademarked Twitter (X) account WedgeLive! noticed…
The pivotal city council races have only days to go before election day. We take a look at some of the last-minute money flowing into these contests. All thirteen seats…
Control of the city council is up for grabs in the election less than a month away. As we get closer to Election Day 2023, we’ve been digging into the…
In this fourth part of our series on ethnic studies nonprofits in Minnesota, we Follow the Money™ flowing to a group called Education Evolving. As we pointed out earlier, Education…
In this edition of Follow the Money™, we track another member of the Minnesota Ethnic Studies Coalition (METC), Unidos MN. You will recall from our earlier reporting, recently passed legislation…
And a well-connected local political nonprofit is driving the agenda. In settling a lawsuit brought in 2022 by a Minnesota prison inmate, the state just discovered a new constitutional right…
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…
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…
With the election less than two months away, lefty money groups continue to register in Minnesota, in case they are needed to prop up the ruling Democrats. Late last week,…
Something called the “314 Action Victory Fund” registered last week with the state Campaign Finance Board. Sadly, the group is named after the number 3.14, shorthand for the mathematical concept…
Last week, a leftist entity called Open Democracy PAC-Minnesota registered with the state Campaign Finance Board. The national group is headquartered in Washington, DC, and was created in March 2021.…
One of the most powerful political organizations in Minnesota is not a political party or branch of the government but the state teachers’ union, Education Minnesota. The state teachers’ union…
Freshman state Senator Omar Fateh (DFL-Minneapolis) has been generating more than his share of headlines lately. Tracking his various scandals requires a scorecard, if not an entire program. The latest…
Based on the flurry of campaign finance activity, it looks like Minnesota will be a highly contested battleground state this fall. Checking in with recent filings at the state Campaign…
A nonprofit you’ve never heard of spent $550,000 to mobilize the inner-city vote efforts in the last election. You will never guess who paid for it. Faith in Minnesota, a…
Ken Martin, the head of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party, put out a press release on Good Friday touting their most recent fundraising results. The state’s version of the Democratic party…
Minnesota State Senator Omar Fateh returned contributions from 11 persons linked to the alleged Feeding Our Future scandal. Who were the 11? Early in the alleged Feeding Our Future scandal,…