Politics

A Reckoning in Real Time

Fraud Exposed, Funds Frozen, Narratives Shattered The chickens are coming home to roost faster than Minnesota officials can bus in children to empty daycares. What started as one citizen journalist’s video exposing abandoned “childcare” centers billing millions in taxpayer funds (that I wrote about here, here, here, and here) has snowballed into a full-scale federal intervention. In the last 24 hours alone, the scandal has triggered decisive action from Washington, panicked revisions from state officials, and a legacy-media misfire that backfired spectacularly. Here are the five net-new developments that mark the unmistakable shift into the “find out” phase for those who…

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The Minnesota Fraud Model

Minnesota's Somali Model Metastasizes to Maine, Ohio, and Washington Harold Macmillan's iconic quip, often invoked in moments of political upheaval, has rarely felt more prescient than it does right now, at the tail end of 2025. For nearly a decade, red flags waved furiously over Minnesota's expansive welfare programs-audits revealing unexplained budget explosions, whistleblowers pointing to shell companies and ghost services, and local reporters uncovering patterns of fraud that seemed too brazen to ignore. Yet, these warnings were systematically dismissed, downplayed as xenophobic rants, or buried under layers of political expediency and media reluctance. The establishment's guard dogs-the legacy outlets tasked…

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The Media’s Guard Dog Role

How Legacy Outlets Shielded Minnesota's Fraud Scandal and the DFL's Enabling Policies In Minnesota, federal prosecutors now estimate that fraud in state-administered social services programs could exceed $9 billion-potentially half of the $18 billion spent on 14 high-risk Medicaid initiatives since 2018. Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson has called it "industrial-scale" theft, with perpetrators creating fake entities to bill for nonexistent daycare services, autism therapy, housing stabilization, and child nutrition. Over 90 individuals have been charged, the vast majority from the state's Somali community, in schemes that prosecutors say attracted "fraud tourists" from out of state due to lax oversight. Yet…

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Red State Cowardice

Indiana Republicans' Redistricting Fumble: A Generational Self-Inflicted Wound Note: This column was drafted last week in the immediate aftermath of the Indiana Senate's December 11 vote, but its publication was delayed by a cascade of shattering national and international tragedies that dominated the news cycle. The mass shooting at Brown University—followed days later by the linked murder of an MIT professor and the suspect's suicide—claimed young lives during finals week and reopened raw wounds over campus safety and gun violence. Then came the horrific antisemitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney on the first night of Hanukkah, a targeted assault…

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Democrats Dither and Dawdle

Democrat Dithering Hands GOP a Rare Midterm Edge As the 2026 midterms loom, Democrats stumble through dithering and delay, squandering a chance to leverage affordability concerns while handing the GOP a rare offensive opportunity. This paralysis-fueled by distractions, reluctance to tackle fraud, and a fractured message-threatens to transform a potentially favorable economic shift into a political rout. With historical trends and current momentum favoring Republicans, Trump’s party stands poised to flip seats and reshape Congress as Democrats falter. The past two weeks expose a cascade of Democratic missteps. It began with a video from the "Seditious Six"-Sens. Mark Kelly (AZ), Elissa…

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Tennessee’s CD-07 Special Election

A Tale of Polls, Hype, and a Solid GOP Win The dust has settled on Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District special election, held on December 2, 2025, to replace Rep. Mark Green, who resigned earlier this year. The result-Republican Matt Van Epps defeating Democrat Aftyn Behn by a solid 8.9-point margin-stands in stark contrast to the pre-election buzz that painted this race as a potential nail-biter or even a Democratic upset. Polls suggested a razor-thin contest, while media outlets hyped Behn’s progressive candidacy as a midterm bellwether. Yet, the numbers tell a different story: a decisive GOP hold in a Trump +22…

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A Trial Run for a Color Revolution

The Democrat-Media Axis Unleashes Another Anonymous Hoax Over Thanksgiving Weekend, the airwaves and newsfeeds are abuzz with yet another dubious narrative, this time alleging that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a chilling "kill them all" or "no quarter" order during a U.S. military strike on a suspected Venezuelan drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean last September. The story, peddled by the usual suspects at The Washington Post and CNN, relies on the same tired tactic: anonymous sources whispering in the shadows, offering no evidence, no names, and no accountability. This comes hot on the heels of the so-called "Seditious Six" video-a preemptive…

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Another Democrat Narrative Unravels

Republicans Seize the Opportunity As the dust settles on the latest political skirmish, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the Democrat narrative surrounding President-elect Donald Trump's alleged "illegal orders" is collapsing under its own weight. The recent video by six Democrat lawmakers, urging military personnel to refuse unlawful commands, has not only failed to gain traction but has instead exposed the fragility of their arguments. BREAKING: Elected Democrats just released a video encouraging members of the military to commit treason and DEFY orders from Trump and Hegseth pic.twitter.com/Sm4calnccR— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 18, 2025 "Their narrative is falling apart in real…

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Make America Affordable Again

Trump’s Urgent War on the Cost-of-Living Donald Trump did not wait for the 2026 midterms to feel the heat. The off-year elections, the 43-day Democrat government shutdown, and the looming Obamacare subsidy cliff all delivered the same message: Americans still can’t afford life. The President responded with an avalanche of initiatives under one banner: Make America Affordable Again. The Urgency Is Real-and Self-Inflicted by Democrats For 43 days this fall, Democrats shut down the government rather than pass clean funding without permanently extending the enhanced Obamacare subsidies they themselves had deliberately set to expire on December 31, 2025. It was the…

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A Golden Opportunity

The Subsidy Cliff: Democrats' Gift to Republican Reformers I. The Shutdown Collapse: Democrats' Humiliating Fold What began as a bold filibuster to extract ironclad ACA subsidy extensions devolved into a spectacle of Democrat incompetence. For 43 days, they blocked clean funding bills, inflicting $15 billion in economic pain-delayed wages for 800,000 workers, 6% flight reductions at 40 airports, and cuts to Head Start for 10,000 children and VA services for 900,000 veterans. Polls briefly favored them, with 45-52% blaming Republicans, but as the toll mounted, public fatigue set in. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's "hold the line" crumbled when eight Democrats…

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