Minnesota’s out of control fraud problem has been exposed and now politicians must root it out of the government. Some government programs such as the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) are beyond repair, as we have seen our tax dollars fund shell daycare operations, often run by Somali migrants.

Some in the legislature have had enough of the fraud and are taking action!

In the House, Rep. Drew Roach (58B) introduced HF4336 as the chief author which would defund and eliminate the fraud-ridden CCAP program. As seen in previous A4L reporting, Sen. Nathan Wesenberg (SD10) introduced this bill in the Senate as the chief author. The Senate version, SF4421, became publicly available on Friday, March 13th and the House version, HF4336, became publicly available on Monday, March 16th.

The House and Senate bills have identical language and are the guaranteed way to eliminate child care fraud in Minnesota. A4L has been exposing CCAP fraud with reporting back to 2019 and 2020 but RINO politicians have continued funding the fraud-ridden program alongside radical Democrats.

Rep. Roach is joined in the House with the following co-authors on the bill: Reps Ben Davis (6A), Max Rymer (28B), and Isaac Schultz (10B). As seen in previous A4L reporting, Sen. Wesenberg also has three co-authors on the bill in the Senate. The maximum number of bill authors, including the chief author, is five in the Senate and 35 in the House. Conservatives can find and contact their legislators to ask why they have not signed onto this bill.

The bill will go to the Children & Families House Committee where legislators must fight to defund fraud or be exposed for protecting fraud. With GOP control of the House, it would be a failure of Lisa Demuth if she cannot get the GOP caucus to pass this bill.

Action 4 Liberty will continue leading the MN conservative movement with liberty-based reporting that you can’t get anywhere else. The Democrats and RINOs must be put to the test on fraud and the Sen. Wesenberg/Rep. Roach legislation is the best way to do so.

There are an estimated 20 million semi-automatic weapons in our country. There are an estimated 717 million firearm magazines that hold ten rounds of ammunition or larger in the U.S.

Banning semi-automatic weapons and large capacity magazines is unconstitutional and turns law abiding citizens into criminals. This far left policy has been gaining ground among Democrats and it is now advancing through the state legislature.

SF3655 is an unconstitutional, anti-gun piece of legislation that would send Minnesotans to prison for owning a semi-automatic firearm or a magazine that holds more than ten rounds. This bill appeared in front of the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee on Friday, March 13th and was advanced to the Senate Finance Committee by a party line vote.

Another bill, SF3836, makes certain data of firearm permit holders available publicly. This is a violation of Minnesotans’ 2nd and 4th Amendment Rights yet Democrats advanced the bill to the Senate floor in a party line vote. Part 1 of the committee meeting can be seen here and Part 2 can be seen here.

Several other gun control bills also appeared before the committee. Swing district Democrat Judy Seeberger (SD41) sits on the Judiciary Committee and votes like every other deranged leftist Democrat on the committee for any vote of substance. Despite pretending to be a blue-dog moderate, Judy Seeberger has done the bidding of the big government, leftist Establishment her entire political career and voted with Democrats on all gun control bills in Friday’s committee meeting.

By voting for radical gun control, Seeberger is voting to illegitimately turn some of her law-abiding constituents into criminals. Seeberger is constantly supporting far-left policies in a district that she won by just 321 votes in 2022. Now that she is up for reelection, Seeberger’s fake moderate image is a tougher sell. See 2022 election results below:

Seeberger endorsed radical Socialist Omar Fateh for Minneapolis Mayor, voted to allow transgender mutilation for kids of any age, passed a bill that protected pedophiles in the MN Human Rights Act, and voted in lockstep with Democrats on fraud-ridden spending and far-left policies. 

Judy Seeberger is no moderate. She is a gun-grabbing leftist tyrant and her latest actions on gun control prove that thoroughly. 

Republican Tom Dippel is now the State Representative for district 41B and is running against Seeberger in a rematch for the Senate seat this year. Voters can compare their voting records and scores in the 2025 A4L Scorecard. RINO Tony Jurgens backstabbed the GOP and endorsed Democrat Judy Seeberger in 2022, which has given the Democrats a one vote majority.

Action 4 Liberty will continue defending our Constitutional Rights and will be unwavering in our mission to protect liberty for the next generation. A4L will remain the cutting-edge, liberty-based reporting that Patriots cannot get anywhere else.

The only way to eliminate Minnesota’s multi-billion dollar fraud scheme is to drastically shrink the size of government, eliminate pork-barrel omnibus bills, and abolish/defund the fraud-ridden programs. The Uniparty is always looking to grow government and will only offer symbolic measures in opposing fraud. In contrast, Sen. Nathan Wesenberg (SD10) is striking at the heart of the issue by introducing a bill (SF4421) that abolishes and defunds the fraud-ridden Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP).

Independent journalist Nick Shirley shocked the world when he exposed that Minnesota was funneling billions of dollars into fake and fraudulent daycares, often run by Somali migrants. The outright deception seemed apparent with taxpayer funded institutions like the “Quality Learing Center” being incapable of properly spelling the word “Learning” in their signage. See below:

Childcare fraud is nothing new in Minnesota. Action 4 Liberty has been fighting this scam for eight years! A4L even created a petition to defund the CCAP childcare program seven years ago! As seen in A4L reporting from 2019 and 2020, we’ve been exposing how CCAP funds have been funneled to Somalia for years! A4L demanded that the GOP defund the program each legislative session but Republican leadership has failed to deliver.

CCAP spending has continued to increase in recent years and has led to uncontrollable fraud. See spending graph from the 2024 House Research report on the CCAP program below:

Rather than cut around the edges, Sen. Wesenberg wants to trash the program so Minnesota can start fresh! Wesenberg seems to understand that Minnesota’s fraud problem requires drastic action and fraud-ridden programs cannot be salvaged, they must be eliminated.

Wesenberg introduced the bill (SF4421) on Thursday, March 12th and it received its first reading. The bill now goes to the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. Committee member RINO Senator Jim Abeler (SD35) has the opportunity to redeem himself on this issue after A4L previously had to inform his constituents of the fraudulent program he supported funding. See below:

Sen. Wesenberg is joined on the bills by Senate co-authors Cal Bahr (SD31), Steve Drazkowski (SD20), and Eric Lucero (SD31). A4L is told by sources at the Capitol that a bill to eliminate CCAP will be introduced in the State House on Monday, March 16th.

Action 4 Liberty will continue demanding our government shrink down to serving its core, Constitutional functions. Minnesota does not have time to cut the fraud one penny at a time, fraudulent programs must be eliminated and taxpayers must be able to keep more of their hard-earned money. A4L will never waiver in our mission to protect liberty for the next generation will continue providing Patriots with liberty-based reporting that they cannot get anywhere else.

Artificial intelligence is an emerging technology that incompetent politicians are too inept to navigate. The mass use of AI in the form of photos, videos, and audio has transformed the technological era we live in and the government is desperate to keep up with regulations. Unfortunately, those regulations may end up limiting the free speech of Minnesotans rather than having massive tech companies be held accountable for their products.

GOP Senator Eric Lucero (SD30) announced that he is teaming up with far-left Democrat Erin Maye Quade (SD56) on a series of AI regulation bills. Of course, it is perfectly reasonable to partner with a Democrat on issues like civil liberties if there is political overlap but it appears Lucero has gone beyond that point with several AI regulatory bills.

Lucero’s rhetoric in his partnership with radical Socialist Erin Maye Quade has been concerning to conservatives. In the Senate Judiciary Committee, he argued that they both absolutely support law enforcement, they’re both pro-business, and they both want to “improve quality of life across the board”. By making personal praises of Maye Quade as opposed to confining his praise to only the legislation, Lucero shows MN voters that he is not a very genuine actor in the legislature. The full committee meeting can be seen here.

One of the bills Lucero and Maye Quade are partnering on is a good, pro-4th Amendment (Right to no unreasonable searches and seizures) bill. This bill, SF1120, prohibits the government from using AI for reverse-location info. In essence, police agencies want to have the authority to capture data from all cellphones within a certain geolocation, likely near a crime scene. Of course, the criminal actions of others should not lead to the trampling of your rights. While SF1120 is a useful bill to protect our civil liberties, the bills go downhill from there.

Maye Quade and Lucero are proposing an Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution (SF4114) to declare that AI is not entitled to free speech. Since this provision would be enforced by radical leftist Attorney General Keith Ellison, it could easily be twisted to threaten the free speech of Minnesota citizens. The use of AI can be an expression of free speech and the bill is utterly ridiculous since it is unenforceable. AI does not care or stop just because some politicians added some words to the state Constitution! See bill below:

Lucero is known to be supporting two more AI bills with far left Erin Maye Quade including one to ban businesses from using chat bots posing as humans (SF1886) and another to ban minors from using chat bots (SF1857). While there likely are some examples of deceptive business practices taking place with AI chat bots, a one-size-fits-all regulation on all businesses is not the solution. If an AI chat bot effectively services a customer, why would it matter if the customer thought they were talking to a person?

In regards to the bill banning minors from using chat bots, this is an unenforceable regulation as there is no way for the state to prevent everyone under the age of 18 from using an AI chat bot. It additionally places regulatory burden across the board instead of singling out bad actors in the AI space. Both of these laws can be selectively enforced by Keith Ellison and are a threat to liberty. Interestingly, convicted burglar Nicole Mitchell was removed as a co-author from this bill (and several other AI bills) just one week ago (3/4/26) despite Mitchell having resigned from office in July of last year. See underlined section below:

There are two AI bills that Maye Quade is proposing where it is unclear if Lucero supports them or not. One bill bans health carriers from using AI to decide prior authorization requests (SF3984) and the other is a taxpayer-funded environmental impact study on the effects of AI for an undisclosed amount of money (SF1117). Lucero only singled out two of Maye Quade's AI bills that he does not support as seen in their joint press conference. One of the bills bans businesses from setting prices using AI (SF3098) and the other bans AI in utilization review (SF1856). Lucero is right to steer clear of these regulatory bills but he should have the same skepticism of many of the other previously mentioned bills.

Lucero partnering with Democrats to impose AI laws appears to be following in the footsteps of turncoat state Rep. Walter Hudson (30A). As seen in previous A4L reporting, Hudson partnered with Democrats to pass a bill that criminalizes AI memes of politicians and allows Keith Ellison to send Minnesotans to prison for five years for violating the law. 

Action 4 Liberty will continue to protect our Constitutional Rights. The government will take any opportunity they can to deteriorate our right to free speech and many of the bills being pushed by Maye Quade and Lucero are a threat to that liberty. A4L remains principled and unwavering in our mission to protect liberty for the next generation. 

The Never Again Pledge serves as a litmus test for conservative voters that distinguishes freedom loving Patriots from Establishment RINOs. Covid tyranny enforced by Tim Walz was only possible because he has unilateral Emergency Powers as Governor. A4L has demanded the Governor be stripped of that authority since one person should never be able to impose lockdowns and mandates across our entire state. The only legislation that can get the job done is the Never Again Bill (HF26/SF1191) and candidates can prove their support for it by signing onto the Never Again Pledge.

A4L can now report that businessman and Army veteran Kendall Qualls has officially signed onto the Never Again Pledge.

Kendall Qualls joins GOP Governor candidates Mike Lindell, John Krhin, Phillip Parrish, and Raul Estrada in signing the Never Again Pledge. Qualls signed the Never Again Pledge ahead of the GOP Endorsement Abiding Governor debate on 3/11/26. See below:

Up to this point, Qualls has refused to sign our pledge by arguing he wouldn’t sign any pledge for any organization. However, it appears that Qualls has realized how much this issue matters to conservatives and has corrected course. MN conservatives want prevent future tyranny and the Never Again Bill is the way to get it done.

Kendall Qualls will be benefitted by grassroots conservatives giving his campaign another look. As the race currently sits, Qualls is joined by Mike Lindell and Lisa Demuth as leading candidates who are expected to have a competitive contest for the party endorsement. By signing the Never Again Pledge, Qualls has further differentiated himself from Lisa Demuth.

As seen in recent A4L reporting, Lisa Demuth is campaigning on the Never Again Bill despite the fact that she blocked the bill on the floor and refuses to sign the Never Again Pledge.

Qualls recently announced modular home/building businessman Brian Nicholson as his running mate. Many were surprised to see he selected an outsider businessman as opposed to a career politician since Nicholson lacks in name ID and government experience. This in mind, conservatives are fed up with crooked politicians destroying our state and know new blood is needed. Republicans and Minnesotans have a history of electing outsiders into the highest levels of government and the Qualls/Nicholson ticket appears to be banking on that strategy.

Action 4 Liberty will continue leading the grassroots conservative movement in MN by setting a high bar for politicians to meet. We are unwavering in our principles and commitment in the fight for liberty. A4L will continue providing Patriots with liberty-based reporting that cannot be found anywhere else. 

If grassroots conservatives know one thing in Minnesota, it’s that Keith Ellison is the LAST person who should be trusted with tax dollars to fight fraud. Minnesota’s fraud scandal is a national embarrassment totaling billions upon billions in wasted tax dollars and the leaked audio between Ellison and Feeding our Future fraudsters speaks for itself.

Fraud surrounding daycares, autism centers, transportation companies, and medicaid has shown the incompetence or outright corruption of our elected officials. Rather than making Ellison and his office be held accountable for failing to eliminate fraud, House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee UNANIMOUSLY joined Democrats to advance a bill (HF2354) that gives Ellison’s office over $1.2M so he can supposedly fight fraud! The full committee meeting can be viewed here.

See committee members below:

Grassroots conservatives wouldn’t give Ellison another penny! Ellison has proven himself to be aligned with fraudsters, not taxpayers! Ellison was already appropriated a bloated budget last year (that was an increase from his previous budget) that he is wasting away on frivolous lawsuits against the Trump Administration.

Another day of the MN legislature means MN taxpayers are getting screwed over by the Uniparty. Swing district Democrat Matt Norris (32B) is desperate to win reelection in 2026 and has spent this session pretending to care about fraud. When Norris isn’t trying to weaken the already weak Inspector General Bill, he is carrying bills to fool his constituents into believing that he is fighting against wasteful government. Norris narrowly won his district in 2024, winning by just over 400 votes. See below:

Norris testified in the Judiciary Committee alongside Keith Ellison and AG employee Nick Wanka. Most grassroots conservatives would relish in the opportunity to grill Ellison on fraud while he grovels for more money but the GOP was as pathetic as ever! Reps Bidal Duran (2A), Elliott Engen (36A), Walter Hudson (30A), Peggy Scott (31A), and Terry Stier (22B) all failed to meet the moment and were as polite as possible by while Ellison skirted around the few questions provided. Even worse, GOP Reps Matt Bliss (2B) and Scott Van Binsbergen (16A) didn’t say anything at all to Ellison during the committee meeting! With Engen running for State Auditor, his dull and uninspiring committee performance against Keith Ellison leaves Republican voters wondering if he has the knowledge and toughness necessary to root out Minnesota's mass fraud scheme.

The GOP questioned whether the AG’s office was the proper authority and questioned some of the processes the office follows on fraud investigations. While Rep. Stier argued that state and local law enforcement was better equipped to handle some of this fraud, he and all GOP members of the Judiciary Committee voted alongside radical leftist Democrats to advance the over $1.2M for Ellison’s office. Every Republican on the committee voted alongside transgender lunatic “Leigh” Finke (66A) to fund fraudster Keith Ellison with your tax dollars! See spending in bill below:

Amazingly, it was NEVER asked in the Committee how much the AG’s office would be likely to recover from fraud prosecutions with the $1.2M appropriation. If the AG’s office would recover less than $1.2M then MN would have wasted more money in the false pursuit of saving tax dollars!

To make matters worse, Ellison was touting that funding this program leads to 3-1 federal government matching funds (state funds 25% and federal government funds 75%). In essence, this means that support for this funding bill will lead to more national spending/an increased national debt. This bill is not fiscally conservative at all!

In the Senate, swing district Democrat Judy Seeberger (SD41) is one of the bill authors (as is failed Minneapolis Mayor candidate Omar Fateh). The GOP is giving swing district Democrats Matt Norris and Judy Seeberger something to campaign on by supporting their bill. They should keep in mind that any bill that has "Leigh" Finke, Keith Ellison, Brion Curran, Sandra Feist, Omar Fateh, and other radical leftists' support will NOT actually fight MN fraud. Finke even gave Ellison a BIG hug before the committee meeting started! See below:

While the St. Paul Swamp continues to look at the government as the answer for every problem, grassroots conservatives know that the government itself is the problem. This bill has almost exclusively radical left Democrat co-authors with only RINOs Steve Gander (1B), Joe Schomacker (21A), and Jim Abeler (SD35) signed on.

Keith Ellison is the least trustworthy person in MN to fight fraud! This legislation (HF2354) was advanced to the House Public Safety Committee and will continue through this process until it receives a floor vote. With 67 GOP House Reps and control over the gavel, the House GOP could block this legislation. After doing so, the GOP could fight to eliminate all programs with known fraud and appropriate money to a government agency that is far more trustworthy in fighting fraud than Keith Ellison’s office. Additionally, if Republicans want to win a true House majority in 2026, the last thing they'd want to do is prop up disingenuous, swing district Democrats.

Action 4 Liberty will continue keeping Patriots informed with news that cannot be found anywhere else. A4L stands with the grassroots in the fight against corrupt, crony government.

There is no profession more deceptive than that of a politician. Half-truths lead the public to have misconceptions of reality. RINO politicians sell themselves as limited government conservatives while doing the opposite in office. 

Unlike the political establishment, Action 4 Liberty is a principled organization that refuses to waiver in shrinking the size and scope of government. RINOs like Lisa Demuth cannot say the same thing and are forced to tell voters half of the story.

Lisa Demuth has a campaign literature piece that her campaign has presented to delegates and alternates at local GOP conventions that touts herself as a co-author of the Never Again Bill (HF26) despite the fact that she KILLED the bill on the House floor and refuses to sign the Never Again Pledge! Since she has FAILED to deliver on the Never Again Bill, it is odd that it is mentioned as an example for how she embodies "Leadership That Delivers". See highlighted bullet point below:

As seen in recent A4L reporting, support for A4L’s signature piece of legislation, the Never Again Bill, is a top priority and litmus test for conservative voters. The Never Again Bill prevents future tyrannical lockdowns and mandates imposed unilaterally like Tim Walz did during Covid. This bill requires the House and Senate to both pass the Emergency Powers Resolution with a 2/3rds vote or the Emergency is not declared.

Republican legislators, including Lisa Demuth, have noticed the grassroots support for this legislation so they’ll sign on as a co-author to give themselves cover. However, it was not the Never Again Bill that Demuth decided to push but rather RINO Kristin Robbins’ watered-down, FAKE version of our bill. Robbins’ bill even INCREASES the amount of days a Governor has unilateral Emergency Powers!

An amendment was proposed on the floor to replace Robbins’ fake bill with A4L’s Never Again Bill and Demuth ruled it out of order to avoid a floor vote and to protect RINOs from being exposed as Uniparty swamp creatures. A vote was held on Demuth’s ruling and the RINOs got their way.

After killing the bill on the floor, never giving it a proper up and down vote, and refusing to sign the pledge, Demuth has to trick voters into thinking she is a real supporter of the legislation. A true supporter would not be dragging their feet but would be kickstarting the bill, whipping votes in support, and giving it an immediate floor vote. 

Demuth is the Speaker of the House. She has the power to bring legislation forward. If she wants to use the Never Again Bill to boost her campaign, she needs to do the leg-work involved with passing the bill.

Action 4 Liberty will continue to keep the public informed with liberty-based reporting that cannot be found anywhere else. A4L will continue to champion the Never Again Bill and will lead the fight to protect our liberty for the next generation.

Minnesota politics has been the focus of the nation and A4L has kept politicians’ feet to the fire by demanding they pledge to support the STRONGEST piece of legislation to stop unilateral lockdowns like Tim Walz did for Covid from ever happening again: The Never Again Bill (HF26).

A4L President Erik Mortensen championed this bill in the State House during the height of Covid tyranny under Tim Walz and it remains a top priority for grassroots conservatives across the state. The closure of churches, schools, businesses, and everyday society combined with mask/vax mandates was arguably the worst infringement on Minnesotans’ natural, God-given rights in the state’s history. The bill remains active in the Legislature with Sen. Nathan Wesenberg (SD10) and Rep. Drew Roach (58B) as the chief authors.

The Never Again pledge became a way for voters to know which candidates would terminate the Governor’s unilateral Emergency Power authority and which power-hungry, Uniparty swamp-creatures would stand in the way of that legislative priority.

While the Governor race has dwindled in recent months, at least 11 GOP candidates remain. Of those candidates, four have signed onto the Never Again Pledge: My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, minister John Krhin, Catholic school/church administrator Phillip Parrish, and conservative activist Raul Estrada.

Each of the candidates shown above fought Covid tyranny during the thick of it and have come out the other side demanding freedom! Lindell, Krhin, Parrish, and Estrada have planted their flags and made it known that they care more about YOUR freedom than THEIR power! Estrada called out Covid corruption on social media and Parrish has written extensively on the topic. As the most well-known name on that list, Mike Lindell made major waves by signing the Pledge live at A4L's Christmas Party which making it clear that he is running an anti-establishment campaign like the three others mentioned. Minister John Krhin even kept his church open during lockdowns and wouldn't allow his congregation to have their Right to Worship trampled on by Tim Walz.

Five GOP candidates have refused to sign the pledge, signaling to voters that they will not actually fight to restore our God-given, Constitutional Rights. Those five include: House Speaker Lisa Demuth, Rep. Peggy Bennett, businessman Patrick Knight, Rep. Kristin Robbins, and Kendall Qualls. In addition to refusing to sign the pledge, Reps Bennett, Demuth, and Robbins have all voted AGAINST the Never Again Bill on the House floor and instead pushed Robbins’ weak, fake version of the bill.

Two other Republican candidates, Ross Nova and Lee Wickboldt, have filed and were requested by A4L to sign the pledge by an upcoming deadline. Wickboldt refused to sign. Former UFC heavyweight fighter Brad Kohler has signed the Never Again Pledge but he is no longer seeking the GOP nomination and is instead running for Governor as an Independent. 

Beyond the Governor, the elected statewide positions sit on the Executive Council and vote on Executive Orders made by the Governor. With this role, A4L expanded the Never Again Pledge to encompass the Auditor, SOS, and AG races as well. 

In the State Auditor race, only Braham Mayor Nate George has signed onto the pledge. Meanwhile, his GOP opponents Elliott Engen and Scott Jensen refuse to stand with grassroots conservatives on this pivotal issue. While Jensen has made his opposition to Democrat Covid policies a centerpoint of his campaigns, he will not take the necessary step of supporting legislation that can prevent it from ever happening again. Like some of the RINO Governor candidates, Elliott Engen voted AGAINST the Never Again Bill on the House floor to support Robbins’ weak, fake version of the bill instead. As the only signer of the Pledge for Auditor candidates, Nate George is making sure to differentiate himself.

The Secretary of State race features two Republicans running, former Judge Tad Jude and businesswoman/former CD1 MNGOP Executive Committeewoman Wendy Phillips, and both have signed A4L’s Never Again Pledge. As an active participant in the fight against lockdowns and mandates, Wendy Phillips has likely built some good-will with on-the-ground conservatives.

The Attorney General race only has one Republican filed. Mega-donor and former Tim Pawlenty presidential campaign chair Ron Schutz. While conservatives would hope that a candidate seeking the chief legal position of Minnesota would be prepared to stand up for our Constitutional liberties, Schutz has refused to sign the Never Again Pledge. Action 4 Liberty would love to update our reporting if Schutz decides to change his mind.

Democrats have made it clear that when they control the government, they do whatever they want and trample our liberties. Republican candidates that refuse to take bold action expose themselves as weak, Uniparty, Establishment, pro-big government RINOs. 

As seen in the top navigation tab of our website, we have updated lists for signers and refusers for the Governor race and the other statewide offices.

The Never Again Pledge remains the tool and litmus test of grassroots conservatives. Politicians will always try to say the right thing and make you think that they align with your interests. A4L puts that to the test, creates needed differentiation, and informs We The People where these politicians actually stand. A4L will continue leading the charge and will never waiver in our mission to protect liberty for the next generation.

Minnesota’s fraud scandal was exposed nationally yet crooked politicians like Tim Walz and Keith Ellison are doing nothing to end the scheme funding these fraudsters. As previously reported by A4L, Walz and Ellison were compelled to testify in front of the U.S. House Oversight Committee to answer for the waste, fraud, and abuse of tax dollars seen in Minnesota. This testimony happened just two days after Keith Ellison announced he would sue the Trump Administration for withholding $243M for Medicaid payments to deter fraud.

While Walz has exited the Governor race, radical Socialist Keith Ellison is still running for Attorney General despite being even more intimately close to the Somali fraudsters than Walz was. In typical partisan political theatre, Ellison and Walz were grilled about the various elements of MN fraud by Republican members while given a pass by Democrats. While Globalist RINO Tom Emmer does not sit on the Oversight Committee, he was given speaking time by some other GOP committee member to performatively trash Walz and Ellison. The entire Congressional hearing can be viewed here and the full fraud report the committee put together can be viewed here.

Emmer made sure to attack Keith Ellison for his connections to Somali fraudsters but conveniently failed to mention that he partnered with Ellison in Congress to form a Somali Caucus! Emmer berated conservative constituents who dared to question the mass Somali migration into St. Cloud and even argued that Somalis are one of the fastest assimilating cultures in the world. Emmer partnered with Ellison to send U.S. dollars to Somalia in a program that Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent brutally attacked (remittance program that funded Muslim terrorist group Al-Shabaab) and partnered with Amy Klobuchar to waste tax dollars funding welfare to Somalia!

Tom Emmer even DELETED the press release he had that formed the Somali Caucus with Ellison! Unfortunately for Emmer, you can see it for yourself below thanks to internet archive websites. See below:

As seen in previous A4L reporting, President Trump taunted Emmer for his love of Somalia during a Congressional speech stating “He’s a big fan of Somalia”, which took place shortly before Emmer deleted the above press release. As many may remember, this is not the first time Trump has swung at Emmer. When Emmer desperately wanted to become Speaker of the House, Trump put out a Truth Social post that labeled Emmer a “Globalist RINO” and argued he is “totally out-of-touch with Republican Voters.” See post below:

During Emmer's Speaker bid, Charlie Kirk labeled Tom Emmer as "the worst of all of them". 

Tom Emmer is as phony as they come on the Somali issue. He had nothing to say about the Somali fraud scheme until it blew up nationally and he couldn’t avoid it. Some Republicans will be fooled by Emmer’s new-found tough rhetoric while true conservatives see through the flip-flopping. As the GOP Whip, Emmer has whipped votes for continuing resolution bills that fund all kinds of fraud nationwide! Emmer is not whipping votes in Congress for the conservative political position, he is whipping votes for the Uniparty’s political position!

There is only one way to eliminate fraud but Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and Tom Emmer are ALL opposed to it. The abolition of pork-filled, multi-subject, fraud-ridden omnibus bills is the ONLY way to gut out the fraud. Massive bills that spend money every which way with no accountability is the root cause but Walz, Ellison, and Emmer all love over-spending omnibus bills. The government should only serve legitimate, Constitutional purposes and the federal government may have to defund Minnesota to make that message completely understood.

Emmer currently faces Marine veteran Mike Foley for the GOP endorsement and as seen in previous A4L reporting, Foley confronted Emmer at a BPOU convention about his unwillingness to engage on a veteran-related issue. Foley argues on social media that Emmer has backstabbed the Somali community. Constitutional conservative, 2024 CD6 GOP candidate, and professional golf caddy Chris Corey tells A4L he is still exploring another run against Emmer.

Action 4 Liberty will continue to advocate for the taxpayers that crooked politicians continue to screw over. Walz and Ellison are not going to be held accountable by blowhard politicians in DC, they are going to be held accountable by grassroots action. It was not Congress that exposed the MN fraud scandal, it was an independent journalist named Nick Shirley. In the same spirit, A4L remains committed to exposing MN corruption and never wavering in our mission to protect liberty for the next generation.

Grassroots conservatives in Otter Tail County (OTC) have been through the political wringer for years with the RINO Establishment making one failed attempt after another to ban and oust conservative delegates. Local Patriots have refused to give up and have continued in their battle to reclaim the Republican Party. 

In OTC’s recent GOP BPOU convention, local conservatives won the vast majority of delegate positions for the CD7 and State conventions! OTC Patriots say they won 30/35 of the available delegate positions, see their graphic below:

This is a HUGE victory for the Grassroots! Sources tell A4L that bold, unapologetic Constitutional conservatives like Merle and Carol Hexum received some of the most votes and earned top delegate spots while RINOs like lunatic Tommy Merickel couldn’t win a delegate position at all!

Like other conservatives in OTC, the Hexums were banned from attending CD7 conventions that they were delegates to. In 2024, they and other OTC conservatives received major attention at the GOP State Convention as they fought to have their delegate status restored while wearing brightly colored yellow t-shirts. While the vote to accept the MNGOP credentials report was narrowly passed, Royce White won the U.S. Senate endorsement in commanding fashion and OTC conservatives flooded the stage with Royce thanks to White's then campaign associate Tom Madden.

Now, the very conservatives who were shut out of the process are back in the driver’s seat!

OTC has the largest delegation to the CD7 convention and they have been shut out of the process because the Establishment fears they will endorse a conservative challenger against RINO Michelle Fischbach. In 2024, businessman Steve Boyd impressively withheld the GOP endorsement from Fischbach by winning grassroots support for his candidacy even though many OTC delegates were blocked from voting and participating in the convention.

Now in 2026, Fischbach faces an even more formidable challenge for the GOP endorsement in U.S. Air Force veteran Major Dave Hughes.

Picture provided from Hughes' campaign website

Hughes is a 21-year Air Force combat pilot, officer, and veteran according to his campaign website bio and has strong name recognition in CD7 as their two time GOP nominee for U.S. Congress. While the district previously elected Democrat Collin Peterson, it is now Minnesota’s reddest, most reliably conservative Congressional district in the state. Hughes also has the support and endorsement of Steve Boyd, showing that his candidacy is coalescing grassroots Republicans.

As the former GOP nominee, Dave Hughes earned President Trump’s endorsement in 2018 and has remained tapped-in with America First conservatives in Minnesota from his local BPOU on up. While President Trump has chosen to support incumbent RINOs to gain favor with them, many conservatives would prefer to elect Patriots who actually believe in the America First agenda. Career politician Michelle Fischbach has been in office for nearly 3 decades and is serving the interests of the DC Swamp far more than she is serving the interests of her constituents.

CD7 conservatives are already fired up because their elected Chair, Bret Bussman, was unjustly ousted from his post. A4L reported extensively on Michelle Fischbach puppets' corrupt scheme to overthrow the delegates' choice of Bussman for CD7 Chair. The RINOs illegitimately stacked the deck against Bussman in the CD7 Executive Committee and used bogus arguments to remove him that were very reminessant of federal Democrats' ridiculous impeachment efforts against President Trump. Though Bussman fought and refused to concede, the RINOs ousted him and installed crooked Tiffany Liemaster-Knott. While RINO Michelle Fischbach tried to play dumb about her cronies illegitimately removing Bussman as Chair, grassroots conservatives in CD7 know exactly what is going on.

OTC delegates may also be excited to support Wendy Phillips' Secretary of State candidacy. Phillips was previously the CD1 Committeewoman for the MNGOP State Executive Committee but was unjustly removed from her position by corrupt David Hann cronies after she chaired OTC's convention after the party tried to strip the local conservatives of their delegate status. Since Phillips stood up for grassroots conservatives and the election integrity movement, the Establishment painted a target on her back. Phillips has come back swinging and will likely have the backing of many OTC Republicans who shared moments with her like group prayers and singing of the song "God Bless America".

Action 4 Liberty will continue to be on the forefront of the MN conservative movement because we prioritize the interests of the grassroots over the Establishment. A4L will continue providing Patriots with cutting-edge, bold, liberty-based reporting that cannot be found anywhere else.