Big government spending is out of control in Minnesota and it is well known that billions upon billions in tax dollars are being funneled to Somali fraudsters. Action 4 Liberty has kept the public informed as politicians waste away our tax dollars but has a correction to make on our previous reporting. 

In our recent story, we highlighted the massive Human Services spending for fraud-ridden programs that Democrats and RINOs passed in the House. We highlighted a cost of around $700M but have since realized that it is EVEN WORSE! This bill actually spends over $1.4 Billion on certain fraud-ridden Human services program!

The bill, (HF4546), increases spending by over $739.6M for this year and over $775M next year! We thought it was bad before but now we know things are TWICE AS BAD as we previously reported!

While there are other cuts in the bill that totals about $81.6M, that is a drop in the bucket of the $1.4 Billion in increased spending!

Under the “leadership” of Lisa Demuth as Speaker of the MN House, the status quo of fraud has been maintained. She has voted for EVERY SINGLE bill signed into law by Tim Walz last year (budget year) and this year. Instead of holding the Walz/Ellison fraud regime accountable, Demuth led the RINOs to bail out these wasteful programs that will overspending their allotted budget.

After the House vote to give DHS more money for fraud-ridden programs, Lisa Demuth proved her hypocrisy by complaining about the fraud that DHS is funding. When will all of Minnesota realize that she is a total fraud?!? See below:

Action 4 Liberty will continue providing Patriots with liberty-based reporting that cannot be found anywhere else. 

Corrupt, tyrannical politicians think they know how you should spend your money better than you. The problem of big government is not just a Democrat problem; This is a Uniparty problem. On Tuesday, May 12th, the Minnesota House and Senate passed legislation that banned predictive betting markets.

The legislation, SF4760, is a multi-subject, 111 page, unconstitutional public safety policy omnibus bill that contains all kinds of provisions covering various subjects. Some of these provisions were neutral and mundane, some were good law, and some were big government nonsense. As we will focus on in this piece, this bill bans the ability for individuals to spend their own money as they see fit.

Websites like Kalshi, PredictIt, and Polymarket have become popular ways for individuals to put their money where their mouth is and bet on various happenings in sports, society, and politics. Interestingly, these websites are often more reliable than mainstream media polling since individuals are incentivized to accurately predict elections and events.

The vast majority of individuals who use predictive betting market websites are not doing so with an intent to gamble for a living. Instead, they are using their personal knowledge as a means to make some cash on the side. Minnesota citizens are not the children of the government, we do not need the permission of corrupt politicians to participate in consensual financial activity!

It is clear that Democrats and RINOs are interested in protecting the special interests of American Indian casinos and do not want to allow any competition. Our state prioritizes one racial group over all others on gambling issues, purely on the basis of race. 

Zero Democrats voted to oppose this unconstitutional, anti-freedom omnibus bills. The only Republican author on this bill was RINO Paul Novotny (30B).

While Democrats make their subservience to American Indian special interests extremely obvious with cringe-worthy “land acknowledgements”, Republicans are also controlled by these casino special interests! As seen in the House Republican Campaign Committee (HRCC) 2025 campaign finance report, they received $100,000 from the Prairie Island Indian Communities PAC and $85,000 from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux! See below:

RINOs are not going to fight for your interests when they are paid $185,000 to do otherwise! 

In the House, nearly half of the Republican members voted against the unconstitutional omnibus bill. 34 voted for the bill, 32 voted no, and Marion Rarick (29B) abstained and was excused from part of the session. See vote below:

In the Senate, only 9 Republicans voted against this unconstitutional omnibus bill. See vote below:

Ironically, one of the crony politicians who was fighting to ban predictive betting markets was betting on himself on a predictive betting market! Democrat Senator Matt Klein (SD53) wants to strip the financial freedom of Minnesotans while he bet $50 on Kalshi that he would win the CD2 Democratic nomination. Klein was leading the market for a few days surrounding April 18-21 but dropped significantly after it was exposed that he bet on himself and after he lost the CD2 Democratic endorsement. Of course, Klein should be able to bet on himself winning and he should not feel entitled to strip the financial freedom of Minnesotans.

On the bright side, this bill is blatantly illegal and unenforceable. Predictive betting markets are governed federally by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and prohibitive state laws will be defeated in court. Unfortunately, this bill will cause radical socialist AG Keith Ellison to waste more tax dollars pursuing frivolous litigation to protect this anti-freedom law.

As mentioned previously, zero Democrats voted against the bill. See the following RINO Senators who voted for the unconstitutional, anti-freedom omnibus bill: Jim Abeler (SD35), Julia Coleman (SD48), Gary Dahms (SD15), Gene Dornink (SD23), Rich Draheim (SD22), Rob Farnsworth (SD7), Steve Green (SD2), Keri Heintzeman (SD6), Karin Housley (SD33), Jeff Howe (SD13), John Jasinski (SD19), Mark Johnson (SD1), Mark Koran (SD28), Michael Kruen (SD32), Andrew Lang (SD16), Warren Limmer (SD37), Jeremy Miller (SD26), Carla Nelson (SD24), Eric Pratt (SD54), Jason Rarick (SD11), Jordan Rasmusson (SD9), Paul Utke (SD5), and Bill Weber (SD21). 

See the following RINO Representatives that voted for the unconstitutional, anti-freedom omnibus bill: Lisa Demuth (13A), Paul Anderson (12A), Ben Bakeberg (54B), Dave Baker (16B), Greg Davids (26B), Bidal Duran (2A), Josh Heintzeman (6B), Spencer Igo (7A), Jon Koznick (57A), Ron Kresha (10A), Patti Mueler (23B), Andrew Myers (45A), Danny Nadeau (34A), Jim Nash (48A), Nathan Nelson (11B), Harry Niska (31A), Paul Novotny (30B), Tim O’Driscoll (13B), Bernie Perryman (14A), Duane Quam (24A), Aaron Repinski (26A), Kristin Robbins (37A), Joe Schomacker (21A), Erica Schwartz (18A), Peggy Scott (31B), Tom Sexton (19B), Roger Skraba (3A), Terry Stier (22B), Chris Swedzinski (15A), Paul Torkelson (15B), Cal Warwas (7B), Jeff Witte (57B), and Natalie Zeleznikar (3B).

Action 4 Liberty will continue to champion the principles of grassroots conservatives and will never waiver in our mission to protect liberty for the next generation. A4L will continue to provide Patriots with liberty-based reporting that cannot be found anywhere else. 

Minnesota’s government has become the perfect representation of waste, fraud, and abuse. Around $18 Billion in tax dollars has been lost to fraud in Minnesota thanks to Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and legislators of both parties who refuse to hold them accountable. Instead of defunding fraud-ridden programs within the Dept. of Human Services, 20 House RINOs partnered with Democrats to spend even more money funding these programs!

The House debated a bill, HF4546, that made various adjustments to the appropriations made last year in budget bills for programs within the Dept. of Human Services (DHS) and the Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) based on the 2026 February MMB budget forecast. This bill only has Democrat authors in the House and Senate and it lacked a majority support from House GOP legislators. The full House floor debate for the bill can be viewed here.

This bill increases spending in DHS by over $739 Million for programs including General Assistance, Minnesota Supplemental Aid, Housing Support, MinnesotaCare, Medical Assistance, and Behavioral Health Fund. These socialist programs were ALREADY funded in the 2025 budget bills but are spending like drunk sailors and are going to run out of money!

While the bill does make about $45 Million in spending cuts for DCYF, the DHS appropriation means that they voted for roughly $684 Million in new spending! 

House Republicans could have played hard-ball and allowed a future partial state government shutdown! Republican legislators shouldn’t bail out Tim Walz’ crony bureaucrats demanding more tax dollars! Fraud is rampant but 20 House RINOs do not care if your money gets wasted. See House vote below:

As seen above, Speaker Lisa Demuth and 19 other RINOs voted to bail out Walz’ fraud regime! They argued they had no choice but to amend the budget and spend more of our tax dollars. This adds to the 2nd LARGEST budget in Minnesota history passed under Demuth in 2025.

As seen in the House floor debate, RINO Steve Gander (1B) argued that now is not the time to fight fraud! If now is not the time, when is?! According to Establishment RINOs, you should waste away tax dollars and THEN try to stop the fraud… Action 4 Liberty argues to stop fraud on the front end by not wasting our tax dollars in the first place!

A short-term shutdown of socialist hand-outs is a PERFECT way for the GOP to leverage their control of the State House but they instead choose to keep the fraud-ridden programs up and running.

Under Lisa Demuth’s reign as Speaker, Walz’ fraud regime gets all the tax dollars they want! 

While most GOP members of the House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee voted against the legislation on the floor, there was no opposition in the committee when Democrat Jamie Long moved to place the bill on the House Floor Calendar. If the GOP would’ve voted as a block against the bill in committee, the Socialist bail out wouldn’t have even been given a floor vote!

Here are the 20 RINOs that voted to bail out Tim Walz’ Socialist, fraud-ridden programs: Keith Allen (19A), Jeff Backer (9A), Dave Baker (16B), Lisa Demuth (13A), Steve Gander (1B), Dawn Gillman (17A), Josh Heintzeman (6B), Spencer Igo (7A), Ron Kresha (10A), Danny Nadeau (34A), Paul Novotny (30B), Aaron Repinski (26A), Joe Schomacker (21A), Erica Schwartz (18A), Tom Sexton (19B), Roger Skraba (3A), Paul Torkelson (15B), Cal Warwas (7B), and Natalie Zeleznikar (3B).

RINOs Jim Nash (48A) and Andrew Myers (45A) joined 2-spirit lunatic Democrat Alycia Kozlowski (8B) in not voting at all.

Action 4 Liberty will continue to hold politicians' feet to the fire and will never waiver in our mission to protect liberty for the next generation. We must protect our tax dollars from the fraud-loving Walz regime and the GOP must be willing to play hard-ball in order to get that done. A4L will keep Patriots informed with liberty-based reporting that cannot be found anywhere else. 

It's another day in Minnesota which means it is another day RINOs will backstab their conservative base. The story repeats itself over and over again. Republicans squander the power they have and fall prey to the Uniparty’s liberal, big government demands. This was on full display in the Minnesota House on Thursday, May 7th as only two Republicans voted against a multi-subject and unconstitutional omnibus Health spending bill (SF4612) expanding free healthcare for refugees and other noncitizens.

That’s right - only TWO Republicans voted against this unconstitutional omnibus bill! See vote below:

The votes of Davis and Roach are interesting to compare with the votes of other Freedom Caucus members like Marj Fogleman (21B) and Mike Wiener (5B). Fogleman didn’t vote at all and Wiener voted with the RINOs! With Wiener having voted for this bill and refusing to vote up or down on gun control and advancing an anti-ICE bill, some conservatives are wondering if he should be stripped of his SD5 GOP endorsement for State Senate.

RINOs excused their votes because the bill also contained some conformity pieces of the Big Beautiful Bill signed into law by President Trump. Of course, there was other pork and big government policy tucked in the legislation. 

As seen on pages 51 and 52 of SF4612, this bill clearly expands free healthcare (Medical Assistance) to more refugees/noncitizens! The taxpayer-funded healthcare coverage already covered Cuban and Haitian migrants but now MN and U.S. taxpayers would be on the hook to cover the costs for certain migrants from Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau! See below:

While much of the federal conformity in the bill were good measures, the GOP could have punished fraud-loving Tim Walz and Keith Ellison by playing hard-ball and blocking the legislation.

If the bill did not pass, President Trump was going to withhold BILLIONS in tax dollars from Minnesota! With Minnesota being the Fraud Capital of the world, that may be EXACTLY what our state government needs to wake up! Minnesota should have Medicaid funds frozen when they are being funneled to Somali fraudsters instead of law-abiding Minnesotans!

As seen in the House floor debate, Rep. Ben Davis explained the issue with multi-subject omnibus bills then proposed an amendment so that federal conformity pieces of the legislation could be voted on separately from the rest of the bill. This failed due to a 67-67 party line vote.

Weak Republicans are the Democrats’ favorite opponents. Democrats always seem to win in Minnesota because Republicans never hold the line when our tax dollars or liberties are on the line.

Action 4 Liberty will never waiver in our mission to protect liberty for the next generation and will always prioritize the grassroots over RINO politicians. A4L will continue providing Patriots with liberty-based reporting that cannot be found anywhere else. 

Typically, Democrats keep their disputes internal to provide a united front against Republicans. They are much better in Minnesota at sticking together and have passed a woke, radical, Socialist, far-left agenda by doing so. In the State Senate, they were able to pass this agenda with a one vote majority (which then included burglar Nicole Mitchell). Now the same Democrats who voted in lockstep are falling apart in the final weeks of the legislative session.

While some Democrats know deep down that they are taking bad votes that nobody wants, they take the vote anyway because they see it as the easiest path to maintaining power. Politicians know that if they buck the party line, the Establishment party leadership will come after them and support their primary opponent. This is something A4L President Erik Mortensen knows well because by fighting for liberty over the RINO interests, the RINOs tried (and failed three times) to fool Republican voters into nominating Boozin’ Bob Loonan over Erik Mortensen.

As seen throughout legislative sessions in MN, there is much more variety seen in how GOP legislators vote as opposed to how Democrats vote. Democrats seem to believe that if they help Republicans amend a bill, the Democrat bill author and caucus will block your bills and amendments. This operating procedure blew up today, notably between a heated exchange between two Democrats on the Senate floor!

Democrat Senators Ron Latz (SD46) and Susan Pha (SD38) were on separate sides of the issue on a piece of legislation and this led to personal attacks being launched each way! The bill, SF1750, altered regulations surrounding Home Owner Associations. While this bill would have normally resulted in a mundane floor debate, Latz and Pha implied that the other was a liar when considering whether to accept the House's amendments to the bill! This mostly took place following Pha's speech where she contended with Latz and Judy Seeberger's (SD41) opposition. See video HERE.

Latz was looking at the legislation with a careful microscope after decades of passing unconstitutional, multi-subject, thousand page omnibus bills! Where was Ron Latz in 2024 when Democrats combined multiple omnibus bills into the Omnibus-Prime legislation totally nearly 1,500 pages! It seems he only wants to be meticulous when it comes to protecting tyrannical Home Owner Associations!

One reason Latz and Pha may be willing to let their internal political disputes be seen in the public eye is that they have nothing to lose! They are both facing left-wing primary challenges and know their days in the Capitol may be numbered!

Ron Latz was first elected to the legislature 24 years ago in 2002 and is the son of a politician who also was in the legislature. He now faces a competitive primary challenge from St. Louis city councilmember Lynette Dumalag after neither were able to claim the local party endorsement. Latz is the Chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee and has been desperately pushing radical gun control to try to save his political career. Lynette Dumalag has a long list of endorsements, which even includes one of the Representatives in his district, radical leftist Larry Kraft (46A). Latz likely also suffers with Democrats due to his support for Israel. On the campaign finance front, Dumalag had roughly $24,883 cash on hand as of Dec. 31, 2025 and Latz had roughly $107,604 cash on hand as of the same date.

Like Ron Latz’ situation, Susan Pha is also not endorsed by the local party after neither she or her Democratic opponent, leftist activist Nehemiah Garley, could reach the 60% endorsement threshold. Garley had roughly $862 cash on hand as of Dec. 31, 2025 and Pha had roughly $838 cash on hand as of the same date. Garley appears to be supported by several legislators including one of the Representatives of the district, Huldah Momanyi-Hiltsley (38A). Following the convention Momanyi-Hiltsley posted a misleading congratulations on Facebook for Garley, making many readers think he is endorsed when he isn’t! See below:

In addition to the Latz/Pha spat, Democrats saw themselves divided on another floor fight. Democrat Nick Frentz (SD18) introduced an amendment that reduced nurse staffing regulations and adjusted various spending costs in the Human Services supplemental spending bill (SF4476) authored by Democrat John Hoffman (SD34). Hoffman refused to accept the amendment and a floor vote was forced. The amendment was ultimately adopted by a vote of 38-29. The deregulation portion of this amendment was good but it also increased refugee service grants by about half a million dollars. See vote below:

A strategic conservative would utilize and exploit the Democrats’ lack of unity to its fullest extent. Democrats have ram-rodded their radical agenda through and there is finally a chink in their armor! They are divided, in conflict, and weak! Now is the time for conservatives to strike!

The GOP controls the State House and can block more corrupt spending!

They can say NO to a bonding bill with over a billion dollars worth of debt for taxpayers. They can say NO to unconstitutional, multi-subject omnibus bills. They can say NO to demands from Walz and Ellison for more money. They can say NO to funding fraud. And they can say YES to repealing radical left laws, protecting tax dollars, defunding fraud, and giving the Democrats a taste of their own medicine!

Action 4 Liberty will remain the principled, grassroots conservative group leading the liberty movement in Minnesota. We will never waiver in our mission to protect liberty and will continue to provide Patriots with liberty-based reporting that cannot be found anywhere else.  

Minnesota Senate Democrats passed the most radical gun control in the history of our state by weaponizing tragedies against law-abiding gun owners. This bill bans semi-automatic firearms, bans large capacity firearms, bans 3D-printed firearms, outlaws almost all handguns, and more!

On Monday, May 4th, the State Senate voted on SF4067 and it resulted in a party line vote of 34-33. See vote below:

SF4067 is a 48 page omnibus bill that combines all kinds of unconstitutional, bogus gun control with several school safety provisions. Not only does this bill violate the U.S. Constitution’s 2nd Amendment but this bill also violates the single subject clause of the Minnesota Constitution.

What was EXTREMELY obvious from the Senate floor debate was that the bill’s author, Zaynab Mohamed, knows NOTHING about guns! She couldn’t answer basic questions about her bill and would just repeat far-left talking points. As seen in the following exchange with Sen. Keri Heintzeman on the Senate floor, Mohamed is clueless! See below:

How would Mohamed know Heintzeman's handguns don't have a "protruding grip" when that could be descriptive of almost all handguns?! Heintzeman also got gun-grabber Ron Latz to admit the bill's language would outlaw almost all handguns! Latz argued that he would help fix it in a future committee but also argued the Senate should pass it anyway! The full Senate floor debate can be seen here.

As a Somali migrant seeking to undermine American freedom, Mohamed is showing her true colors. This in mind, it is also the swing-district Democrats that are showing that they are JUST AS RADICAL as Mohamed! They all proved that they want to turn law-abiding gun owners into criminals and do not care how it will impact their constituents. Swing district Dems like Grant Hauschild (SD3), Rob Kupec (SD4), Aric Putnam (SD14), and Judy Seeberger (SD41) vote like they’re Ilhan Omar when they pretend to be blue-dog moderates. 

One other provision in the bill, thanks to leftist lunatic Steve Cwodzinski (SD49), will make schools LESS safe and MORE prone to school shootings! Rural schools that could face long wait times for police arrival are able to grant certain individuals the ability to carry a firearm in cases of emergency. Cwodzinski and Democrats want to make rural schools wait and be “gun-free” zones that maniac shooters have been prone to take advantage of.

This bill will now go to the Republican-controlled House and no Republicans have shown interest in passing the legislation. If the bill does pass, it will be a failure of Lisa Demuth to effectively lead the caucus and unify the caucus against gun control.

Action 4 Liberty will always be opposed to gun control and any erosion of our Constitutional liberties. Radical Democrats want to disarm We The People and A4L will always stand in the way of that mission. A4L will continue to provide Minnesota Patriots with liberty-based reporting that cannot be found anywhere else.

In an act of political theatre, the Minnesota House Ethics Committee met on Friday, May 1st to take up the ethics complaints against Elliott Engen, Walter Hudson, and Alex Falconer. Democrats filed complaints on Engen and Hudson for leaving their committee meeting early to go out drinking ahead of the floor session. Republicans filed a complaint on Falconer arguing that he was paid as a lobbyist while advocating for legislation supported by that lobbying firm as a state legislator.

Engen and Hudson took different approaches in their required testimony; Engen appeared to be on his best behavior while Hudson took a more defiant and arrogant approach. Engen testified alongside his attorney, Walz/Klobuchar donor Chris Madel, who was much more rabid than Engen, including when he called out Democrat Ginny Klevorn for herself and all other House Democrats no-showing at the beginning of session.

Individuals interested in the full details of Engen and Hudson’s drunken debacle, including their pre-floor session drinking at Burger Moes and Engen’s eventual DWI that night while Hudson was also in the car inebriated while carrying a firearm, can do so by reading previous A4L reporting.

In Hudson’s testimony, he excused his actions by arguing that legislators have tight schedules and skirted around many questions. When asked if he used his legislative per diem to pay for the beer and lunch he had, Hudson refused to answer! When asked how he returned to the Capitol building from lunch, Hudson said he couldn’t recall. When asked what time he went to Burger Moes, Hudson said he didn’t know. 

One thing Hudson was able to remember was his food order alongside his tall boy beer: Soup… As if Minnesotans needed another reason to believe Hudson is a total weirdo!

Hudson also chose to excuse his actions by arguing that the legislative process is flawed. Of course, none of the legislative procedures forced him to day-drink ahead of the House floor session.

In a moment where Hudson pulled back the curtain, he admitted that House floor sessions are completely fake! He says arguments made on the floor do not influence how a legislator votes, instead, all of this is sorted out in backroom, closed door, private caucus meetings. See below:

I'm glad Walter Hudson admits what we've been saying for years: the Minnesota Legislature is just a scripted show. Total WWE! Why he continually participated & acted like it wasn't a scripted show up to this point, and came after those of us who called it out, I do not know. pic.twitter.com/eFn71DXZ5o

— Jake Duesenberg - Truth Hurts Show (@jduesenberg) May 1, 2026

Floor sessions are completely pre-determined! The performative speeches in floor sessions during critical votes never matter. Whether the legislative body is controlled by Democrats or RINOs, the result is the same. Leadership tells the members of their party how to vote and the vast majority do as they are told.

Despite the sessions being predetermined, they have real consequences. The fact that Hudson feels they are meaningless yet has given hours upon hours of speeches on the House floor shows that he loves the sound of his own voice.

It would be better if Hudson had any credibility in using this argument because he has embraced the RINO Establishment and helped maintain the corrupt status quo. Now that he has become a detriment, he wants people to believe he suddenly realized governmental institutions are corrupt. 

As seen in the 2025 A4L scorecard, this is the same guy who votes for unconstitutional omnibus bills and got a 45.83% score. This is the same guy who wants to purge anti-establishment conservatives like A4L supporters from the MNGOP. This is the same guy who threw in the towel and attacks A4L for telling legislators to oppose corruption. This is the same guy who seated radical leftist Brad Tabke despite massive election fraud. This is the same guy who rushed to the microphone to block a conservative challenger against Globalist RINO Tom Emmer from speaking at the CD6 convention.

It seems Hudson is slightly exposing what goes on at the Capitol as a subtle threat to Democrats. He is not genuinely trying to fight the Establishment, if he was, he would actually implement the political viewpoint he is expressing. 

So not only are floor sessions fake, Walter is a fake too.

Some other uncomfortable truths came out in the committee meeting thanks to Chris Madel. As seen below, he exposes how state legislators are smoking weed at the “north-east exit” of the Capitol building. See below:

There are some real gems in the MN House Ethics Committee today. Here, attorney Chris Madel exposes how members of the legislature routinely use drugs at the Capitol. (Little secret - many of us know this!) 🤣 pic.twitter.com/s4IkKTwSQi

— Jake Duesenberg - Truth Hurts Show (@jduesenberg) May 1, 2026

In the end, the Ethics Committee unanimously voted that there was no probable cause on the complaints against Engen, Hudson, and Falconer. This was yet another example of political theatre. The full committee meeting was divided into four videos on Youtube: 1. Engen's testimony and questioning, 2. Hudson's testimony and questioning, 3. Falconer's testimony and questioning, and 4. The Ethics Committee's decision announced after meeting privately.

Hudson even said in his testimony that he knows of "vodka shooters" that can be found "in the women's restroom off of the retiring room". What this means is this restroom, which would be predominantly if not exclusively used by female legislators, contains bottles of alcohol, seemingly consumed while session is under-way. A4L would have reason to suspect Mary Franson as a culprit since multiple sources at the Capitol have informed A4L of her alleged inebriation during floor sessions. 

Action 4 Liberty will continue representing the grassroots and will be a principled, anti-establishment fighter for liberty, even when inconvenient. Hudson’s arrogant testimony may have exposed certain facts to Minnesotans who don’t know any better but his hostility toward the conservative Patriots who support A4L exposes his real intention. Hudson will continue trying to climb the ladder, A4L will continue fighting for liberty.

As we are in the final weeks of the 2026 legislative session, RINOs are backstabbing the base, partnering with Democrats, and giving Minnesota more gun control.

The House GOP backstabbed the conservative base by passing two pieces of gun control. One bill (HF3762) allowed expunged (sealed) records to be used against someone purchasing, receiving, or carrying a firearm. The other bill (HF4075) adds additional implementation of stripping gun rights from individuals charged with various crimes. While nobody wants violent thugs or abusers to have firearms, these laws will eventually strip the 2nd Amendment Right of a falsely accused individual.

HF3762 had only three Representatives vote no which includes Reps Ben Davis (6A), Marj Fogleman (21B), and Drew Roach (58B). A couple of days later, 21 Republicans in the House voted no and opposed HF4075.

HF4075 was taken up by the Senate on Wednesday, April 29th. A source at the Capitol tells A4L that Senate Republicans held a contentious caucus meeting where there was deep disagreement between the pro-gun, Constitutionalist position and the RINO, big government, pro-gun control position. The source tells A4L that an amendment was discussed in the caucus and it was known that Democrat John Hoffman (SD34) would support it. If a bill is amended, it must return to the other legislative body for another vote. Since Democrats have a 34-33 majority in the Senate, Hoffman voting with Republicans would ensure an amendment’s passage if all Republicans hold strong. While Jeff Howe had an excused absence, he could have been the deciding vote. Since he can vote remotely, MN conservatives wish he would have prioritized his job.

As seen in the Senate Journal, Sen. Jim Abeler (SD35) introduced an amendment to this bill that tweaked how the legislation would be applied. The amendment failed by a tie vote of 33-33 with Hoffman joining Republicans. If the bill was amended, it would be forced to return to the House so the pressure would then go back to Demuth and House RINOs. See journal below:

6 RINOs Vote for Gun Control; Howe and Rarick Don't Vote

The gun control bill ended up passing by a vote of 40-25. Interestingly, Sen. Keri Heintzeman (SD6) voted against the bill despite her husband, Josh Heintzeman, voting for it in the House. See Senate vote below:

As seen above, the following RINO State Senators voted for gun control: Jim Abeler (SD35), Julia Coleman (SD48), Zach Duckworth (SD57), Karin Housley (SD33), Warren Limmer (SD37), and Carla Nelson (SD24). Also seen above, Jason Rarick (SD11) joined Howe in skipping out on a critical vote. He was also excused from the legislature during a certain time window and it is not clear if the vote took place during that time period.

Action 4 Liberty will never waiver in our mission to protect liberty for the next generation. Grassroots conservatives voted against gun control, not for it. Legislative Republicans are doing the opposite of what they were elected to do. A4L will continue providing Patriots with liberty-based reporting that cannot be found anywhere else.

In straw poll after straw poll at BPOU and Congressional District conventions, corrupt David Hann has fallen flat on his face with 0% of support. It is no surprise that conservatives want nothing to do with Hann after A4L exposed that Hann secretly paid a Kamala supporter with MNGOP funds. Ahead of the MNGOP state convention where the US Senate endorsement will be decided, Hann has ended his embarrassing, scam campaign.

David Hann says in his statement that he is “humbled” by the support his campaign has received. Who wouldn’t be humbled receiving zero votes across the state? See below:

Unlike other candidates, Hann has been visibly absent at Republican events around the state. His campaign was more of a ghost of the past than a legitimate movement.

Hann was never a serious candidate and ran because he was desperate for attention. David Hann was humiliated after A4L supporters and grassroots conservatives removed him as MNGOP Chair. While in that role, Hann was extremely divisive, soft on liberals, and biased against real conservatives. Also as Chair, Hann cut off data access to various endorsed Republican legislative candidates who happened to be running against RINO/Establishment/incumbent politicians and kept the party buried in debt until President Trump bailed the party out.

A party chair is supposed to remain neutral ahead of the party endorsement and support the endorsed candidate through the primary. Interestingly, as a US Senate candidate, David Hann was REFUSING to abide by the upcoming US Senate endorsement! He has no respect for Republican delegates!

Hann’s campaign appears to have been a scam all along since he was not even scheduled to speak at the MNGOP convention. Current MNGOP Chair, Alex Plechash, has made the desperate and greedy move of forcing candidates to pay at least $5K in order to be able to address the convention delegates! While a bogus rule like this should never exist, Hann’s refusal to pay proved he was not a serious candidate.

One of the only people to benefit from Hann’s fake campaign was his crooked confidant, former MNGOP Executive Director Anna Mathews. As seen in Hann’s FEC termination report, Matthews collected over $3,500. All three payments listed for Matthews state they were for “Travel Reimbursements” and/or “Mileage”. Though the description for the biggest disbursement to Mathews states to view Itemizations, that page on the FEC website gives no additional information on the spending. It is unknown if this spending was on legitimate campaign purposes. Additionally, Mathews received the payments on 4/21/26 and 4/24/26, just days before Hann ended his candidacy.

Hann may have worked out a deal to drop out with someone like Michele Tafoya as she is the candidate that RINOs have consolidated around. While there is ideological alignment between the two as longtime Trump haters and supporters of late term abortion (despite Tafoya's rebranding), Hann brings little to no support to the table and would be yet another detriment to Tafoya’s candidacy if connected publicly.

Action 4 Liberty will continue providing Patriots with liberty-based reporting that cannot be found anywhere else.

When radical leftists like Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and Ilhan Omar have power, they use it to its fullest extent to impose their Socialist agenda. They do not care what the public thinks and they do not care how dishonest they are in defending it. Democrats have shown that when given power, they bring sweeping change for the worse. When Republicans are given power, they cave to the left and maintain the corrupt status quo.

Democrats are driving Minnesota the wrong direction at 100 miles per hour. Republicans are driving Minnesota the same direction, only slower. This couldn’t have been made any more obvious than in Tim Walz’ ridiculous, final State of the State speech on 4/28/26. Anyone who thinks they can stomach the full speech can view it here.

In Walz’ speech, he flaunted that the impacts he has made will last decades. This is true; The culture of waste, fraud, abuse, and Socialism was not established overnight and it will take a methodical strategy to return Minnesota to normalcy. Unfortunately, the GOP has failed to hold Walz and radical Democrats accountable despite controlling the State House.

With 67 votes in the House, the GOP can block any and all leftist policies. Instead, the GOP, under the leadership of Lisa Demuth, passed the 2nd LARGEST budget in Minnesota history. This budget funded unprecedented levels of fraud and gave budget increases to Keith Ellison and woke groups like the LGBTQIA2S+ Council.

Fraud was well known. Action 4 Liberty suggested during budget negotiations that the GOP play hard-ball, shut down Walz’ government, and force Democrats to shrink government and repeal their radical policies. This is basic political logic: You must use every tactic at your disposal when battling politically with radical leftists.

This year, RINOs have backstabbed their constituents and supporters by partnering with Democrats to pass unconstitutional gun control. Conservative voters who put Republicans in office are getting nothing in return for their votes, in fact, they are getting things that they do not want. Additionally, Demuth has continued meeting with Tim Walz in closed-door, private meetings to negotiate how deep they will put our state in debt with an unnecessary bonding bill.

The GOP is set to help Democrats pass supplemental budgets through unconstitutional omnibus bills, which means wasting away even more of your money! They do NOT have to do this!

The GOP politicians in Minnesota need a wake-up call. Democrats are using and abusing the government and most Republican politicians won’t fight back. Minnesota taxpayers are being taken advantage of by big government Socialists on both sides of the aisle. 

Republican House members have done NOTHING to excite the conservative base.  This WILL result in a DFL Trifecta in 2027.  Of course Republican politicians will try to blame real conservatives for their electoral losses.  But the reality is that GOP politicians have failed to deliver for their base once again and their base will stay home this November unless something changes and changes fast.  It's time the politicians look inward and realize their inevitable losses are their own fault.

Action 4 Liberty is popular among grassroots conservatives because we are unwilling to waiver in the fight for liberty. Lip service is not enough, Constitutional Patriots are demanding the GOP take action. A4L will continue leading the conservative movement in MN and provide Patriots with liberty-based reporting that cannot be found anywhere else.