As the special session approaches, crooked politicians hope to craft a corrupt omnibus bonding (debt) bill to finance pet projects for lobbyists and special interests on the taxpayer’s behalf. Alongside pushing the 2nd largest state budget in MN history, the Uniparty is looking to give our state $700 Million in new debt.

Bonding bills authorize the state to take on debt since crooked politicians ALWAYS want more money to waste. These bills require the support of 60% or more in both the state House and Senate. With the GOP Speakership, 67-67 tie in the House, and the one member Democrat majority in the Senate, Republicans have the opportunity to flex their power and block any debt bill because their votes would be needed for the legislation to pass.

Instead of taking this opportunity to defeat the plan head-on, or at the very least get concessions such as repealing radical Democrat trifecta-era policies, the GOP is working with Democrats to pass the debt bill! Action 4 Liberty has previously reported on pay-to-play Sen. Sandy Pappas (SD65) pushing for a $1.3 Billion debt plan and RINO Senator Karin Housely (SD33) also showing interest in the massive debt plan. The plan has obviously been cut, thanks only to the March 6th state budget forecast setting a $700 Million maximum debt capacity. Leave it to the corrupt Uniparty to give our state as much debt as the forecast says can happen, remember, they don’t have to put our state in debt at all. 

Sources at the Capitol for say the bonding bill will only contain funding for specific projects within the twin cities and will give money to the MN Dept. of Transportation to divvy out on projects! The state government wants to take on debt to give to one of its government agencies?!? Plus the legislature would also be handing off major appropriation responsibility over to MNDOT that they should be doing themselves if they're going to do it at all. Sources also tell A4L that House Capital Investment co-chair RINO Rep. Mary Franson (12B) agreed to package because it gives $20M to the Alexandria Technical & Community College in her district, showing that Republicans will ditch conservative values as soon as it benefits them politically. The final bill is not publicly available as of this article's publishing, it can be accessed here once it is published.

The plan to give our state $700 Million in new debt is not just being talked about in the Senate, RINO House Speaker Lisa Demuth appears to also be on board! In a 6/4/25 press conference, Demuth said the discussions are ongoing to pass the bill and was supportive of the bill moving forward! While Democrats have steamrolled massive spending and debt for years, Demuth is maintaining the status quo and doing NOTHING to fight for conservative interests.

To make matters worse, it is also reported that Senate Republicans have agreed to put up votes for the bonding bill (among other things). This means RINO Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson (SD1) or another Senate GOP leader has agreed with Democrats on a bonding bill, perhaps without the blessing of the GOP caucus. See below:

As mentioned previously, Republicans have enough votes in both chambers to block this bill from passing since it requires 60% support. If Republicans draw a hard line in the sand for fiscal responsibility, our state will be much better off. Bonding bills are not required to fund the state government and are simply used as an omnibus dumpster-fire of projects that incumbents can use to campaign on. The Uniparty has no concept of taking ideas one at a time and debating it on its own, singular merits. 

Conservative legislators should be doing all they can to fight a debt-ridden bonding bill, not cheering it on! If they hold firm, they can block big government debt and make our state more fiscally sound. RINOs who choose to vote for more debt will be co-signing hundreds of millions in wasteful spending in return for some project. Action 4 Liberty will keep Patriots up to date on the status of this and where it ultimately lands.

Despite holding the Speakership and a shared majority in the state House of Representatives, House Republicans have been an abysmal failure by caving to radical Democrats instead of fighting for conservative principles. Among other RINOs, Speaker Lisa Demuth deserves particular blame.

A major point of contention during the end of the legislative session was the issue of illegal alien adults receiving taxpayer funded healthcare. While our own citizens struggle to pay their bills and make ends meet in Minnesota, Democrats chose to prioritize giving free healthcare instead to illegal aliens. Initially, it seemed Republicans were drawing a hard line and would not allow this to pass, however, it appears things have changed.

The Walz/Demuth/Hortman/Murphy budget deal had a series of set agreements, among them was stripping the funding for free healthcare for illegal alien adults. Democrats have since continued to push to add this spending to the deal whether it be in the Health omnibus bill (HF2435) or in a stand alone bill.

In a 6/4/25 press conference, Speaker Lisa Demuth appeared to pivot on the question and suggested that if a stand alone bill on this issue was taken up that the GOP could allow it with a “contingency”. What exactly would Demuth and the GOP caucus want in return? From the sounds of it, Demuth is not asking for a cut in government, in fact, her contingency would be giving MORE money to the “MDH”, perhaps something like pregnancy centers. We presume Demuth is referring to the MN Dept. of Health when she says “MDH” in the press conference. She may argue that she is instead pursuing a redirection of funds. It is not immediately clear which GOP Reps would join Demuth to pass this Democrat agenda item. This can be seen at the 2 minute mark in this press conference.

You read that right, RINO Speaker Lisa Demuth is CAVING to radical Democrats on funding for free healthcare for illegal aliens!

In the above-mentioned press conference and in a 5/19/25 press conference, Demuth has referred to illegal aliens using ultra-woke, leftist terms like “undocumented immigrants”, “undocumented people”, or even "undocumented Minnesotans"! Are these our friends and neighbors or are these uninvited invaders? We have dealt with years where millions of criminals have poured across our open border under Biden and Lisa Demuth is busy trying not to offend them instead of stripping all Socialist benefits for them! Is Lisa Demuth in the same party as President Trump?!?! Republicans won the election nationally under the America First vision on immigration set forth by President Donald Trump, instead of implementing that policy, Demuth is working with Democrats against it.

Lisa Demuth has earned her nicknames of empty suit Lisa ‘Kamala’ Demuth or Demuth Equity and Inclusion (DEI)! She stands for nothing and is a fake conservative! As Speaker, Demuth has brought to the floor and passed massive, unconstitutional omnibus bills containing radical Democrat policies including (among other things) budget increases for ANTIFA Keith Ellison & the LGBTQIA2S+ Council, taxpayer funded abortions, and DEI in schools. A Speaker ultimately decides which bills will be calendared each day which means Demuth bears the most responsibility for the corruption we’ve witnessed in the House this session. 

If MN Democrats are able to teach us anything, it is that they draw lines in the sand and are willing to enforce that viewpoint in total lockstep until the bitter end. Meanwhile, spineless RINOs abandon the conservative base to advance themselves higher into the Uniparty Swamp.

Republicans have pissed away all of their power and leverage by conceding to woke Democrats and maintaining the bloated, over-spending big government by pushing a left-wing, surplus-killing budget deal which will be the 2nd largest budget in our state's history. Conservatives across our state are fed up with crooked RINO politicians telling voters what they want to hear during elections then backstab them once they get into office.

Action 4 Liberty will continue to expose the RINO politicians as the incoming special session nears. As the leader of the conservative grassroots movement of our state, we will never sell-out or abandon our liberty conservative principles. We are a threat to the Establishment because we expose their game and all of the corrupt players. We will always stand shoulder to shoulder with the conservative grassroots and reject the RINO Uniparty Swamp tactics to keep government bloated.

RINO Ron Kresha (10A) is the poster-child in Minnesota for corrupt career politician RINOs and the residents of his district have become fed up. Kresha has failed to earn the local party’s endorsement in the last two election cycles (2022 & 2024) and was nearly defeated in the 2024 GOP primary by grassroots conservative candidate Diane Webb-Skillings in what was the closest State Representative primary in the state. He now faces a scathing letter of condemnation from the Morrison County GOP for his big government, liberal voting record.

Kresha has been in office for over a decade (13 years) and has repeatedly sold out his conservative constituents in order to ingratiate himself into the Swamp. He is a loyal and consistent vote for big government, big spending, unconstitutional, multi-subject, Uniparty omnibus bills. It is no surprise that he wins endorsements from radical left union bosses but not with his own Republican constituents. While many other RINOs within the legislature would fit that same description, Kresha has become a case of his own in how far-left a “Republican” can get away with.

The Morrison County GOP released the following letter of condemnation against Rep. Ron Kresha on May 27th that received unanimous support at the Morrison County GOP’s May meeting. See full letter below:

As seen above, Kresha has worked against the interests of conservatives throughout his corrupt career in unimaginable ways. In opposition to President Trump’s America First agenda, Kresha introduced a bill in 2021 (HF2409) would give $5M to lawyers to keep illegal aliens in our state, voted for SF3045 this year which gives the LGBTQIA2S+ Council and ANTIFA Keith Ellison’s office budget increases, voted this year for HF2435 which pays for taxpayer funded abortions, and voted this year for HF2433 which funds DEI in schools and other leftist projects.

Despite not winning the party’s endorsement against Webb-Skillings, Kresha (and other unendorsed RINOs) received massive funding from the corrupt MN House Republican Campaign Committee (HRCC) chaired by RINO Josh Heintzeman (6B). Kresha's "win" against Webb-Skillings can also be attributed to a mailer from his campaign that falsely claimed Kresha was GOP endorsed which was mailed to thousands of constituents. Despite the GOP legislative caucuses serving as party units, they have worked against the interests of the party endorsement by instead acting as an incumbency protection racket. RINO leadership in the House like Speaker Lisa Demuth backstabbing local GOP activists highlights how different the Swamp is from citizen Patriots like you.

Morrison County GOP may serve as an exemplar in the battle between the grassroots and the Establishment RINOs and their strategy could be copied across the state. RINO politicians must be held accountable as they cave to radical Democrats instead of pushing the conservative agenda through. The House GOP has been an abysmal failure in leveraging the Speakership and shared-majority, the only way to make them change is by putting their feet to the fire ahead of the special session.

Congratulations to Morrison County GOP for EXPOSING the TRUTH about the ultra-liberal voting record of RINO Ron Kresha!

To further condemn Ron, sign our petition here! 

https://www.action4liberty.com/rino_ron

The RINO Establishment teeter-totters between two main tactics in attacking Action 4 Liberty and our leadership of the grassroots conservative base in our state. One wing tries to deny our influence by making claims of irrelevance, however, those attacks always fall flat on their face due to the obvious conflict between the liberty movement and RINO Establishment, which sometimes boils over into Star Tribune hit-pieces against our organization. On the other hand, some RINOs admit the truth while on the attack.

Anna Matthews, former RINO Executive Director of the MNGOP under corrupt David Hann, recently appeared on a podcast and admitted that Action 4 Liberty is a massive organizer for caucus participation from the grassroots and says we are the only group expanding grassroots involvement in the party! See video here or click below:

To an outside observer, a Republican party that wants to win should be thrilled with thousands of new conservative Patriots becoming active politically but Matthews and others in the RINO establishment are threatened by regular people fighting to take our government back. The corrupt political swamp wants to maintain the Uniparty’s anti-liberty, big government status quo and they are unable to do so when the conservative base is educated and activated.

To make matters even clearer, the podcast Matthews appeared on is hosted by the very ‘White Dude for Kamala’ that Action 4 Liberty exposed was secretly getting tens of thousands of dollars from the party under RINO David Hann! The 1972-10 scandal was exposed fully by A4L President Erik Mortensen and Jake Duesenberg in the video below:

Despite the spin you will hear from RINOs, the big government uniparty budget cements in tens of billions in spending that originated from Democrat trifecta spending. The second largest budget in MN history has been the “win” that spineless GOP Reps have been praising, however, there is more opposition for this plan from the Senate GOP.

The Senate is controlled by Democrats by a single vote (34 Dem to 33 GOP) but they have ruled with an iron fist and have kept all Dems voting as a block on all key floor votes. Because of this, the Senate GOP has been voting more conservatively as a whole compared to the House GOP which controls the Speakership and has a shared majority with Dems. Senate GOP leader Mark Johnson did not participate in the press conference with Walz pushing this deal.

GOP Senator Eric Pratt (SD54) is by no means a liberty champion or true conservative, but he did call out a truth that House GOP leaders refuse to admit: The House GOP/Walz budget cements in Democrat trifecta-era spending. 

Pratt argues that the Environment and Natural Resources spending and policy bill will increase spending by $11.7M in the next biennium, increases spending by $30M over the next four years, and shifts costs onto local governments that could lead to the highest property tax rate in Minnesota history! This clip can be seen here.

Anytime Tim Walz is pushing something forward, you can almost always assume that it is big government garbage. Unfortunately, RINOs like House Speaker Lisa Demuth are pushing this deal and arguing it is the largest spending cut in history. However, this is only because Democrats increased spending by around $19B during their most recent trifecta. This means that the uniparty big government budget is still around $14B more than pre-covid spending levels! It would be like if you basement was flooded with 19 feet of water and the GOP bragging when it is only 14 feet of water! See analogy below:

Corrupt RINOs will try to fool the grassroots into believing that the budget is a win but conservatives have been woken up and no longer believing crooked career politicians. A4L will continue exposing the corruption of our state and fighting for the true conservative position. Our mission is to protect liberty for the next generation and we are not going to do it with massive spending pushed through unconstitutional omnibus bills!

State House Republicans have caved to Democrats throughout this session and failed to stand up for the conservative principles that their constituents elected them to represent. From election integrity to cutting spending to shrinking government, RINOs have dropped the ball across the board. Now, RINOs work side by side with Dems to oppose President Trump’s agenda by funding woke DEI policies and giving Attorney General ANTIFA Keith’s office more money to fight all things Trump!

A4L has previously reported on the budget increase for Keith Ellison within the unconstitutional, multi-subject State Govt. spending bill (SF3045). All Democrats and 46 House Republicans supported the bill which, among other disasters, included the Ellison budget increase and a budget increase for the LGBTQIA2S+ Council. For the next two years, Trump will be facing radical left lawsuits on behalf of our state because House RINOs enabled woke Socialist Keith Ellison with an even larger budget than his last.

ANTIFA Keith is involved in at least 22 lawsuits against the Trump administration and will waste our tax dollars for these far left political battles. Some of these radical left lawsuits includes keeping men in women’s sports/lockerrooms, supporting transgender mutilation of kids, keeping birthright citizenship for anchor babies, blocking the abolition of the failed Dept. of Edu., blocking Trump from firing federal workers, opposing tariffs meant to even out the global trade playing field, supporting electric vehicle mandates, and blocking proof of citizenship requirements for voting.

Ellison has also taken up a recent lawsuit against Trump to keep woke and destructive DEI in schools, and to make matters worse, all House Republicans but two voted to fund DEI in schools! The education spending bill (HF2433) includes $2M to staff a DEI office at the Dept. of Education. In what appears to be an effort to confuse people, the uniparty rearranged the letters so it is now “EDI” instead of “DEI”. See vote and funding below:

As seen above, the only GOP ‘no’ votes were Reps. Drew Roach (58B) and Mike Weiner (5B). The leftist Democrat opposition of the bill was because they wanted more spending on school workers.

The vast majority of House Republicans are openly defying President Trump’s agenda and working with Democrats to fund opposition to it. GOP politicians in our state cave while gaining absolutely nothing while Democrats get whatever they want. Trump has shown that conservatives want fighters in office who will go to war with the Swamp. In Minnesota, the Swamp could’ve been tackled head-on by the House GOP with control of the Speaker and 67 votes that could block any and all legislation. Instead, the GOP has worked with Democrats to continue the corruption hidden throughout many unconstitutional omnibus bills.

Ellison is also busy wasting tax dollars fighting Elon Musk's lawsuit against an anti-free speech law that could fine and imprison Minnesotans for sharing an AI meme of a politician! When this was voted on in the previous session, every single legislator except Sen. Nathan Wesenberg (SD10) voted for the law.

While RINOs cave to leftist wishes and grow government, A4L will continue to represent the conservative base by exposing the corruption happening throughout our state. RINOs choosing to fund the legal battles against President Trump must be exposed to the grassroots and A4L will continue to stand as that leader in our state.

Sometimes things aren’t as simple as Republican vs. Democrat, sometimes things are the Establishment vs. We the People. Establishment party leaders all on the same page pushing a big government, liberal, uniparty budget plan is always a bad sign for liberty.

On Thurs. May 15th, Tampon Timmy was joined in a budget press conference by legislative party leaders including radical Democrats Sen. Maj. leader Erin Murphy, House party leader Melissa Hortman, and RINO Speaker Lisa Demuth. The four agreed to the full budget proposal which will be passed via unconstitutional, multi-subject omnibus bills. This will be the 2nd LARGEST budget in Minnesota history and will eat into the future surplus. The agreement can be see in full below with each of their signatures at the top, see below:

In the above document, numbers in parentheses are cuts to previous spending and numbers not in parentheses are increases to previous spending. To confuse Minnesotans into not knowing exactly what they are looking at, they do not include the latest projected spending in the February 2025 economic forecast. In short, the plan makes a minor cut to the overall budget passed under the Democrat trifecta but fully maintains the bloated, big government controlled by radical leftists like Walz and ANTIFA Keith Ellison. As seen below, the House entered negotiations asking for less cuts in government than the radical Dems in the Senate or even Walz! 

The budget plan totals around $66.4B however we will not know the real total until budget bills are out of conf. committees. Sadly, $66.4B is MORE than what Walz was originally pushing! As seen in our previous reporting, Walz was pushing for a $66.3B budget and the House RINOs pushed a budget around $66.6B. How could Republican negotiations lead to MORE spending?!?

This uniparty deal outlines the budgets for each department that will be finalized in Democrat-controlled joint conference committees. Currently 17 bills sit in different conf. committees with 14 of them being budget bills that must pass to prevent a government shutdown. The majority of these bills are Democrat bills with only Dem authors. Action 4 Liberty has reported on how Republicans could use their leverage to force a shutdown and renegotiate a more conservative, small government plan. We have also reported on several of these bills including the budget increases for Ellison and the LGBTQIA2S+ Council, the unconstitutional education bill, and the abortion & Planned Parenthood funding Health bill.

RINOs are selling this plan as the largest budget cut in Minnesota history, which only tells half of the story. When Democrats had total trifecta control in 2023 and passed a $71B budget which was about a $19B growth in government. Pre-covid spending levels would mean a return to (at least) a $52B budget. Having the largest cut means nothing if the budget is still the 2nd largest in MN history, only behind the budget passed in 2023. For an analogy, the Dems flooded Minnesota’s basement with 19 feet of water and the GOP is bragging that the basement will now only be flooded with 14 feet of water! See below: 

RINOs will defend Lisa Demuth’s incompetent negotiation skills and argue that this was the best deal that they could get. However, with 67 votes in the House the GOP can block any and all legislation which means they do not have to concede negotiations until real wins for liberty are attained such as single subject spending bills, pre-covid spending levels, and repeal radical left Democrat trifecta-era policies. Demuth has earned her nickname of empty suit Lisa ‘Kamala’ Demuth as she stands side by side with Walz and Democrats to push a plan that screws over our state. Sources at the Capitol tell A4L that Demuth left the GOP caucus in the dark on this deal.

Notably absent from the Walz press conference was GOP Senate leader Mark Johnson (SD1). While it is a good sign that he did not sign onto this deal or attend the press conference, Johnson is protected by being in the minority in the Senate, meaning that Senate Dems will almost never need GOP votes to pass legislation. If the GOP was in the Majority in the Senate, it is almost a sure thing that Johnson would have signed onto whatever. Politicians suck up to power and love to feel important. Johnson and Demuth were even out fishing with Tyrant Tim Walz and Democrat leaders for the state’s fishing opener! See below:

A government shutdown is looming and not for the reasons A4L previously advocated for. The legislature is set to adjourn on Monday, May 19th yet the vast majority of the state government budgets are not passed. In one sense, all legislative leaders could take the blame for the likely incoming government shutdown because they always have the votes to pass establishment garbage omnibus bills and would have failed to get the budget done in accordance with the timeline established in law. A special session will likely be scheduled quickly and the uniparty will push through all of the massive budget bills.

Action 4 Liberty will continue to expose the corruption of our state and stand for the cause of a Constitutional limited government. Radical big government Democrat budgets have grown the government and chased taxpayers out of the state. RINOs cannot continue to cave to the left and must finally assert themselves by flexing their power in the House. The only path to saving Minnesota is pre-covid spending levels, single subject spending bills, and repealing radical Democrat policies.

On Wed. May 14th, the state Senate passed the Health Dept., Human Services Dept., and Dept. of Children, Youth, and families omnibus budget bill (HF2435) that funds abortion and Planned Parenthood. Several amendments were introduced, perhaps most noteworthy was one pushed by Sen. Nathan Wesenberg (SD10) that would remove funding for abortion from the legislation.

Wesenberg is a hardcore, pro-life conservative who has never backed down from the issue. This amendment forced all GOP Senators to be on record in an up or down vote on the issue of taxpayer funded abortions. This amendment failed on party lines in a vote of 34 to 33. Video of Sen. Wesenberg can be seen here. See amendment and vote below:

According to Senator Nathan Wesenberg, the fake pro-life group, MCCL, has previously “begged” Wesenberg not to introduce life at conception votes because they are “too extreme”. A4L recently exposed how corrupt this organization truly is in previous reporting and how the House voted on this in other reporting. Wesenberg's amendment also disproves the lie that the MCCL pushes about the legislature having no influence on abortion and Planned Parenthood funding.

Ultimately, this multi-subject unconstitutional bill passed the Senate on a party line vote of 34 to 33. How interesting is it that Republicans in the minority in the Senate end up voting more conservative than the House Republicans who control the Speakership!? 29 RINOs in the House were unwilling to take the same exact vote that some of the most liberal Republican Senators just took. It shows that the corrupt uniparty really controls Minnesota. What is also noteworthy is that Sen. Keri Heintzeman (SD6) opposed the bill while her husband RINO Rep. Josh Heintzeman (6B) supported it! Political expediency in each chamber can even divide married couples on votes!

The Senate did pass nine amendments to the legislation, most of which were technical corrections or dealt with emergency/ambulance service grants. The changes made to this bill will bring it back to the House which can either accept the amendments and pass the bill again or send it to a conference committee. Based on discussion during the floor debates, this will likely go to a conference committee. 

Action 4 Liberty will continue to provide Patriots with cutting edge reporting that they cannot find anywhere else. Conservatives are fed up with RINOs working against their interests and are wisened up to the lies! We will continue to be the stalwart for the conservative grassroots movement!

Action 4 Liberty is always a target of the RINO Establishment because we challenge the status quo and push Republican legislators to adhere to their party platform and not cave to radical Democrats. The most recent battle that has caused some A4L scrutiny from the RINOs is the issue of a recent vote of many Republicans voting for a massive unconstitutional, multi-subject budget bill for three different departments that included abortion spending. As seen in recent A4L reporting, a majority of House GOP Reps voted against the legislation but 29 RINOs did support it.

The Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) should actually be called the ‘Minnesota Citizens Compromising on Life’ since this self-touted “pro-life” group is attacking A4L for exposing the RINOs who voted to fund abortions! A real pro-life group would be fighting alongside A4L against corrupt omnibus bills that fund abortion but the MCCL is instead attempting to provide cover for their RINO Legislator friends.

The MCCL sent a mass email to Minnesotans that attempted to blame A4L for the death of unborn babies while simultaneously defending the RINOs that funded it! The tried and failed attack lines against A4L highlights how compromised this group is to the corrupt RINO Establishment. They claim, without evidence, that our group “cost unborn lives” with attacks against GOP Senators. It is of course a bogus claim to suggest that A4L attacking RINOs who fund abortion is what caused the Democrat trifecta, if it were true, how did the GOP take control of the House in the following election?

The TRUTH is that the Senate was taken over by the Dems because RINO Tony Jurgens endorsed radical Democrat Judy Seeberger in Senate District 41 over Republican Tom Dippel in a race that was decided by just 321 votes (161 flipped votes would've given the Senate to the GOP). RINO Tony Jurgens gave the Senate to the Dems, not A4L! Interestingly, the corrupt MCCL has even given Jurgens a "100%" pro-life rating!

Doesn’t the MCCL realize that they lose credibility and trust with the grassroots when they lie so blatantly? Why are they willing to cover for abortion funding RINOs rather than push a true pro-life message? 

Senator Nathan Wesenberg (SD10) has even stated that a MCCL lobbyist (Don Parker) “begged” him not to introduce a Life at Conception amendment on the Senate floor. Wesenberg chose to anyway and all Republicans voted yes because they knew they had eyes on them and they had cover in the minority. However, the MCCL wanted to protect RINOs from a pro-life vote which is the exact opposite of what pro-life Minnesotans want to see!

A4L has NEVER pushed any policy or plan that works to the contrary of the pro-life movement. Meanwhile, the MCCL is advocating for this bill and lying to Minnesotans by claiming that abortion is funded no matter what because of Doe v. Gomez. However, that is not true, it is funded through “Medical Assistance” and that has been admitted by many Reps including RINO Jim Nash (48A). A court cannot compel a legislator to vote a certain way! Why else would a MAJORITY of Republican Reps oppose this bill? 

If all 67 House Republicans held a hard line and refused to support the unconstitutional abortion and Planned Parenthood-funding omnibus bill, The GOP does not have to fund the “Medical Assistance” and should not accept any bill that is not in line with Article 4, Section 17 of the MN Constitution limiting a bill to a single subject. 

A4L is taking the hard-line position on the fight against taxpayer funded abortions and Planned Parenthood. The MCCL’s attacks against us for this issue proves that they are a totally fake pro-life group masquerading as such to fool conservatives and take their money. According to the MCCL’s website, their mission is to “secure protection for innocent human life from conception until natural death through effective education, legislation, and political action”. The MCCL is failing to push their own mission by supporting taxpayer funded abortions! The MCCL has blood on their hands! The MCCL has even made an anti pro-life commercial with Michelle Tafoya!

Do not forget, this was a Democrat bill that only had Dems as authors in the House and Senate. The MCCL is playing cover for a Democrat bill that funds abortion and Planned Parenthood. While Planned Parenthood is generally thought of for abortion, they are also doing “gender affirming care whenever and however we can under the law” in Minneapolis according to their webpage. The MCCL is willing to excuse millions of taxpayer dollars going to Planned Parenthood and “Medical Assistance” abortions just because there’s some funding for pregnancy centers… How pathetic!

The MCCL’s Executive Director, Scott Fischbach, is the husband of RINO Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach (CD7). The Fischbachs have shown their hand for the public to see, they want to control MNGOP Chair Alex Plechash. So far, it’s working. Plechash is repeating MCCL’s lies about abortion funding and put out an endorsement for Fischbach for 2026 on behalf of the MNGOP! This blatantly violates Article IV, Section 8 of the MNGOP bylaws which requires neutrality of party officers until a candidate is endorsed. Plechash is spitting in the faces of the conservative delegates who withheld the party endorsement from Fischbach against conservative Steve Boyd despite her incumbency. See rule and endorsement below:

Grassroots conservatives have let their opinions be known through the party platform. As seen on the MNGOP website, the party platform remains listed as the “State Party Platform (2022) party” because the Establishment has tried for years to scrap the entire platform and replace it with language that does not include pro-life provisions. The only way delegates could oppose the Establishment’s takeover of the platform over the years is to simply keep the 2022 platform intact. This bill violates the party platform as it opposes both abortions and omnibus spending bills yet the party Chair fights against the will of the delegates.

Action 4 Liberty will continue to correct the record when scam groups like the MCCL attempt to smear our names when we are informing citizens in the same way they should be. The MCCL is a phony pro-life group and is really fighting for the interests of pro-abortion legislation. Unfortunately for the MCCL, smears and attacks against A4L that are so transparently dishonest have the opposite effect than the RINO's intended consequences. The MCCL has now exposed themselves as a fake pro-life group and have legitimized A4L as the LEADER in fighting corrupt abortion omnibus bills. Patriots have wisened up to the smears and are not falling for it. A4L is and will continue to be strong as ever.

The full lie-ridden statement from the MCCL can be viewed here.

RINO politicians love to talk tough about gutting out fraud in our state and reducing spending, however, when it comes time to act, the story always changes. In the Health omnibus spending bill (HF2435) that funds abortion and Planned Parenthood that A4L recently reported on, there is also big money spent for child care programs riddled with fraud.

Some provisions in the 247 page bill add regulations on child care centers to require the use of cameras in the facilities (with money spent for camera grants) or require they sign off that the information they submitted for the grant money was accurate or face penalty of perjury. However, another provision appears to be forcing local counties to have less oversight on these programs (as seen in the MN House Research Department's Bill Summary of HF2435). See below:

Fraud within the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) has been a hot-button issue for years that A4L has been on top of since 2019. Republican legislators are well aware of the massive fraud that has been going on, especially as KSTP has reported that one day care center in Minneapolis, Quality Learning Center Daycare, had 95 violations from 2019 to 2023 yet still received $7.8M of tax dollars! With several other examples of fraud also publicly available, the program should be defunded and eliminated.

CCAP encompasses several different programs including the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP). In the abortion and Planned Parenthood funding bill, HF2435, the MFIP gets over $237M over the next two years. Sadly, this is a massive INCREASE in spending compared to what the MFIP got during the Democrat trifecta in the 2023 spending bill! When Republicans finally have power, they run to the left instead holding their ground on the right. What is the point of Republicans having the Speakership and a 67 member voting block if spending increases with them in power? See spending below:

2023 Bill Funding 2024-2025

2025 Bill Funding 2026-2027

RINOs like House Speaker Lisa Demuth previously talked tough on CCAP fraud and demand investigations like can be seen below:

Unfortunately, when it comes time to DEFUND the fraud RINOs instead vote for unconstitutional omnibus bills that give these programs huge money. A4L reported in March of this year that RINOs would do as much on CCAP. 

When A4L President Erik Mortensen was in the legislature, he authored a bill that would have defunded and eliminated CCAP. RINOs refused to co-sponsor the legislation and preferred to enable big government. There will undoubtedly be more child care fraud and all RINOs who voted for this bill be responsible.

With CCAP existing as one of the biggest examples of fraud being fully funded by House Dems and Republicans in this bill, it becomes clear that RINOs are simply playing performative, WWE-style politics. The House Republicans love to tout their ‘Fraud Committee’ that has no subpoena or legislative power but 29 of them have allowed a corrupt program to continue receiving massive funding. This includes the committee’s Chair, RINO Kristin Robbins, who voted for the bill and is the leader of the fake, pro-lockdown Never Again Bill that waters down and grifts off of the work of Erik Mortensen’s Never Again Bill. Robbins is listed on a MPR article as "considering it" for a U.S. Senate run but she may have trouble winning conservative voters with her liberal, big government voting record.

Action 4 Liberty will continue to expose corruption within our state and be the leading conservative voice for the grassroots. We will never cave on principles and will always hold crooked politicians accountable. No amount of pressure from the Establishment will make us change because our mission to protect liberty for the next generation is just too important. State GOP leaders have refused to genuinely take up that mantle so conservatives looking for real Constitutionalist voices in MN will continue to look to A4L.