Minnesota Senate Democrats snuck a provision in an Amendment during a late evening Health & Human Services Committee hearing tonight. The language would change current state statute that prohibits taxpayer funded Medical Assistance money paying for sex reassignment surgery. If passed into law, "gender affirming services", which is their cleverly crafted phrase for mutilating genitals, would be covered by Minnesota taxpayers.

If an individual wants to spend his or her own money to destroy their own genitals, that's their prerogative. But forcing taxpayers to fund these operations is just plain wrong.

We reported last month about a bill that would make Minnesota a Sanctuary State for Genital Mutilation of children. 

Here's the language of the A1 Amendment to SF 2213:

Here's video of the "gender affirming services" portion of the Amendment being brought up in committee tonight:

The Minnesota Democratic Party (DFL) has adopted an increasingly anti-white attitude over the past several years. Representative Heather Keeler is the latest example of this extreme trend. 

In a Facebook post from February 28th, Keeler says she is “sick of white Christians adopting our babies,” further asking whites to  “stop stealing our babies.” Keeler is a Native American who represents the Moorhead area.

Alpha News obtained the screenshot of the post, which has since been deleted or hidden from public view.

God made each of us to be equal in his eyes. The idea that race, skin color, or background should preclude you from adoption is lunacy. Unfortunately, Representative Keeler wants to put her vile beliefs into law.

HF 1071 – authored by Keeler – puts provisions from the federal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) into state law. These components will make it infinitely more difficult for children in foster care to be adopted because of the racist notion that these children need to stay with members of their own race.

See just some of the bill language below:

While it is understandable that Native American Tribes have their sovereignty, this legislation seeks to infringe upon the rights of both biological and prospective adoptive mothers.

Sadly, it is more likely that these children will stay in foster care than be adopted by a couple within the reservation. For the Democrats, however, race is more important than a stable family unit.

Last Friday night, the Carlton County GOP held their convention to elect party leadership and state central delegates. To the surprise of attendees, a presentation about Action 4 Liberty was on the agenda. A GOP Establishment goon was sent there to spread lies about the organization, divide conservatives and insult grassroots volunteers.

Mitch Williamson, the goon who delivered this rant in Carlton County, has every right to criticize Action 4 Liberty. However, our team has been repeatedly denied opportunities to give presentations by Carlton County GOP leadership. Which is exactly why the rant caused a stir and several conservatives stood up against the move. They're using the exact same tactic Big Tech uses to censor election integrity advocates and those of us critical of COVID tyranny.

If the Carlton County BPOU leadership believes in the spirit of free speech, they sure didn’t demonstrate it on Friday night. 

Williamson repeated false claims that Action 4 Liberty works to defeat Republican legislators and that our efforts are ineffective. This is despite the fact that our door-knocking campaigns in 2021 resulted in the retirements of three left-wing Democrats. One of those Democrat legislators represented Carlton County. Where's their "thank you" for that one?!

Another two targeted legislators went on to lose re-election. Read more about our pressure campaign here.

If the establishment GOP would spend half the time they use attacking Action 4 Liberty and focus on going after Democrats, maybe they would be winning more elections.

Worst of all, Williamson ended his speech by calling Action 4 Liberty volunteers “repulsive.” Those that give their time and energy to this cause are now being belittled by some goon representing the GOP. Shameful!

Alvin King – a delegate in Carlton County – questioned the motives behind Williamson’s speech. He and a handful of other delegates are Action 4 Liberty supporters who have heard the lies delivered before.

Alvin joined the A4L team live on Tuesday’s episode of Truth Hurts. Watch what he had to say about the Friday convention. 

The Commissioners Office of the Minnesota Management and Budget released the 2023 Budget and Economic Forecast, which revealed our state’s surplus is a whopping $20.7 Billion of our tax dollars! While the media is reporting the number is $17.5 Billion, they fail to add the budget reserves and cash flow. See below how we analyzed the forecast.

The picture below shows the cash flow and budget reserves totaling 3.2 Billion. When added together, this makes the Budget Surplus $20.7 Billion!

Governor Tim Walz and the Democratic Legislature have screwed over the taxpayers at every turn; between their big spending for special interests/liberal pet projects to their refusal to eliminate the Social Security tax and return the surplus to taxpayers. Even today, during the Senate session, Senator Bill Lieske (R, SD58) offered SF1499 which was appropriately titled the “Governor Tim Walz Rebate Check Act of 2023." Walz had made returning the budget surplus a key component of his 2022 re-election campaign. 

Lieske requested a roll call vote to bring it to the floor, but it failed on party lines 34-32 (Senator Justin Eichorn was not present). One of the other authors on this bill is Senator John Hoffman (DFL, SD34) who voted AGAINST it on the Senate floor! Hoffman wants to pretend to fight for taxpayers by signing onto these bills but when the time comes to pass it, he caves to Democratic pressure! 

As we reported in December, a total refund would have given each taxpayer $6,000, now, all of the 2.5 million Minnesota taxpayers would receive over $8,200 each! When will the government learn that it is our money that they are withholding from us?!?

Unlike the Budget and Economic Forecasts from our state for nearly the last two decades, this forecast includes calculating the inflation caused by Joe Biden and the socialists running our government. That means the state has more leverage to tax us into oblivion! This is all thanks to Rep. Zack Stephenson (DFL, 35A) and his bill HF35 which provided the Democrats with this loophole to increase taxes. Tax revenue has increased in our state despite the cost of everyday items soaring.

We cannot allow taxpayers to be taken advantage of by our government. Our overtaxed money is being squandered away by corrupt politicians with wasteful spending. Action 4 Liberty has always been consistently fighting for a full refund of the Surplus to be given only to taxpayers, no free-loaders should reap the benefits of our own money. 

Find your Legislators here and demand that they refund the entire Surplus immediately! Minnesotans are struggling and our state is becoming unaffordable due to high taxes. Pressure these politicians to get our money back!

Nobody needs to tell you that Minnesota Democrats are crazy. They have already shown their insanity by introducing bills to ban lawnmowers and high school mascots. They won't stop until you are poor and miserable. Now, they have a bill that would ban the production and sale of plastic water bottles. 

Whacky Liberal Democrat Sydney Jordan (60A) introduced HF 1857 last week, which would ban plastic water bottles in the State of Minnesota. According to her bill, this would include containers that are “comprised primarily of plastic resin”, “sealed; and holds less than two liters when full.”

Minnesota is on a fast track to becoming the most liberal state in the nation! This is more extreme than even New York or California would go.

While they have not passed this bill yet, they have already passed plenty of other harmful legislation. Democrats just recently passed legislation that would require Minnesota to be powered by 100% green energy by 2040, with a 60% requirement by 2030. 

If you think this is a minor issue, you have seen nothing yet. When Minnesotans let their politicians get away with bans like this, they will start going after things like cars, houses, and food. 

If we are to be a free country, we must have the choice to consume what we please. The dystopian future that Democrats want does not involve choice -- only compliance. 

Democrats used to tout themselves as the party of the blue-collar American. They used to look out for the common man and stand against elitism from special interests and the wealthy. 

That party died a long time ago. In its place stands an anti-white, anti-American political party that tears people down based on their skin color and sexual orientation. It seeks to tear down western culture in favor of a culture that embraces division. 

The Minnesota Democrat Party (DFL) is a sad example of a nationwide trend eating away at American life.

In the DFL, legislators are being tossed aside for daring to be straight, white, and/or male. This is perhaps part of why Representative Zack Stephenson recently came out as bisexual.

Democrats also applaud their politicians for calling white men terrorists, as Senator Omar Fateh recently did. Fateh spoke against common-sense amendments to a bill allowing the giving of driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. He claimed that the “threat” did not come from immigrants but from “members that sit in the front,” gesturing to Republican legislators.

Watch the video here

Expressing her frustration with the lack of babies being murdered, Democrat Representative Kaohly Vang Her blamed a “few white men” for daring to stand in the way of their legislative agenda. Alpha News reported that Representative Her and her colleagues are prepared to pass more sweeping abortion legislation. Anyone who stands in their way will be dismissed as a bigot, misogynist, or even fascist. 

The United States is not a racist country, as many leftists wish it were. To drive their message home, they manufacture fake stories of discrimination to earn sympathy points. I probably don’t need to remind you of Jussie Smollett’s manufactured “hate crime.”

While countless millions of Americans buy into this narrative, there is also likely something more sinister at play. This kind of “cultural Marxism” is being pushed to distract Minnesotans and Americans from the fact that their country is on the verge of thermal nuclear war with Russia and China. 

Meanwhile, Democrats continue to prioritize race, class, and sexual identity over the needs of the common man. They have no interest in saving this country, but in climbing to the top of the intersectional ladder. 

As snow fell on the state of Minnesota causing hazardous road conditions, Minnesota Democrats' top "road safety" priority was granting state-issued driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Senate Democrats passed HF 4 early in the morning after an extremely long floor debate.

The bill creates a driver's license that is void of an identifier about the recipient's legal status in an effort to avoid the stigma. With same-day registration in Minnesota elections, this new bill will undoubtedly lead to more voter fraud.

Republicans offered several amendments to the bill, all of them were rejected by the slim Democrat majority in the chamber. Among these rejected amendments were provisions to exclude:

• Gang members
• Terrorists
• Sex offenders
• Those ineligible to drive

Of course, Democrats need to protect their base of supporters. 

Now, the bill is off to Governor Walz’ desk to be signed. This extreme piece of legislation fits nicely with the insane gun ban and lawn mower ban bills the Democrats want to pass.

The liberal Star Tribune published an article over the weekend covering an anti-free speech bill written by Radical Democrat Liz Bolden. The bill, as noted by the Star Tribune, would target groups like Action 4 Liberty's free speech. In fact, the article mentioned Action 4 Liberty by name and referenced our infamous 2021 door knocking operations targeting vulnerable Democrats on a vote to End Governor Walz' Emergency Powers.

The Start Tribune writes:

"In 2021, the DFL Party submitted a complaint about the group Action 4 Liberty, which created mailers criticizing Democrats in swing districts for not voting to end Gov. Tim Walz's emergency powers during the pandemic."

In the spring of 2021, we fought off an erroneous campaign finance board complaint against us by the Democrat Party in Minnesota. They alleged we were illegally conducting electioneering and not reporting it to the Campaign Finance Board. The case was eventually dismissed, but it was ridiculous they even looked into such an erroneous complaint when in 2021 there was no election and no filed candidates for office. Plus, our door knocking literature didn't tell people to vote for or against a person.

According to the Star Tribune article, "Democrats want to require disclosure of all ads and mailings that could only be interpreted as intending to influence voters." However, the Minnesota State Constitution recognizes the right to free speech in Article 1, Section 3 when stating "all persons may freely speak, write and publish their sentiments on all subjects."

The Campaign Finance Board, a group of Walz appointed partisan hacks, will be the final arbiters of what constitutes a violation of the law if the Democrat bill passes. This government agency is actually using taxpayer money to lobby the legislature for the changes. And their recommendation would give them extremely vague language to find a violation when it comes to what is known as "expressed advocacy."

Thousands of Minnesotans give to Action 4 Liberty because they want an organization representing their voice for liberty. Many of our supporters have busy lives, families and work that limit their ability to make a daily impact in politics. Their support for our group allows them to focus on their private lives, while their message still gets to audiences of voters across the state.

Government DOES NOT have a right to regulate speech conducted against elected politicians. This is a fundamental right!

Let's be honest - our political operations are highly effective. Which is why the Democrats are targeting us and why the Star Tribune wrote about it in their article. Distributing political literature amongst the electorate to advocate for liberty is a practice that's as old as the founding of our country. Shame on the radical Democrats for trying to trample on this important activity and our rights to free speech!

In addition to their other extreme legislation, Minnesota Democrats are now rushing HF 4 to Governor Walz’ desk. This is the notorious bill that would give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants! Left-wing organizations that have praised this effort are also joined by the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce.

A group of self-proclaimed “business advocates” wrote a letter to the Minnesota Legislature signing the praises of this legislation. Among these organizations is the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce. 

If passed, HF 4 would allow non-citizens to receive standard Class D driver’s licenses that look identical to a citizen's. Of course, they like this legislation because it gives them easy access to cheap labor. 

Action 4 Liberty has previously reported on the dangers of this legislation, chief among them being that non-citizens can easily use these IDs to vote. Again, there are no distinguishing features that prevent an election judge from questioning their legal status.

As previously reported, non-citizens have already admitted to voting in Minnesota! With the passage of this legislation, there are no barriers preventing them from interfering in United States elections. 

The Minneapolis StarTribune has long been seen as a left-wing publication that carries water for the current Democrat administration. Any doubts about its liberal-leanings can be put to rest with the appointment of its new CEO.

The Minneapolis Newspaper announced that it would be bringing on Lockdown Governor Tim Walz’ Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Commissioner Steve Grove. If the paper lacks proper criticism of the liberal Governor now, one can only imagine how that will look when one of Walz' close confidants is in charge.

The Commissioner only recently settled a lawsuit alleging First Amendment rights violations. In the suit brought against the future newspaper CEO, Journalist Tony Webster alleged that Grove unconstitutionally blocked several Twitter accounts from his Official DEED Commissioner Account. Seeing as his account is used for purpose of communicating with taxpayers, his argument made sense.

On Monday, DEED agreed to pay Webster $17,000 in damages and a provided a block list from Grove’s account, which can be seen below:

Webster confirmed with a handful of accounts that they have been unblocked by Steve Grove.

It’s ironic that StarTribune thought that Steve Grove was the man for the job, considering that he has no tolerance for criticism of liberal Democrats.

However, with the newspaper’s far-left reporting record, maybe it makes sense that they hired a Walz lackey to prop up the liberal agenda in the media.