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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See committee members below:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Picture provided from Hughes' campaign website

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

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

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

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

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

The 16 year incumbent that's never actually shrank government just said the quiet part out loud on X.  Rep. Mary Franson admitted on X this evening that the members of the Rules committee will KILL articles of impeachment that have been filed against Keith Ellison and Tim Walz.  

The rules committee is comprised of two Republicans, Harry Niska and Elliott Engen, and two Democrats, Athena Hollins and Jamie Long.  

Harry Niska and Elliott Engen COULD choose to actually fight their committee members to get articles of impeachment out of committee.  Or any member of the body could make a motion to discharge Articles of Impeachment out of committee and force a floor vote.

One would think Elliott Engen, who's primary message as a State Auditor candidate is "accountability", would at least put up a fight.  

But that's too much work for Mary Franson and her RINO colleagues that refused to support Articles of Impeachment against Walz 5 years ago when I originally authored them.

So Mary is throwing in the towel already and she knows that's exactly what Niska and Engen will do also.  But should we even be surprised?  Franson wore her precious little mask every day during COVID.  She votes for bigger government and bigger budgets all the time.

The problem with Minnesota Republicans is they have NO FIGHT in them.  They're so scared of losing that they don't even know how to win - electorally or legislatively.  

What I do find comical though, is just 3 days ago Franson was expressing her envy about the new MN Freedom Caucus on X.  She was clearly emotionally charged by the fact that she wasn't accepted as a member of the MN Freedom Caucus.  She even went so far as to pull from the radical left's playbook and accuse the Freedom Caucus of being sexist against women...simply because she wasn't chosen to be a founding member.

Of course the reality that I suspect is that the Freedom Caucus actually has standards - you know like voting conservatively or favorably towards freedom.  I may be taking too big of a leap here with this assumption but something tells me the Freedom Caucus promotes...Freedom, less government, smaller budgets.  And that's not what Mary's legislative scorecard looks like with her 33% 2025 voting record.  

What Mary Franson and her colleagues ought to be working on is holding the Walz administration accountable for the BILLIONS of dollars of fraud that's occurred under his watch.  She should be locking arms with the MN Freedom Caucus and going to war with them to Impeach Tim Walz, Impeach Keith Ellison and defund the CCAP program.  That's what liberty-loving Minnesotans want!

We're done being taxed into oblivion and watching pale, palpitating mounds of political Play-Doh like Mary Franson get so squishy and fearful of taking meaningful action.

Tell Mary and her worthless, weak-kneed, cowardly RINO friends to either FIGHT NOW or get the hell out of the way so someone else can.

Legislators are supposed to be fighting for their constituents every single day using every lever at their disposal to deliver results. Unfortunately, the St. Paul Swamp lures politicians in to maintain the status quo, grow government, and undermine the fight for liberty. 

Many politicians are know-it-alls who have inflated egos but nobody fits that bill better than Walter Hudson. Anyone that takes a look at Hudson’s social media will see that it is flooded with self-congratulatory, ego-driven posts that attempt to make him sound profound. While he usually frames things as if he is opposing the Democrat’s far-left agenda, he revealed that he collaborated with a Democrat to do nothing on the House floor on Thursday, Feb. 26th. Rather than fighting for his constituents by bringing forward popular, single-subject bills for floor votes, Hudson would rather go home and tweet all weekend in just the second week of the legislative session.

See X post below:

Hudson is a prime example of how political power can change someone. Hudson loved Action 4 Liberty while he was a regular citizen but now that he is the one in office, it’s turned upside down. In Hudson’s first term in the House, he championed A4L’s Never Again Bill but never forced a floor vote. Once Hudson began working for the MNGOP to be the Somali/minority outreach coordinator under the direction of corrupt MNGOP Chair David Hann, Hudson began to change and ultimately started arguing that A4L supporters should be purged from the party (an action he opposed when Jennifer Carnahan was MNGOP Chair). See announcement of MNGOP hiring Hudson below, including his (self-admitted) failed focus on Somali voters in the final paragraph:

The GOP House could be proposing single-subject bills that shrink the size of government, lower taxes, eliminate fraud, reduce regulations, and protect our God-given liberties. By calling a truce with Democrats, Hudson made sure the GOP did nothing to deliver for their base. Democrat politicians have shown that they will vote against measures that have 80-20 or even 90-10 support levels among Americans, Hudson could be showing how radical they are with pointed floor votes but it appears he does not want to actually fight legislatively. Perhaps it is actually a good thing that Hudson and Dems are collaborating to do nothing as opposed to doing something like when Hudson did when he worked with Democrats to pass anti-free speech legislation that made it illegal to share AI memes of politicians or you could face 5 years in prison and/or a $10K fine.

As seen in previous A4L reporting, Hudson started the Uniparty domino effect on the House floor earlier in the week by supporting a Democrat, anti-ICE bill to advance from one committee to another right after the Democrats refused to advance the bill that creates an office of the Inspector General to investigate MN fraud. Grassroots conservatives continue to be fed up with the GOP getting played by the Democrats while getting nothing in return. As seen in the reporting, only 18 GOP Reps voted no and saw through the Democrats and Walter Hudson while another 6 Republicans abstained.

While in office, Hudson has chosen to protect RINOs like Ron Kresha from allegations of PPP loan fraud and protect Tom Emmer from conservative opposition for the GOP endorsement. Rather than fighting for grassroots conservatives, Hudson has been a loyal member of the Establishment RINO cult and refuses to oppose them on anything. 

Action 4 Liberty will never waiver in our conservative principles or defense of liberty. The St. Paul Swamp does not have the answers and Establishment henchmen like Walter Hudson only pretend to fight corruption. A4L will continue to be consistent in the fight to shrink the size and scope of government to protect our Constitutional liberties.

Minnesota’s latest budget forecast was released today by the office of Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) and it reveals that the budget package passed by Demuth and RINO House Republicans was billions more than anticipated. This forecast revealed how much our government is actually spending and how politicians are currently sitting on a roughly $7.2B surplus! 

Many may remember Republicans, notably Empty Suit Lisa Demuth, touting that the state budget faced its largest cut in MN history thanks to the House GOP following out of control leftist spending during the Democrat trifecta. Upon digging into our state's finances we learn that is not true.

Demuth and House Republicans initially proposed a state budget that eerily totaled $66.6B and Minnesotans were told that the final state budget number agreed to behind closed doors with Tim Walz was a little over $66B. A4L and grassroots conservatives demanded the budget be brought back to pre-Covid spending levels but RINOs instead cemented in Democrat trifecta spending. See a graphic below that shows spending levels over the years. Purple represents a split legislature while blue represents the Democrat trifecta. As seen below, Demuth and RINO leadership did not give us a spending cut from the Democrat trifecta, we are actually on pace to spend MORE in this biennium than the Democrat trifecta:

When you view the February 2026 budget forecast, you realize that the GOP was not telling the truth about the spending levels they passed within unconstitutional omnibus bills. The spending total for the budget will be over $70.2B! This is barely a cut from Democrat spending levels and it maintains the fraud and corruption our state has been nationally exposed for. See circled section below showing how much Minnesota’s government is actually spending:

It is no big surprise that crooked politicians over-spent and lied for political benefit, but that does not mean the well is dry! There is STILL money sitting around and it should ALL go back to the taxpayers!

Minnesota currently has an over $7.2B surplus!

A surplus is when there is money left over after the state has already passed their biennial budget. Since this money was not spent, they are over-taxed dollars that should be totally returned. In the graphic below, the state currently has over $7.5B with over $3.4B sitting in the Budget Reserve fund. The Budget Reserve fund has become obsolete and unnecessary as it was not even tapped during Covid, proving it does not serve a useful function anymore. There is also $350M in the Cash Flow Account, which allows normal government operations to continue. The surplus is calculated by subtracting the Cash Flow Account from the Balance Before Reserves, bringing us to nearly $7.27.B. See below:

If this surplus was evenly distributed among taxpayers, each individual would receive around $2,400! You would never know this listening to Democrats, RINOs, or the mainstream media! As seen in previous A4L reporting, the media and politicians are lying by claiming that there is a deficit, not a surplus! The truth is that there will be a deficit in the next biennium if the legislature does not cut spending. Simple solution to that: CUT SPENDING!

As seen in a press conference following the release of the budget report, Lisa Demuth strung together an AOC-style word salad about the report! It is painfully clear that Lisa Demuth has no idea what she is talking about and is blurting out random budgeting words. With Demuth's incompetence on full display, Republicans may look elsewhere for leadership in the Governor race.

Action 4 Liberty will continue informing Patriots with information they cannot get anywhere else. The Establishment does not want you to know that they overspent and that taxpayers should have the $7.2B surplus completely returned. The legislature has done enough harm with their spending and supplemental budgets will only make it worse. They should relieve taxpayers while they struggle economically by returning the budget surplus immediately!

Republicans used to argue that the government was the problem and its interference in the free market stifled competition. As conservatives know, competition brings prices down and the artificial influence of government rigs the system. One of the industries that the failures of government is most prevalent is healthcare insurance as Americans and Minnesotans see undeserved outrageous costs thanks to government intervention.

This is not just a Democrat issue, there is a Republican issue too! The Uniparty loves to frame bailing out healthcare companies with nicer terms like “reinsurance” so the average citizen doesn’t know what is happening. Now, RINOs in the MN House are pushing to make the socialized healthcare “reinsurance” program permanent!

RINO Tim O’Drisocoll is the sole author of HF3388 that makes the healthcare bailout program permanent. This bill does not presently have a Senate companion but if it is a GOP priority, we may see the RINOs in the Senate pounce on this.

As seen in a recent House GOP press conference, the official stance of the Republican leadership is to make a broken government program permanent! GOP Floor Leader Harry Niska (31A) specifically brought up the bill as the GOP’s way to deal with affordability with Lisa Demuth nodding along in the background. Minnesotans are struggling to make ends meet and THAT is all the GOP leadership has to offer? A socialized healthcare bailout!?!

What Republicans should be doing is passing laws to remove regulations and mandates. This would drastically cut costs and allow each individual to tailor their health insurance to their circumstance. Things like allowing truly free telemedicine, ending evil "Certificate of Need" laws that restrict healthcare services to build hospitals, add beds at medical facilities, eliminate laws that prohibit medical equipment in geographic areas without a government permission slip of "need", and allow access to healthcare across state lines.

Action 4 Liberty will continue to expose the corrupt agenda of the Establishment and will fight for smaller government, lower taxes, and more liberty.