The Minnesota branch of left-wing group Black Lives Matter is potentially mobilizing after the fatal shooting of Ricky Cobb III by a state trooper. At this moment, we still don't know many details that led to the 2 AM shooting, but Cobb had an arrest warrant for a felony charge and resisted arrest. The event unfolded this morning on I-94 in the Twin Cities and led to the freeway shutting down on Monday morning as BCA investigated.

BLM MN is holding a candlelight vigil tonight (July 31st) in North Mississippi Regional Park in Minneapolis. We assume that it will be peaceful, but BLM's reckless Facebook promotion states that Cobb was "murdered" by State Troopers. 

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Governor Walz spent nearly two years as King of Minnesota. His self-anointed emergency powers allowed him to operate without legislative approval. On top of that, he spent the last few months passing some of the most extreme legislation in the country. 

On Friday, Walz traveled to Des Moines, Iowa to lecture Republican leaders about how they ought to lead.

"We don't need you in the exam room. We don't need you telling us who we can love. We don't need you dictating to us about rewriting the history of what happened in this country around slavery!" Walz continues, "Good neighbors are built by minding your own damn business!"

But it was Governor Walz who divided Minnesota citizens into "essential" and "non-essential" workers in 2020. During his illegal lockdowns, he instituted a tip line that encouraged neighbors to snitch on one another. The "stay-at-home violation" hotline was in use all the way up to the 2022 election, when Walz was pressured by his political opponents to take it down. 

Of course, Walz also implemented vaccine mandates for state employees. Pressuring those who value medical freedom to either violate their bodily autonomy or get another job. Walz certainly did not respect the privacy of the "exam room" then.

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Governor Walz should start by minding his "damn business" before traveling the country and telling others to do the same.

If the big-money elites prefer Dean Phillips over Joe Biden, you know the Democrat party is in trouble.

Politico reported on Friday morning that Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips (MN-3) is being urged to challenge President Biden in the Democrat primary. They also reported he will be soon meeting with donors in New York about the prospect of running.

Many falsely believe that Phillips is a moderate. According to VoteView.com, the former-liquor salesman votes with his party 96% of the time. In other words, he is just as far-left as your average Democrat in 2023.

At 54, he is younger and likely more functional than the Democrat Party’s 80 year old leader, but is unlikely to make a dent in the primary stage. Phillips is largely unknown and is only in his third term in congress.

Plus, he is boring! Democrats are better off going with a candidate like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. than they are with Phillips.

Then again, many conservatives in the western Twin Cities metro wouldn’t complain if he gave up his seat to run for President. Maybe we should encourage him to run after all?

Gabriel Rench, an Idaho Deacon who defied his city’s lockdown order in 2020, has finally received vindication. Courts have ordered that the city of Moscow, Idaho must pay him and fellow congregants a settlement of $300,000.

Rench was among a handful of patriotic leaders in 2020 and 2021 who was arrested for exercising his God-given rights. In September of 2020, Christ Church congregants protested masking and lockdown mandates that prohibited their ability to worship freely. When Rench organized a peaceful protest outside of the Moscow City Hall, he was arrested.

This story went viral at the time, and had earned the condemnation of President Trump on Twitter.

DEMS WANT TO SHUT YOUR CHURCHES DOWN, PERMANENTLY. HOPE YOU SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING. VOTE NOW! https://t.co/dqvqz6b1WD

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2020

He along with two other protestors sued the city and won their case earlier this year. Just last week, a judge finalized the $300,000 settlement.

Rench is one of the few patriots who have been vindicated. Lisa Hanson similarly defied lockdown orders with her bar in Albert Lea, Minnesota. Instead of receiving a cash settlement, she spent over 90 days in jail.

There is a growing faction of power-hungry leftists that want to control you and your family. If our American Republic is to last, we cannot let them win. 

Rench will be coming on The Truth Hurts Show on Thursday, August 3rd to discuss his legal victory. You can tune in live at 1:00pm here.

Congressman Jim Jordan shared documents from Meta on Thursday that show they complied with President Biden’s censorship demands in 2021. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and many more tech companies.

After threatening Meta CEO Mark Zuckerburg with a contempt of congress charge, Jordan received a plethora of emails from the tech giant that show how far the Biden White House went in their effort to control the narrative around COVID-19. As we know from the Twitter files, Biden went to great lengths to ensure that any posts that questioned the efficacy of the vaccine were deleted.

In a particularly damning email to staff in 2021, Zuckerburg writes that “We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the [Biden] White House” to censor and remove content.

In April 2021, a Facebook employee circulated an email for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, writing: “We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the [Biden] White House” to remove posts. pic.twitter.com/iDRV3Kk2oO

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 27, 2023

Emails released by Jordan also detail the pressure that Facebook felt from the Biden White House. This includes claims from Biden that Facebook and Twitter were “killing people” by letting “disinformation” on their platforms.

Before these files were released from Facebook, a Judge put an injunction on the Federal government working with social media companies to censor speech. It is likely this same Judge will rule Biden’s actions as unconstitutional. Our team wrote about this story a few weeks ago.

More and more evidence is mounting that President Biden is abusing his power as President. This is part of the reason why House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is preparing to launch an impeachment inquiry.

Far-left congresswoman Ilhan Omar (MN-5) introduced the “Raise the Wage” bill on Wednesday, which would gradually increase the federal minimum wage to $17 an hour by 2028. After then, the wage would increase based on inflation rates. Bill co-sponsors include Betty McCollum (MN-4) and fake moderate Angie Craig (MN-2).

This proposal does not have a bill number as of writing, but you can read the language here.

Gone are the “fight for 15” days, when Democrats pushed for a minimum wage of $15/hour. Now, the argument starts at $17/hour. Some Democrats even argue that the minimum wage must start at $25/hour.

$25/hour minimum wage.

— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) February 8, 2023

The minimum wage debate should have been long dead and buried in post-lockdown America. With the workers shortage lingering on, most retail employers have been forced to raise wages to meet with market demand. According to Statista, the average wage for retail employees ages 16 and older is over $23/hr. 

Do let that stat fool you, though. Raising the minimum wage across the board would still hurt small businesses and employers in states where costs are lower. When you look at small-town America, the cost of living is far cheaper than the big cities. For example, workers in California pay 74.6% more for housing than workers in Kansas do.

Small-town America will feel the most pain with this minimum wage increase. With Congresswoman Angie Craig representing the greater Twin Cities suburbs, you would think she would know that. Ilhan Omar, to be fair, should also know better – but her constituency is probably begging for more legislation like this.

The Federal Reserve announced that it is increasing interest rates again in attempt to curb inflation, moving the benchmark fed funds rate to 5.25% - 5.50%. As you probably have noticed, gas and food prices are going back up. And it's not getting cheaper to eat out these days.

The Federal Reserve is playing with fire! If they don't raise rates, which many politicians in Washington prefer, then consumer prices continue to rise and hurt American families. Raising rates contracts the money supply by making it more costly for people to take out loans, therefore less money is put into the banks and circulates in the economy. With less money circulating in the economy, the less bidding up of consumer goods there is, therefore, less inflation.

However, raising rates makes bond prices fall, housing prices fall and makes servicing government debt more unmanageable. Plus, many of the banks that have bet big on artificially low bond and housing interest rates, will go under. We've already seen a couple banks go under with the previous rate increases in the last year. More notably, the amount of assets of those banks rival the total that failed in the Great Recession.

We're damned if they do and damned if they don't. The prospects of a gloomy economy in the future is high. Just remember that it was politicians in Washington that caused it. 

The Minnesota Legislature nearly drove Uber out of the state this past legislative session. Now, the city of Minneapolis is considering the implementation of those same regulations. 

Senator Omar Fateh championed a bill through both the Minnesota House and Senate that would raise the minimum wage and require benefits for rideshare workers. Uber actually made a public statement about the bill, saying they would be forced to leave Minnesota if passed.

Governor Walz only vetoed the bill due to this pressure. At the time, many believed that this insane and anti-business idea was dead. However, Minneapolis has brought this proposal back into the mainstream.

The Minneapolis City Council is being lobbied by the Minnesota Uber & Lyft Driver’s Associasion (MULDA) to hold a public hearing on the proposal. Now, the City Council is considering a hearing which would be scheduled for August 8th.

“We not asking for increased wages we asking for fair compensation” says an Uber driver outside the Minneapolis City Council chambers. pic.twitter.com/51UWH8bBCL

— Alfonzo “FoFo” Galvan (@GalvanReports) July 25, 2023

Their arguments sound nice but they do not change reality. Uber and Lyft cannot feasibly afford to offer their services when they cost more than their margins allow.

If Minneapolis passes increased wage and benefit packages for rideshare workers, do not be surprised if Uber follows through with threats to leave the state.

Despite earning ire from the Republican base, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appears poised to bring an impeachment inquiry to the House floor. McCarthy has repeatedly teased his support for impeachment over the past few days, with support from other congressional Republicans.

The calls for impeachment come from purported corruption by President Biden and his son Hunter. Republicans accuse Biden of using his office as Barack Obama’s Vice-President to get his son a job on the board of Ukrainian-owned Burisma - an energy company.

Biden threatened to withhold funding to the country in 2016 if the country didn’t end its investigation into Burisma. In fact, he bragged about doing so at a forum. As predicted, the corrupt mainstream media has rushed to defend Biden.

However, McCarthy has promised to bring more corruption allegations to light. He alleges that Biden is refusing to cooperate with current investigations and is using the Department of Justice (DOJ) to cover his tracks.

Our investigations are revealing more info every day about the Biden family's shell companies and the sweetheart deal from the DOJ. The American public has a right to the truth.

If evidence continues to rise to the level of an impeachment inquiry, House Republicans will act.

— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) July 25, 2023

To be clear, the impeachment inquiry simply lays the infrastructure for the House to further investigate wrongdoing by Biden. From there, the House can vote on impeaching him. 

The Speaker must do everything he can to hold Biden accountable. Democrats impeached President Trump twice with flimsy to no evidence. Now, Republicans have more than enough evidence to believe that Biden abused his power for financial gain.

This is frankly the bare minimum for House Republicans. Biden tried mandating vaccines on all Americans, even threatening to push them out of mainstream society. He cooperated with social media companies to censor speech he did not like. Both things were ruled unconstitutional by the courts.

If McCarthy decides against holding the President accountable, conservative congressmen have the option to remove him as speaker.

The term “mama bear” is synonymous with a mother or grandmother who turns to political activism to protect children from left-wing indoctrination. These parents are sometimes brand new to politics, but often become immediately effective as activists. These family-oriented individuals have just been branded “extremists” by the left-wing StarTribune.

On Sunday, the Minneapolis newspaper ran a story titled: 'Mama bears' may be the 2024 race's soccer moms. But where the GOP seeks votes, some see extremism.

The article introduces the popular parents rights group, Moms For Liberty as extreme. As with most leftist writers, they get this definition from the notorious Southern Poverty Law Center. According to the group, Moms for Liberty advocates for “the abolition of the Department of Education, advance a conspiracy propaganda, and spread hateful imagery and rhetoric against the LGBTQ community.”

Remember, the StarTribune is now run by former Walz commissioner Steve Grove. To the left, anyone who advocates for parental rights and school choice is an extremist. Are you surprised?

In Minnesota, this group is setting up a series of “See You at the Library” book tours in coordination with Christian filmmaker Kirk Cameron. For more details about Moms for Liberty and their efforts, check out their website – www.momsforliberty.org

What should be obvious to Democrat politicians is that mothers will be a key voting group in the 2024 election. By bowing to the whims of the teacher's union and pushing far-left gender ideology, Democrats seriously jeopardize their chances of victory.