Minnesota Democratic U.S. Senate nominee and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan previously claimed she graduated Phi Beta Kappa despite never belonging to the prestigious honor society, while her official state biography suggests she completed two college majors when she actually earned one major and a minor, according to an exclusive report published Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) praised Somali migrants as the "CEOs of the future" and claimed that Somalis were being criticized because people see "the kind of economy and entrepreneurship" they are trying to build.
Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D), now running for U.S. Senate, promised a Somali audience in 2023 to seek funding for “culturally relevant treatments and care” and support multifamily housing.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said fraudsters in Minnesota bribed mothers roughly $1,500 per child to falsely claim their children were autistic, saddling the children with diagnoses they did not have.
Tim Pawlenty, the former Republican governor of Minnesota, acknowledged on Tuesday morning there was a “political layer” to the Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Federal agents searched the Democrat’s Washington, D.C., home on Oct. 12 as part of an ongoing criminal probe into allegations of fraud and false statements made in immigration…
Tim Pawlenty, the former Republican governor of Minnesota, acknowledged on Tuesday morning there was a “political layer” to the Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Federal agents searched the Democrat’s Washington, D.C., home on Oct. 12 as part of an ongoing criminal probe into allegations of fraud and false statements made in immigration…
A Minnesota teen who was arrested after being accused of planning a terror attack on the Mall of America in Minneapolis must remain in jail, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Dulce Foster said Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud,18, won’t be released because he’s a risk to the community and a flight risk, the Associated…
A Minnesota teen who was arrested after being accused of planning a terror attack on the Mall of America in Minneapolis must remain in jail, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Dulce Foster said Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud,18, won’t be released because he’s a risk to the community and a flight risk, the Associated…
Era decollato regolarmente alle 7:00 del mattino dello scorso 10 ottobre il volo United Airlines 1900, ma all’improvviso un evento inaspettato ha cambiato la sua rotta. L’aereo, decollato dall’aeroporto internazionale di Seattle-Tacoma e diretto a Newark, in New Jersey, stava sorvolando il Minnesota e si trovava a 35.000 piedi di altezza, quando il personale di bordo si è reso conto che una donna era rimasta bloccata all’interno del bagno, non riuscendo ad aprire la porta per uscire.
Dopo aver tentato per circa 15 minuti di aprire la porta, seguendo quelle che sono le procedure indicate, l’equipaggio di bordo del Boeing 737 MAX ha comunicato al pilota che l’operazione per permettere alla donna di uscire dal bagno non aveva avuto successo. Così il pilota ha deciso che venisse disposto un atterraggio di emergenza per consentire poi l’apertura della porta del bagno.
L’aeroporto designato per l’atterraggio di emergenza era quello di Chicago O’Hare, verso il quale quindi è iniziata la discesa del velivolo. L’aereo aveva già raggiunto i 27.000 piedi di altezza, quando la donna di 69 anni rimasta intrappolata nel bagno è stata finalmente liberata. Così l’aereo ha potuto evitare di effettuare l’atterraggio di emergenza, che era già stato disposto. I passeggeri sono quindi potuti atterrare regolarmente a Newark Liberty, circa quattro ore e mezza dopo la partenza da Seattle.
"This historic fraud happened under her watch, and suddenly, she’s looking out for Medicaid and SNAP? Sell it to someone else, Peggy."
With this debate response to Minnesota Democratic Senate nominee Peggy Flanagan’s protestations of concern over access to benefits for the very poor, Republican nominee for Senate Michele Tafoya sealed her status as "rookie of the year" in American politics.
A longtime NFL broadcast professional, Tafoya demonstrated decades of quick on-camera thinking in her debate last week with Flanagan and combined it with a deft slash at Flanagan’s greatest vulnerability: Flanagan’s apprenticeship as lieutenant governor to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz during the tidal wave of fraud that swept across Minnesota after Covid-era "look-the-other-way" policies became a feature, not a bug, in Minnesota’s vast system of "safety net" programs.
A federal prosecutor estimated the amount of fraud in Minnesota’s spending at as much as $9 billion — that’s a "b" as in "billion." That is a remarkable sum given the Gopher State’s population of fewer than 6 million souls and an annual budget of about $67 billion. To squander an amount equal to close to 15% of a state’s budget on thieves and con artists is staggering.
That level of corruption forced Walz to drop his planned campaign for re-election and now dogs Flanagan in her head-to-head campaign with Tafoya for the Senate.
As does the rising fear of gangs of Somali-American youths and the sort of violence that recently stunned suburban Twin Cities voters when a shootout occurred at an Eden Prairie high school homecoming game.
Eden Prairie is a standard-issue affluent suburban town of about 65,000 people. Fewer than 3,000 Somali-Americans live in Eden Prairie, but the gang shootout on October 2 at Aerie Stadium, during Eden Prairie High School’s game against Minnetonka High School, shocked voters across the entire state.
Tafoya was quick to note that everyone arrested in the incident — which left two youths wounded and crowds quickly evacuated from the canceled game — was out on bail within days. That shootout plus the fraud have dominated Gopher State media coverage of the Senate race this month.
Tafoya’s knockout line — "Sell it to someone else, Peggy" — was a wake-up call for the electorate. Even longtime Democrats in Minnesota are looking around their beloved state and cannot fathom why it has been engulfed in corruption and crime.
Tafoya would have been a good candidate in any cycle. She’s a terrific one for a midterm statewide campaign when her matchup is among the most watched in the country.
Polls in the race are within the "margin of error," which, to remind readers, means the pollsters conducting the surveys acknowledge it’s a toss-up. There may also be a silent and thus hidden-from-pollsters anti-establishment vote lurking beyond downtown Minneapolis, and the very liberal Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party ("DFL"), Flanagan’s brand, is the establishment in Minnesota.
The DFL is not the DSA, but Flanagan is most definitely "DSA-adjacent." She is as "woke" as "woke" gets. One obvious "tell": Flanagan has repeatedly branded Israel’s battle against Hamas in Gaza — which was triggered by the terrorist invasion and massacre of Oct. 7 — as a "genocide," which is not only a slander but an exceptionally stupid slander.
The "genocide" slogan is popular among the radicals chanting "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," but it’s an "idiot wind," to borrow from Minnesota’s Nobel laureate bard Bob Dylan. To level that charge against the Jewish state should earn whoever utters it an immediate exit from American politics, not a six-year seat in the most powerful legislative chamber on the planet.
Flanagan isn’t the most radical Democratic nominee of the 2026 election cycle. That is clearly Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.
But Flanagan is tied with Maine’s Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson for the "never going to win the spelling bee" title and with Texas’s Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico for the gold in the "weird" Olympics this fall. (That’s very fitting since Walz popularized calling then-Senator and now Vice President J.D. Vance "weird" in the 2024 campaign.)
Meanwhile, the very smart, very telegenic and very professional and prepared Tafoya has worked and worked every crowd, large and small, across Minnesota with the simple and direct appeal that Minnesota voters deserve better than the hot mess that Walz and Flanagan have left the state in after eight years of hapless indifference to the biggest fraud story in the nation, marching right alongside spiraling violence.
Minnesota elects Republicans, just not often. Tafoya isn’t in the lead, but she’s certainly very close to scoring the biggest upset of 2026. Why? Because sometimes even liberals get sick of the left when the left imposes enormous costs on their lives and on the safety of their children and grandchildren.
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Authorities have said the attack was thwarted by FBI agents after they monitored the 18-year-old for nearly two years and ultimately supplied him with the AK-47 he planned to use.
Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) on Saturday called out her fellow Democrats over their association with controversial left-wing streamer Hasan Piker. “As Democrats, we constantly criticize the far-right for their incendiary and discriminatory politics, but we need to hold ourselves to the same standard,” Craig said in a post on the social platform X. “Hasan Piker’s…
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Minnesota lawmaker’s attorneys asked for return of seized items and the preservation of any recordings of search
Ilhan Omar’s attorneys have asked the US Department of Justice to return property that federal agents removed days earlier from her home during a search.
The lawyers for the Minnesota Democrat contended that the seizure as “neither justified nor lawful”, according to a letter that the Associated Press reported on Friday.
A criminal investigation into the lawmaker’s immigration process advanced after federal investigators reviewed family text messages from a seized phone.
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