Peggy Flanagan wants a promotion. The record: FRAUD. She bragged she and Walz "hired all of our commissioners together" and built budgets "side by side." On their watch: Feeding Our Future, $250 million stolen from hungry kids. Autism and housing scams. All through agencies she staffed. She was warned. She sat on the committee that held child-care fraud hearings before taking office. MN's House fraud chair, under oath: once they took power, "nothing changed." When DHS staff blew the whistle, she took a state stage and called them "weirdos and losers sitting in their mothers' basement," per sworn congressional testimony. They were right. When DHS overpaid her White Earth band and Leech Lake $29 million, she and Walz told DHS to "work more cooperatively." Walz asked taxpayers to eat it. Now: "The buck stops with him." "Political theater." Her own primary rival: "absolutely no accountability." CRIME. Minneapolis burned in 2020. Homicides doubled by 2021. Her answer: "rethinking policing." She called Minnesota "not safe to be Black" while Black Minnesotans died at rates not seen since the '90s. Not by cops. Not by white people. FBI: ~89% of Black homicide victims are killed by Black offenders. Mid-scandal, in a hijab at a Somali market: "we've got your back." Today: "rip ICE apart." CONTEMPT. Minnesota "has been built" on "white supremacy." It's "a really incredible state — if you're white." For people of color, immigrants and refugees, "the opposite is true." Then, running statewide: "I love Minnesota. Who wouldn't be?" Family trees? Her grandfather was suspected in four killings. Never charged. LIES. Your daughter has "fewer rights"? Not under the law she championed. Women earn "81 cents"? Same job, the gap is ~5%. Eight years. Every commissioner hired. Every warning ignored. Every whistleblower mocked. Fire her.

Peggy Flanagan wants a promotion. The record: FRAUD. She bragged she and Walz "hired all of our commissioners together" and built budgets "side by side." On their watch: Feeding Our Future, $250 million stolen from hungry kids. Autism and housing scams. All through agencies she staffed. She was warned. She sat on the committee that held child-care fraud hearings before taking office. MN's House fraud chair, under oath: once they took power, "nothing changed." When DHS staff blew the whistle, she took a state stage and called them "weirdos and losers sitting in their mothers' basement," per sworn congressional testimony. They were right. When DHS overpaid her White Earth band and Leech Lake $29 million, she and Walz told DHS to "work more cooperatively." Walz asked taxpayers to eat it. Now: "The buck stops with him." "Political theater." Her own primary rival: "absolutely no accountability." CRIME. Minneapolis burned in 2020. Homicides doubled by 2021. Her answer: "rethinking policing." She called Minnesota "not safe to be Black" while Black Minnesotans died at rates not seen since the '90s. Not by cops. Not by white people. FBI: ~89% of Black homicide victims are killed by Black offenders. Mid-scandal, in a hijab at a Somali market: "we've got your back." Today: "rip ICE apart." CONTEMPT. Minnesota "has been built" on "white supremacy." It's "a really incredible state — if you're white." For people of color, immigrants and refugees, "the opposite is true." Then, running statewide: "I love Minnesota. Who wouldn't be?" Family trees? Her grandfather was suspected in four killings. Never charged. LIES. Your daughter has "fewer rights"? Not under the law she championed. Women earn "81 cents"? Same job, the gap is ~5%. Eight years. Every commissioner hired. Every warning ignored. Every whistleblower mocked. Fire her.

Peggy Flanagan wants a promotion. The record: FRAUD. She bragged she and Walz "hired all of our commissioners together" and built budgets "side by side." On their watch: Feeding Our Future, $250 million stolen from hungry kids. Autism and housing scams. All through agencies she staffed. She was warned. She sat on the committee that held child-care fraud hearings before taking office. MN's House fraud chair, under oath: once they took power, "nothing changed." When DHS staff blew the whistle, she took a state stage and called them "weirdos and losers sitting in their mothers' basement," per sworn congressional testimony. They were right. When DHS overpaid her White Earth band and Leech Lake $29 million, she and Walz told DHS to "work more cooperatively." Walz asked taxpayers to eat it. Now: "The buck stops with him." "Political theater." Her own primary rival: "absolutely no accountability." CRIME. Minneapolis burned in 2020. Homicides doubled by 2021. Her answer: "rethinking policing." She called Minnesota "not safe to be Black" while Black Minnesotans died at rates not seen since the '90s. Not by cops. Not by white people. FBI: ~89% of Black homicide victims are killed by Black offenders. Mid-scandal, in a hijab at a Somali market: "we've got your back." Today: "rip ICE apart." CONTEMPT. Minnesota "has been built" on "white supremacy." It's "a really incredible state — if you're white." For people of color, immigrants and refugees, "the opposite is true." Then, running statewide: "I love Minnesota. Who wouldn't be?" Family trees? Her grandfather was suspected in four killings. Never charged. LIES. Your daughter has "fewer rights"? Not under the law she championed. Women earn "81 cents"? Same job, the gap is ~5%. Eight years. Every commissioner hired. Every warning ignored. Every whistleblower mocked. Fire her.

It's not a series of mistakes. It's an operating model. Judge by group, not by results. Treat every disparity as oppression. Shoot the messenger: whistleblowers are "weirdos and losers." Take credit together, pass blame upward. Call criticism "theater." In her words, it's "centering the people most impacted." In Minnesota's ledger, it's hundreds of millions gone.

Bernie shows you the slice. He never shows you the cake. Extreme poverty fell from 1 in 3 people in 1990 to about 1 in 10 today, during exactly the years billionaires multiplied. France ran Bernie's program for 45 years: wealth tax, 75% top rate, spending at 57% of GDP, no balanced budget since 1974. It scrapped the wealth tax in 2018. Judge policies by results, not intentions.

Minnesota is importing poverty and calling it compassion. The Census data: Somali-headed households vs. native-headed (CIS analysis, 2014-2023 American Community Survey): - Any welfare: 81% vs 21% - Medicaid: 73% vs 18% - Food stamps: 54% vs 7% - Cash aid: 27% vs 6% - With children, any welfare: 89% Adults in poverty: 37.5% vs 6.9%. Children: 52.3% vs 7.6%. 39% of working-age adults have no high school diploma. 58% do not speak English very well. It is not closing. After 10+ years here, adult poverty is still 32.9%, 49% still lack strong English, and welfare use is barely lower. The ledger. Somali Minnesotans earn about $500 million a year and pay $67 million in state and local taxes (economist Bruce Corrie). Add federal payroll tax, subtract refundable credits: about $100 million in total taxes, by my estimate. Against that: Medicaid $185-345 million, food stamps $45-65 million, cash aid $30-40 million. That is $260-450 million a year, plus about $375 million for K-12. Three to four dollars out for every dollar in, before schools. The fraud. Feeding Our Future: 80 indicted, 69 convicted, $250-350 million stolen from a children's meal program, $75 million recovered. Most defendants were Somali American. Federal prosecutor Joe Thompson estimates half or more of $18 billion billed through 14 Medicaid programs since 2018 may be fraudulent, across all providers. The state disputes it. The security record. Since 2007, more than 30 Somali Minnesotans have left or tried to leave for al-Shabaab or ISIS, from a community of about 84,000. Per capita, hundreds of times the rate of terrorism cases in the rest of the state. The ask. A net fiscal accounting from the state, which has never published one, and a resettlement policy judged on results: English, diplomas, wages, self-sufficiency within 10 years. Anything less is not compassion. Sources: CIS (Dec. 2025); KSTP 12/4/25; DOJ; Minnesota Reformer 12/18/25; AP 12/3/25; cost and tax estimates are the author's

Minnesota does not have a gun-law problem. It has a gun-prosecution problem. State law says a felon caught with a firearm gets five years in prison. Mandatory. Here is what the state's own Sentencing Guidelines Commission says actually happens. Statewide, July 2024 to June 2025: - 1,632 firearm cases reported by county attorneys - 149 never charged - 315 charged, then dismissed - 191 pleaded to offenses with no mandatory minimum - 472 got the mandatory sentence That is 29 of every 100. Of the 329 waivers, prosecutors asked for 183. Judges did the other 146. Hennepin County, 41% of the state's caseload: 672 charged, 151 dismissed, 204 got the minimum. 30 of every 100. Then it got worse. Since October 15, 2025, Mary Moriarty's office will not prosecute felonies found on stops for expired tabs or a broken taillight, guns included, unless a supervisor approves an exception. On Tuesday, after 100 rounds were fired on a Bloomington street, Chief Booker Hodges said: "We have received multiple charging declination letters from the county attorney when we stop people for a petty misdemeanor traffic stop, and we find weapons and drugs." Another leader at the same podium: "The gun possession crime is going to lead to that gun violence crime if you don't take care of it." And the excuses are gone. Hodges on the shooters: "They're coming from two-parent homes, living in apartment buildings with $3,500 a month rent, driving Beamers and Mercedes." No drugs. No cash stashes. Asked about root causes: "I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I have no answer for you." No poverty. No drug trade. No youth-program gap. That leaves one variable: consequences. As one official put it: "Why stop if nothing's going to happen to you?" The fix is not a new law. Stop the car. Charge the gun. Impose the minimum. Every time. Before the Capitol writes another registry bill for people who follow the law, ask why seven in ten gun cases end without the sentence the law already requires. Sources: MSGC 2026 Report to the Legislature, pp. 37-42; KSTP 9/19/25; Bloomington news conference 10/6/26

Amendment 1 on your November ballot. Before you vote, know what it is and what it isn't. What it does: Minnesota's Permanent School Fund, about $2.3 billion built from school trust lands (mining and timber royalties), currently pays out about 2.5% a year. The amendment raises that to 4.5% of the fund's three-year average value. No new tax. Leaving it blank counts as a no. What it buys: about $33 more per student, roughly $101 instead of $68. Minneapolis gets $900,000 against a $40 million shortfall. Duluth gets $280,000 against a $12 million deficit. That is the whole fix. Now the context nobody puts on the ballot. In 2023 the Legislature added nearly $2.3 billion to K-12 and indexed the formula to inflation. The next year, state tests showed 45.5% of students proficient in math and 49.9% in reading. In 2019, before the money and before the pandemic, it was 55% and 59%. More money. Lower results. The problem was never the dollar amount. Three questions before you vote: 1. Where are the results requirements? The bill's own author says it sets "no new state mandates on how districts spend the money." No reading targets. No math targets. Money without a scoreboard. 2. Who is watching it? The same Department of Education that oversees this money also oversaw Feeding Our Future, where $250 million or more was stolen from a children's meal program before anyone stopped it. 3. What happens to the fund? The task force says 4.5% preserves it. The fund has averaged about 5.6% growth since 1858. Take out 4.5% and inflation, and the margin for a bad decade is thin. A trust built for every future Minnesota student gets drawn down faster for a $33 bump today. To be fair: this is a bipartisan bill, authored by a Republican, and it does not raise your taxes. The case for it is real but small. The case against is bigger than $33. Minnesota keeps answering failing scores with more money and no accountability. A yes vote tells St. Paul that works. Fund results, not systems. Sources: Fox 9 (9/2026); MN House GOP release on HF 3900; MASA 9/7/26; Minnesota Reformer 6/2/23; CBS Minnesota 8/29/24

Amendment 1 on your November ballot. Before you vote, know what it is and what it isn't. What it does: Minnesota's Permanent School Fund, about $2.3 billion built from school trust lands (mining and timber royalties), currently pays out about 2.5% a year. The amendment raises that to 4.5% of the fund's three-year average value. No new tax. Leaving it blank counts as a no. What it buys: about $33 more per student, roughly $101 instead of $68. Minneapolis gets $900,000 against a $40 million shortfall. Duluth gets $280,000 against a $12 million deficit. That is the whole fix. Now the context nobody puts on the ballot. In 2023 the Legislature added nearly $2.3 billion to K-12 and indexed the formula to inflation. The next year, state tests showed 45.5% of students proficient in math and 49.9% in reading. In 2019, before the money and before the pandemic, it was 55% and 59%. More money. Lower results. The problem was never the dollar amount. Three questions before you vote: 1. Where are the results requirements? The bill's own author says it sets "no new state mandates on how districts spend the money." No reading targets. No math targets. Money without a scoreboard. 2. Who is watching it? The same Department of Education that oversees this money also oversaw Feeding Our Future, where $250 million or more was stolen from a children's meal program before anyone stopped it. 3. What happens to the fund? The task force says 4.5% preserves it. The fund has averaged about 5.6% growth since 1858. Take out 4.5% and inflation, and the margin for a bad decade is thin. A trust built for every future Minnesota student gets drawn down faster for a $33 bump today. To be fair: this is a bipartisan bill, authored by a Republican, and it does not raise your taxes. The case for it is real but small. The case against is bigger than $33. Minnesota keeps answering failing scores with more money and no accountability. A yes vote tells St. Paul that works. Fund results, not systems. Sources: Fox 9 (9/2026); MN House GOP release on HF 3900; MASA 9/7/26; Minnesota Reformer 6/2/23; CBS Minnesota 8/29/24

Amendment 1 on your November ballot. Before you vote, know what it is and what it isn't. What it does: Minnesota's Permanent School Fund, about $2.3 billion built from school trust lands (mining and timber royalties), currently pays out about 2.5% a year. The amendment raises that to 4.5% of the fund's three-year average value. No new tax. Leaving it blank counts as a no. What it buys: about $33 more per student, roughly $101 instead of $68. Minneapolis gets $900,000 against a $40 million shortfall. Duluth gets $280,000 against a $12 million deficit. That is the whole fix. Now the context nobody puts on the ballot. In 2023 the Legislature added nearly $2.3 billion to K-12 and indexed the formula to inflation. The next year, state tests showed 45.5% of students proficient in math and 49.9% in reading. In 2019, before the money and before the pandemic, it was 55% and 59%. More money. Lower results. The problem was never the dollar amount. Three questions before you vote: 1. Where are the results requirements? The bill's own author says it sets "no new state mandates on how districts spend the money." No reading targets. No math targets. Money without a scoreboard. 2. Who is watching it? The same Department of Education that oversees this money also oversaw Feeding Our Future, where $250 million or more was stolen from a children's meal program before anyone stopped it. 3. What happens to the fund? The task force says 4.5% preserves it. The fund has averaged about 5.6% growth since 1858. Take out 4.5% and inflation, and the margin for a bad decade is thin. A trust built for every future Minnesota student gets drawn down faster for a $33 bump today. To be fair: this is a bipartisan bill, authored by a Republican, and it does not raise your taxes. The case for it is real but small. The case against is bigger than $33. Minnesota keeps answering failing scores with more money and no accountability. A yes vote tells St. Paul that works. Fund results, not systems. Sources: Fox 9 (9/2026); MN House GOP release on HF 3900; MASA 9/7/26; Minnesota Reformer 6/2/23; CBS Minnesota 8/29/24

Amendment 1 on your November ballot. Before you vote, know what it is and what it isn't. What it does: Minnesota's Permanent School Fund, about $2.3 billion built from school trust lands (mining and timber royalties), currently pays out about 2.5% a year. The amendment raises that to 4.5% of the fund's three-year average value. No new tax. Leaving it blank counts as a no. What it buys: about $33 more per student, roughly $101 instead of $68. Minneapolis gets $900,000 against a $40 million shortfall. Duluth gets $280,000 against a $12 million deficit. That is the whole fix. Now the context nobody puts on the ballot. In 2023 the Legislature added nearly $2.3 billion to K-12 and indexed the formula to inflation. The next year, state tests showed 45.5% of students proficient in math and 49.9% in reading. In 2019, before the money and before the pandemic, it was 55% and 59%. More money. Lower results. The problem was never the dollar amount. Three questions before you vote: 1. Where are the results requirements? The bill's own author says it sets "no new state mandates on how districts spend the money." No reading targets. No math targets. Money without a scoreboard. 2. Who is watching it? The same Department of Education that oversees this money also oversaw Feeding Our Future, where $250 million or more was stolen from a children's meal program before anyone stopped it. 3. What happens to the fund? The task force says 4.5% preserves it. The fund has averaged about 5.6% growth since 1858. Take out 4.5% and inflation, and the margin for a bad decade is thin. A trust built for every future Minnesota student gets drawn down faster for a $33 bump today. To be fair: this is a bipartisan bill, authored by a Republican, and it does not raise your taxes. The case for it is real but small. The case against is bigger than $33. Minnesota keeps answering failing scores with more money and no accountability. A yes vote tells St. Paul that works. Fund results, not systems. Sources: Fox 9 (9/2026); MN House GOP release on HF 3900; MASA 9/7/26; Minnesota Reformer 6/2/23; CBS Minnesota 8/29/24

Minnesota is importing poverty and calling it compassion. The Census data: Somali-headed households vs. native-headed (CIS analysis, 2014-2023 American Community Survey): - Any welfare: 81% vs 21% - Medicaid: 73% vs 18% - Food stamps: 54% vs 7% - Cash aid: 27% vs 6% - With children, any welfare: 89% Adults in poverty: 37.5% vs 6.9%. Children: 52.3% vs 7.6%. 39% of working-age adults have no high school diploma. 58% do not speak English very well. It is not closing. After 10+ years here, adult poverty is still 32.9%, 49% still lack strong English, and welfare use is barely lower. The ledger. Somali Minnesotans earn about $500 million a year and pay $67 million in state and local taxes (economist Bruce Corrie). Add federal payroll tax, subtract refundable credits: about $100 million in total taxes, by my estimate. Against that: Medicaid $185-345 million, food stamps $45-65 million, cash aid $30-40 million. That is $260-450 million a year, plus about $375 million for K-12. Three to four dollars out for every dollar in, before schools. The fraud. Feeding Our Future: 80 indicted, 69 convicted, $250-350 million stolen from a children's meal program, $75 million recovered. Most defendants were Somali American. Federal prosecutor Joe Thompson estimates half or more of $18 billion billed through 14 Medicaid programs since 2018 may be fraudulent, across all providers. The state disputes it. The security record. Since 2007, more than 30 Somali Minnesotans have left or tried to leave for al-Shabaab or ISIS, from a community of about 84,000. Per capita, hundreds of times the rate of terrorism cases in the rest of the state. The ask. A net fiscal accounting from the state, which has never published one, and a resettlement policy judged on results: English, diplomas, wages, self-sufficiency within 10 years. Anything less is not compassion. Sources: CIS (Dec. 2025); KSTP 12/4/25; DOJ; Minnesota Reformer 12/18/25; AP 12/3/25; cost and tax estimates are the author's

Minnesota is importing poverty and calling it compassion. The Census data: Somali-headed households vs. native-headed (CIS analysis, 2014-2023 American Community Survey): - Any welfare: 81% vs 21% - Medicaid: 73% vs 18% - Food stamps: 54% vs 7% - Cash aid: 27% vs 6% - With children, any welfare: 89% Adults in poverty: 37.5% vs 6.9%. Children: 52.3% vs 7.6%. 39% of working-age adults have no high school diploma. 58% do not speak English very well. It is not closing. After 10+ years here, adult poverty is still 32.9%, 49% still lack strong English, and welfare use is barely lower. The ledger. Somali Minnesotans earn about $500 million a year and pay $67 million in state and local taxes (economist Bruce Corrie). Add federal payroll tax, subtract refundable credits: about $100 million in total taxes, by my estimate. Against that: Medicaid $185-345 million, food stamps $45-65 million, cash aid $30-40 million. That is $260-450 million a year, plus about $375 million for K-12. Three to four dollars out for every dollar in, before schools. The fraud. Feeding Our Future: 80 indicted, 69 convicted, $250-350 million stolen from a children's meal program, $75 million recovered. Most defendants were Somali American. Federal prosecutor Joe Thompson estimates half or more of $18 billion billed through 14 Medicaid programs since 2018 may be fraudulent, across all providers. The state disputes it. The security record. Since 2007, more than 30 Somali Minnesotans have left or tried to leave for al-Shabaab or ISIS, from a community of about 84,000. Per capita, hundreds of times the rate of terrorism cases in the rest of the state. The ask. A net fiscal accounting from the state, which has never published one, and a resettlement policy judged on results: English, diplomas, wages, self-sufficiency within 10 years. Anything less is not compassion. Sources: CIS (Dec. 2025); KSTP 12/4/25; DOJ; Minnesota Reformer 12/18/25; AP 12/3/25; cost and tax estimates are the author's

Minnesota is importing poverty and calling it compassion. The Census data: Somali-headed households vs. native-headed (CIS analysis, 2014-2023 American Community Survey): - Any welfare: 81% vs 21% - Medicaid: 73% vs 18% - Food stamps: 54% vs 7% - Cash aid: 27% vs 6% - With children, any welfare: 89% Adults in poverty: 37.5% vs 6.9%. Children: 52.3% vs 7.6%. 39% of working-age adults have no high school diploma. 58% do not speak English very well. It is not closing. After 10+ years here, adult poverty is still 32.9%, 49% still lack strong English, and welfare use is barely lower. The ledger. Somali Minnesotans earn about $500 million a year and pay $67 million in state and local taxes (economist Bruce Corrie). Add federal payroll tax, subtract refundable credits: about $100 million in total taxes, by my estimate. Against that: Medicaid $185-345 million, food stamps $45-65 million, cash aid $30-40 million. That is $260-450 million a year, plus about $375 million for K-12. Three to four dollars out for every dollar in, before schools. The fraud. Feeding Our Future: 80 indicted, 69 convicted, $250-350 million stolen from a children's meal program, $75 million recovered. Most defendants were Somali American. Federal prosecutor Joe Thompson estimates half or more of $18 billion billed through 14 Medicaid programs since 2018 may be fraudulent, across all providers. The state disputes it. The security record. Since 2007, more than 30 Somali Minnesotans have left or tried to leave for al-Shabaab or ISIS, from a community of about 84,000. Per capita, hundreds of times the rate of terrorism cases in the rest of the state. The ask. A net fiscal accounting from the state, which has never published one, and a resettlement policy judged on results: English, diplomas, wages, self-sufficiency within 10 years. Anything less is not compassion. Sources: CIS (Dec. 2025); KSTP 12/4/25; DOJ; Minnesota Reformer 12/18/25; AP 12/3/25; cost and tax estimates are the author's

Minnesota does not have a gun-law problem. It has a gun-prosecution problem. State law says a felon caught with a firearm gets five years in prison. Mandatory. Here is what the state's own Sentencing Guidelines Commission says actually happens. Statewide, July 2024 to June 2025: - 1,632 firearm cases reported by county attorneys - 149 never charged - 315 charged, then dismissed - 191 pleaded to offenses with no mandatory minimum - 801 convicted with the gun proven on the record - 472 got the mandatory sentence That is 29 of every 100. Of the 329 waivers, prosecutors asked for 183. Judges did the other 146 on their own. Hennepin County, 41% of the state's caseload: - 672 charged - 151 dismissed - 204 got the minimum 30 of every 100. Then it got worse. Since October 15, 2025, Mary Moriarty's office will not prosecute felonies found on stops for expired tabs or a broken taillight, guns included, unless a supervisor approves an exception. The Sheriff says 175 of the 377 illegal guns her deputies seized in 2025 came from traffic stops. To be fair, this is not only Hennepin. Anoka imposed the minimum in 43% of proven cases. Ramsey managed 67%. And the waiver is legal: the Legislature wrote it in. That is the point. "Mandatory" means nothing when the people enforcing it treat it as a suggestion. Who pays? In 2023, 59% of those sentenced as felons with guns were Black. So are the victims: Black men 15 to 34 are 1.2% of Minnesotans and 40% of gun homicide victims. Every waived sentence sends an armed felon back to the same blocks. St. Paul shows the alternative. It built a dedicated non-fatal shooting unit with its own prosecutor and cleared all 15 of its 2025 homicides. Before the Capitol writes another registry bill for people who follow the law, ask why seven in ten gun cases end without the sentence the law already requires. Sources: MSGC 2026 Report to the Legislature, pp. 37-42; MSGC 2023 Annual Summary; KSTP 9/19/25

Three years ago they told you Starship was “another failure,” Colossus was impossible, and Musk was the villain. Today SPCX listed on the Nasdaq: $75 billion raised — the largest IPO in human history — at a $1.77 trillion valuation. Seventh-biggest company in America. 80% of U.S. launches. Starlink in 160 countries. WSJ and Bloomberg quietly rewrote their “failure” headlines. Maddow’s jokes aged like milk. And the socialists who spent years calling him an oligarch? Musk reserved up to 30% of history’s biggest IPO for ordinary retail investors — triple the Wall Street norm. The media gaslit you. The socialists ran the envy play. The “failure” became the most valuable industrial company in American history — and regular Americans got the biggest seat at the table Wall Street ever offered. Remember this the next time they tell you what can’t be done and who the villains are. #SPCX