Liberty & Prosperity Blog

Michele Tafoya, fresh off 2 important endorsements (the Minnesota Farm Bureau and the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association), is well-positioned in terms of Cash on Hand and important endorsements. Meanwhile, Miranda Devine opines that "Democrats are assisting greatly by shooting themselves in the feet with weird policies and even weirder candidates. Whether it’s rejecting voter ID, abolishing prisons, defunding police or allowing men to play in women’s sports, they seem to be on the wrong side of popular opinion on just about everything. All they have on their side is Trump derangement and the increasingly implausible ruse that they represent a 'return to normalcy.'" Democrats aren't just shooting themselves in the foot. They're having weirdos like Abdul el-Seyed and Peggy Fraudigan Flanagan tell the masses that they're normal. Flanagan insists that Tim Walz was solely responsible for the rampant Medicaid fraud. When Tim Walz was specializin...

Minneapolis violence is getting worse week-by-week. Now, this KSTP article reports that Megan Stuart is living in fear because a bullet ripped through her condo's window just feet from her head while she slept early Saturday morning. She explained what happened to KSTP reporter Ben Henry in this interview: As part of the report, Stuart told Henry "If the bullet was a couple feet that way, I was sleeping, and like … I hate to even think about that." Later, she said "Whether that be extra cameras, lights over here, more patrols, like, and it has to be not just moving the crowd for an hour. It has to be like moving them permanently." I feelsad for Ms. Stuart. There was a time when people were civilized, when people felt safe, even after dark. That's gone. After George Floyd's death, which was emblematic of Minneapolis's bigger problem, calls for reimagining the police came frequently. In Minneapolis, that really meant returning to doing policing right....

During Mark Ritchie's time in office at Minnesota's Secretary of State, I coined the phrase "It's impossible to find what you refuse to look for." According to this Daily Signal article , that saying is apparently as true of the Merrick Garland-Joe Biden DOJ. According to the article, "In less than two years, federal prosecutors in the Trump administration charged about four times as many noncitizens with election fraud crimes as the Biden Justice Department in the entirety of the four-year term." To put this in perspective, "During the four years of the Biden administration under Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Justice Department brought charges against 13 noncitizens for illegal voting-related offenses. Of those, nine defendants were found guilty, including two whose voter fraud charges were dismissed as part of plea agreements." In other words, the Biden-Garland DOJ didn't vigorously prosecute this type of fraud. That fits with the...

When Donald Trump endorsed Mike Lindell to be Minnesota's next GOP governor, the reaction was swift and unambiguous. Minnesota rejected Lindell, especially after Lindell proposed amnest for illegal aliens. That especially ripped it with lots of MAGA people who might've otherwise supported Lindell. This was especially true on social media, where people vehemently rejected amnesty. Trump's ability to control the GOP is diminishing. Here's a perfect example of that willingness to say "NO!" STOP GIVING AWAY WORKING PEOPLE’S MONEY This is not conservative. This is not sound money policy. This is not MAGA. This is the Democrat playbook of giving some people a bunch of free stuff paid for by a bunch of other people who work for it. https://t.co/tA600YT4Ko — EJ 😊 (@EJUnderTheRadar) September 5, 2026 This isn't 'Let's make a deal' or 'Anything goes.' J.D. Vance is a smooth talker but he's worthless on policy. If he runs when Trump's t...

Dustin Grage reports "Again, Ken Paxton was never in any real danger of losing in November. Now, MAGA Inc. has come in with a $10 million ad reservation to ensure this seat stays in Republican hands. The NRSC should be throwing money at this seat as well. But if they don’t have to, I hope they use those resources to expand the map. Michigan and Minnesota are in play." Michigan and Minnesota are in play, almost to the point where I'd move them from leans Democrat to toss-up. I won't go farther than that YET but Democrats have lost their momentum in both states. Again, Ken Paxton was never in any real danger of losing in November. Now, MAGA Inc. has come in with a $10 million ad reservation to ensure this seat stays in Republican hands. The NRSC should be throwing money at this seat as well. But if they don’t have to, I hope they use… — Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 5, 2026 This is why I'm optimistic about Minnesota: There is just something happening in...

If it's Friday night, I'll be watching Almanac so you don't have to (though I hope you do.) After last night, though, and having to watch DFL Chair Richard Carlbom, you owe me bigtime. Chair Carlbom is a major windbag who apparently didn't learn how to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Apparently, he's fine with telling parts of the truth most of the time but telling THE WHOLE TRUTH all of the time is a foreign concept to him. I got the impression that he knew had an uphill fight selling a status quo set of candidates in a change elecction. Follow the link above, then click the watch icon to view the entire program. To watch the 'Chair's Roundtable', scroll forward to th 41:00 mark. Watch that entire segment. Count how often Chair Carlbom mentioned Sen. Klobuchar. Then count how few times he mentioned Lt. Gov. Fraudigan and AG Keith Ellison. Then, count how many times he mentions Trump's name. Trump and Klobuchar are names ...