Liberty & Prosperity Blog

While it's difficult to tell how close of a race the Lisa Demuth vs. Amy Klobuchar gubernatorial race is in Minnesota is, we know some things are already true. For instance, we know that Lisa Demuth is a top-tier candidate with the financial support to give Sen. Klobuchar a legitimate fight. Next, we know that Speaker Demuth's education plan is superior to Sen. Klobuchar's excuse for a plan to improve education outcomes. Third, Lisa Demuth isn't taking any grief from Sen. Klobuchar. When Klobuchar puts out an ad that's filled with platitudes and cliches, Speaker Demuth has hit back with subsatantive proposals and ads that question Sen. Klobuchar's abilities to lead. I think it's starting to hit home: New - Minnesota Governor poll 🔵 Klobuchar 47% 🔴 Demuth 45% co/efficient - LV - 9/15 pic.twitter.com/BSZp2i3fAD — Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) September 15, 2026 This poll isn't from a well-known pollster but I trust it far more than, for instance,...

Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security is investigating allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother. Homan is quoted as saying "I’m confirming that [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] is, yeah, look, I said months ago that it’s something that has been reported and needs to be looked at. I’m not going to comment on ongoing criminal investigations. I know things are going on, but I can’t give specifics of what’s happening. But we’ll see. No one is above the law. We will let HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, continue the investigation." Homan appeared Sunday morning on Fox News Channel's ASunday Briefing. He was interviewed by Jacqui Heinrich, one of FNC's senior White House correspondents. Here's the tweet Heinrich posted about the potential investigation: Border Czar Tom Homan says Dem Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under criminal investigation by HSI for possible immigration/naturaliza...

The DFL is pretending to care about families' budgets. That's a heaping pile of BS. In 2009-10, DFL senators and congressmen voted for higher health insurance premiums by voting for the ACA. Since then, they've voted in lockstep for subsidies for health insurance companies. In March of 2021, when the economy grew at a rate of 6.5% rate, Democrats voted in lockstep for the American Rescue Plan. That gave the U.S. a 9.1% inflation rate in July, 2022. That was the highest inflation rate in 41 years. According to Rep. Tom Murphy's op-ed , "When they passed Minnesota’s 100% carbon-free electricity mandate in 2023, the New DFL promised our state cheaper power. Xcel Energy’s ratepayers are now finding out otherwise. Xcel, the state’s largest utility, has asked regulators for $490.7 million in rate increases over 2025 and 2026, a 13.2 percent jump, and named investments in cleaner electricity generation as a driver. Regulators trimmed the interim increase to 5.2 percent, b...

The verdict is in. Minnesota's public schools are failing Minnesota's students on one of this great nation's worst nightmares. c Tom Emmer's tweet highlighted the problem. He referenced this Lindsey Brown tweet about the fact that "9/11 is no longer mentioned in Minnesota’s social studies standards." Reporter Pilar Pedraza reported that parents are worried about Minnesota's Social Studies Standards, reporting "When state edudcators and parents got together to rewrite the state's social studies standards, they made a couple of major changes. They moved from referencing specific events like 9/11, the Civil War, the Cuban Missile Crisis to focusing on broad strokes, eras and themes. Educators say that the goal is to push teachers to provide more context and to get students to ask more of their own questions. I'm questioning whether that's the goal. It sounds more like an attempt to create storylines rather than teaching facts. That's ve...

Education Minnesota just got a new reason to worry about their monopoly on education in Minnesota. Lisa Demuth just unveiled her plan for returning Minnesota to delivering education excellence. It's titled "Lisa Demuth’s Education Comeback Plan for Minnesota." This isn't the slop that Sen. Klobuchar is offering. Instead, it's a plan that she didn't ask Education Minnesota's permission to propose. It's a plan that shouts 'Eliminate EdMinn's failed status quo. Let's install something new that works.' This isn't built on Sen. Klobuchar's tired mantra of 'We just need a little more of the taxpayers' money.' Let's examine what's in the Demuth-Wilson plan for educational excellence. The first priority is to return Minnesota to the Top 10 in the nation: Return Minnesota to the Top 10 Nationally More than half of students across Minnesota’s public schools are still not meeting grade-level standards in math and readi...

When I wrote this article , I included Sen. Klobuchar's first ad in her run for governor. In the ad, she said that she'd "launch a top-to-bottom-audit of state government." It's indisputable that it's a great-sounding line. I'm questioning, though, how committed Sen. Klobuchar is to stopping fraud. Bill Glahn, Minnesota's best fraud investigator, raises some important questions about Sen. Klobuchar's commitment to preventing fraud. In his article, Glahn reported "The ad was put out by the MN Restore Sanity Political Action Committee (PAC). The facts in the ad are easily verifiable. U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) put in a request for a direct Congressional appropriation (earmark) for nearly $400,000 for a nonprofit linked to the free-food fraud scandal. It does not appear that the organization received this federal money." Then he dropped the hammer on Sen. Klobuchar: The first two years of Covid (corresponding to Fiscal Years 2021 and...