Liberty & Prosperity Blog

Anyone that spends more than $700,000,000 on a work PALACE isn't worried about your family's budget or your family's affordability. The new DFL isn't interested in family affordability because the New DFL " committed taxpayers to approximately $730 million in total costs , including projected interest, to construct a political palace: the Minnesota State Office Building in Saint Paul, from which they wish to rule on high." That's from the op-ed Rep. Tom Murphy, (R-Star Lake), wrote that was published by Alpha News. Let's be honest. The New DFL doesn't give a damn about spending accountability. During the 2022 campaign, Gov. Tim Walz promised $2,000 Walz Checks to Minnesotans. That was when the projected surplus was $9,000,000,000. In March, the projected surplus grew to $18,000,000,000. Instead of signing a bill that would've sent $2,000 checks to Minnesotans, we got $260 checks. Unfortunately, the New DFL wasn't finished. Unfortunately, ...

Julian Epstein is an old-fashioned Democrat who gained notoriety during Bill Clinton's impeachment. That was then, this is a different Democrat Party. Julian Epstein is unlike most Democrats in that he's willing to speak out against DSA candidates like Abdul el-Sayed. He wrote this op-ed to announce that he'd jumped ship against the DSA. Think of the courage it took for him to write "After decades of giving my all for Democratic House and Senate candidates, this fall I will support — and contribute to — Mike Rogers, Michigan’s GOP Senate nominee, instead." Then he continued "And I’ll do everything I can to make sure other Democrats follow. With the exception of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, my party’s leaders have sought to appease the dangerous faction rising in our midst." That's when Epstein dropped the bomb, saying "Weak, timid figures like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are spouting empty clichés 'We are a big-tent party'...

'Fox Business anchor Dagen McDowell has a saying that "desperation is a terrible aphrodisiac." If that's true (and I think it is), then Adam Schwarze's campaign appears to be imploding. According to this Alpha News article , "Minnesota Farmfest’s U.S. Senate candidate forum is still on despite a claim that the event had been canceled. That erroneous claim came from Adam Schwarze, the GOP-endorsed U.S. Senate candidate who is not invited to the event." After that, things get wierd. Alpha News also reports "Schwarze’s campaign said the 'last-minute cancellation, sprung on candidates without warning, raises serious questions about whether outside pressure is being used to shield [Michele] Tafoya from having to defend her record in front of Minnesota voters.'" That's when the hammer dropped on the Schwarze campaign: Following Schwarze’s claim that the forum was canceled, Farmfest confirmed to Alpha News that the event is still on. A Fa...

This year, FarmFest is making lots of political news. Each even-numbered year, FarmFest kicks off the unofficial start to the state campaign. This year, it's different, though, because the competition feels a bit more intense. It isn't so much that the competition between candidate is more intense. It's that the audience was grumpy towards Sen. Klobbuchar. According to this Twitchy article , Sen. Klobuchar got booed by the audience. The RNC Research Twitter account reports "Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar gets booed for lying over her support for law enforcement and secure borders." What got Sen. Klobuchar booed was when she said "I've long believed and supported order at the border and I have long worked well with law enforcement in Minnesota for years. (booing) But what I ... I ran the largest prosecutors' office in the state and was endorsed by the police many, many times." Watch it for yourself: BRUTAL Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar gets booe...

Imagine your teenage son or daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver. Next, imagine the police or highway patrol catching the person who committed the crime. At long last, you sense little justice is heading in you direction. It doesn't take away the pain, of course, but it's something. Imagine how you'd feel if the judge gave the criminal a light sentence . You don't have to imagine it. It just happened. Alpha News reported "More than two years after 19-year-old Carter Haithcock was struck, killed and left on the side of a northern Minnesota highway, the former Democratic Party leader who admitted leaving the scene was sentenced to less than a year in jail on Monday." That's the personification of lenient. In fact, it's disturbingly less than lenient. Alpha News also reported that "Cynthia 'Cyndy' Martin, the former chair of the 8th Congressional District DFL, received the sentence outlined in her plea agreement: 364 days in jail, five...

Tim Walz touts himself as a teacher. Despite that fact, math and reading proficiency scores for 4th and 8th graders have dropped significantly. Congressman Brad Finstad wrote Gov. Walz a letter expressing his disgust with Minnesota's drop in test scores. It's to be expected. According to the Alpha News article, "Finstad pointed out that Minnesota’s education system was ranked seventh in the nation in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual report in 2021. This year, Minnesota was ranked 21st in the same report, a drop of 14 spots." The first question is simple. What changed? Did our teachers underperform? Did our students underperform? Did the curriculum change? If it did, did that cause the underperformance? The next question that must be asked is important. How do we fix the problem? Later, Rep. Finstad wrote “Between 2019 and 2024, the share of fourth graders who weren’t proficient in reading rose seven percentage points in Minnesota compared to the national averag...