Liberty & Prosperity Blog

I'm thrilled to see Michele Tafoya and Lisa Demuth running such smart, aggressive campaigns against Peggy Fraudigan Flanagan and Amy Klobuchar, respectively. Just to show you how aggressive of races they're running, check out Lisa Demuth's tweet showing how aggressive she's getting. In the tweet, she said "One year ago today, Tim Walz announced his (soon to be failed) run for a third term. That day, Amy Klobuchar praised Walz as an 'incredible leader' who 'delivered' for Minnesota. Apparently, Klobuchar thinks record breaking fraud, high taxes, and falling school rankings makes Walz’s policies 'incredible.'" Apparently, Sen. Klobuchar believes in grade inflation. She'd better hope that Minnesotans are generous graders. Personally, I hope they're like the nuns I had as teachers in grade and high school. If she 'gets' the grades she's EARNED , she won't become governor. Minnesotans, DON'T give her a promotio...

Ed Morrissey's article for HotAir opens by saying " I want to believe. I don't ... but I truly want to believe." Ed then continues by saying "A Republican hasn't won a statewide election since Tim Pawlenty's reelection as governor in 2006. No Republican has come very close to winning statewide in Minnesota since then, either. Republicans dodged a credibility bullet in Mike Lindell's overwhelming defeat in their gubernatorial primary, which produced one of their strongest overall tickets in years. Michele Tafoya's nomination for the Senate put the state elections on the national map, and the DFL's nomination of the more radical Peggy Flanagan as her opponent at least gave an opportunity to make things ... interesting." I'd like to politely correct Ed on the Mike Lindell defeat. The GOP didn't dodge "a credibility bullet in Mike Lindell's overwhelming defeat in their gubernatorial primary." After Lindell proposed an ...

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...