Late Tuesday night, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pledged that authorities would soon arrest those who stormed Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement&#8217;s presence in the Twin Cities.
“There will be arrests tied to that, and people will be brought to justice for how they violated the law in that situation,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kristi-noem-promises-arrests-in-the-next-several-hours-over-church-stormed-by-anti-ice-activists?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Kristi+Noem+Promises+Arrests+%E2%80%98In+The+Next+Several+Hours%E2%80%99+Over+Church+Stormed+By+Anti-ICE+Activists">Noem said</a>.
To do so, the Trump administration could use a law long weaponized against pro-life protesters to prosecute those who disrupted the church service, including former CNN anchor Don Lemon.
The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, signed by President Bill Clinton in 1994, made it a federal crime for pro-life protesters to block the entrances of abortion facilities. Though the law was also meant to protect crisis pregnancy centers and churches, data obtained by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) <a href="https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-reintroduces-legislation-repeal-face-act">shows</a> that 97% of FACE Act prosecutions through 2024 targeted pro-life individuals. 
While conservatives have long warned that the law has been weaponized against pro-lifers, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-ice-activists-storm-minnesota-church-with-don-lemon-doj-launches-probe?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Anti-ICE+Activists+Storm+Minnesota+Church+With+Don+Lemon%3B+DOJ+Launches+Probe">stunt</a> by leftist agitators at the Cities Church in St. Paul creates an opportunity for President Donald Trump’s Justice Department to flip the historical application of FACE on its head. 
The FACE Act penalizes those who “by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.”
That would appear to apply to the storming of Cities Church by a group of activists organized by the Racial Justice Network and Black Lives Matter Twin Cities. The protesters yelled and chanted slogans at worshipers, causing the service to end early. Lemon filmed the demonstration under the guise of an independent journalist and badgered the pastor of the church with questions while the disruption was taking place. 
Ryan Tucker, the director of the Center for Christian Ministries at Alliance Defending Freedom, told The Daily Wire that the religious component of the FACE Act has rarely been used. He noted that historically, local and state law enforcement have stepped in to address FACE Act violations, but no such help appears to be forthcoming in Minnesota. 
“Here in Minnesota, at least the state attorney general has come out and said that he&#8217;s not going to do anything to assist or to pursue any violations of state law,” Tucker said. “What&#8217;s really disheartening here is that you&#8217;ve got the lead lawyer of the state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, saying that he&#8217;s not going to do anything to prosecute these individuals under those local laws, and in fact, has attempted to validate their actions, completely forgetting that the FACE Act even exists.”
Tucker added that it was very rare for activists to disrupt church services.
“The idea that one could go into a church, disrupt it, threaten the parishioners, and somehow get away with it, which is just absolutely unheard of,” he said. “Churches certainly have the right to worship freely without fear that protesters are going to invade their space and traumatize the families that are present, but that&#8217;s exactly what happened this past weekend.”
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/don-lemon-could-face-criminal-conspiracy-charges-over-involvement-in-minnesota-church-protest?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Don+Lemon+Could+Face+‘Criminal+Conspiracy’+Charges+Over+Involvement+In+Minnesota+Church+Protest">suggested</a> on Monday that the Justice Department would bring FACE Act-related charges against the protesters. 
“I see various crimes that have occurred,” she told podcaster Benny Johnson. “Exactly what they are I’m not going to flag, but the FACE Act has been mentioned as one of the predicates there. In other cases, the Biden DOJ used the Klan Act conspiracy charges tacked onto the FACE Act in the case of protests outside abortion clinics to bring much longer sentences.”
Dhillon was referring to how President Joe Biden’s Justice Department ramped up FACE Act prosecutions, pairing it with the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act to garner lengthy prison sentences for peaceful pro-life advocates who demonstrated at abortion facilities. 
Biden’s Justice Department successfully prosecuted these cases across the country — from Michigan to Tennessee and Washington, D.C. — and got lengthy prison sentences for multiple defendants. 
 Lauren Handy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-activist-sentenced-to-over-four-years-in-prison-over-protest-at-d-c-abortion-facility">was sentenced</a> to 57 months in prison for her role in an October 20 sit-in at the notorious D.C.-based Washington Surgi-Clinic late-term abortion facility.
In another case, 64-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pardoned-pro-life-activist-says-hes-running-on-adrenaline-and-the-holy-ghost-after-trump-pardon">Calvin Zastrow</a> and 75-year-old Chet Gallagher were sentenced to prison after they participated in a protest at an abortion facility in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, that involved them praying, singing, and speaking to women arriving at the facility. They were convicted under the FACE Act and the KKK Act for conspiracy against rights, a charge that could come with over 10 years of prison time. 
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-should-not-have-been-prosecuted-trump-pardons-23-pro-lifers-targeted-by-biden-doj?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan+and+Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98They+Should+Not+Have+Been+Prosecuted%E2%80%99%3A+Trump+Pardons+23+Pro-Lifers+Targeted+By+Biden+DOJ">pardoned</a> the two dozen peaceful pro-life protesters during his first week in office. 
Dhillon suggested that Lemon might be subject to the KKK Act conspiracy against rights application if it could be proved that he had knowledge of the protest before it took place. 
“Don Lemon himself has come out and said he knew exactly what was going to happen inside that facility,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He went into the facility, and then he began ‘committing journalism,’ as if that’s sort of a shield from being a part, an embedded part of a criminal conspiracy, it isn’t.&#8221;
As Lemon questioned a pastor during the disruption on Sunday, he asserted that the activists had a First Amendment right to stage a protest in the church. Tucker was unconvinced with this claim, noting that you can’t make a First Amendment claim while infringing on “someone&#8217;s ability to freely worship.”
Trump on Tuesday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-minnesota-church-protesters-should-be-jailed-or-thrown-out-of-the-country?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Trump%3A+Minnesota+Church+Protesters+Should+Be+Jailed+Or+%E2%80%98Thrown+Out+Of+The+Country%E2%80%99">called</a> for the agitators who stormed the church to be imprisoned or “thrown out of the country.” His Justice Department appears to be ready to take that action. 
“The FACE Act is just the start. Like I said, you have material support for disruptive activities, you have conspiracy to violate civil rights, you have potentially the use of other instrumentalities to commit crimes,” Dhillon said on Monday. 
The Trump administration has already used the FACE Act to go after left-wing activists who target religious services. In September, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-lawsuit-under-face-act-against-violent-protestors-synagogue-west">filed charges</a> under FACE against a group of protesters who targeted a Jewish synagogue in New Jersey.
Soon after taking office, Trump’s Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-doj-rolls-back-bidens-aggressive-prosecution-of-pro-lifers?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+DOJ+Rolls+Back+Biden%E2%80%99s+Aggressive+Prosecution+Of+Pro-Lifers">issued a memo</a> stipulating that FACE Act cases would only be prosecuted in cases of violence or extreme property damage, a reversal of Biden’s policy.

Don Lemon, Nekima Levy-Armstrong

How The Law Weaponized Against Pro-Lifers Could Be Used To Prosecute Anti-ICE Agitators

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After a group of leftist activists and ex-CNN host Don Lemon disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday, on Monday Lemon hosted Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXtqt_ovbsQ">podcast</a>, where Ellison insisted that the activists had a right to disrupt the service.
The Daily Wire reported:
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Dozens of protesters crowded into Cities Church in St. Paul on Sunday as part of a “clandestine operation” to “disrupt business as usual,” activist leader Nekima Levy-Armstrong told Lemon, who embedded with the protest group. The protest lasted roughly 30 minutes and effectively ended the church service as it drove congregants out.
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Lemon asked Ellison about the church invasion, prompting this response:
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The protest is fundamental to American society; this country started in a protest. It’s freedom of expression; people have a right to lift up their voices and make their peace. None of us are immune from the voice of the public. Quite honestly, I think that you got the First Amendment, freedom of religion and the freedom of First Amendment and freedom of expression. I think it’s just something you gotta live with in a society like this.
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Ellison ignored the 1994 FACE Act, which made it to prevent people from exercising religious freedom at places of worship. It<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/248"> states</a>: “Whoever by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure intimidate, or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship” could be prosecuted under the law.
“This administration is real tender about things when it comes to their own interest,” Ellison claimed. “But they don’t care about the same things when the things don’t lie in their favor. So they’re getting tender about a church service now.”
“They’re arresting people in clinics, schools, churches, anywhere they choose to do it,” he alleged. “They don’t really care about sacred and sensitive places unless it works in their favor.”
Ellison somehow segued to President Trump’s criticism of Jimmy Kimmel for his remarks about the death of Charlie Kirk, then threw in this completely unrelated remark about Trump: “The mad king won’t let you say jokes about him.”
Tim Pearce contributed to this article.

Keith Ellison Defends Disruption Of Minnesota Church Service After Leftist Protest

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CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said there was no hope for the city- and state-filed lawsuits against the federal government over the surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and resources to states like Minnesota and Illinois.
Honig said that he&#8217;d read the lawsuits coming out of both blue states, and that they read more like &#8220;political diatribes&#8221; than lawsuits that any shot at achieving the demands presented within.
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve read both the Minnesota and Illinois lawsuits,&#8221; he began. &#8220;They’re really political diatribes masquerading as lawsuits.&#8221;
&#8220;If you look at what both states are asking the courts to do, it&#8217;s to kick ICE out of those states and cities and to bar ICE from carrying on federal law enforcement in Illinois and Minnesota,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s the top thing both states said to do, and they cite zero precedent for that. There is zero precedent for that. There is no way a judge can say, ‘You, federal law enforcement agency, you are not allowed to execute federal law in a certain state or city.'&#8221;
Honig went on to say that the best case scenario — for the states in question — was that the states might get the courts to call for hearings and put a spotlight on the manner in which ICE was executing that law.
&#8220;If they get sympathetic judges, [they might get] a judge who’s going to ask questions of ICE, who’s gonna hold hearings, who is to demand questions about how they’re training, how they are carrying out their policy,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;You also could have judges that issue sort of symbolic orders along the lines of, ICE, you are not to violate the law &#8212; but that’s already the case. It’s already not allowed for ICE to violate the law. So these lawsuits, which appear to be coordinated, they’re potentially powerful political statements, but I don’t give them much of a chance of achieving the legal thing that they’re asking for in the courts.&#8221;
Host Kate Bolduan noted that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) had referred to the surge of ICE agents in his state as an &#8220;invasion&#8221; and asked Honig to weigh in on that characterization as well.
&#8220;I mean, it’s a powerful sort of rhetorical term. You heard a lot of things about an invasion and how horrible this is,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;Even if every allegation made in both complaints is true, and we don’t know that, it doesn’t necessarily give them a constitutional legal remedy here.&#8221;
He concluded by outlining the constitutional problem underlying the lawsuits, noting that any judge ruling in favor of either state would be in violation of the supremacy clause, &#8220;which says the federal government gets to carry out federal priorities and the states cannot stop them.&#8221;

House Democrats Hold Press Conference On Environmental And Social Policy In Financial Regulation

Even CNN Analyst Destroys State Legal Attacks On ICE: ‘Political Diatribes Masquerading As Lawsuits’

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently said that Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz refused to provide him security during a scheduled interview at the state capitol amid ongoing protests and a high-profile fraud investigation.
Bessent told conservative activist Chris Rufo that Walz is &#8220;a coward&#8221; who is &#8220;afraid of what&#8217;s coming&#8221; amid Treasury Department investigations into allegations of widespread fraud in Minnesota. The interview, which was released on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVlKt9NoSvw&amp;t=33s">The Blaze</a>, was initially scheduled to be held inside the Minnesota State Capitol, but it had to be moved to another location because Walz &#8220;would not guarantee that the Treasury Secretary of the United States of America would have police protection,&#8221; according to Bessent.
&#8220;Tim Walz is a coward. He is a coward,&#8221; Bessent <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2010885601038393657">said</a>, adding, &#8220;He is afraid of what&#8217;s coming. He&#8217;s not going to be able to hide behind this curtain because we will get there, and I don&#8217;t have to go into the Capitol building to investigate him. I would love for him to come to Treasury and answer some questions. I can guarantee you that he will be safe and sound then. Depending on what we discover, I don&#8217;t know about his future.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to Walz&#8217;s office for comment.
The state capitol was the site of at least one large demonstration last Friday, which remained peaceful as thousands of demonstrators gathered to hold a vigil for Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. Walz attended the vigil at the state capitol and was surrounded by state troopers, Fox 9 <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-ice-shooting-community-demands-justice-renee-good-capitol-vigil">reported</a>.
Bessent is in the Twin Cities as the Treasury Department seeks to &#8220;combat rampant government benefits fraud.&#8221; The fraud probe stems from a federal indictment against dozens of Minnesotans — most of them of Somali descent — alleging that they received state funds for welfare programs, but the funds were &#8220;diverted to benefit Somali fraud rings.”
The Treasury secretary&#8217;s visit to Minneapolis coincides with anti-ICE protests and clashes with federal law enforcement officers. The demonstrations have continued for more than five days after the shooting death of Good. Along with pushing back against the Trump administration&#8217;s fraud investigation, Minnesota also filed a lawsuit on Monday to stop the surge of federal agents to the state, arguing that Minnesota is being unfairly targeted over &#8220;differences of opinion.&#8221;
“The obvious targeting of Minnesota for our diversity, for our democracy, and our differences of opinion with the federal government is a violation of the Constitution and of federal law,” said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.
Shortly after Minnesota filed the lawsuit against the federal government, the Trump administration deployed 1,000 more Border Patrol agents to the state to continue the immigration crackdown.
On the fraud front, Bessent <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2010891373097173211">suggested</a> that the federal investigation into Minnesota uncovered some troubling issues with Ellison.
&#8220;There are evidently some disturbing tapes of AG Ellison in meetings with people who donated to him — them calling for political favors to stop the investigations,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So, we&#8217;ll see. Again, I don&#8217;t want to get out ahead of the investigation. We&#8217;re going to be very methodical, and Chris, I can guarantee you, when the bear trap snaps, we&#8217;re going to get these folks.&#8221;
Bessent&#8217;s comment about Ellison likely refers to the attorney general&#8217;s highly scrutinized December 2021 meeting, during which Ellison spoke with individuals linked to the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. A nearly 55-minute <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/keith-ellison-held-chummy-meeting-with-feeding-our-future-fraudsters-weeks-before-fbi-raid-audio-shows-contradicting-minnesota-ags-public-statements/">recording</a> from the meeting revealed that Ellison condemned the Minnesota Education Department&#8217;s probe into Feeding Our Future, claiming it was done in &#8220;a very racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic manner.&#8221;
When reached for comment, Ellison&#8217;s office directed The Daily Wire to an <a href="https://www.startribune.com/attorney-general-keith-ellison-my-meeting-before-feeding-our-future-raid-was-routine/601335939">op-ed</a> the attorney general wrote last April in response to criticism of the meeting.
&#8220;I took a meeting in good faith with people I didn’t know and some turned out to have done bad things,&#8221; Ellison wrote in the op-ed. &#8220;I did nothing for them and took nothing from them. Some months later, some of them were held accountable for their illegal conduct in the Feeding Our Future case, as well they should have been. I’m glad they were.&#8221;
Somali immigrants in Minnesota are also accused of funneling stolen government funds to Somalia and into the hands of the terrorist organization, Al-Shabaab.
&#8220;There&#8217;s tons of luxury properties and cars that have been bought over there,&#8221; Bessent said, referring to East Africa. &#8220;How the hell does this happen? How did it happen? President Trump is outraged. I&#8217;m outraged. The American people should be outraged.&#8221;

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Bessent Blasts ‘Coward’ Tim Walz For Withholding Security Amid Fraud Probe, Anti-ICE Protests

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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer on Wednesday tore into his state&#8217;s governor, Tim Walz, saying that the Democrat &#8220;should resign&#8221; and would likely &#8220;leave office in cuffs&#8221; if he chose not to do so.
Emmer made his comments on the latest episode of the Republican Study Committee&#8217;s &#8220;Right to the Point&#8221; podcast, where he was joined by his fellow Minnesota Republican Reps. Brad Finstad and Michelle Fischbach about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-ice-agent-fatally-shoots-agitator-as-chaos-erupts-in-minneapolis">still-unfolding situation</a> in their home state. The trio called out the leadership in their state, saying that whether they were complicit in the rampant fraud or had simply failed to deal with it, the full price of their actions had fallen on the people of Minnesota.
Among the issues on the table were the dozens already tried and convicted for fraud schemes connected to Feeding Our Future, many of them part of the Somali immigrant community; the additional fraud being investigated in the daycare and healthcare systems, also connected to the Somalis; and Immigration and Customs Enforcement&#8217;s (ICE) efforts to crack down on illegal immigration in the state.
Emmer began by noting his sadness that so many different and massive fraud schemes — which a number of people have known about for years — were able to flourish in his state, and he credited President Donald Trump for finally forcing it into the headlines.
&#8220;The three of us and those that are testifying today have been calling out this fraud for years, and nobody would report it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Joe Thompson, the first Assistant U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, estimates the total fraud could amount to $9 billion.&#8221;
Emmer referenced Nick Shirley, the independent journalist who brought the fraud into the spotlight, saying that even though Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison (D-MN) had been in office for seven years, Shirley had been able to root out more fraud in a day than they had since they were elected.
Finstad noted that Emmer and Fischbach had co-signed a letter he sent to Walz in 2022, calling on him to address the situation.
&#8220;&#8216;This fraud has been going on in Minnesota for years. It&#8217;s time to get, you know, put a stop to it,'&#8221; Finstad said, paraphrasing the letter.
&#8220;This is criminal on all levels, you know, to no response. That was three or four years ago. And you know, this goes back to 2014, 2015, when we, you know, the news media was at that time covering when there was literal duffel bags of cash going through the Minneapolis Airport to Somalia. So fast forward. You know, we&#8217;ve been pounding this drum forever, and to this day, he has not responded to those letters or those calls for us to demand accountability.&#8221;
Emmer went on to say that while he was sad to see what was happening to his state, he was also angry at leadership for failing to step up and do the right thing.
&#8220;It hurts. I&#8217;m mad. I am very angry about this, because this didn&#8217;t have to be this way,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I mean, nobody seems to want to talk about the fact that we had a Democrat attorney general by the name of Laurie Swanson, who was literally investigating and prosecuting Somali daycare fraud back in 2017 and -18, nobody wants to talk about.&#8221;
But as Emmer noted, her investigations were cut short when she lost the gubernatorial primary to Walz — and then Ellison was elected to succeed her as attorney general.
&#8220;And what was his first action? His first action was to create a rule that there will be no more investigations without Keith Ellison&#8217;s express approval, and since then, there have been no investigations,&#8221; he explained.
&#8220;It is not racist to call out criminal activity,&#8221; Emmer continued. &#8220;It is not xenophobic to identify the group of people who are involved, and in this case, 90% of the people who have been charged in the largest pandemic fraud case in the country, the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scandal are from the Somali community.&#8221;
Emmer then turned on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oddsmaker-tim-walz-is-30x-more-likely-to-be-charged-with-a-crime-than-be-the-next-president">Walz,</a> who just recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-walz-drops-out-of-minnesota-governors-race-amid-fraud-concerns">suspended his reelection campaign</a> amid the growing fraud scandal: &#8220;Tim Walz, by the way, this thing is growing. I&#8217;m not going to be Minnesota Nice. I&#8217;m going to be Minnesota Real. Tim Walz should resign, and if he doesn&#8217;t resign, he&#8217;s probably going to leave the office in cuffs.&#8221;

Speaker Johnson Speaks To The Press Following GOP Caucus Meeting

GOP Whip Unloads On Tim Walz Over Rampant Fraud: ‘I’m Not Going To Be Minnesota Nice’

GOP Whip Unloads On Minnesota's Leadership Over Rampant Fraud: 'It Didn't Have To Be Like This'

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House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has launched a sweeping investigation into alleged systemic fraud and misuse of federal funds in Minnesota’s social services programs. The inquiry is scheduled to begin on January 7, 2026. This initial session will feature testimony from Minnesota state lawmakers, including Republican Reps. Kristin Robbins, Walter Hudson, and Marion Rarick, who claim that their prior warnings about fiscal misconduct were ignored by state leadership.
The investigation targets a &#8220;heist&#8221; of taxpayer dollars that has occurred during the administrations of Democrat Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison. Chairman Comer has formally invited both Walz and Ellison to testify on February 10, 2026, <a href="file:///The%20press%20release%20stated">accusing</a> them of being &#8220;asleep at the wheel or complicit&#8221; in the disappearance of billions of dollars. To support the probe, the Committee has requested Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and scheduled transcribed interviews with various state officials.
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This congressional action coincides with an aggressive federal crackdown led by the Trump administration. Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-uncovers-another-400-million-in-suspected-minnesota-fraud">announced</a> the suspension of 6,900 Minnesota borrowers linked to approximately $400 million in potentially fraudulent pandemic-era loans. Furthermore, the Department of Health and Human Services has frozen all childcare payments to the state following allegations of widespread fraud at daycare centers. Federal investigators are also probing schemes involving fraudulent autism diagnoses and the &#8220;Feeding Our Future&#8221; program, which allegedly diverted funds intended for hungry children.
Critics, including House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minnesota-congressman-says-walz-administration-squashed-fraud-probe-to-appease-somali-voting-bloc">allege</a> that state leadership intentionally stifled investigations to maintain political support within specific immigrant communities. Reports suggest that Minnesota’s social programs may have lost as much as $9 billion to fraud since 2018.
While Governor Walz has defended his record and characterized the investigations as politically motivated attempts to justify funding cuts, Chairman Comer maintains that Congress has a duty to ensure accountability. The Committee’s ultimate goal is to expose the failures that allowed these &#8220;criminal actors&#8221; to exploit taxpayer-funded programs and to implement rigorous safeguards against future theft.

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House Oversight Launches Investigation Into Multibillion-Dollar Minnesota Fraud

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House Republican Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota accused the state&#8217;s Democratic Governor Tim Walz and leftist Attorney General Keith Ellison of covering up massive fraud committed by Somali immigrants so that they could retain that community&#8217;s vote in future elections.
In an interview with The Daily Wire&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-260102-member-exclusive?elementPosition=1&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+For+You&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">Morning Wire</a>&#8221; on Wednesday, Emmer said that the best way to address rampant fraud in Minnesota would be to remove Walz, Ellison, and Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from office. He argued that under Walz, the state government would continue to cover up fraud, a large percentage of which is allegedly committed by residents of Somali descent.
&#8220;Today there are roughly, by some estimates, about 80,000 Somali immigrants that are living in Minnesota,&#8221; Emmer told &#8220;Morning Wire.&#8221; &#8220;The vast majority of them live in Minneapolis or Hennepin County, an area called Riverside. There&#8217;s probably 50,000 to 60,000 of them right there.&#8221;
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The Republican congressman said that the large Somali community, which typically votes heavily for Democrats, is key to Walz&#8217;s and Ellison&#8217;s hopes of winning reelection, since they struggle to win votes in rural Minnesota. Walz and Ellison are nearing the end of their second terms, and both announced they will seek a third in 2026.
&#8220;So what is this about?&#8221; Emmer asked. &#8220;This is about the fact that when he and Keith Ellison took office, Keith Ellison instantly set up a policy in his attorney general&#8217;s office that required his approval before any further investigations into fraud could go forward. Guess what? He&#8217;s never approved one of them.&#8221;
&#8220;They need that 60,000 to 80,000 Somali population. They need them to be voting for them. That&#8217;s what this is all about,&#8221; Emmer added. &#8220;And what ends up happening because they refuse to deal with the problem.&#8221;
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One of the recent Minnesota fraud scandals involved the &#8220;Feeding Our Future&#8221; program, which received federal funds and claimed to distribute meals to hungry children during the COVID pandemic but allegedly never did so. The vast majority of those charged in the fraud scheme were of Somali descent. A federal prosecutor said earlier this month that Minnesota&#8217;s social programs have lost at least $9 billion to fraud since 2018, a timeline that spans all of Walz&#8217;s two terms as governor.
Daycare and learning centers linked to Somali immigrants in the Minneapolis area have also come under <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-daycare-fraud-has-been-going-on-at-least-a-decade-and-theres-video-to-prove-it">scrutiny</a> for suspected fraud after independent journalist Nick Shirley posted a 42-minute video last week, showing him visiting numerous daycares that have received state funding, but don&#8217;t appear to be serving any children. The Trump administration vowed to investigate the alleged fraud and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-conduct-door-to-door-checks-at-suspected-minneapolis-fraud-sites">deployed</a> federal agents to Minneapolis earlier this week to conduct door-to-door checks on suspected fraud sites.
The Department of Health and Human Services also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-freezes-all-child-care-payments-to-minnesota-amid-daycare-fraud-scandal?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Freezes+%E2%80%98All+Child+Care+Payments%E2%80%99+To+Minnesota+Amid+Daycare+Fraud+Scandal">froze</a> all child care payments to Minnesota over the fraud allegations.
Emmer said that fraud is &#8220;everywhere&#8221; in the Walz administration.
&#8220;I want to make it clear, I&#8217;m very grateful for [President Donald Trump] raising this issue, because we&#8217;ve been trying to get people to notice for the last three years,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It&#8217;s only because of what he has done that now all of a sudden people are stepping back in horror as to what&#8217;s been going on in Minnesota.&#8221;
Three Republican Minnesota representatives sent a letter to Walz on Wednesday, asking if he would commit to cooperating with federal investigations into alleged fraud.
&#8220;Minnesotans, and the American people at large, deserve answers. What has happened in our state is nothing short of an illegal transfer of money from hardworking taxpayers to criminal actors, many of whom entered our country as foreign nationals and repaid our hospitality with absolute contempt for our laws and values,&#8221; said Reps. Brad Finstad, Pete Stauber, and Michelle Fischbach.

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Minnesota Congressman Says Walz Administration Squashed Fraud Probe To Appease Somali Voting Bloc

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Daily Wire Investigative Reporter Luke Rosiak details his reporting on governmental waste and fraud before Congress, controversy swirls around Zohran Mamdani’s administration-to-be, and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) gives us an inside look at Minnesota’s fraud scandal.
It’s Thursday, December 11, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-251211-member-exclusive">video version can be seen on The Daily Wire</a>:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Senate Digs Into DEI Fraud</h2>
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Topline: The Senate is investigating a multi-billion-dollar DEI fraud scheme, as the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates, sending markets soaring. 
Senate drills into DEI: The Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program was initially intended to offer support for those deemed “socially and economically disadvantaged.” Under the Biden administration, federal agencies were instructed to ensure 15% of all contracts were given to businesses operated by minorities or women, meaning billions of taxpayer dollars were awarded based on race and gender in what became one of the largest DEI programs in the country.
Not only was the program intentionally excluding people based on race, but it was also ripe with fraud. Daily Wire Investigative Reporter Luke Rosiak documented countless cases in which minority business owners would win a contract, then outsource all the work to non-minority-owned businesses, pocketing most of the money in the process.
On Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Small Business held a hearing to address the fraud, and Rosiak testified about his findings.
“8A creates a random group of influence peddlers who like lobbyists, get rich by selling their access to government insiders to the benefit of big businesses, while driving up the cost for all of us. This is the kind of thing people hate about Washington. You owe it to voters to end this program,” <a href="https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/1998848540135555157?s=20">said</a> Rosiak.
Interest rates: On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve Board voted to cut interest rates by a quarter point to the 3.5%-3.75% range. That means rates have now come down by nearly 2% over the last year and a half. They’re now at their lowest point in more than three years.
There was not unanimous agreement from the voting members of the Fed Board. For the first time in six years, three of the twelve officials cast dissenting votes, with two saying cuts weren’t needed, and one saying the cut should be bigger.
Essentially, the disagreement stems from whether the Fed should prioritize the labor market, which has slowed significantly, or inflation, which remains well above the target range of 2%. Typically, rates are raised when inflation is high, and lowered when the labor market is cool. Ultimately, the Fed Board, led by Chair Jerome Powell, viewed the labor market as a more pressing matter, and said these cuts would help with hiring and unemployment. 
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Mamdani’s Rule Already Stirring Controversy</h2>
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Topline: As New York City braces for a seismic shift in leadership with democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani taking the helm as mayor next month, a wave of controversy is erupting over his early moves.
Many political pundits, particularly those on the Right, warned that Mamdani would endanger public safety and undermine law enforcement, and now they say they’re seeing evidence for these claims even before he has officially taken office.
One of the most talked-about moves came just days ago, when Mamdani put out a video addressed to immigrants living in New York City. In it, he <a href="https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1997801475066745259?s=20">told</a> viewers they have the right to “stand up to ICE.”
Critics argue this goes beyond merely explaining constitutional rights. Some say it could embolden illegal aliens, even those with criminal records, to resist or evade lawful ICE action.
Mamdani’s transition: The transition team has been an explosive topic as Mamdani has tapped Mysonne Linen to be a key voice on justice reform on the “Committee on the Criminal Legal System.”
Linen was once a rising hip-hop star signed to Def Jam. But in 1999, he was convicted of two armed robberies where he held up taxi drivers at gunpoint. He served seven years and was paroled in 2006.
He then rebranded as a Black Lives Matter activist and co-founded Until Freedom with Linda Sarsour, a controversial pro-Palestinian activist who has also served as a Mamdani advisor.
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The choice has driven law enforcement apoplectic. Correction officers’ union head Benny Boscio called it “disheartening and deeply disturbing.” Retired NYPD brass such as John Chell see a pattern with Mamdani filling his team with anti-cop firebrands like black nationalist Lumumba Bandele, defund-the-police guru Alex Vitale, and others.
Mamdani says he just wants a broad array of “experiences and analysis” to draw from.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">What’s Behind The Massive Somali Fraud Scandal?</h2>
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Topline: The sweeping fraud allegations coming out of Minnesota have sparked demands for more investigations and further action from political leaders in D.C. to protect against billions more in taxpayer dollars getting funneled into the hands of fraudsters. Morning Wire spoke with House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who represents Minnesota’s 6th congressional district, about the scandal. (This interview has been lightly edited.)
Morning Wire: We have this massive fraud scandal continuing to unravel this week. What do you believe were the most critical oversight failures within the Walz administration? And how should Minnesota restructure its safeguards to prevent this from happening again?
Emmer: The first thing you do is you got to get rid of [Minnesota Democratic Governor] Tim Walz and [Minnesota Attorney General] Keith Ellison and [Congresswoman] Ilhan Omar. I mean, there&#8217;s your biggest structural problem right there. Let me put some context around this for your viewers, your listeners. … The facts are this: today, there are roughly 80,000 Somali immigrants that are living in Minnesota. The vast majority of them live in Minneapolis or Hennepin County–an area called Cedar-Riverside. … Tim Walz and Keith Ellison cannot get votes in greater Minnesota. Think about this: in the last election, Tim Walz outspent the Republican candidates $15 million to $1.7 million, and he won with 52%, just over 52% of the vote. If you look a little deeper, we have 87 counties. Tim Walz only won the 13 metro counties. We&#8217;ll go a little farther. If you look at the 74 counties that he lost, he got 37% of the vote, including losing his former congressional seat by eight points. So, what is this about? This is about the fact that when he and Keith Ellison took office, Keith Ellison instantly set up a policy in his attorney general&#8217;s office that required his approval before any further investigations into fraud could go forward. Guess what? He&#8217;s never approved one of them. … And it&#8217;s not that all Somali immigrants are bad. It just so happens that 90% of the crimes we&#8217;re talking about have been committed by people that are in the Somali community. And by the way, they have been sending millions back to Somalia into the hands of Al-Shabaab, a known terrorist group. So, if you look at Keith Ellison, he won by a little less than one point in his last election. What is this all about? This is all about them getting re-elected. They need that 60 to 80,000 Somali population. They need them to be voting for them. That&#8217;s what this is all about.
Morning Wire: You mentioned the word accountability. We do have some individual actors being convicted, but what about on the government level? What about some of these officials? Is there any action being taken to hold people accountable if they looked the other way knowingly? What investigations are going on with that, and what do you hope to see pursued?
Emmer: Look, I think our U.S. Justice Department is starting to pick up where Minnesota should have been involved investigating not only the fraud but who might have been not just incompetent but actively engaged in the fraud because they should be criminally held, criminally responsible. You&#8217;ve got Dr. Oz, who&#8217;s investigating a fraud on the Medicaid program. You&#8217;ve got Kelly Loeffler, who&#8217;s investigating fraud in the SBA program. You got Kash Patel, who&#8217;s busy with his team investigating Somali gangs that have frankly been running rampant in the Twin Cities committing crimes and no one will hold them accountable for it.

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Morning Brief: DEI Fraud Exposed, Mamdani’s Radical Moves, & Minnesota Scandal Reveals Fault Lines

Morning Brief: Senate Digs Into DEI, Mamdani Picks Stoke Controversy, And The Politics Of MN Fraud

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Minnesota hasn&#8217;t had a Republican senator since Norm Coleman lost his re-election bid in 2008, but Minnesota Republicans might have their best chance since then to win a Senate seat after Democratic Sen. Tina Smith announced on Thursday that she will not run for re-election in 2026.
The GOP is already excited about the opportunity in the blue state. National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Tim Scott told The Daily Wire, &#8220;Minnesota is in play, and we play to win. Minnesotans deserve a Senator who will fight for lower taxes, economic opportunity, and safer communities.&#8221;
In her retirement announcement, Smith reassured her constituents that Democrats have a &#8220;deep bench of political talent&#8221; from which her replacement will arise. Smith didn&#8217;t mention any names specifically — possibly out of embarrassment for who&#8217;s actually on that bench — so we compiled a list of potential candidates Democrats have to offer.
<h3>Tim Walz</h3>
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Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz is fresh off running one of the worst presidential campaigns in modern American history alongside former Vice President Kamala Harris. The failed 2024 vice presidential candidate, who had his pants pulled down on national TV by JD Vance during their debate in October, sits at the top of Minnesota&#8217;s &#8220;deep bench&#8221; of potential Senate candidates.
The open Senate seat would give 60-year-old Walz a chance to stay relevant on a national level, a development that could push Democrats&#8217; male outreach efforts back decades. The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/us/politics/tina-smith-minnesota-senate.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that an aide confirmed Walz is considering a run for Senate while also mulling a third term as governor. As ridiculous as it sounds, if Walz decides against the Senate bid, Democrats might be forced to make an even more bizarre choice.
<h3>Ilhan Omar</h3>
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Rep. Ilhan Omar could try to ride her wave of Somali support all the way to the Senate. The openly anti-America and anti-Israel Democrat will be &#8220;talking with Minnesotans about the future of the Senate seat,&#8221; according to her spokesman. This is the same woman who once <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omar-controversies-anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> the 9/11 terror attacks as a day &#8220;when some people did something,&#8221; and compared the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban.
There&#8217;s no denying that an Ilhan Omar Senate bid would gain some traction in Minneapolis and Mogadishu, but her anti-America sentiment probably won&#8217;t play well on the farms in Traverse and Martin counties.
<h3>Keith Ellison</h3>
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Former DNC deputy chair and current Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is another politician being floated to run for Minnesota&#8217;s open Senate seat. Ellison, like Walz and Omar, already has experience in Congress as he served in the House from 2007 to 2019. And like Walz and Omar, Ellison has a great track record of pushing radical leftist policies.
Ellison is probably best known for his <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/nation-islam-calls-keith-ellison-cowardly-repudiating-louis-farrakhan/">ties to antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan</a>, and prosecuting Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of second- and third-degree murder in the death of George Floyd. The Democrat AG also made headlines for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-news-whitewashes-vile-racist-comments-aimed-at-clarence-thomas-by-black-ag" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comparing</a> conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to a &#8220;house slave&#8221; and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-rips-into-democrat-ag-for-appearing-to-celebrate-brazils-x-ban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrating</a> Brazil&#8217;s crackdown on free speech when the country banned X. What a guy.
<h3>Peggy Flanagan</h3>
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Minnesota Lieutenant Gov. Peggy Flanagan has essentially already thrown her hat in the ring for Senate, <a href="https://x.com/peggyflanagan/status/1890089977637401055" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a> on X on Thursday, &#8220;I love Minnesota and my intention is to run for U.S. Senate and continue to serve the people of this state.&#8221;
Flanagan is known for her complete support of life-altering gender surgeries on children. In 2023, Flanagan used her position to vouch for gender procedures on minors while <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/protect-my-kids-from-ghouls-minnesota-lt-gov-slammed-after-telling-parents-to-support-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wearing a shirt</a> emblazoned with a dagger next to the phrase &#8220;Protect Trans Kids.&#8221;
A few other Democratic candidates could emerge as the 2026 race heats up, including Reps. Angie Craig and Kelly Morrison, or former Rep. Dean Phillips. But running against the name recognition of politicians like Walz and Omar could prove difficult in a Democratic primary. They are the true stars of the Democrats&#8217; &#8220;deep bench&#8221; in Minnesota.

Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, Ilhan Omar

Here’s The ‘Deep Bench’ Of Minnesota Democrats Who Could Run For Senate

2026 Midterms

Ilhan Omar

Senate

One of the main lines of attack against Jair Bolsonaro, who served as president of Brazil until 2022, was one that we&#8217;re all very familiar with at this point. Liberals claimed that Bolsonaro was an &#8220;enemy of democracy.&#8221; Media outlets — both in the United States and Brazil — claimed that Bolsonaro was an autocrat who wanted to suspend the rule of law and use the force of government to punish his political enemies. This message resonated with Brazilians because some very prominent figures promoted it — including a former prosecutor-turned Supreme Court judge named Alexandre de Moraes. Among the Brazilian Left, de Moraes was something of a hero for taking on Bolsonaro. Most notably, the judge presided over a tribunal that banned Bolsonaro from running for office for 8 years.
Why? Bolsonaro allegedly spread &#8220;lies about voting machines,&#8221; which supposedly inspired a mob to ransack Congress, the presidential palace and other government buildings. It was basically Brazil&#8217;s January 6. So in the name of protecting democracy, the judge prevented people from voting for Bolsonaro for the better part of a decade.
He did to Bolsonaro exactly what the Left wanted to do to Donald Trump.
So what are the &#8220;defenders of democracy&#8221; up to in Brazil, just two years later? How are these crusaders for democratic norms faring in 2024?
As you may have heard, de Moraes just issued maybe the single most undemocratic and authoritarian court decision in the modern history of Brazil. He has unilaterally ordered a total ban on Elon Musk&#8217;s social media platform, X. No one in Brazil — a country where more than 20 million people used X — is legally allowed to use the platform. Anyone caught using a VPN to bypass this restriction can be fined roughly $9,000 per day, which is about 6 times the average Brazilian&#8217;s monthly salary. Additionally, de Moraes has fined X more than $3 million.
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He&#8217;s also frozen the assets of Elon Musk&#8217;s company Starlink, which provides internet access to hundreds of thousands of Brazilians living in remote areas. The point was to compel Starlink, an independent internet provider, to ban X as well. And on top of that, the Brazilian court system is now pressuring SpaceX, even though they have nothing whatsoever to do with the company. So SpaceX now has to pull employees out of Brazil.
The judge has gone to war with X for a very simple reason: The company refused to block certain accounts that, in the eyes of the Brazilian government, &#8220;harmed democratic institutions in Brazil.&#8221; And then, X refused to appoint an in-person local legal representative in Brazil, because the judge had threatened to arrest the representative to extract concessions from X. So in order to &#8220;protect democratic institutions&#8221; supposedly, tens of millions of Brazilians can no longer access the single most popular news app in the country. They have to turn to the corporate press to learn what they&#8217;re allowed to hear. Only approved narratives are allowed in Brazil right now.
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For Elon Musk, the showdown in Brazil is obviously a major test. He&#8217;s long maintained that he&#8217;ll obey the laws of whatever countries his companies are operating in. But he maintains that Brazil&#8217;s judges are violating Brazil&#8217;s constitution, which isn&#8217;t exactly a hard case to make at this point. This week The Economist took a closer look at the judge who issued this order against X and Starlink. <a href="https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/09/03/the-all-powerful-judge-taking-on-elon-musk">Here&#8217;s</a> what they found:
<blockquote>Mr Moraes also has form: he is a man who likes and understands power. He has extensive contacts in the federal police, military and intelligence services. &#8230; Other decisions have made the court look authoritarian. In 2019 Mr Moraes was put in charge of investigating misinformation about the Supreme Court and threats against the court’s members and their relatives. These had spiked after the election of Mr Bolsonaro. The &#8216;fake-news&#8217; inquiry was contentious from the start. Normally investigations are opened by the public prosecutor or the police. By giving itself the power to initiate investigations the Supreme Court became victim, prosecutor and judge all at once. No time limit was set, there is no legal definition for disinformation in Brazil and Mr Moraes has not made public which accounts he has ordered shut and why.</blockquote>
This is a violation of one of the most basic principles of every functioning legal system, which is that courts are only supposed to resolve legal disputes that are brought to them. That is their one and only job. Some party — whether it&#8217;s a citizen or the government or some other entity — needs to bring a case to the courts. And then the courts rule on it.
Once the courts have the authority to generate cases on their own, and make up arbitrary rules to enforce, then they&#8217;re not really courts anymore. Instead of judges, you have de facto dictators. And that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening right now to Elon Musk and his companies in Brazil.
You&#8217;d hope that an incident like this would trigger immediate condemnations from the State Department. After all, the Biden administration claims to care very deeply about democracy. It&#8217;s essentially all they ever talk about. But there has been no condemnation from the mainstream Left in this country. In fact, if you listen to the corporate press, you&#8217;ll find a handful of reports essentially blaming Elon Musk for objecting to what the courts in Brazil are doing. 
Here for example is the BBC, which for some reason is pretending Taylor Lorenz — who openly hates Elon Musk — is an impartial expert on this topic. Watch:
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&#8220;He could have prevented the ban, but he chose not to.&#8221; Notice how the Brazilian government — which just shut down an entire social media app for millions of people — has no agency in Taylor Lorenz&#8217;s analysis. A private company refused to do the bidding of the Brazilian government. And therefore, it&#8217;s the private company&#8217;s fault that they got shut down. That&#8217;s how Taylor Lorenz, who works for The Washington Post, is selling this decision by the Brazilian Supreme Court. It&#8217;s how the BBC is presenting the news.
It&#8217;s not hard to see what&#8217;s going on here. Brazil is the template for mass censorship in the United States. If they can pull it off in Brazil, they&#8217;re going to try to pull it off here. That&#8217;s why the corporate press is presenting Elon Musk as the villain in this scenario. The media has a vested interest in shutting down X because it&#8217;s one of their biggest competitors. Random posts on X get more viewers than CNN&#8217;s entire primetime lineup. So in order to lay the groundwork for shutting down X in this country, they&#8217;re saying Elon Musk had it coming in Brazil. 
And it&#8217;s not just the media that&#8217;s trying to send this message. Senior figures in the Democrat Party are doing it too. For example, Keith Ellison is the attorney general of the State of Minnesota. He&#8217;s the chief legal officer of a major state. He&#8217;s also closely aligned with Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign. He just spoke at the DNC a few weeks ago. Here&#8217;s what Keith Ellison says about what&#8217;s happening to Elon Musk&#8217;s companies in Brazil.
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obrigado Brasil!
&mdash; Keith Ellison (@keithellison) <a href="https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/1830720700019028109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;obrigado Brasil,&#8221; which translates to &#8220;Thank you, Brazil.&#8221; 
Again, Keith Ellison is not some backbench politician from a no-name congressional district. He&#8217;s the chief law officer of Minnesota. And he&#8217;s endorsing the total shutdown of a major social media platform because it wouldn&#8217;t censor the political opponents of the government.
Politicians like Keith Ellison crave censorship because they&#8217;re corrupt. They only care about power. And they&#8217;re willing to lie in order to get it. Remember what Keith Ellison did during the George Floyd riots. Ellison&#8217;s office hid bodycam footage showing that George Floyd said, &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe,&#8221; several times, while he was struggling with cops in the backseat of a police cruiser — long before he was on the ground with a knee near his neck. That was obviously relevant information because it suggested that Floyd was having a fatal overdose, and that he couldn&#8217;t breathe because he had taken a lethal quantity of fentanyl. So Keith Ellison&#8217;s office suppressed the footage.
Democrats like Keith Ellison want total control of social media platforms like X so that they can suppress information like that even more often, and even more easily. They want to be able to shut down any information or opinions that contradict their preferred narrative. That&#8217;s why they&#8217;re thrilled with what&#8217;s happening in Brazil. 
It&#8217;s also why they have no problem with what the Biden administration is doing to Tusli Gabbard. Gabbard has emerged as one of the most effective critics of the modern Democrat Party. She has what no prominent Democrat has, which is integrity. She was on the fast-track to be a senior official in the Democrat Party, even serving as vice chair of the DNC. But she threw all of that away because she wanted to follow her principles — particularly concerning foreign affairs — instead of seeking power. So, Tulsi Gabbard can&#8217;t be controlled by party elites. What&#8217;s their solution? They put her on a terror watch list. Watch:
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Kamala says she believes in freedom, but I was put on a secret terror watch list after I publicly criticized her. No one will be safe from political retaliation under a Harris administration. I put my life on the line for this country. Now the government calls me a terror threat. <a href="https://t.co/3xjgjmrLhD">pic.twitter.com/3xjgjmrLhD</a>
&mdash; Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1831346487969698259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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This should be leading every nightly newscast in the United States. There is no reason for a political figure like Tusli Gabbard to be placed on any kind of terror watch list, or to receive 30 minutes of extra screening every time she tries to fly. The only conceivable explanation is that this is a federal program intended to harass and intimidate her. She&#8217;s not following the party line, so this is what she gets.
But she&#8217;s able to speak freely about what&#8217;s happening to her on X, at least for now. That&#8217;s the platform where Tulsi Gabbard posted that video I just showed you. It&#8217;s where she — and many other political dissidents in many other countries — can speak their minds, for the most part. At the very least, it&#8217;s a freer platform than any of the alternatives. That&#8217;s why the government, in both this country and Brazil, wants to shut X down. It&#8217;s also why France is trying to shut Telegram down and jail its founder. We are in the middle of a historic war on the freedom of speech, in countries where it would&#8217;ve been unthinkable just a few years ago.
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If they&#8217;re allowed to succeed in places like Brazil and France, it won&#8217;t be long until they try the same thing here. Our Constitution won&#8217;t protect us. Brazil and France have constitutions that supposedly protect the freedom of speech, and it&#8217;s not working out so well for them. The only solution is to do exactly what Elon Musk and Tusli Gabbard are doing, which is to respond to censorship and intimidation with more speech — call out what they&#8217;re doing. And in November, do everything you can to prevent these tyrants from seizing any more power than they already have.

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Elon Musk said on Monday that the Democratic Party was attempting to destroy free speech after leftist Minnesota Democratic Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/keith-ellison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Keith Ellison</a> appeared to celebrate the ban of X, previously known as Twitter, in Brazil. 
On Labor Day, Ellison posted a message in Portuguese translated to &#8220;Thank you Brazil!&#8221; as the country blocked X at the orders of Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. De Moraes ruled that the social media company did not comply with his orders revolving around appointing a legal representative for the country or suspending several accounts. De Moraes said that Musk had &#8220;total disrespect for Brazilian sovereignty.&#8221;
Musk, the CTO and executive chairman of X, ripped into Ellison over his apparent support for the block. 
“The Democratic Party – same one that used to defend the First Amendment –now wants to destroy the First Amendment,” Musk posted. 
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The Democratic Party – same one that used to defend the First Amendment –now wants to destroy the First Amendment <a href="https://t.co/36KAhzA0la">https://t.co/36KAhzA0la</a>
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1830826870146727941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Other conservatives also ripped into Ellison over his post. 
“Tim Walz&#8217;s attorney general in Minnesota &#8212; Keith Ellison &#8212; thanks Brasil for crushing free speech platform X,” <a href="https://x.com/MZHemingway/status/1830777820953362850" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway. 
“Tim Walz&#8217;s Attorney General, Keith Ellison, Celebrates Brazil Banning X,” <a href="https://x.com/SteveGuest/status/1830939872627957830">said</a> conservative communicator Steve Guest. “Take note: Keith Ellison is a ENEMY of free speech.”
In his decision last week, de Moraes said that X must be restricted in Brazil because the company refused to comply with several court orders. He also said that people who try to access the platform through other means, like a VPN, could face daily fines of nearly $9,000. 
X’s Global Government Affairs argued that de Moraes’ requests violated Brazilian law. 
“We are absolutely not insisting that other countries have the same free speech laws as the United States. The fundamental issue at stake here is that Judge de Moraes demands we break Brazil’s own laws. We simply won’t do that,” it said in a <a href="https://x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/1829296715989414281">statement</a>.
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The decision to suspend access to X was upheld on Monday by a panel of judges on the Brazilian Supreme Court. 
“Economic power and the size of a bank account do not give rise to outlandish immunity,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/02/world/americas/brazil-elon-musk-supreme-court.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Justice Flavio Dino, saying that X “seems to believe it’s above the law.”
De Moraes has long clashed with X, ordering the social media company earlier this year to censor certain X accounts, which Musk refused to do. 
“We believe that such orders are not in accordance with the Marco Civil da Internet or the Brazilian Federal Constitution, and we challenge the orders legally where possible,” the company <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brazilian-judge-orders-suspension-of-x-social-media-platform-responds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time. “The people of Brazil, regardless of their political beliefs, are entitled to freedom of speech, due process, and transparency from their own authorities.”

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Elon Musk Rips Into Democrat AG For Appearing To Celebrate Brazil’s X Ban

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Minnesota Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison rounded out his recent criticism of Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joy-behar-whitesplains-racism-to-actual-black-americans-tim-scott-and-clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clarence Thomas</a> with a vile, racist reference – and CBS News opted to cover the criticism with no mention of the racist attack.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-reacts-to-george-floyd-body-cam-footage-slams-ag-keith-ellison-for-refusing-to-release-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ellison</a>, who is black, suggested that Thomas — the second black justice to serve on the nation&#8217;s highest Court — was akin to a &#8220;house slave&#8221; who worked alongside the slave master to ensure that others could not escape to freedom.
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Former DNC Chief Keith Ellison: 
&quot;Anybody who&#39;s watched the movie &#39;Django,&#39; just watch Stephen, and you see Clarence Thomas.&quot;
The Stephen character was a house slave that conspired with his slave master to impede Django&#39;s quest for freedom. <a href="https://t.co/naIUzv4FYf">pic.twitter.com/naIUzv4FYf</a>
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&#8220;Well, Clarence Thomas &#8230; all you got to &#8230; anybody who&#8217;s watched the movie &#8216;Django,&#8217; just watch Stephen, and you see Clarence Thomas,&#8221; Ellison said. &#8220;Clarence Thomas is a &#8230; has decided that his best personal interests is siding with the powerful and the – and the special interests regardless as to who they&#8217;re gonna hurt.&#8221;
GOP Rapid Response Director Jake Schneider shared a screenshot of local CBS News affiliate WCCO&#8217;s coverage of Ellison&#8217;s remarks — and while it was clear from the headline that the former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman had been critical of the Supreme Court Justice, there was no mention of the racially charged comparison he&#8217;d made.
&#8220;AG Ellison says Justice Clarence Thomas &#8216;needs to be impeached&#8217; report says,&#8221;
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Keith Ellison compared Clarence Thomas to a house slave and this is how the Minnesota media decided to cover it.
Not even a mention of his disgusting remark. <a href="https://t.co/TAet16NsvH">pic.twitter.com/TAet16NsvH</a>
&mdash; Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) <a href="https://twitter.com/jacobkschneider/status/1681298681683935232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Not even a mention of his disgusting remark,&#8221; Schneider commented.
&#8220;The left’s vile, vicious attempts to smear Justice Thomas are utterly transparent. They just can’t stand that he doesn’t share their radical orthodoxy,&#8221; Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1681039715166814209" target="_blank" rel="noopener">observed</a>.
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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley also tore into Ellison over the comment, saying, &#8220;Sen. Klobuchar ran for president on the promise that she would &#8216;end the hateful rhetoric that has become all too routine during the Trump Administration.&#8217; Gov. Walz pledged to combat &#8216;the forces of hatred and bigotry.&#8217; Does that extend to Democrats like Ellison?&#8221; he asked.
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&#8230;Putting aside his absurd claim that Thomas is illegitimate because Ellison disagrees with his rulings, Ellison portrayed him to a house slave because of his race. He did not declare Alito or Gorsuch as house slaves or illegitimate. Just Thomas.
&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1680976735012003841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Turley went on to note that Thomas was the only target of Ellison&#8217;s wrath — despite being one of several justices who had ruled in a way with which Ellison disagreed — solely because of his race.
&#8220;Putting aside his absurd claim that Thomas is illegitimate because Ellison disagrees with his rulings, Ellison portrayed him to a house slave because of his race. He did not declare Alito or Gorsuch as house slaves or illegitimate. Just Thomas,&#8221; he said.

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