It is becoming clearer and clearer that we have an institutional problem in this country.
Not every crime in a country of 340 million people indicates an institutional problem. Sometimes you just have one-offs; sometimes you just have people who do things that are crazy or terrible, and there&#8217;s really no way of preventing or minimizing that particular crime.
But the Annunciation Catholic School shooting is not one of those cases, because what we are looking at here is symptomatic of a broader ideological ill that has afflicted our state institutions and our medical institutions and has massive downstream effects.
Those downstream effects aren&#8217;t always school shootings. In fact, only on rare occasions are they school shootings, but the effects are harming literally thousands of children across our country. 
There&#8217;s a bizarre transmission effect that happens when the media grants enormous attention to evil, mentally ill people who go and shoot a bunch of schoolchildren. But one of the factors here is that the transgender shooter, a biological male named Robert, who then legally changed it to Robin, confessed he was “tired of being trans” and wished he had “never brainwashed himself.”
“I&#8217;m tired of being trans,” he wrote. “I wish I never brainwashed myself. I can&#8217;t cut my hair now as it would be an embarrassing defeat, and it might be a concerning change of character that could get me reported. It just always gets in my way. I&#8217;ll probably drop it on the day of the attack.”
He was afraid that cutting his hair would show a red flag to the authorities, who might have said there&#8217;s something wrong. He felt that if he decided to detransition, the Minnesota authorities might take a second look at him.
But in the state of Minnesota, there was nothing wrong with a boy saying that he was a girl and his parents signing off on forms to transition him.
This was a person who was clearly suffering from gender identity disorder and was not satisfied with the solutions provided by the trans fake medical community. We&#8217;ve been told by that fake medical community that the only way to prevent terrible things from happening to and from people who identify as trans, is to pretend along with them that they are members of the opposite sex and that we are supposed to socially shame people who “detransition.”
If you listen to the media, the shooter was a woman. The headline from the New York Times — which was totally insane — read “Minneapolis suspect knew her target, but motive is a mystery.”
The amount of Orwellian doublespeak here is insane. Respect the killer’s preferred pronouns, but pretend that the “motive is a mystery.”
We know exactly what the motive was, because it is spelled out in all of the journals and the YouTube videos and on the guns themselves.
This is not a gigantic “mystery wrapped in an enigma.” This is the media trying to cover up the reality of the situation in which a mentally ill person was not given proper treatment and was told that his delusions were a reflection of the evil patriarchy and a terrible traditional society.
A person whose parents were told by medical and state institutions that the most important thing they could do to minimize the threat to their child and to others was to pretend along with him that he was a woman. A person who was told that any sort of corrective activity designed to alleviate gender identity disorder by saying, “No, actually, you are a boy and we need to deal with that in a rational, psychologically tested way,” was wrong.
Instead of doing that, they decided to play along.
And the consequences were murder.
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This implicates our institutions. It implicates our schools. It implicates our medical institutions. It implicates state legislatures.
The American Medical Association has been promoting exactly the kind of fake medicine that leads to the abandonment of people who are truly psychologically suffering. That fake medicine which masquerades as empathy is not, in fact, medicine.
It is, in fact, an ideologically-driven crusade to pretend that men and women are identical and can switch bodies at will.
And it is a lie.
If you wonder why trust has been completely undermined in “science,” it&#8217;s because the ideological Left infiltrated all of these organizations, took them over, and then wore their face around as a mask like Hannibal Lecter and said, “Why don&#8217;t you just trust the science?”
Here&#8217;s the answer: “Because you&#8217;re not interested in the science. You&#8217;re interested in the ideology.”
This is not a fringe thing happening at a few schools. It is happening at public schools across the country.
In 2023, Minnesota passed a law banning conversion therapy. When many people think of conversion therapy, they picture somebody who takes a gay kid, hooks the kid up to electrodes, then zaps them until they&#8217;re straight.
But that is not what these states now mean by conversion therapy. What they mean by conversion therapy is that you are not allowed as a psychologist, as a mental health care professional (as a parent, by the way), to bring your kid to a mental health care professional who tries to convince your boy that he is not, in fact, a girl.
So if the parents of the shooter had brought him to a mental health care professional or religious guidance professional, a priest, that could be illegal in the state of Minnesota because conversion therapy is banned in the state of Minnesota.
What this law says is that if your boy expresses gender confusion and says, “Mommy, I might be a girl” and you bring him to a psychologist and the psychologist says, “You&#8217;re a boy, you&#8217;re not a girl. You should stop trying to claim that you&#8217;re a girl because you&#8217;re not,” that would violate the law in the state of Minnesota.
It effectively makes any help for a “detransition” illegal in the state of Minnesota. If you, as a parent in the state of Minnesota, say no to transition procedures or you wish to fight the insanity that is this ideology, you could have your kid removed from you under Minnesota law.
That is horrifying. You have an entire delusion that is now being promoted by state legislatures, by governors across the country, particularly in blue states, reinforced by the lies of medical associations that are supposed to be all about “do no harm” and instead are actively promoting harm with an educational system completely honeycombed with members of the ideological Left.
The costs are very real. This happens to be an outsized cost, because it&#8217;s not just about the person who had the mental illness. It&#8217;s about all the people the person decided to harm.
This ideology is dangerous.
And we see it again and again.

Shooting At Annunciation School Church In Minneapolis Leaves Multiple Children Dead And Many Injured

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GOP Rep. Tom Emmer on Thursday called for his home state of Minnesota to repeal its “trans refuge” law in the wake of the deadly shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis by a transgender-identifying man.
Emmer <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/28/us-news/house-gop-whip-tom-emmer-calls-for-repeal-of-minnesotas-trans-refuge-law/">told</a> the New York Post that the law, which was passed back in 2023 and signed by Democratic Governor Tim Walz, was encouraging mental distress. The law made Minnesota a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-minnesota-just-gave-state-power-to-take-kids-away-if-parents-dont-approve-gender-surgery">safe haven</a> for parents to take their children to undergo transgender procedures if their home states had banned such practices. 
“We got to respect everyone. We got to have compassion for everyone. But we got to understand that we’ve got some serious mental health issues that are being exacerbated by these types of messages by people like Tim Walz and everybody who supported that law,” Emmer, the House GOP whip, told The Post. 
Emmer made the comments just one day after Robin Westman, a 23-year-old man who identified as a woman and previously went by Robert, opened fire during a school Mass held at Annunciation Catholic School. Two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed in the attack, and 18 other people were injured. 
“They should immediately repeal it, but they won’t,” Emmer said of the 2023 law. “They have been encouraging this type of confusion. This poor young man was tortured. He clearly had serious mental health issues and rather than actually helping him, they were actually exacerbating it.”
“You look at the sadness of these tortured human beings — because they do have regrets later — and no, we should have never started it. It should not be allowed,” he said. 
Portions of writings Westman left behind <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wish-i-never-brain-washed-myself-minnesota-school-shooter-said-he-was-tired-of-being-trans?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘Wish+I+Never+Brain-Washed+Myself’%3A+Minnesota+School+Shooter+Said+He+Was+‘Tired+Of+Being+Trans’">indicate</a> he had regrets about identifying as transgender. 
“I only keep [long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brain-washed myself,” Westman reportedly wrote in a journal entry. 
In another section of his journal, Westman reportedly wrote, “I don’t want to dress girly all the time but I guess sometimes I really like it. I know I am not a woman but I definitely don’t feel like a man.”
Police have said that Westman’s writings were “full of hate,” and published portions reveal that he had disliked Jews, Catholics, and considered attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump. 
Emmer said that someone must have failed to intervene in Westman&#8217;s life because there had to have been warning signs about his mental state.  
“Somebody had to know,” he told the Post. “Somebody in his neighborhood, somebody in his family, somebody in his network, somebody had to know that he had these serious mental health issues and why didn’t someone speak up? Why didn’t somebody offer him some help?”

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Two years before a shooter opened fire on students attending daily mass in Minneapolis, the leaders of independent and Catholic schools in Minnesota begged Democrat Governor Tim Walz for help securing their schools, according to a 2023 letter reviewed by The Daily Wire. The funding was never authorized.
In a <a href="https://www.mncatholic.org/letter_to_governor_walz_school_safety_in_nonpublic_schools">letter</a> dated April 14, 2023 that specifically addressed &#8220;school safety in nonpublic schools,&#8221; Tim Benz, the president of MINNDEPENDENT and Jason Adkins, the executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, stressed an &#8220;urgent and critical need in Minnesota to make sure our schools are secure and safe&#8221; in light of &#8220;recent, and continuing attacks, on our schools in this country and in our state.&#8221;
The letter says there are about 72,000 students in Independent, Catholic, Jewish, Christian and Muslim nonpublic schools within the state of Minnesota. It came just weeks after the shooting at a Christian school in Tennessee, which was also carried out by a transgender-identifying individual in their twenties.
&#8220;The latest school shooting at a nonpublic Christian school in Tennessee sadly confirms what we already know – our schools are under attack,&#8221; Benz and Adkins wrote. &#8220;In Minnesota, nonpublic schools, particularly our Jewish and Muslim schools, have experienced increased levels of threats, all of which we must take very seriously.&#8221;
&#8220;The tragedy from last week at Covenant School must never happen in Minnesota or in our country again,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;We need to ensure that all [our] schools have the resources to respond to and prevent these attacks from happening to our schools.&#8221;
The leaders specifically called on Waltz for assistance in making sure not only that the Minnesota Legislature enacts his budget recommendation of $50 million to establish the &#8220;Building and Cyber Security Grand Program, but also that this program include all schools as eligible for funding, regardless of whether these schools are public, charters, or nonpublic.
Adkins told The Daily Wire on Wednesday after the shooting in Minneapolis that no additional security was ever funded, even though the money existed.
&#8220;It’s a lack of will to do it by elected officials, coupled with opposition by some legislators because nonpublic school students were included in the funding,&#8221; Adkins said. &#8220;I would note that Minnesota had an $18 billion dollar budget surplus in the 2023-24 session and this was not funded.&#8221;
Adkins said that Walz had voiced support in meetings for the program, which would have &#8220;created a consistent funding stream from the state budget on a per pupil basis for all students, not just those in Catholic/private schools,&#8221; but that nothing was done.
&#8220;It was raised in discussions between the bishops and Gov. Walz, and he communicated his belief that people should feel safe in their schools and places of worship,&#8221; Adkins shared. &#8220;But the appropriation was not created.&#8221;
Walz in 2023 was instead working to protect transgenders. In April 2023, the same month the letter was sent, Walz signed legislation establishing Minnesota as a &#8220;trans refuge,&#8221; promising to &#8220;protect those seeking gender-affirming care,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.outfront.org/governor-walz-signs-conversion-therapy-ban-and-trans-refuge-bills-law">OutFront Minnesota</a>.
The letter argued that excluding independent and religious schools from security programs was discrimination.
&#8220;The exclusion of one sector of schools – as you know, nonpublic schools serve many students and families in need of services and resources – is a discriminatory act against our students,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;Since 2020, nonpublic schools have been advocating to be part of the Safe Schools Program that provides funding to school districts for emergency response training, security upgrades, mental health services, and security resources.&#8221;
&#8220;The legislation supported by our collective organizations provides state aid to school districts, intermediate school districts, charter schools and nonpublic schools for this program. Unfortunately, this program currently does not cover nonpublic schools, charter schools and intermediate school districts and it is a levy-only program for school districts.&#8221;
Schools that are not included in the program, they stressed, could be more vulnerable to attacks.
&#8220;An attack on any school, whether it is a public, nonpublic, charter or another school site, cannot be tolerated or allowed to happen in Minnesota,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;We want to make sure Minnesota is doing everything it can to ensure that all our students are safe and secure. We ask you include $50 million in the final Education Finance bill and allow nonpublic schools to apply for funding.&#8221;
They also asked for a meeting to discuss their proposal as well as &#8220;ongoing concerns regarding safety and security in our schools.&#8221;
The shooter was identified as Robin Westman, according to <a href="https://x.com/peterjhasson/status/1960758053625627109" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple</a> <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/27/us-news/minneapolis-catholic-school-gunman-idd-as-robin-westman-while-possible-manifesto-shows-psychotic-obsession-with-mass-shooters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>. In 2020, Westman reportedly <a href="https://x.com/peterjhasson/status/1960758053625627109" target="_blank" rel="noopener">changed</a> his name from Robert to Robin because he “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.”
Walz did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Wire.
Benz, the president of MINNDEPENDENT, told The Daily Wire that he and Adkins are aligned and he had nothing to add to his comments. He described Wednesday as &#8220;heartbreaking&#8221; for all schools, sharing: &#8220;Annunciation is a very closeknit community and has been an anchor in their neighborhood for more than 100 years. We stand in solidarity and alongside Annunciation by holding them close to our hearts today and in the difficult days ahead.&#8221;

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Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) took a page from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s failed 2016 playbook on Monday, taking her &#8220;basket of deplorables&#8221; comment to new lows as he trashed Republican voters at the Democratic Party&#8217;s summer meeting.
Walz began by attacking President Donald Trump&#8217;s efforts to root out Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies and claiming that the Democratic Party should lean in and protect them. The failed vice presidential candidate — who deployed his own state&#8217;s National Guard to enforce draconian COVID-era restrictions — went on to complain about Trump using the National Guard to assist local law enforcement in cracking down on crime.
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Tim Walz says Democrats won&#8217;t back down on DEI, attacks &#8220;cruel&#8221; and &#8220;fascist&#8221; Republicans
&#8220;Think of how easy it would be to be a damn Republican. &#8216;Oh what should I wear today? This stupid, friggin red hat. What should I say today? Oh I don&#8217;t know, just make sure it&#8217;s cruel.'&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/SPjuT5UNWA">pic.twitter.com/SPjuT5UNWA</a>
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Walz pivoted to attack the press, complaining that there was no basis for media claims that there was a &#8220;division&#8221; within the Democratic Party. &#8220;There&#8217;s a division in my damn house and we&#8217;re still married and things are good! That&#8217;s life.&#8221;
When he turned to address Republicans, however, he could not hide his disdain: &#8220;Think of how easy it would be to be a damn Republican. &#8216;Oh what should I wear today? This stupid, friggin red hat. What should I say today? Oh I don&#8217;t know, just make sure it&#8217;s cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy? Oh, the felon in the White House? Yeah, I listen to him, and that will be fine.'&#8221;
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The Minnesota governor — who just a few short years ago had encouraged his state&#8217;s citizens to rat out their neighbors if they weren&#8217;t following COVID regulations — claimed that Trump&#8217;s policies were &#8220;fascist,&#8221; and it was important to say that out loud.
&#8220;I always get in trouble for it, I&#8217;ll continue to say it. I don&#8217;t think we do any favors when we don&#8217;t name it. These are fascist policies,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That is what they are &#8230; Now he&#8217;s talking about burning flags. He&#8217;s going to have flag burning or whatever, because he knows there&#8217;s a hell of a lot of flags with his picture on it that are going to get burned. There&#8217;s a whole lot of that kind of crap that people are sick of.&#8221;

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Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville warned that if men were feeling let down by the Democratic Party, it was because Democrats had effectively &#8220;erased them&#8221; from society.
Carville made the comments during a recent podcast appearance with host Dan Koh on &#8220;The People&#8217;s Cabinet&#8221; — and he argued that while it had been wise for former Vice President Kamala Harris to choose a male running mate, but that simply asking Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) to go from state to state &#8220;screaming&#8221; about how masculine he was had been ineffective at best.
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🚨NEW: James Carville goes on 4-minute rant about how *BADLY* Dems have communicated to men🚨
&#8220;Let’s say you work in an Atlanta tire shop, 9–10 hours a day. You’re changing tires &#8230; You’re working your *ss off. It’s hot! Okay? You go home. You want a cold beer, you want a… <a href="https://t.co/XlNBYCJjEv">pic.twitter.com/XlNBYCJjEv</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1942987821502865850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;If you ever want to understand the problem we have with younger men, listen to NPR for five minutes, four times a day, and you will understand,&#8221; Carville said, reflecting on recent polls that show a drop off in male support for Democrats.
Carville, known to many in political circles as &#8220;The Ragin&#8217; Cajun&#8221; due to his excitable nature and thick Louisiana accent, explained that Democrats had done men a disservice by adopting buzzwords and phrases like &#8220;the future is female&#8221; or &#8220;the woman is never wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;Men are like, ‘S***, do I count?'&#8221; Carville continued. &#8220;&#8216;What about my life? I mean, we’re only 48% of the voting population.'&#8221;
&#8220;Let’s say you work in an Atlanta tire shop, nine, 10 hours a day. You’re changing tires,&#8221; Carville explained. &#8220;You’re working your ass off. It’s hot. You go home. You want a cold beer, you want a hamburger, and you want to watch the football game. No. No. You can’t do that. Not football. No. No hamburgers. How many calories does that have? Do you know what that does? Beer? No. You should be drinking a nice fruit spritzer or something.’ They’re like, ‘Oh, get off of my back,’ right? And then, ‘If you have sex, you must wear a condom.’ We just never communicated with them.&#8221;
Carville concluded by saying that at the end of the day, the party would have to meet men where they were instead of constantly subjecting them to lectures.
&#8220;I understand we’ve had tectonic societal shifts, demographic shifts in this country, but there are no television shows about these people anymore. They’ve been erased from the culture,&#8221; he said of men in general. &#8220;We’ve just erased them. &#8216;You don’t exist. No one sees you. No one cares about you. You’ve had it made all your life.&#8217; And a lot of these people say, ‘I got it made? What are you talking about?’ And we just lecture people too much. As opposed to saying, ‘Man, you work hard.'&#8221;

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James Carville Warns Democrats Who They’ve Failed To Reach: ‘Men Are Like, S***, Do I Count?’

James Carville Warns Democrats Who They've Failed To Reach: 'Men Are Like, S***, Do I Count?'

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President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he won&#8217;t &#8220;waste time&#8221; with a phone call to &#8220;whacked out&#8221; Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz following the assassinations of a state representative, her husband, and the near-assassination of a state senator and his wife over the weekend.
Sources close to Walz said that the governor spoke to Vice President JD Vance after the Saturday morning shootings, but added that he had not heard from the president. Asked if he would reach out to Walz, the Democrats&#8217; 2024 vice presidential nominee, Trump <a href="https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1934918294508638209">said</a>, &#8220;I&#8217;m not calling him.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. Why would I call him?&#8221; Trump <a href="https://x.com/factpostnews/status/1934953237678899354">added</a>. &#8220;I could call and say, ‘Hi, how you doing?’ The guy doesn’t have a clue. He’s a mess. I could be nice and call, but why waste time?”
After the suspected Minnesota assassin killed Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and wounded Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, Trump addressed the deadly shootings.
&#8220;Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America. God Bless the great people of Minnesota, a truly great place,&#8221; the president <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114682713948931541">posted</a> on social media.
Trump was also <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/trump-call-walz-after-minnesota-shootings-calls-grossly-122870353">asked</a> about reaching out to Walz during an interview with ABC News on Sunday.
&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s a terrible thing. I think he&#8217;s a terrible governor. I think he&#8217;s a grossly incompetent person. But I may, I may call him, I may call other people too,&#8221; Trump said.
Authorities arrested 57-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspected-minnesota-assassin-went-to-homes-of-two-other-elected-officials-prosecutor">Vance Boelter</a> on Sunday, just over 24 hours after the assassination of Hortman and the near-killing of Hoffman. The suspect is accused of impersonating a police officer and visiting the houses of at least four elected Democrats in Minnesota. At the Hoffmans&#8217; home, Boelter barged in after being confronted by the state senator and his wife. Boelter opened fire, wounding both of them. He later shot and killed Hortman and her husband at their home before engaging in a shootout with police and getting away.
Police said they found a potential &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-the-hit-list-found-in-minnesota-gunmans-vehicle">hit list</a>&#8221; in Boelter&#8217;s vehicle that contained the names of numerous Democrats, including Gov. Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Angie Craig, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan.
Boelter, who was appointed to Minnesota Democrat Governor Tim Walz’s Workforce Development Council in 2019, was “very conservative,” his roommate <a href="https://x.com/lilialuciano/status/1934315979687010680">told</a> CBS News. The roommate added that Boelter “would be offended if people thought he was a Democrat,” referring to rumors spreading on social media that Boelter was a leftist. The suspect rented a room <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYQPRPe1M3I">part-time</a> in a house in north Minneapolis, but he also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7c5cDL2ryU">lived</a> in a home about an hour southwest of the Twin Cities with his wife and five children.
Boelter faces federal charges, including stalking, murder, and multiple firearms-related offenses. The federal murder charge makes Boelter eligible for the death penalty.

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Trump Says He Won’t Call Tim Walz After Minnesota Assassinations: ‘He’s A Mess…Why Waste Time?’

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Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) attempted to blame political violence — like the targeted shooting of two Democratic lawmakers and their spouses in his home state — on &#8220;mean tweets&#8221; in an apparent jab at President Donald Trump, despite the fact that he himself had called on Democrats to &#8220;be meaner&#8221; just a few weeks earlier.
Walz gave a statement on Sunday evening after it was announced that the alleged shooter, Vance Boelter, had been apprehended after a two-day manhunt — and he called for &#8220;decency&#8221; in political discourse.
&#8220;A moment in this country where we watch violence erupt, this cannot be the norm. It cannot be the way that we deal with our political differences,&#8221; Walz began. &#8220;Now is the time for us to recommit to the core values of this country. And each and every one of us can do it.&#8221;
&#8220;Talk to a neighbor rather than arguing. Debate an issue. Shake hands. Find common ground. This is who Melissa Hortman was. In the first negotiating session that I had a chance to work with her, she got all the partners in the room, and she provided each and every one of us a copy of a book called &#8216;Getting to Yes,'&#8221; he continued, remembering the deceased legislator. &#8220;And the whole premise was debating with a sense of goodwill, a sense to come to compromises that serve everyone. And because of her, we did that. Because of her we did that year after year after year. That’s the embodiment of how things are supposed to work.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s not about hatred. It’s not about mean tweets,&#8221; Walz added, in an apparent jab at Trump. &#8220;It’s not about demeaning someone. It’s leading with grace and compassion and vision and compromise and decency. That was taken from us in Minnesota with the murder of Speaker Hortman. So for each and every one of us to truly honor, and we will, we will continue to honor that spirit, but we will need to do it in just more than actions in a memorial. Conducting ourselves in the spirit that Melissa Hortman did her work is what the country needs to heal.&#8221;
The governor&#8217;s words on Sunday mark a dramatic departure from what he said just a few weeks earlier about Democrats needing to &#8220;be a little meaner&#8221; when it came to engaging in political discourse.
Walz, during his remarks at the South Carolina Democratic Party Convention, referred to Trump as a &#8220;wannabe dictator,&#8221; a &#8220;bully,&#8221; and a &#8220;cruel man&#8221; – and suggested that Democrats needed to &#8220;bully him back.&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner, maybe it’s time for us to be a little more fierce,&#8221; he said.

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UPDATE: The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said they are reviewing a &#8220;manifesto&#8221; allegedly penned by the suspect, identified as Vance Boelter, but the motivation has still not been determined.
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“This is a very active and fluid investigation throughout the day, as you’ve been waiting, and these teams have been working out in the field, and they have been gathering more documents and information,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minnesota-shootings-manhunt-06-14-25">said</a>. &#8220;So it would be premature for me at this point to really say exactly what the motivation might be from these writings, but we will be continuing to work on that and provide that information when we’re able.&#8221;
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Evans added that they are &#8220;still exploring&#8221; to see if the suspect knew those he targeted.
“There’s certainly some overlap with some public meetings, I will say, with Senator Hoffman and the individual, but we don’t know the nature of the relationship or if they actually knew each other,&#8221; he said.
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Original report:
Minnesota law enforcement officials confirmed on Saturday that the suspect involved in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-spouses-gunned-down-in-targeted-shootings?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Lawmakers%2C+Spouses+Gunned+Down+In+‘Targeted’+Shootings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murder and attempted murder of four people</a>, including state lawmakers, had the names of other elected officials and anti-Trump &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protest flyers in his vehicle.
Additionally, the suspect, identified as Vance Boelter, 57, was appointed to Minnesota Democrat Governor Tim Walz&#8217;s Workforce Development Council in 2019.
“When we did a search of the vehicle, there was a manifesto that identified many lawmakers and other officials. We immediately made alerts to the state. We took action on alerting them and providing security where necessary,” said Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley, <a href="https://www.whio.com/news/police-say-they-have/QN6NVORVYJEQ5FXGK5YXQU2FNA/">according</a> to the Associated Press.
State Patrol Col. Christina Bogojevic said during a presser that the suspect had “No Kings” flyers in his car, displaying a photo of the materials (see below). &#8220;No Kings&#8221; is a reference to nationwide left-wing protests taking place on Saturday to object to President Donald Trump.
Organizers of &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protests in the state of Minnesota have canceled today&#8217;s events.
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As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-spouses-gunned-down-in-targeted-shootings?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Lawmakers%2C+Spouses+Gunned+Down+In+‘Targeted’+Shootings">The Daily Wire</a> on Saturday morning, state Sen. John Hoffman and state Rep. Melissa Hortman and their spouses were shot by a suspect allegedly impersonating a police officer in Champlin and Brooklyn Park.
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The pair were attacked in their homes. Rep. Hortman and her spouse were killed in what Gov. Tim Walz said was a &#8220;politically motivated assassination.&#8221; Hoffman and his wife were both shot numerous times, but are expected to survive.
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NEW: Minnesota law enforcement announce that &#8220;No Kings&#8221; flyers were found in the car of the suspect who k*lled MN State Representative Melissa Hortman.
The &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protests are being held today across the country in protest of President Trump.
&#8220;Given the targeted shootings… <a href="https://t.co/X6UPxjHEZ9">pic.twitter.com/X6UPxjHEZ9</a>
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1933929181026685181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
Boelter was identified as the suspect in the attacks on Saturday afternoon, per sources close to the Associated Press. He was appointed to serve on the Workforce Development Council in 2019 by Gov. Walz, and Boelter&#8217;s term expired in January 2023, <a href="https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/57-year-old-suspect-sought-in-targeted-shootings-of-minnesota-state-lawmakers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to EYEWITNESS NEWS.
Boelter previously served on the board, which is categorized as nonpartisan, back in 2016 by then-Governor Mark Dayton, also a Democrat.
This post has been updated with additional information.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-spouses-gunned-down-in-targeted-shootings?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Lawmakers%2C+Spouses+Gunned+Down+In+‘Targeted’+Shootings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lawmakers, Spouses Gunned Down In ‘Targeted’ Shootings</a>

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Gov. Tim Walz confirmed on Saturday morning that state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were both killed. He called the attack a &#8220;politically motivated assassination.&#8221;
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🚨 BREAKING &#8211; TRAGIC: Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman announced deceased after &#8220;politically motivated assassination,&#8221; along with her husband.
This is madness.
This is not OK.<a href="https://t.co/pI8fqZl1Uj">pic.twitter.com/pI8fqZl1Uj</a>
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1933901897255039258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
Walz also <a href="https://www.northernnewsnow.com/2025/06/14/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-their-homes-overnight/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were both shot numerous times but are expected to survive.
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Two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers and their spouses were reportedly gunned down in &#8220;targeting&#8221; shootings on Friday night.
State Sen. John Hoffman and state Rep. Melissa Hortman and their spouses were shot by a suspect allegedly impersonating a police officer in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/melissa-hortman-john-hoffman-lawmakers-shot-minnesota">according</a> to FOX 9 Minneapolis.
The condition of the lawmakers and their spouses is currently unknown.
There is a manhunt underway for the suspect, who is described as a white male with brown hair, wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants, Fox 9 reports.
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BREAKING: Sources telling me two state lawmakers and their spouses were shot overnight by someone impersonating a police officer. Manhunt underway in Brooklyn Park area. Sen. John Hoffman and Rep Melissa Hortman.
— Karen Scullin FOX9 (@kscullinfox9) <a href="https://twitter.com/kscullinfox9/status/1933870527275577745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
Democrat Gov. Tim Walz posted on Saturday morning that he&#8217;s been briefed on the situation.
&#8220;I’ve been briefed this morning on an ongoing situation involving targeted shootings in Champlin and Brooklyn Park,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The Minnesota Department of Public Safety and local law enforcement are on the scene. We will share more information soon.&#8221;
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I’ve been briefed this morning on an ongoing situation involving targeted shootings in Champlin and Brooklyn Park.
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety and local law enforcement are on the scene. We will share more information soon.
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovTimWalz/status/1933865891579781499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;I’ve activated the State Emergency Operations Center,&#8221; he added in a follow-up post. &#8220;Local law enforcement in Champlin and Brooklyn Park have the full resources of the State of Minnesota behind them. We are monitoring the situation closely and will share more information soon.&#8221;
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I’ve activated the State Emergency Operations Center.
Local law enforcement in Champlin and Brooklyn Park have the full resources of the State of Minnesota behind them.
We are monitoring the situation closely and will share more information soon.
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovTimWalz/status/1933874687018254548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) stumped Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) at Thursday’s House Oversight Committee hearing when she asked him if he knows what a woman is.
The question came after a short discussion about whether or not Walz had ever been to Tiananmen Square, a plaza in Beijing where protestors were massacred in 1989. After Walz confirmed he’d once been to the Square, Mace asked for the year he was there.
“As I recall, January of 1990,” Walz replied.
“Okay. What is a woman?” Mace suddenly asked.
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Walz appeared taken aback and only answered after Mace repeated the question.
“I’m not sure I understand the question here,” he replied.
The question posed by Mace has regularly stumped Democrats and was asked by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in 2022. At that time, Jackson replied that she could not provide a definition for the word &#8220;woman&#8221; because she&#8217;s &#8220;not a biologist.&#8221; Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh later released a documentary titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman?row=0&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;rowType=Square+Show+Carousel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>,&#8221; which sought to answer the obvious question and expose the dark roots of gender ideology.
Walz came under scrutiny after Kamala Harris chose him as her presidential running mate for a Minnesota <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2497&amp;session_year=2023&amp;session_number=0&amp;version=latest#:~:text=ACCESS%20TO%20MENSTRUAL%20PRODUCTS.">law</a> requiring schools to provide free tampons to “all menstruating students.” The law did not distinguish between girls and boys, earning Walz the nickname “Tampon Tim.”
After Walz refused to answer Mace’s question, he asked, “What would you like me to say?”
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Mace raised her voice and replied that she wanted him to say a woman is an “adult human female.”
“Men can’t become women!” she stated. “You guys are the party of violence and you’re the party erasing women. You don’t respect us! You’re a bigot, you’re a misogynist, you’re a sexist.”
She then turned to the chairman and yielded the floor.
Before this, Mace fired off multiple other questions, including one in which she asked whether or not Walz is “still friends with school shooters,” seemingly in an attempt to expose his ineptitude.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sharply criticized Minnesota Democratic Governor and failed vice president candidate Tim Walz for his handling of the 2020 Minneapolis riots while defending the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sends-another-2000-national-guard-troops-to-l-a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deployment</a> of National Guardsmen and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles to protect against violent anti-ICE protests.
In a hearing on Capitol Hill, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) noted how both she and Hegseth are from Minnesota and claimed President Donald Trump’s deployment of troops to Los Angeles was “premature and escalatory,&#8221; insisting the situation in 2020 was &#8220;more volatile&#8221; when Walz called in the National Guard. Hegseth fired back after the congresswoman got to asking how the deployment in L.A. affected the defense budget and duties.
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🔥 WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDef?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecDef</a> calmly dismantles Minnesota Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/BettyMcCollum04?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BettyMcCollum04</a> when she tries to grill him on the cost of deploying National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles:
&#8220;I recall 2020 quite well when <a href="https://twitter.com/GovTimWalz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovTimWalz</a> abandoned a police precinct and allowed it to be burned to the ground&#8230;… <a href="https://t.co/tltKWcgBEQ">pic.twitter.com/tltKWcgBEQ</a>
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&#8220;You are right, we are both originally from Minnesota. Which is why I recall 2020 quite well, when Governor Walz abandoned a police precinct and allowed it to be burned to the ground — and also allowed five days of chaos to occur inside the streets of Minneapolis,&#8221; Hegseth said.
Hegseth took a swipe at California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-sues-trump-over-national-guard-deployment-says-president-manufactured-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> Trump, Hegseth, and the Department of Defense <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/09/governor-newsom-suing-president-trump-and-department-of-defense-for-illegal-takeover-of-calguard-unit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over</a> the National Guard deployment in Los Angeles because he did not request it.
&#8220;The police precinct, ma&#8217;am, was abandoned and burned to the ground. And because of that, the National Guard was eventually — far too late — mobilized. And President Trump recognizes a situation like that improperly handled by a governor — like it was by Governor Walz — if it gets out of control, is a bad situation for the citizens of any location,&#8221; Hegseth said.
He added, &#8220;So in Los Angeles, we believe that ICE, which is a federal law enforcement agency, has the right to safely conduct operations in any state and any jurisdiction in the country, especially after 21 million illegals have crossed into our country in the previous administration. ICE ought to be able to do its job whether it&#8217;s Minneapolis or Los Angeles.&#8221;
McCollum tried stopping Hegseth, complaining that she had limited time and wanted to keep the focus on the budget — even though she had been the one to bring up the priority of the troop deployment to Los Angeles and Walz&#8217;s response to the Minneapolis riots.
&#8220;You asked about the situation in Los Angeles, and we believe ICE agents should be allowed to be safe in doing their operations,&#8221; Hegseth said. &#8220;And we have deployed National Guard and the Marines to protect them in the execution of their duties, because we ought [to] be able to enforce immigration law in this country, unlike Governor Walz did in 2020.&#8221;

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Hegseth Blasts Tim Walz For Mobilizing National Guard ‘Far Too Late’ During Minneapolis Riot Failure

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A girls&#8217; high school softball team in Minnesota won its first-ever state championship on Friday thanks to the lights-out pitching of a boy who identifies as a girl.
The Champlin Park Rebels took down the Bloomington Jefferson Jaguars 6-0 in the 4A title game, riding the arm of Marissa Rothenberger, a boy, who pitched the entire game, giving up just two hits to Bloomington Jefferson. In the Rebels&#8217; three-game tournament title run, Rothenberger pitched all 21 innings for the team, allowing just two runs.
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🚨 BREAKING: “Marissa” Rothenberger, a biological male, just single-handedly led Champlin Park to a 6-0 shutout to win the Minnesota Girls’ State Championship.
Every single Democrat in Minnesota voted to make this insanity possible.
Sickening. <a href="https://t.co/ohdgQ42onJ">pic.twitter.com/ohdgQ42onJ</a>
&mdash; Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href="https://twitter.com/GrageDustin/status/1931016120728682885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Champlin Park advanced to the state championship in a comeback win against White Bear Lake on Wednesday, with Rothenberger, a junior, hitting two huge doubles that sparked a rally for the Rebels, Outkick <a href="https://www.outkick.com/sports/trans-pitcher-champlin-park-white-bear-lake-minnesota-softball-semifinals">reported</a>. According to the outlet, two fathers of girls on White Bear Lake &#8220;expressed deep frustration with the system that allowed their daughters to compete against a male athlete.&#8221;
One dad specifically called out Democrats for allowing boys to compete against girls in Minnesota. &#8220;You&#8217;re looking at a whole team of future Republicans,&#8221; he said.
The Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) allows athletes to compete “consistent with their gender identity or expression in an environment free from discrimination with an equal opportunity for participation in athletics and fine arts,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.startribune.com/why-did-us-rep-tom-emmer-single-out-a-teenage-transgender-athlete-on-social-media/601365117">The Minnesota Star Tribune</a>. In February, the Trump administration opened an investigation into the MSHSL over its transgender policy after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to protect women&#8217;s sports. Trump has gone after some states, such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-vows-large-scale-fines-on-california-after-boy-wins-girls-track-events">California</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sics-his-doj-on-maine-over-men-in-womens-sports">Maine</a>, threatening to cut off federal funding if they continue to allow boys to compete against girls.
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The MSHSL did not respond when The Daily Wire asked if it would change its policy after Champlin Park&#8217;s state championship.
Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz has been blasted by conservatives and women&#8217;s sports advocates for allowing boys to play against girls in his state. Walz has made the transgender issue a big part of his platform, turning the state into a “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/07/tim-walz-minnesota-trans-refuge-bill/">trans refuge</a>” and supporting life-altering gender procedures on children.
Along with leading his team to the state championship, Rothenberger also received &#8220;All-Tournament Team&#8221; honors, according to Outkick reporter Amber Harding Snyder. Rothenberger was pictured towering over the girls selected for the &#8220;All-Tournament Team.&#8221;
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Rothenberger gets All-Tournament Team honors. <a href="https://t.co/5RQmpueqKf">pic.twitter.com/5RQmpueqKf</a>
&mdash; Amber Harding Snyder (@TheAmberHarding) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAmberHarding/status/1931016608199172588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rothenberger was born “Charlie Dean,” but after turning 9 years old, his mother applied to the Hennepin County District Court to change the name and sex on her child’s birth certificate, a request that was approved, according to documents obtained by <a href="https://reduxx.info/we-need-sex-screening-womens-sports-watchdog-calls-for-mandatory-sex-screening-after-male-student-uses-fake-birth-certificate-to-join-girls-softball-teams/">Reduxx</a>. Rothenberger reportedly kept his gender transition hidden from his teammates, but one of his former teammates, who spoke to Reduxx on the condition of anonymity, said that eventually girls and parents started to figure it out. Rothenberger has reportedly shared locker rooms, bathrooms, and rooms with teammates while traveling for games.

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