The Supreme Court takes up a case that could decide the future of so-called birthright citizenship, elected leaders in Minnesota are scrutinized for links to the state&#8217;s massive welfare scandal, and the announced Netflix-Warner Bros merger sends shockwaves through Hollywood.
It’s Monday, December 8, 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-251208">video version can be seen on The Daily Wire</a>:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Trump vs Birthright Citizenship</h2>
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Topline: The Supreme Court will soon decide the fate of birthright citizenship in what could be a historic court case brought on by the Trump administration.
On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that children born in the United States to illegal immigrants and other short-term visitors would no longer be considered American citizens.
That order was immediately challenged in multiple lower federal courts and subsequently put on hold. But on Friday, the White House got some major news: the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case and will decide on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship. A ruling is expected by this summer.
Preview: The case will hinge on the court’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which reads: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”
Supporters of birthright citizenship say that sentence includes virtually everyone born on U.S. soil, but opponents say those born to illegal immigrants are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States, and thus are not Americans.
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Essentially, the White House says birthright citizenship was originally a good-intentioned provision meant to extend citizenship to the children of former slaves after the Civil War.
But they argue it’s now been abused by millions of illegal immigrants and even tourists, who race across the border while pregnant to ensure their children will get citizenship. 
Lawyers for the White House argue that Trump’s executive order would simply “restore the clause’s original meaning.”
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Massive Minnesota Fraud</h2>
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Topline: The Somali-linked welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota is now being tied to Democrat leaders in the state, drawing more attention from the Trump administration and Congress.
Catch up: Billions of tax dollars have been stolen in the state of Minnesota during the tenure of Democrat Gov. Tim Walz. City Journal reporting has uncovered that at least a billion dollars in welfare and social service schemes have largely been connected to the Somali community in Minnesota. Alarmingly, some of this money was allegedly <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">funneled</a> to Somalia-based terrorist group Al-Shabaab.
How could it be worse? Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller says the welfare fraud scheme is far worse than the American people think, involving “complicit” state government officials and totaling more stolen money than initial early estimates stated.
“We believe we have only scratched the very top of the surface of how deep this goes,” <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1997135207707615556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1997135207707615556%7Ctwgr%5E79d8d486c99e2a14a41c75308117655867895db2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fthe-somali-welfare-fraud-scandal-is-even-worse-than-you-think">said</a> Miller in an appearance on Fox News. “We believe the state government is fully complicit in this scheme, and we believe that what we are going to uncover is going to shock the American people.”
Miller also underscored the Somali ties to this fraud, connecting it to a larger conversation the nation is having about immigration from third-world countries.
“Seventy-five percent of the Somali population in Minnesota is on welfare, and that’s likely a significant undercount of just how much of a financial burden the Somali refugee population is imposing on this country,” <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1997135207707615556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1997135207707615556%7Ctwgr%5E79d8d486c99e2a14a41c75308117655867895db2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fthe-somali-welfare-fraud-scandal-is-even-worse-than-you-think">said</a> Miller.
Who knew what: Reporting from the New York Post has tied Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar to the scandal. Omar held parties at one of the key restaurants named, and she knew one of its owners, who is now convicted of stealing millions in funds. Additionally, one of her own staffers has been convicted of stealing millions. Omar even introduced the bill that led to $250 million in fraud.
“I just think that a lot of the COVID programs were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created,” Omar <a href="https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1996395142001864889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1996395142001864889%7Ctwgr%5Edaf0b98b351595e957decab8d8baed2dec55e0db%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Filhan-omar-says-trump-supporters-might-attack-somalis-brushes-off-fraud-scandal">told</a> CNN last week when asked about the fraud.
There have also been questions about Walz’s oversight. The Treasury Department is investigating this scandal, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has announced a congressional investigation.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Netflix-Warner Bros Seismic Merger</h2>
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Topline: In a seismic shift for Hollywood, Netflix has struck an $83 billion deal to acquire Warner Brothers. The merger would potentially reshape the entertainment business for generations.
Announced just days ago, Netflix&#8217;s binding offer will give it not just Warner Bros the movie studio, but also streaming assets like HBO Max. And it&#8217;s gobbling up classics like Batman, Superman, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Looney Tunes, Friends, etc.
It’s being called one of the biggest, if not the biggest, mergers in Hollywood history. It comes after a bidding war that saw heavyweights like Paramount Skydance and Comcast get outmaneuvered or outspent by Netflix.
The Netflix angle: Netflix has been in a content arms race with Disney and Amazon. The Warner Bros. vault offers instant firepower.
Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos says it&#8217;ll “accelerate HBO Max growth” while blending Warner&#8217;s “theatrical expertise.” But many critics are concerned that this means Netflix will shorten theatrical windows and further decimate the moviegoing business.
That’s part of the reason many creatives hate this deal. During the bidding war, director James Cameron <a href="https://x.com/Todd_Spence/status/1996991743116591550?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that Netflix&#8217;s acquisition of Warner Bros would be “a disaster” for the industry.
Batman director Christopher Nolan is representing the Directors Guild in meetings with Netflix to express concerns. Both the East and West Writers’ Guilds issued a joint statement unequivocally opposing the sale and asking regulators to block it.
Could it be blocked? There are already rumbles in Washington that the Trump administration doesn’t like this merger.
And opposition is bipartisan. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), chair of the antitrust subcommittee, said Netflix should “Buckle up for an intense antitrust hearing.” Meanwhile,  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has called the merger an “anti-monopoly nightmare,” warning that it could lead to higher subscription prices and fewer choices for consumers.
There’s no question that because Netflix is already the largest global streamer, adding Warner Bros. content and HBO Max subscribers would give it extraordinary dominance–over a third of the streaming market.
Netflix, though, already seems to be trying to soothe customer jitters. It sent a message to subscribers on Saturday night, repeatedly assuring them that their plans, fees, content access, and the separate operations of both Netflix and HBO Max will not change.

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Morning Brief: Birthright Citizenship Showdown & Minnesota Fraud Firestorm

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It seems that the Somali welfare fraud scandal is now breaking into full view, and it&#8217;s hitting a lot of people who are elected officials, including the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, and possibly Ilhan Omar.
To understand why this matters so much, we have to understand that it is all tied to a couple of major national issues. One, of course, is mass migration from third-world countries. Is that something America should be pursuing?
The second is a gigantic, unaccountable welfare state in which billions of dollars can simply go missing, which takes years to uncover.
The two stories are intertwined. When it comes to the question of mass migration, the Trump administration has taken an incredibly strong position that mass migration, particularly from countries that do not adhere to American values, should be significantly limited or curtailed.
This is a very open question, implicated by not only the Afghan national who shot two members of the National Guard, killing one, but also by this gigantic Somali welfare fraud case in Minnesota.
As The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/minnesota-welfare-fraud-feeding-our-future-smart-therapy-immigration-entitlement-state-1af9cce6?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqfP4B6pv3eMh572ufYeXbMnTh4yprnMCoN0NfvinI8Fm3CPFcYsQLPo&amp;gaa_sig=WIg-EyVCa4rusgxC1lc_jfv3U5mW5GLP0tEWFn9lCpzt6AJX2qYNaPAE1sdSlYP4j7hqpCKVfm_280nvVWWONw%3D%3D&amp;gaa_ts=693323b7&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com">points out</a>:
<blockquote>What happens when welfare becomes not a temporary hand up but an ingrained expectation of American life? For an ugly glimpse, look at the astonishing fraud unfolding in Minnesota. Turns out those GOP reformers were right to call out fraud in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. 
The White House this week published a memo titled, “‘Yes, ‘There’s Something Wrong with Walz’—and it Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion,” highlighting various swindles in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. There may be as many fraud schemes as lakes in the state given the ease in which scammers tapped government funds.
Some 86 individuals have been charged with defrauding Medicaid and the Federal Child Nutrition Program in Minnesota—yes, literally stealing lunch money from kids. “No one was doing anything about the red flags,” one defendant’s attorney told the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/NYT">New York Times</a>. “It was like someone was stealing money from the cookie jar and they kept refilling it.”
One of those alleged schemes, The Outfit Feeding Our Future, recruited individuals to set up a network of sham companies and sites that claimed to feed children in the pandemic. They then submitted false invoices and fake attendance rosters to the state. In fact, one of those rosters actually grabbed names from another web site called <a href="http://listofrandomnames.com">listofrandomnames.com</a>.</blockquote>
And somehow this worked for years.
<blockquote>In another scheme, a 28-year-old woman allegedly launched a company, Smart Therapy, that claimed to provide one-on-one behavioral therapy to autistic children. She employed relatives with no formal education and recruited parents to enroll their non-autistic kids in her therapy sessions by paying them kickbacks of up to $1,500 a month per child.
In a darkly comic twist, some parents allegedly extorted the woman by threatening to enroll their children in other autism centers if they weren’t paid bigger kickbacks. Smart Therapy allegedly billed Medicaid for the kids’ supposed therapy as well as their transportation to the appointments. It also submitted false claims for meals to the state’s food programs. In another indictment, eight individuals this fall were charged with fraudulently billing Medicaid to help recovering addicts find stable housing. 
Yes, housing. Minnesota pioneered the use of Medicaid money to help beneficiaries secure housing on the questionable rationale that this would improve their health and reduce healthcare spending.</blockquote>
Democrats built this entire massive infrastructure. And now, it turns out, lots of people took advantage of it. And those people were, in this particular case, Somali.
It&#8217;s hilarious to watch members of the media try to create a rationale for why Somali immigrants to the United States, overall, have been a massive boon.
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In order for all this to happen, you need complicit politicians, because when the fraud is this big, and so many people seem to know about it, it seems almost impossible not to have elected officials who knew about it.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/12/04/us-news/what-did-ilhan-omar-know-about-the-1b-welfare-fraud-case-in-her-minnesota-district/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>US Rep. Ilhan Omar’s close ties to the $1 billion welfare scam in her Minnesota congressional district are being uncovered. Omar (D-Minn.) held parties at one of the key restaurants named in the fraud, knew one of its now-convicted owners, and one of her own staffers has also been convicted — both for stealing millions. Omar even introduced the bill that led to $250 million in fraud. Yet she claims to have been completely unaware of it. 
“[Rep. Omar] knew who these people were. People she personally knew were making tens of millions of dollars in this program,” claimed Bill Glahn, a policy fellow with the Minnesota-based Center of the American Experiment, to The Post. “She had been inside the [Safari] facility on numerous occasions and couldn’t put 2 and 2 together? Either she’s terminally naive, or knew and didn’t care,” Glahn added. 
Around $250 million was handed out by the Minnesota government to provide meals to schoolchildren during the pandemic from 2020 onward. Instead, it was pocketed by corrupt business owners, including Salim Ahmed Said. He’s the co-owner of Safari Restaurant, where Omar held her 2018 congressional victory party. Said was found guilty in August of <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/federal-jury-finds-feeding-our-future-mastermind-and-co-defendant-guilty-250-million">stealing over $12 million</a> for serving 3.9 million “phantom” meals during the COVID-19 pandemic.</blockquote>
This happened inside Omar’s district. Her defense is, “Everybody who mentions this sort of stuff is racist.”
That is always and forever the defense.
President Trump, of course, has been highly critical of the Somali American mass migration issue. Omar says Trump is an abusive, deranged old man.
This woman, who once suggested that 9/11 was “something some people did” and who herself wrote a letter to a judge asking that an ISIS recruiter be granted mercy because of the evils of having to integrate in America, is now calling the president an abusive, deranged old man because he&#8217;s been critical of Somali mass migration.
Omar published a piece in The New York Times calling herself a victim, of course, because this is the way the Left always tries to get out of this. If you know a bunch of people who engaged in tremendous welfare fraud and they are big donors to you in your district, and you&#8217;ve made your career on pandering to that particular category of people, the best way out is to call everybody who notes it “racist.”
“All Americans have a duty to call out this hateful rhetoric when we hear it,” she said.
 Listening to Omar lecture people about calling out hateful rhetoric is truly an amazing and astonishing thing.

What Did Ilhan Omar Know And When Did She Know It?

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President Trump Orders Hundreds More National Guard Troops to D.C. After Shooting Of Guardsmen

Another Violent Attack From An Immigrant Proves We Need Denaturalization

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Fraud

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Matt Walsh

Virginia

WASHINGTON — The Department of Transportation is giving Minnesota an ultimatum, The Daily Wire can first report: revoke illegally issued licenses given to non-domiciled commercial drivers, or face losing over $30 million in federal highway funding.
A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration audit found that one-third of Minnesota’s non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses were issued illegally, the Transportation Department shared with The Daily Wire. Minnesota will be given 30 days to revoke the illegally issued licenses, Duffy says, or else it will pay a significant price.
“Our audit exposes yet another example of foreigners taking advantage of Minnesota services under Governor Walz’s watch,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy explained. “Minnesota failed to follow the law and illegally doled out trucking licenses to unsafe, unqualified non-citizens — endangering American families on the road. That abuse stops now under the Trump Administration.&#8221;
&#8220;The Department will withhold funding if Minnesota continues this reckless behavior that puts non-citizens gaming the system ahead of the safety of Americans,&#8221; he promised. 
Walz did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
The move comes after a number of <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/21/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-involved-fatal-18-wheeler-crash-caused-illegal-aliens">reports showing that illegal foreign drivers</a> caused deadly crashes, prompting the Transportation Department to zero in on states that refuse to follow the law.
In a letter sent Monday, first reviewed by The Daily Wire, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration informed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz that his state had issued an alarming number of non-domiciled commercial driver&#8217;s licenses illegally. The administration also outlined that its audit had found that the state issued these licenses to drivers whose &#8220;licenses were valid long after their lawful presence in the U.S. expired&#8221; and drivers who were &#8220;prohibited from holding a non-domiciled commercial CDL.&#8221;
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The state also failed to initially verify that some drivers were lawfully in the U.S.
The Transportation Department wants Minnesota to pause issuance of the non-domiciled commercial driver&#8217;s licenses, identify all unexpired non-domiciled licenses that fail to comply with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulations, revoke and reissue all the noncompliant licenses that failed to comply with their regulations, and conduct an internal audit to figure out how these massive errors were allowed to happen in the first place.
“Minnesota is openly and blatantly defying our rules, plain and simple,” Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Derek D. Barrs said on Monday. “Under the Trump Administration, states have two choices: meet our standards or face the consequences. Following the law is not optional.”
The move comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive order requiring proficiency in English for American truck drivers.
&#8220;They should be able to read and understand traffic signs, communicate with traffic safety, border patrol, agricultural checkpoints, and cargo weight-limit station officers,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;Drivers need to provide feedback to their employers and customers and receive related directions in English. This is common sense.&#8221;
Following Trump&#8217;s order, the Transportation Department launched an audit of non-domiciled commercial driver&#8217;s licenses and has highlighted severe violations in a number of blue states, including California.

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EXCLUSIVE: Sean Duffy Warns Tim Walz To Revoke Illegal Licenses Or Lose Highway Funding

EXCLUSIVE: DOT Warns Tim Walz To Revoke Illegal Licenses Or Lose Highway Funding

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The Trump administration tightens immigration restrictions following a fatal attack on National Guardsmen, illegal alien access to federal benefits comes under scrutiny, and is the United States about to strike narco-terrorists on Venezuelan soil?
It’s Monday, December 1, 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-251201">video version can be seen on The Daily Wire</a>:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Trump Launches Immigration Crackdown After D.C. Shootings</h2>
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Topline: The tragic shooting of two National Guard members from West Virginia by an Afghan national has triggered a massive immigration response from the Trump administration. And the president does not appear to be done with his sweeping actions.
Over the course of last week and then into the weekend, President Donald Trump has taken a series of aggressive actions in response to this attack, about which some very harrowing details continue to emerge.
The attack: Police say the 29-year-old suspect approached with a revolver and was shooting at a point-blank distance. He was also reportedly shouting “Allah Akbar!”
One heroic guardsman, armed with only a pocketknife, was able to stop the shooter. The guardsman heard the gunfire, charged the shooter, and then stabbed him with the knife.
Sarah Beckstrom, a 20-year-old woman who was one of the guardsmen shot in the attack, died as a result of her injuries. The other guardsman who was shot, Andrew Wolf, is still fighting for his life. There continues to be an outpouring of support and prayers for his recovery and his family.
The suspect was also severely wounded, but he is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-guard-shooting-suspect-expected-to-survive?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=National+Guard+Shooting+Suspect+Expected+To+Survive">expected</a> to survive.
Where the prosecution stands: U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charges-upgraded-against-afghan-shooting-suspect-after-national-guard-soldier-dies">said</a> that the charges have been upgraded to first-degree murder since Beckstrom’s death. Pirro said that this appears to be a case of an ambush-style attack. The FBI is even looking at this as a possible act of terrorism.
In response, President Trump said he is considering dispatching 500 more troops to the nation’s capital to keep the peace, doubling down on his earlier executive order to protect the city and quell crime.
The suspect: He came into the United States as part of Operation Allies Welcome, launched by the Biden administration after the botched 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. Many soldiers, including Afghan and American soldiers, were killed during that process, and the Taliban was able to retake the country.
The suspect fought with a group of elite Afghan fighters known as &#8220;Zero Units.&#8221; They were all so-called “death squads” working with the CIA to help fight the Taliban. A friend of the suspect’s told the New York Post that he suffered from serious mental health issues as a result of his years in combat.
Immigration crackdown: Trump has said the United States is not admitting any more Afghan nationals. The president has ordered a review of how Afghans were vetted during and after the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Notably, tens of thousands of Afghan nationals came to the United States as refugees following the withdrawal.
The State Department has said it is refusing visas to Afghan nationals until it conducts further vetting of the country. The president has said that he will “deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.”
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Trump Steps Up Enforcement Against Illegals Receiving Benefits</h2>
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Topline: The Trump administration is working to remove federal benefits for people who are in the country illegally.
Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he will “end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens.” He added that many recent arrivals depend on taxpayer-supported welfare programs while coming from “failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
Bessent’s turn: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has moved to implement the president’s order. Bessent said that his department is working to cut off federal benefits to illegals and stressed that these must be preserved for American citizens.
Specifically, Bessent said the Treasury “will issue proposed regulations clarifying that the refunded portions of certain individual income tax benefits are no longer available to illegal and other non-qualified aliens.”
The Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network also issued an alert to better crack down on the exploitation of the U.S. financial system by illegals who are seeking to move illegally obtained funds. 
The department <a href="https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-issues-alert-cross-border-funds-transfers-involving-illegal-aliens#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20%E2%80%94Today%2C%20the%20U.S.%20Department,to%20move%20illicitly%20obtained%20funds">said</a> that over the past several years, the United States has witnessed a “significant volume of cross-border funds transfers, including remittances” from illegals.
MN Somalis: City Journal has reported in detail on a massive fraud scheme in Minnesota under the tenure of Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, where billions of taxpayer dollars intended for social services were funneled through fake nonprofits and shell companies, and — alarmingly — some of that money <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab">ended up in the hands</a> of the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group Al-Shabaab.
Much of the fraud has been traced back to Minnesota’s Somali community, where fraudsters have allegedly exploited numerous loopholes in the state’s welfare system. But the story has been overlooked for a long time.
“I think it’s fair to say there was an unwillingness or inability from Democratic state officials in Minnesota to recognize some pretty obvious alarm bells here. Claims were skyrocketing, spiraling out of control,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpQQ9nJPBhg&amp;t=216s">said</a> investigative reporter Ryan Thorpe, who helped break the story. “The reality is, the Somali community … is a voting bloc you have to win if you&#8217;re going to win political office in Minneapolis.”
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Trump Clears The Skies Over Venezuela</h2>
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Topline: Tensions are escalating after President Trump announced that the airspace over Venezuela should be considered closed. The announcement has raised new questions over potential U.S. strikes inside Venezuela amid the president’s war on drug cartels.
The situation around Venezuela appears precarious. Trump on Saturday posted on <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115633041089714842">Truth Social</a>: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”
That post has again sparked predictions about when airstrikes could occur.
“We should read into it that strikes are very probably going to occur over the course of this week,” retired Admiral James Stavridis <a href="https://x.com/stavridisj/status/1994895666242257322">told</a> CNN. “When you hear the president of the United States throw that warning out there, to me it sounds like strikes are coming probably sooner rather than later.”
The fallout: Venezuela’s foreign minister called Trump’s post an “extravagant, illegal, and unjustified aggression against the people of Venezuela.” A country can’t actually close another country&#8217;s airspace, but that seems to be a technicality in this situation.
Ten days ago, the FAA had already warned about a “potentially hazardous situation” for flights over Venezuela. Commercial air traffic has avoided the area since. Venezuela has <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-trump-airspace-migrant-repatriation-flights/">said</a> that U.S. migrant repatriation flights have stopped.
Diplomacy? The New York Times and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-declares-that-airspace-around-venezuela-should-be-considered-closed-07b748ee?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqdYROyIVy7gClY9Bq41wnncsq-Qat1oRTlqYoKx0V6tbAonb7EZrT7QkEcL4N8%3D&amp;gaa_ts=692c8335&amp;gaa_sig=FZG9XNJCxmFvKFgy6onM_3SgPB5tUMSPwJXqN2n4szJLOt3sdRVw2O24SgzgHNBcNUGqk8fn_gJ-kgAiYrOD0w%3D%3D">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported that Trump and Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader, spoke by phone recently. Trump confirmed the call on Sunday while speaking to reporters on board Air Force One. Trump did not provide details, but the call represents a shift after the U.S. cut off diplomatic talks in October.
Reportedly, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was on the call, as well, and Trump and Maduro spoke of the possibility of a meeting, which would be a significant shift after Trump called on Maduro to step down and authorized CIA operations in Venezuela.
Allies of the president have maintained that this is a drug operation–a very intense one, but one that will not lead to war.

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In a late-night Thanksgiving message that came hours after news that a National Guard soldier shot by an Afghan refugee had died, President Donald Trump promised not only to immediately &#8220;pause migration from all Third World Countries,&#8221; but also to undertake major actions that he says will reverse the immigration crisis plaguing the country.
In the blistering holiday message, Trump said the United States had been &#8220;divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at&#8221; for its &#8220;just plain STUPID&#8221; approach to immigration. He made a series of promises aimed at both stopping the flow of new immigrants, and both cutting off benefits to and removing certain populations that are already here.
&#8220;I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country,&#8221; Trump pledged.
The president also promised to &#8220;end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.&#8221;
The nation’s generosity, Trump argued, has been weaponized against it, allowing a vast foreign-born population to overwhelm the country and inflict deep social harm.
Trump said the United States now hosts a “foreign population” of 53 million, citing census data, and charged that many recent arrivals depend on taxpayer-supported welfare programs while coming from &#8220;failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.&#8221;
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/just-horrible-president-trump-announces-death-of-national-guard-soldier?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=%E2%80%98Just+Horrible%E2%80%99%3A+President+Trump+Announces+Death+Of+National+Guard+Soldier">‘Just Horrible’: President Trump Announces Death Of National Guard Soldier</a>
Trump asserted American families — too patriotic and well-mannered to complain — are the ones footing the bill. He claimed that a migrant earning $30,000 with a green card can receive roughly $50,000 in annual benefits, calling the situation a silent but growing burden on Americans that is “eating them alive.”
Trump pointed to the &#8220;disturbing&#8221; situation in Minnesota, where he says &#8220;hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over&#8221; the state. He took direct aim at Minnesota&#8217;s Democrat Governor Tim Walz, calling him &#8220;seriously retarded&#8221; and charging that he &#8220;does nothing&#8221; due to &#8220;fear, incompetence, or both.&#8221;
He also blasted Minnesota&#8217;s prominent Democrat congresswoman Ilhan Omar, invoking longstanding questions about whether the Somalian immigrant was married to her brother. He charged that Omar &#8220;does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how &#8216;badly&#8217; she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation.&#8221;
Trump said the ultimate goal of his promises on immigration is a &#8220;major reduction in illegal and disruptive populations.&#8221;
&#8220;Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long!&#8221;
The message was posted just after midnight on the east coast, and was posted from Trump&#8217;s official X account.
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A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World,…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1994272683387687053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump’s Thanksgiving remarks echoed his announcement just days earlier that he would terminate Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals in Minnesota. That declaration followed a <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab">report</a> in City Journal of massive welfare and nonprofit fraud schemes allegedly exploiting the state’s social-services system, with billions lost through sham providers, inflated diagnoses, fake meal programs, and networks of “hawalas” that some law-enforcement sources claim helped funnel money to al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab.
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/send-them-back-trump-is-done-with-somali-migrants-in-minnesota">‘Send Them Back’: Trump Is Done With Somali Migrants In Minnesota</a>
Trump&#8217;s Thanksgiving post made clear that, in his view, the immigration crisis is not merely a policy dispute — it is the defining threat to American security, prosperity, and civic life, and one that patriotic taxpayers should no longer be forced to tolerate.
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Secretary of Education Linda McMahon addressed federal funding and &#8220;education micromanagement&#8221; at a White House Press Briefing on Thursday.
&#8220;We&#8217;re not ending federal support for education,&#8221; McMahon said. &#8220;We&#8217;re ending education micromanagement. The Department of Education does not educate a single student.&#8221;
At Thursday&#8217;s press briefing, McMahon further clarified the misconception currently held by many Democratic lawmakers — including Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz — that President Trump plans to defund education. McMahon reiterated that the Trump administration is focused on ending the bureaucratic, non-educational agency that has failed to improve national reading or math scores for decades.
Walz had <a href="https://x.com/Tim_Walz/status/1990913615117857010?utm_source=chatgpt.com">posted to X</a> on Tuesday, &#8220;Gutting the Department of Education and defunding our public schools threatens that promise for every child in the nation.&#8221;
McMahon initially responded to Walz with a <a href="https://x.com/EDSecMcMahon/status/1990964078689341579">post</a> of her own, writing, &#8220;The good news for you, Governor, is that federal funding for education CONTINUES to flow.&#8221;
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also defended the administration&#8217;s plan to close the Department of Education, pointing out the recent furlough of 90% of the agency&#8217;s staff as proof that the department is unnecessary.
&#8220;The Department of Education furloughed 90% of its staff, and it did not affect schools whatsoever,&#8221; said Leavitt.
With only 10% of its staff still working, institutions from preschool to college remained fully open and all teachers received their paychecks, making &#8220;it painfully obvious that American families do not need a Department of Education.&#8221;
Education Secretary Linda McMahon joined Leavitt at the podium to reinforce the message.
&#8220;The Department of Education does not educate a single student,&#8221; said McMahon.
She rejected claims that Trump wants to &#8220;defund education,&#8221; clarifying that the administration&#8217;s goal is to return control of schools to the states — not eliminate education itself.
The Department of Education was established by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. McMahon argued that after decades of federal oversight, students have yet to see the benefits.
&#8220;Since the 1970s, math and reading scores are down in public schools,&#8221; said McMahon. &#8220;It&#8217;s clear throwing money at a broken system does not work.&#8221;
McMahon cited troubling statistics: Only 3 out of 10 students can read proficiently at the third-grade level, college students are collectively $1.7 trillion in debt, and about half of college graduates work in fields unrelated to their expensive degrees.
In an effort to reset American education, McMahon launched a 50-state tour to meet with students, teachers, parents, and community leaders to identify what&#8217;s working on the ground.
Her conclusion so far: &#8220;The best education comes from those closest to the student. Education is local, and it should be overseen locally.&#8221; She added that President Trump shares this view and campaigned on returning control of education to the states.
While McMahon is working to shrink the Department of Education, former President Joe Biden&#8217;s Education Secretary sought to expand it.
Biden&#8217;s Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona requested <a href="https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/about/overview/budget/budget25/summary/25summary.pdf">$82.4 billion</a> in discretionary funding for the Department of Education, reflecting a 4% increase from the previous year.
Unlike Cardona, McMahon did not request a budget increase. Instead, she focused on tightening the department&#8217;s operations, reporting earlier this year that the department uncovered nearly <a href="https://x.com/EDSecMcMahon/status/1927740692186427588">$90 million</a> in misused taxpayer dollars.
The Trump administration anticipates further savings from reducing redundancies by streamlining agency administration and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-plan-to-dismantle-education-dept-gains-momentum?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump%E2%80%99s+Plan+To+Dismantle+Education+Dept+Gains+Momentum">shifting crucial Department of Education responsibilities</a> to other federal agencies.
Ultimately, McMahon hopes that through this plan, &#8220;America&#8217;s next generation will look back on the work we&#8217;ve carried out [and be] thankful for an education system that prioritizes students over bureaucracy.&#8221;

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In the days before and since Democrats triggered the ongoing government shutdown, a number within their own ranks have also triggered a series of groans and cringes across legacy media outlets and social media platforms alike.
In the span of just a few days, they&#8217;ve delivered a series of over-the-top performances — and The Daily Wire has compiled several of their greatest hits for the sake of posterity.
<h4>The pre-shutdown group photo:</h4>
The caption made the photo seem positive: &#8220;House Democrats are in DC and ready to cancel the cuts, lower the costs, save health care.&#8221;
What they omitted was the fact that Democrats were planning to hold the federal government hostage until their demands were met — and with Republicans controlling the House and Senate even by the slimmest of margins, that wasn&#8217;t going to happen. They drove willingly into the government shutdown, and then blamed Republicans for it.
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House Democrats are in DC and ready to cancel the cuts, lower the costs, save health care. <a href="https://t.co/vnNRqGD3NS">pic.twitter.com/vnNRqGD3NS</a>
— House Democrats (@HouseDemocrats) <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseDemocrats/status/1972828851442204762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<h4>Trans-identifying congressman&#8217;s &#8220;Where are the Republicans?&#8221; skit:</h4>
Rep. Tim McBride (D-DE), who now identifies as &#8220;Sarah,&#8221; released a video of himself running through the halls of the Capitol and pretending to look for Republicans so that they could all work together to avert the looming shutdown.
But as previously noted by multiple Republicans and by President Donald Trump, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/do-the-right-thing-trump-axes-meeting-with-radical-dems-calls-for-realistic-terms">demands</a> presented by Democrats were non-starters — and that based on their own prior statements, what McBride and other Democrats meant by &#8220;work together&#8221; was &#8220;Republicans would need to give in to all of their demands.&#8221;
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The Democrat Party is an absolute joke.. 😭😭
How does anyone still take that Party seriously, <a href="https://t.co/cLwVU5guHi">pic.twitter.com/cLwVU5guHi</a>
— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) <a href="https://twitter.com/iAnonPatriot/status/1973203192839336288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<h4>&#8220;Kitty explains government shutdown&#8221;:</h4>
No, that is not a typo. Yes, the Democratic Party posted a video — to its official X account — that featured badly photo-shopped cats arguing over the shutdown with the Capitol building in the background.
&#8220;Republican and Democrat kitties cannot agree on what should be funded,&#8221; a digital-sounding voice provided exposition. &#8220;Democrat kitties want you to have health care. Republican kitties do not. Republican kitties control the Senate, House, and the White House, so they&#8217;re using that to cut your health care and give money to billionaires.&#8221;
&#8220;Democrat kitty tries to negotiate,&#8221; the voice continued. &#8220;But Republican kitty keeps running away. He has a vacation to get to. Uh-oh! Suddenly the money you pay for your health insurance has tripled! Thanks, Republicans.&#8221;
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— Democrats (@TheDemocrats) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheDemocrats/status/1973440352938852686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<h4>The &#8220;Blair Witch&#8221; shutdown horror short:</h4>
Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) posted a video right as the shutdown began, showing herself in total darkness save for the flashlight beam shining directly in her face — and apparently blinding her. The only sound before she began to speak was the ticking of a timer running down to the last seconds.
&#8220;It&#8217;s past midnight in D.C., which means Donald Trump just shut down the government,&#8221; she declared, despite the fact that Congress — specifically Democrats — had actually triggered the shutdown.
She went on to suggest that food would suddenly become unsafe due to a lack of FDA inspections, and that travel would become a nightmare because of short staffing in the FAA. National Parks, she claimed, would be &#8220;locked up&#8221; or &#8220;trashed&#8221; because park rangers had been furloughed.
&#8220;This is all Donald Trump&#8217;s fault,&#8221; she declared again.
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Time’s up — Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress just shut down the federal government. Here’s what that means for you. <a href="https://t.co/SvyenbW8iq">pic.twitter.com/SvyenbW8iq</a>
— Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (@RepSaraJacobs) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSaraJacobs/status/1973241035980702154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<h4>The insurance horror trailer complete with a spit-take:</h4>
Another short film, posted by the Democrats of the House Ways &amp; Means Committee, used dramatic horror-film-esque music and blaring headlines warning of unmitigated disaster in the health care and insurance industries — all of which would come to pass if Republicans did not give in to their demands.
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The entire tone of the ad was undercut from the beginning when one of the men in the video, supposedly reading from a medical bill or an insurance bill, responds with a dramatic spit-take.
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TELL REPUBLICANS: SAVE HEALTH CARE <a href="https://t.co/bCQZcIE8ED">pic.twitter.com/bCQZcIE8ED</a>
— Ways and Means Democrats (@WaysMeansCmte) <a href="https://twitter.com/WaysMeansCmte/status/1972747063956824467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<h4>Chuck Schumer — and to be fair, a lot of others — pretending he doesn&#8217;t know the difference between government-funded and privately-funded projects:</h4>
&#8220;Yes to ballrooms. No to health care for Americans. Got it,&#8221; Schumer snarked, sharing a screenshot of a headline from People Magazine that read, &#8220;White House will continue construction on 90,000-square-foot ballroom during government shutdown.&#8221;
As a number of people quickly pointed out, the $200 million ballroom project was being funded privately — by President Trump and other private donors — and thus would not be affected by any government shutdown.
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Yes to ballrooms. No to healthcare for Americans. Got it. <a href="https://t.co/HgBvO1i0Ff">pic.twitter.com/HgBvO1i0Ff</a>
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1973546381307683179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<h4>The guy who could have been vice president pretending he doesn&#8217;t know how the Senate works:</h4>
Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) tried to claim that Republicans had the power to prevent the government shutdown because they controlled the House, Senate, and White House. While that is true, the Senate also requires a 60-vote threshold to pass a stopgap funding measure — and Democrats are the ones preventing that from happening.
&#8220;Republicans control every branch of the federal government and they can’t even pass their own BS to keep the lights on,&#8221; he said.
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Republicans control every branch of the federal government and they can’t even pass their own BS to keep the lights on.
— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz/status/1973495750341656605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Senate Republicans have the votes to fund the government. Senate Democrats are using the filibuster to BLOCK that vote from taking place. Keep up,&#8221; GOP Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) shot back.
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Senate Republicans have the votes to fund the government.
Senate Democrats are using the filibuster to BLOCK that vote from taking place.
Keep up. <a href="https://t.co/hGJUOmQ49T">https://t.co/hGJUOmQ49T</a>
— Tom Emmer (@GOPMajorityWhip) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPMajorityWhip/status/1973796444151951689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris wanted to pick then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate in 2024, but decided against it because she wasn’t “a straight white man,” according to an excerpt from her new book. 
In portions of her new memoir <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/kamala-harris-running-mate-pete-buttigieg/684249/">published</a> by The Atlantic on Wednesday, Harris wrote that the openly gay Buttigieg was her “first choice” for her vice presidential running mate. However, she said she felt that a ticket with Buttigieg would present a level of diversity America wasn’t ready to embrace.
Harris wrote that Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner—if I were a straight white man.”
“But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk,” Harris wrote. “And I think Pete also knew that—to our mutual sadness.”
Harris’s book, called “107 Days,” is set to be released on September 23.
Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was Biden’s transportation secretary. He is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buttigieg-to-pass-on-senate-run-as-he-eyes-white-house-in-2028-report">reportedly</a> considering a run for president in 2028. Earlier this year, he opted not to run for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, reportedly to position himself better for a run for the White House. 
Harris wrote that Buttigieg “is a sincere public servant with the rare talent of being able to frame liberal arguments in a way that makes it possible for conservatives to hear them.”
In the end, Harris chose Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. 
The first portions of her book, released earlier this month, Harris <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-turns-on-biden-in-first-excerpt-from-new-memoir-it-was-recklessness">attacked</a> former President Joe Biden, claiming his re-election bid was driven by ego and that his team actively sought to undermine her.
“Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness,” she wrote of Biden’s decision to run for re-election. “The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced his bid for reelection on Tuesday.
Walz released the first ad of his reelection campaign alongside his announcement posted to social media. The two-term governor apparently wants to stay in St. Paul after he and former Vice President Kamala Harris were soundly defeated in Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign.
The ad does not mention President Donald Trump by name, but Walz alludes to his one-time opponent.
“I&#8217;ve always tried to do what&#8217;s right for Minnesota, and I&#8217;ll never stop fighting to protect us from the chaos, corruption, and cruelty coming out of Washington,” Walz says, repeating a strategy echoed across many Democratic campaigns of lawmakers who chose to run against Trump, though his name may not even appear on another ballot.
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I’m running for reelection to continue serving as Governor of Minnesota.
We’ve made historic progress in our state, but we’re not done yet. I’m staying in the fight — and I need you with me. <a href="https://t.co/NsVCXfq4M2">pic.twitter.com/NsVCXfq4M2</a>
— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz/status/1967936393747063151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
Walz counted among his successes “paid family leave,” “the child tax credit,” and raising “graduation rates to the highest ever.”
Harris tapped Walz as her running mate after she replaced former president Joe Biden at the top of the ticket. Biden bowed out of the race under pressure from Democratic donors after he appeared mentally impaired during a debate with Trump. Despite the numerous defenses made by Biden allies discounting the former president’s age and mental flubs, Biden appeared confused, lost, and, at times, incoherent on stage with Trump.
During the campaign, Walz was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/us/tim-walz-china.html">scrutinized</a> over his cozy relationship with China, one of the United States’ foremost geopolitical opponents. Walz has said he has visited China over 30 times. He traveled to the country numerous times in the 90s and early 2000s on school trips where he introduced dozens of students to Chinese history and culture. Walz also said he honeymooned in the Communist-run state.
Walz has served as Minnesota’s governor since 2018 and presided over the state during the riots following George Floyd’s death in 2020. The riots, which swept the nation, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riots-looting-that-followed-george-floyds-death-could-cost-2-billion-most-expensive-incident-in-insurance-history">caused</a> billions of dollars in damage and were particularly severe in the Twin Cities area. Minneapolis alone suffered hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.
During the riots, the governor did not activate Minnesota’s National Guard until three days into massive riots that overwhelmed Minneapolis police and resulted in the torching of one police station. When the National Guard was activated, its remit was mostly the protection of federal property and did not extend to stopping riots.
Walz later <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9e4008252o">defended</a> his record on the riots by saying “we tried to do the best we can.”
The Minnesota governor earlier this month appeared to joke about Trump’s death, riling Republicans.
“Look I get it, you get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things, although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news,” Walz said at a Labor Day picnic, appearing to reference online rumors that Trump had died after the president had avoided the public eye for a couple days.
“Just saying, just saying, there will be news sometime, just so you know, there will be news,” Walz said.
Walz’s wistful remarks earned rebukes from Republicans who said that Walz was mocking Trump’s health and wishing for the death of the president.

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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.

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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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