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In Somali fraud scandal, Republicans probe evidence of a blue state election scheme
Just the News ^ | January 18, 2026 | John Solomon

Posted on 01/19/2026 7:08:52 AM PST by Twotone

As the magnitude and complexity of Minnesota’s Somali immigrant welfare fraud scandal come into clearer focus, Republicans in Congress are more boldly talking about it being part of a larger scheme by Democrats to use illegal immigrants and purported refugees to hijack federal elections and manipulate apportionment that determines Americans’ congressional representation and federal funding.

The Republicans' argument goes like this: Democrats reversed Donald Trump’s related first-term executive orders and ensured that noncitizens, including illegal immigrants, were counted into 2020 U.S. Census. Then-President Biden opened the southern border so that millions of illegals could flood the country in just a few years.

Next, liberal nonprofits helped move those migrants from the southern border red states, where they were not particularly welcome, to "sanctuary cities" in Democratic-run cities in the election battleground states and helped them enroll in welfare at the taxpayers' expense.

And finally, Democratic leaders, like failed vice-presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tom Walz, they say, failed to act — or even worse, looked the other way — when evidence emerged that non-citizens were defrauding those safety net programs by the tune of billions of dollars. And liberal judges blocked efforts to stop or punish the fraud.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: democratcorruption; elections; fakenews; fraud; minnesota; walzingmaduro

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1 posted on 01/19/2026 7:08:52 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

John Solomon talked about this on Hannity’s show last week. Very disturbing. Doubt it’ll go anywhere.


2 posted on 01/19/2026 7:13:10 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Twotone

I’m sorry ,but Biden should be hung for treason.


3 posted on 01/19/2026 7:13:37 AM PST by spincaster (en's of thousands )
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To: Twotone

Yeah, we know.

So what are they going to do about it?


4 posted on 01/19/2026 7:15:02 AM PST by Fido969
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To: Twotone

Another crack in the damn we wouldn’t have seen a few years ago.............................

There is no magic bullet, it is going to take a generation of hard work to change things.


5 posted on 01/19/2026 7:16:27 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Twotone

The author omitted the money laundering aspect, in which Federal dollars feeding welfare fraud are returned as campaign contributions.


6 posted on 01/19/2026 7:17:14 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Twotone

“”””In Somali fraud scandal, Republicans probe evidence of a blue state election scheme””””


John Solomon confirms what we already know.

I will say this. The GOP should also be looking at RED STATE election schemes.

The players behind the scenes in these fraud scandals are not limited to BLUE STATES.

When the FEDS are handing out FREE money via Medicaid, there will be fraudsters willing and able to take the money and run.


7 posted on 01/19/2026 7:26:00 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Carry_Okie

Beat me to it.

It’s hardly a case of Democrats “looking the other way” while immigrants engaged in fraud. The immigrants needed coaching in how to break the law, how to rake in the millions. The Democrats actively provided this training. And, in return, a large percentage of the money from the fraud was funneled to Democrat political campaigns. Money Laundering. Pure and simple.


8 posted on 01/19/2026 7:26:04 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: Twotone
The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political theory developed in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. It proposes that by encouraging a massive, coordinated enrollment of eligible individuals into the welfare system, the existing bureaucracy would become overwhelmed, leading to a political crisis
9 posted on 01/19/2026 7:30:22 AM PST by DocRock
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Thanks…….so many on the right simply don’t understand this is the lefts long game………they have a plan and execute it every day in every corner of America


10 posted on 01/19/2026 7:34:28 AM PST by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: Twotone
I've saying for weeks “the nexus is Steve Simon's office of Secretary of state.
11 posted on 01/19/2026 7:34:32 AM PST by justrepublican (Screaming like a "Vexatious requester" at a Wellstone memorial........)
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To: Fido969

“So what are they going to do about it?”

They will launch some more investigations!


12 posted on 01/19/2026 7:34:34 AM PST by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yup. They belong in jail.


13 posted on 01/19/2026 7:34:52 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: spincaster

Hanged, not hung. Two different verbs.


14 posted on 01/19/2026 7:37:45 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Fido969

My sentiments exactly.


15 posted on 01/19/2026 7:42:50 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: Twotone

Rightly or wrongly, noncitizens have always been counted in the census. Originally slaves counted as 3/5ths of free people, the only ones not counted were untaxed Indians.

That said, flooding states with noncitizens will reward states with lots of them with more Representatives.


16 posted on 01/19/2026 7:51:13 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Twotone

The investigators need to tie the immigration-fraud-politics to the ActBlue smurfing operation. Where did the big money come from that they reported (laundered) as thousand of small donations the reported “donors” didn’t actually make? Busting this should be the highest priority


17 posted on 01/19/2026 7:55:30 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: brownsfan

They will launch more committees that will look into possible investigations.

Five years later a report will be issued that recommends further probes into the fraud.


18 posted on 01/19/2026 7:57:37 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Twotone

There’s a list of people who need to be brought to justice on this. I think American citizens want to see some action on this & not just talk, which has gone on about long enough.


19 posted on 01/19/2026 8:30:35 AM PST by oldtech
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To: ClearCase_guy

You are 100% correct. The rats got a huge cut and as a result the taxpayers paid for Democrat campaigns all over the country


20 posted on 01/19/2026 8:45:16 AM PST by iamgalt
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