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Somali gangs have become a serious and growing threat to public safety in Minnesota, with most of them being involved in violent crimes, drug trafficking, and disrupting neighborhoods, putting countless families at risk. However, left-wing politicians seem more interested in protecting politically correct narratives than reporting the hard truth. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) highlighted the growing trend of Somali gangs wreaking havoc in his state. "Unfortunately, the failing press in Minnesota, especially in the Twin Cities, is not. These Somali gangs are incredibly dangerous," Emmer said. "We had an attack at a high school basketball game last spring...

at the time Walz was making his many, many trips to Red China, he was serving in the Minnesota National Guard in an M109 Paladin howitzer unit.. Walz, as a senior NCO operating the system, had access to Top Secret and Secret written materials regarding this system, and he was trained in operating it. And he kept going back to Red China. You do the math. ... Given what we now know about NGO-sponsored "cultural exchanges" as a soft power tool, I'm going to be blunt: Tim Walz is a Chinese Communist operative. He took college students to China on...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sought to energize activists at a Democratic state convention in South Carolina, as the party's 2024 vice presidential nominee works to keep up the high national profile he gained when Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate. Walz, a former schoolteacher who went on to serve in Congress and then became his state’s governor, keynoted the South Carolina gathering in Columbia, traditionally a showcase for national-level Democrats and White House hopefuls. Speaking to convention delegates for more than half an hour, Walz used colorful language and spoke plainly as he lobbed...

The radical left’s violent fantasies toward President Trump and his supporters extend to the party’s last VP nominee. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz went on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s podcast in an episode released on Tuesday to discuss how Democrats could win back voters lost to President Trump. As expected, the two were long on gripes but short on actual solutions. Then, things soon took a bit of a turn. After both Newsom and Walz said that it was important to show some decency to the other side to help the Democratic Party’s brand recover, Walz sent a message that could...

HELENA, Montana — Tim Walz thinks he and Kamala Harris played it too safe last year. He thinks they should have held more town halls. He thinks they didn’t have time to get their feet under them. And he thinks Democrats should have taken more risks and gone to more places. “We shouldn’t have been playing this thing so safe,” the Minnesota governor said in an interview with POLITICO before speaking to nearly 1,000 Democrats here at the Helena fairgrounds last weekend. ... His prescription for Democrats now and in the midterms, he said, is that Democrats “should be everywhere.”...