Category: Minnesota Politics
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Quid Pro Quo
Outreach has to go both ways.
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Ritual Groveling
When the dog is small, you walk it. When the dog is really really big, it walks you.
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Is It Just Me…
Does Minnesota have a 25th Amendment?
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The REAL Victim
Tim Walz knows who the REAL victim is.
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Walzing Out Of The Room
Need any more wild cards next cycle?
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The Minnesota Way
Minneapolis: a Cold Rio
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Campaign 2026
Fiction. And yet still more true than journalism.
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Civics
There’s so much wrong in this post. Sort of like Minnesota state government itself. He’s talking about the Nick Shirley video that’s brought the Minnesota fraud scandal to a few million new sets of eyeballs: Nick Shirley’s video (I’ll link it in the comments) has gotten a ton of traffic and is bringing the story…
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A Local Secret?
Sure, the Strib covered the fraud story. With a blanket.
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Not A Math Error
That moment when you realize it’s not an “M”. It’s a “B”. And a LOT of zeroes.
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Return Policy
Joe has questions. I don’t really have answers.
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Habit
Tim Walz and Keith Ellison are running for unprecedented third terms as Governor and Attorney General – even though both had expressed interest in other, higher offices (and Walz actually ran for one off them, sort of). Steve Simon is running for a first-of-a-kind fourth term as Secretary of State, notwithstanding the fact that many…
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A Modest Proposal
I’m a uniter, not a divider.
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Questions
The Star Tribune has questions. I have a bigger one.
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Protests Too Much
An open letter to Tim Walz.
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Social Opportunity
The Governor wants to take gun control on the road. But not, I suspect, too far…
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The Very Special Session
Tim Walz wants a taxpayer funded campaign ad.
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Warning Signs
Experience Walz-watchers know the signs.
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A Time For Choosing, Redux
And it’s a different choice than in 1964. And yet still the same.
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And That Curse Is…
OK, MNGOP. Third time’s the charm.
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Stay The Curse
Who’s up for four more years of Piglet?
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Administrivia
What’s with all the flags and stuff?
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Special Session To Nowhere
Even the DFL knows there’s no policy upside to a special session. So why do it?
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Kind Of A Good News/Bad News/Worse News Situation
The good news: Bloody Mary Moriarty is not running for re-election as Henco Attorney. The bad news? It’s so she can focus on “transforming the office” even further: “I ran for this office to do the hard work; the work that desperately needed doing and the work the voters chose when I was elected in…