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 we've gained TWO new cosponsors for the We the People Amendment (HJR48) - Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN)

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  1. ### Greg Gutfeld says Tim Walz is guilty of “treason”: “He is, in effect, a traitor”

04/20/26

April 20, 2026, edition of Fox News' The Five

GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): The reason why he gets a warm embrace there is because they don't know what he's done. The only way he can get any recognition is if they don't recognize him. Who is this guy? They don't like Trump, he doesn't like Trump, that's okay. Again, it's a Trump alignment problem. If Walz goes abroad to bash Trump, he's also bashing America because he's the agent for America and he's seeking out an audience that actually appreciates it. He is, in effect, a traitor. But we already knew that.

Now I will defend Democrats because they are the opposition party, and you really only have one role: opposition. This is why when we talk about how politically divided we are, it's true, but it's also kind of baked in the system. You can't expect the Dems to embrace the Republicans when the Dems aren't in power. That's how it works. However, you do expect fierce opposition with a measure of responsibility, you know? If there are two boxers in the ring, you don't -- there's an agreement one isn't going to enter the ring with a switch blade. But they have decided that Hitler -- or Trump is Hitler, therefore you can suspend the rules. You can unleash lawfare, you can create hoaxes, you can involve foreign actors and you can fly to other countries to trash the president because he's different. He's different. But this is still the same thing. It's still treason.

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feds told walz they wd pull out if he gives welfare and voter data?! 1 26/26

Trump blames welfare fraud investigation for 'violent' protests in Minnesota

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Officials in President Donald Trump's administration have accused both Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of "domestic terrorism." One legal expert says is arguing that phrase is being used for a specific reason.

In a Tuesday interview with Slate legal writer Mark Joseph Stern, Julia Gegenheimer — a former attorney in the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division who is now a special litigation counsel at the Georgetown University Law Center – said the Trump administration's use of the word "terrorism" is done with intent to cause harm to leading Democrats in Minnesota.

"It is profoundly disturbing. And the reason why this feels different to you is that it is a bit of a different flavor," she said. "It’s pitting the federal government against the states and creating tension where it doesn’t need to be. And frankly, it’s implicitly encouraging acts of political violence against these elected officials by turning them into the enemy."

The Trump administration has so far issued subpoenas to both Frey and Walz along with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her, alleging that they conspired to impede law enforcement operations. Stern remarked that the Trump administration was not only "falsely accusing" Frey and Walz of committing political violence, but effectively sowing the seeds for violence to be committed against them. Gegenheimer agreed and asserted this was part and parcel of Trump's agenda in Minneapolis.

"We’ve seen this throughout history, even recent history: When you put people in opposition like that — when you portray them as the enemy, when you describe them as kind of threatening a person’s way of life or things that they hold dear — that creates the conditions under which people are more likely to resort to political violence, and it becomes more and more the norm," Gegenheimer said.

Stern reminded readers that the Trump administration has taken numerous actions to antagonize residents of blue states, along with those states' leaders, in an effort to frame them as the "enemy of the federal government and even the American people." Gegenheimer pointed to the administration's deployment of troops in Washington D.C. and Chicago, Illinois as further illustrations of what she characterized as a politically motivated retribution campaign against people who didn't vote for him.

"It doesn’t take too much reading between the lines to see that that’s what’s going on," she said.

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CNN slammed for employing 'Scumbag Scott' Jennings after he was caught misquoting Tim Walz

Carl Gibson

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The cities that President Donald Trump and his allies are targeting for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids — Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and now, Minneapolis — have something in common: They are run by Democrats. And the cities that Trump is singling out have Democratic governors such as California's Gavin Newsom, Illinois' JB Pritzker and Minnesota's Tim Walz.

In an article published on January 12, Politico reporters Blake Jones, Jeremy B. White and Nick Reisman cite fraud allegations as one of the tactics that Trump is using against blue states.

"Donald Trump has found a new way to bludgeon blue states: accuse them of fraud, then move to cut off their money," the journalists explain. "The attacks ramping up across the map — from Albany and Springfield to Denver and Sacramento — follow Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ending his reelection campaign amid allegations of welfare fraud in his state — a case Trump's MAGA allies seized to cast similar aspersions at other Democratic leaders. The Trump Administration cited unproven fraud allegations last week as it put a hold on $10 billion in child care funding to five Democratic-run states."

Jones, White and Reisman add, "The Department of Justice announced it's launching a new division of fraud enforcement, pointing to Minnesota's 'fraud epidemic.' And in California, Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said he's pursuing additional charges of fraud involving state homelessness programs after railing for months against Gov. Gavin Newsom's management of state spending…. The spending-focused line of attack from Trump marks an escalation in Trump’s already red-hot war on blue states."

Democratic New York State Sen. Liz Krueger argues that Trump's attacks on blue states were easy to predict during the 2024 presidential election.

Kreuger told Politico, "I'll say one thing about our president: He told us he was going to do this. He told us he was going to punish blue states. We have to brace for impact, we have to use our legal skills, our amazing attorney general, and endless lawsuits to at least hold them back."

According to U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Illinois), Trump is using a range of methods to attack blue states.

Schneider told Politico, "He's attacking blue states out of revenge. If that's in the form of sending in ICE, he sends in ICE. If it's denying food and education to their children, which to be clear are America's children, he's gonna do that. What he is doing is seeking revenge at the cost of America's most vulnerable people, putting those communities at risk."

*Read the full Politico article at this link.

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WHY CAVE? INVEST FOR 10 YRS AND SOME IN JAIL? HEADED BY WHITE WOMAN?

gay str alliance? passed law to protect trans kids?

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PROMPTED BY WHAT?

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Donald Trump on Monday night went after the New York Times in a "deranged" rant on Truth Social, per a report from the Daily Beast, though the exact reason for the attack is unclear.

"The Failing New York Times, and their lies and purposeful misrepresentations, is a serious threat to the National Security of our Nation," Trump's post read, echoing many of his recurring complaints about negative media coverage. "Their Radical Left, Unhinged Behavior, writing FAKE Articles and Opinions in a never-ending way, must be dealt with and stopped. THEY ARE A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. PRESIDENT DJT."

As the Daily Beast noted in its coverage of the social media blast, it is unknown what precisely set the president off this time, though the outlet highlighted two possibilities.

Last month, Trump was "triggered for days" by a report fromTimesdetailing his lightened schedule of public events and later start to the day, presenting these as symptoms of increasing "fatigue" due to his old age and observing that his "battery shows signs of wear." Trump lashed out against this report numerous times, at one point attacking co-writer Katie Rogers' physical appearance.

More recently, the Times published a piece about Trump's long friendship and history with deceased pedophile sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, describing the pair as having “pursued women in a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Trump has been dogged about his past affiliation with Epstein for years, but most intensely during his second term in the White House, when his administration appeared bent on preventing the release of files related to the late trafficker, prompting mass speculation that the president was implicated in Epstein's crimes, or was at least aware of them.

The report contained "one particularly damaging section," according to the Daily Beast, in which the mother of a 14-year-old girl invited to an event at Mar-a-Lago alongside other young models was confronted by Trump's then-wife, Marla Maples, who told her, “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband.”

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President Donald Trumpfutilely tried to delete his Sunday night Truth Social rant, but his typo-filled fury was captured by various screen shots, The Daily Beast reports.

“Ther [sic] are laws that effect our nation," Trump posted, but then quickly deleted, they note.

On Trump's second attempt at posting, he confused “effect” and “affect,” instead going with what The Daily Beast describes as "the less problematic word" “impact” instead.

Trump's edited version finally made it to Truth Social, with both ending in the taunt, "DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE!!!”

"Trump seemed to be quoting former U.S. Navy Commander Kirk Lippold, who now works as an inspirational speaker, as part of a rant against Democratic 'traitors,'" the Daily Beast reports.

Last week, six Democratic lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds released a video urging current U.S. service members to refuse any orders they deem unlawful, an action that aligns with U.S. military law.

Trump called them the “Seditious Six” andposted that the lawmakers, including former Navy captain and astronaut Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) had committed “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”

This tear comes after another of Trump's Truth Social tantrums, in which he used an offensive slur against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) "in a scathing post at Thanksgiving, where he also called out political correctness," the Daily Beast explains.

"There’s something wrong with him, absolutely, sure,” Trump told reporters Sunday on Air Force One, refusing to apologize.

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President Donald Trump's use of a slur for intellectually disabled people to describe one of his political opponents may be costing him some MAGA support, according to one Republican strategist.

Mediaite reported Friday that during a segment on CNN, Joseph Moreno — a military veteran and former federal prosecutor — lamented Trump called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) "seriously retarded" on Thanksgiving Day. Trump insulted the Minnesota governor in the middle of a rant about Somali refugees in the Gopher State, as part of his comments in the wake of National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom being fatally shot in Washington D.C. this week.

When host Boris Sanchez quipped: "What happened to 'Happy Thanksgiving,'" Moreno didn't hold back.

"Boris, you’re putting your finger, honestly, on what’s so difficult to be a conservative-leaning citizen, who, my whole life has cherished vigorous, but respectful debate," Moreno said. "And so when you see something like this, which is absolutely indefensible, and you’re sitting at the Thanksgiving table, and your family and friends say, 'How can you possibly support an administration that comes out with messages like this?' It’s not easy."

"And you have to take the big picture view. Do you think that we’re better off as a country now than we would be under a Biden or Harris administration? And is it worth putting up with a president that puts out messaging like this?" He continued. "It’s a tough one, and I’m not gonna pretend I know the answer to that."

Moreno wasn't the only conservative who was out off by Trump's comment. Earlier on Friday, Indiana state senator Michael Bohacek announced that he would not be supporting the president's push for mid-decade redrawing of U.S. House district boundaries due to his "insulting and derogatory" remarks. Bohacek noted that he was particularly sensitive to the intellectually disabled community given that his daughter has Down Syndrome.

The Trump administration has announced it is halting all asylum applications and immigration from underdeveloped countries in the wake of the Washington D.C. shooting. 29 year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal was arrested and charged with carrying out the attack. Trump attributed Lakanwal's alleged murder of Beckstrom to former President Joe Biden's immigration and refugee policies, though the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security granted his asylum application earlier this year.

Click here to read Mediaite's full article.

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After Kirk shooting, right-wing media revive false narrative about attack on Minnesota legislators

Written by Matt Gertz

Published09/17/25

In the wake of the killing of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, many on the right have claimed that all political violence comes from the left, an argument used to justify a broad crackdown against their political enemies. The June shooting of two Democratic state legislators in Minnesota is the most prominent recent evidence against that argument (though hardly the only such case).

But several right-wing media figures have found a rhetorical solution by suggesting that the alleged Minnesota shooter — who reportedly had a “hit list” of dozens of other Democratic leaders and was, according to his friend and roommate, a supporter of President Donald Trump — is actually a leftist.

In fact, the right-wing media bubble is so impermeable to facts that contradict its narratives that prominent Republican figures, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Attorney General Pam Bondi, have pushed the same claims.

The right’s false narrative about the Minnesota shootings

Federal prosecutors allege that Vance Boelter committed “targeted political assassinations” when he shot and killed Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, then shot and wounded Minnesota State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, in the early morning hours of June 14.

:{:{Boelter, like many alleged perpetrators of political violence, seemed to be suffering from mental illness that muddled the clarity of his views. But his preferences appear to be with the political right — he was reportedly an evangelical Christian who preached against abortion and the LGBTQ community, and according to his roommate and longtime friend, he “supported Trump and tuned in to programming from Alex Jones’s conspiracy-filled Infowars site.”}:

And his targets were universally on the political left: Hortman, and Hoffman’s legislative district, were reportedly named in a “hit list” that law enforcement subsequently recovered from Boelter’s vehicle; the list also included Gov. Tim Walz, dozens of other Democratic lawmakers from Minnesota and elsewhere, and “figures with ties to the abortion rights movement, including Planned Parenthood.”}:

None of these facts should suggest that the political right or the Republican Party as a whole bear responsibility for Boelter’s alleged political violence or that their repression is justified to prevent similar attacks. They are relevant, however, to the question of whether political violence is solely directed from the left toward the right.

But while those facts were trickling out in the days following the attack, MAGA influencers were spinning up a narrative in which Boelter was actually a leftist. Some even suggested that the attacks may have been ordered by Walz, perhaps as retribution for the legislators supporting legislation the governor opposed. This argument rested on two ludicrously thin pieces of evidence. First, Walz had, in 2019, reappointed Boelter to a workforce development advisory board that reportedly “has about 60 members, many of whom are not politically connected or would have meaningful access to the governor or interactions with him.” Second, police found flyers with “No Kings” written on them in Boelter’s vehicle, which they said could have indicated he planned to target anti-Trump protests scheduled to take place later that day.

The right revives the false Minnesota narrative following Kirk’s killing

Many prominent right-wing figures seem to have either never heard any information about Boelter outside of those initial conspiracy theories, or learned of it but decided to hide the facts from their audiences. And now, in the wake of Kirk’s killing by an apparent leftist whose alleged motive was to stop Kirk’s “hate,” the false narrative has been revived by MAGA commentators who are trying to push back against arguments that the Minnesota shootings were a case of political violence from the right.

Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade, while listing recent cases of politically motivated killings on September 13, described the Minnesota shootings as follows: “And then, June 14, these Minnesota legislators were killed, something to do with what’s going on locally — they didn’t like what Tim Walz was doing, or a former staffer of Tim Walz.” Neither Kilmeade nor Fox’s graphic identified the legislators as Democrats.

Fox host Will Cain claimed on his Tuesday broadcast that “essentially bullets are flying in one direction,” but the left is trying “to make this a both-sides problem of political violence” by falsely attributing cases like the Minnesota shootings to the right.

“What we know about that particular suspect’s motivations remains somewhat unclear, but we do know that he had with him flyers that had No Kings Day protests solicitation on them,” Cain said. “There is also some suggestion he was upset about the way Hortman voted when it came to illegal immigrants and health care. Before we assume it is both sides, let’s get the facts on each instance.”

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From the September 16, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Will Cain Show

Newsmax host Rob Finnerty offered a similar explanation on his show later that night. “They're trying to pretend that what happened to Charlie Kirk has nothing to do with the left, that this happens all the time on both sides, which is not true,” he said, before turning to the Minnesota shootings.

“The problem with that, Melissa Hortman was a Democrat, and while her death was tragic, she was actually killed by another Democrat,” Finnerty claimed. “Not only that, a Democrat who worked directly for Tim Walz, was appointed by Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, Kamala's running mate, meaning that in this case, a Democrat literally assassinated another Democrat.”

“Because that's the left,” he continued. “That's what they do as a party, and it's not being covered by the rest of the media. It's being covered up.”

This narrative about the Minnesota shooting is so prevalent in right-wing media — and the GOP’s leaders are so ensconced within the right-wing media bubble — that Republican politicians have promoted it.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who is pathologically online, had posted shortly after the June attack that the shooter had been a “Marxist.” He later deleted his posts after being confronted by Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), who had also been on the alleged “hit list.”

But three months later, their colleague Cruz also linked the Minnesota shooter to the left.

When Cruz called political violence “a left-wing problem” during a CNN interview on Tuesday, host Kaitlan Collins responded by pointing to the Minnesota shooting.

“You need to get your facts right,” Cruz replied. “The assassin there was not a right-wing assassin acting on a political motive. The assassin there was someone who had been an appointee of Tim Walz, and he was a deranged lunatic.”

Likewise, asked about the Minnesota shooting on Monday, Bondi said of the alleged killer, “I believe they said that they were supporters of Gov. Walz."

As I wrote last week, we can’t have a real conversation about political violence if we can’t admit that it has come from both sides. But many on the right just don’t seem capable of doing that, and they’re backfilling whatever explanations they can conjure up to avoid admitting the existence of political violence from the right.

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update tim miller bulwark mike lee, dsouza....

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Just hours after Minnesotans learned that Democratic House leader Melissa Hortman had been assassinated, right-wing influencer Collin Rugg, who has 1.8 million followers on X, posted a “report” that hinted that she’d been killed because of a recent vote on ending undocumented adults’ ability to enroll in MinnesotaCare, a subsidized health insurance for the working poor.

Mike Cernovich, another right-wing influencer who has 1.4 million followers on X, took Rugg’s post and amped it up, but in the “just asking questions” style of many conspiracy theories:

*“Did Tim Walz have her executed to send a message?”

:{They were deeply ignorant about the MinnesotaCare issue....

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12 24 well after the election

just loathesome

December 12, 2024, edition of Fox News' Hannity

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Checking in with Tim and Gwen Walz, they released this incredibly, kind of cringeworthy video while decorating their Christmas tree. Take a look.

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My only question is, Rachel, I wonder if they put any feminine hygiene products on the tree, number one. Number two, I wonder if they're burning tires outside their homes so they can get that smell of freedom back that they love so much.

RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (GUEST): Yeah, this was so cringe, it almost felt like SNL. By the way, notice how they don't call their tree a Christmas tree, it's a "family tree." These guys were such communists. I have to tell you, we really dodged a bullet not just with Kamala but also imagine if this was the vice president and his second lady. I mean, these people are very strange. And it's weird, remember they went around saying JD Vance was weird. This is weird.

HANNITY: Yeah, you probably can't see this, Jason, but he walks on — up in the air, kicking his feet in the air — bowing. I mean, the weirdest guy I've ever seen in my life. But I do wonder, I mean, what did they decorate the tree with? I mean, if they believe so much in feminine hygiene products in boys bathrooms in school, why wouldn't they put it on their Christmas tree?

JASON CHAFFETZ (GUEST): Well, they put a toilet paper roll on top. I mean, they're just -- there are just some things that you're not supposed to share with the whole rest of the world. I mean, this is so embarrassing. The contrast couldn't be bigger. You've got freedom ringing out, you've got people chanting "USA," they're feeling, you know — they're talking about patriotism with Donald Trump. Meanwhile, we go to the Walz basement or wherever they're at, I mean, it's like taking the green casserole from Thanksgiving. You got to take it out of the fridge and at some point you just have to throw it away. And that's what we need to do here.

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wired oct 21 2024

Russian-aligned propaganda network notorious for creating deepfake whistleblower videos appears to be behind a coordinated effort to promote wild and baseless claims that Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz sexually assaulted one of his former students, according to several specialists tracking the disinformation campaign.

Experts believe that the campaign is tied to a network called Storm-1516, which has been linked to, among other things, a previous effort that falsely claimed vice president Kamala Harris perpetrated a hit-and-run in San Francisco in 2011. Storm-1516 has a long history of posting fake whistleblower videos, and often deepfake videos, to push Kremlin talking points to the West.

The propaganda unit’s work has successfully reached the highest levels of the Republican party, with vice presidential candidate JD Vance repeating at least one of their narratives. NBC reported this week that the group has pushed at least 50 false narratives in this manner since last fall, which comes amid a broader Russian government effort to disrupt next month’s election with the aim of helping former president Donald Trump return to the White House.

Numerous figures in MAGA world boosted the Tim Walz assault claims, including Jack Posobiec, the Pizzagate promoter who is now a member of Trump’s campaign team, and Candace Owens, the popular right-wing podcaster. The claims went viral on X last week, when an anonymous account called Black Insurrectionist posted screenshots of emails from a purported victim. Other X users quickly debunked the claims, citing formatting errors in the images that suggested the emails were fake, but days later another conspiracist posted a video on X claiming he had spoken to one of Walz's supposed victims on the phone—without providing any proof. The video racked up millions of hits.

Then, on Wednesday, a video claiming to show a former student of Walz describing abuse by the former football coach spread widely on X. According to a WIRED analysis using several deepfake detector tools, the video was created using AI. The video, shared by a prominent anonymous QAnon-promoting account, garnered over 4.3 million views before it was deleted.

The campaign to attack Walz predates the video; it traces back to John Dougan, a former Florida cop who now lives in Moscow and runs a network of pro-Kremlin websites. Dougan appeared on Zak Paine’s QAnon show RedPill78 on October 5 with an anonymous man named “Rick,” who said he was a foreign exchange student at Mankato West High School in 2004 when Walz was a teacher there. “Rick” then claimed Walz assaulted him. Dougan did not respond to a request for comment.

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The claims, however, didn’t go viral until last week and the release of the deepfake video.

Darren Linvill, codirector at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, tells WIRED that he immediately recognized this tactic as part of Russia’s well-established disinformation playbook.

“There is little doubt this is Storm-1516,” says Linvill, whose team uncovered the network last fall.

Linvill says the account that first shared the AI-altered video bears all the hallmarks of previous Storm-1516 campaigns. “It is standard for them to create an X or YouTube account for initial placement of stories,” says Linvill.

The campaign orchestrated by Storm-1516 often begins with the posting of a fake story and video from a whistleblower or citizen journalist, the US mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe outlined in July. Disinformation is “amplified by other seemingly unaffiliated online networks,” the US mission stated. The claims then take on a life of their own, shared and reposted by unwitting social media users who likely have no idea of where the videos originated.

The fake stories can also be picked up by other media outlets that cover viral social media stories. In the case of the Walz claims, they ended up on MSN, a news aggregation site owned by Microsoft.

In the past, Storm-1516 has relied on a network of fake news websites run by Dougan to push its narratives. On Saturday, a story that referenced the RedPill78 interview, the Black Insurrectionist posts, and the deepfake video was published on over 100 of Dougan’s websites simultaneously.

This was first discovered by Alex Liberty, a researcher who tracks the activity of Russia’s propaganda networks and who agrees with Linvill’s assertion that the deepfake video bears all the hallmarks of a Storm-1516 campaign.

“We believe that it might be a coordinated campaign in [an] attempt to bring numerous false accusations of the same nature against Tim Walz through different channels and in different formats in order to bring an image of legitimacy to the narrative,” Liberty tells WIRED.

McKenzie Sadeghi, the AI and foreign influence editor at NewsGuard, agrees.

“The false narrative appears to be part of a wider campaign pushed by pro-Kremlin media and QAnon influencers ahead of the November 5, 2024, US elections aimed at portraying Walz, whose political appeal is as an everyman schoolteacher and coach, as a pedophile who had inappropriate relationships with minors,” Sadeghi wrote in an analysis of the deepfake video.

From the very beginning, the allegations against Walz were easily debunked. In his interview on the RedPill78 QAnon show, Dougan’s source claimed he was in the US thanks to the State Department–funded Future Leaders Exchange program, which allows students from countries formerly under the control of the Soviet Union the chance to study in the US for a year.

However, a spokesperson for the US State Department, told NewsGuard that it has no record of any Future Leaders Exchange student from Kazakhstan in Mankato area schools from 2000 through 2020. Mankato Area Public Schools communications director Mel Helling told NewsGuard the allegations were “outlandish.”

The baseless claims were shared by some far-right accounts in the days after the episode was published, but they didn’t really take hold until a week later, when the X account known as Black Insurrectionist posted a clip from Dougan’s RedPill78 episode. The clip was viewed over 800,000 times.

Google search trends data shows a huge spike in people searching for “Tim Walz pedophile” and “Tim Walz abuse” on October 13, the day the Black Insurrectionist account began posting their claims.

The Black Insurrectionist account is anonymous and launched a year ago; its followers include Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump adviser Roger Stone. The account’s bio reads: “I am MAGA.” It rose to prominence weeks before the Walz post, when it claimed to have been in contact with a whistleblower at ABC who said Harris had been provided with the questions ahead of her September debate with former president Donald Trump. Those claims were widely debunked by multiple major fact-checking and media organizations.

Last week, the Black Insurrectionist account shared screenshots of email correspondence the account had with an alleged victim on X. Almost immediately, the evidence was questioned when X users spotted a text cursor in one of the screenshots, suggesting that Black Insurrectionist was editing the document. Others pointed out that the date and time format shown in some of the screenshots was inconsistent with how they are displayed on real emails.

Black Insurrectionist initially defended itself before going silent. The account was deleted on Thursday.

The two dozen posts from Black Insurrectionist laying out their alleged evidence have been viewed over 33 million times, according to X’s own metrics, and have been shared on numerous other platforms, including Truth Social, Instagram, Telegram, and TikTok.

Among those sharing Black Insurrectiont’s claims was Paine, who hosted Dougan on his QAnon show. “I have no reason to doubt the veracity of this story,” Paine wrote on X.

The posts have also caught the attention of the wider MAGA universe in a way that Dougan’s initial claims didn’t. Prominent right-wing figures like Owens and Posobiec both flagged the “allegations” as something worth looking into.

Owens discussed the conspiracy on her top-rated podcast, with the episode racking up over 630,000 views on YouTube since it was posted on Wednesday.

Posobiec wrote on X that there were “lots of allegations going around regarding Tim Walz sexually abusing young student(s).” While he added that he didn’t “know about any of the recent allegations being made,” he did share a link to Dougan’s claims from earlier in the month.

When Harris replaced President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee for president in July, Russian-aligned propaganda networks struggled to mount effective disinformation campaigns targeting the vice president and her team.

But as Microsoft reported in the summer, those campaigns have started to find their footing. "The shift to focusing on the Harris-Walz campaign reflects a strategic move by Russian actors aimed at exploiting any perceived vulnerabilities in the new candidates," Clint Watts, head of Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center, wrote in August.

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Right-wing media figures are spreading salacious and unsupported accusations against Tim Walz from an account known for creating viral hoaxes

Some conservative media personalities aren’t convinced, urging others to avoid the viral posts given the originator’s track record

Written by Jack Winstanley

Research contributions from Alex Kaplan

:{Published 10/17/24 mma

Right-wing and far-right media personalities have amplified an unfounded claim against Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz based on a series of posts on social media from “Black Insurrectionist,” an account that has previously pushed a conspiracy theory about the September 10 presidential debate. Some conservative media figures have warned others to “stay away” from the accusations based on the account’s track record of pushing baseless claims.

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Right-wing media spread falsehoods about Minnesota’s abortion law after Trump’s poor debate performance

Special ProgramsAbortion Rights & Reproductive Health

Written by John Knefel

Research contributions from Media Matters Staff

Published 09/11/24

Right-wing media figures responded to former President Donald Trump’s poor debate performance on Tuesday night by spreading falsehoods about Minnesota’s abortion law.

During the debate, Trump made false and misleading assertions about legislation enacted by Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. “But her vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine,” Trump said. “He also says execution after birth, it's execution, no longer abortion, because the baby is born, is okay.”

As ABC News moderator Linsey Davis noted after Trump’s comments, “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born.”

Trump’s comments about “abortion in the ninth month” are also misleading. In 2023, Walz signed the Protect Reproductive Options Act, or PRO Act, into law, further codifying the right to an abortion in Minnesota. As KARE11 reported this April, Minnesota healthcare providers performed only one third-trimester abortion in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available. The same was true in 2019 and 2020. In 2021, a single Minnesota resident was listed as having received a third-trimester abortion, but it was performed out of state. Generally, only about one percent of abortions nationwide occur after 21 weeks.

Despite clear evidence to the contrary, right-wing figures took Trump’s comments and ran with them.

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade falsely claimed that under Walz, Minnesota performed five “abortions” after a child had been born — in other words, had committed the crime of infanticide. “It soon turned to the fact-checking on abortion, when it come to there’s no abortion after the ninth month, when, in fact, under Gov. Tim Walz, it happened at least five times in Minnesota,” Kilmeade said. “When a moderator … fact-checks you and the moderator is wrong, that's tough on a candidate.”

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CitationFrom the September 11, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox and Friends

It’s not entirely clear what Kilmeade is referring to, but he is completely wrong on Minnesota’s abortion laws. In 2021, Minnesota recorded five instances of a “born-alive infant” following an abortion procedure; two were not viable, two were provided “comfort care,” and in the final instance, “fetal anomalies were reported resulting in death shortly after delivery.” In no case was a so-called post-birth abortion performed.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk also mischaracterized the 2023 Minnesota legislation, writing on X (formerly Twitter), “The left believes in legal infanticide.”

CitationFrom Charlie Kirk's X/Twitter account

Contrary to Kirk’s claims, the 2023 law clearly states: “An infant who is born alive shall be fully recognized as a human person, and accorded immediate protection under the law.”

As 10News reported, citing a doctor who supports abortion rights, the law was designed to make “sure doctors aren't forced to prolong the suffering of an infant unable to live on its own.” An editorial in the Star Tribune further explained how the law’s changes supported families by not forcing “an infant with severe anomalies undergo extraordinary and futile medical care.”

Fox News co-host Kayleigh McEnany echoed Kirk’s mischaracterization of the Minnesota law. “Where was the question about Tim Walz allowing babies born alive after abortion to die in Minnesota and then removing reporting requirements?” McEnany wrote on X.

CitationFrom Kayleigh McEnany's account on X/Twitter

The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles similarly wrote, “Kamala’s own running mate repealed the legal requirement that physicians attempt to ‘preserve the life and health of the born alive infant.’”

CitationFrom Michael Knowles' account on X/Twitter

Knowles’ colleague at The Daily Wire, Mary Margaret Olohan, did as well.

CitationFrom Mary Margaret Olohan's account on X/Twitter

Right-wing radio host Erick Erickson made a similar claim, though did not specify that he was talking about Minnesota.

CitationFrom Erick Erickson's account on X/Twitter

This line of attack against Walz isn’t new. In August, Fox’s McEnany made similar misleading claims, telling her viewers that “his abortion policy allows abortion until birth.”

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Conservatives Have Invented a Conspiracy About Tim Walz’s Dog

Right-wing commentators are once again barking up the wrong tree

By Nikki McCann Ramirez

August 26, 2024

Gov. Tim Walz holds Scout during a news conference to announce his adoption ohn Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. Anthony Souffle/Star Tribune/AP

Like dogs with a bone, the right won’t drop their efforts to malign Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

On Monday, prominent conservatives circulated an absurd allegation that Walz was faking the identity of his family’s dog Scout.

“This is Tim Walz tweeting about his dog Scout. Only problem is that these are two completely different dogs,” Dustin Grage, a columnist at the right-wing website Town Hall, wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

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The post contrasted two images of Walz. One was of Walz with Scout — a black labrador mix — celebrating the pup’s birthday in June of 2022. The second showed Walz petting a different dog on October 19, 2022. “Couldn’t think of a better way to spend a beautiful fall day than at the dog park. I know Scout enjoyed it,” the governor captioned the image.

The same day, Walz posted a video on Instagram featuring Scout and several other dogs at a dog park. In the video, the governor is sporting the same jacket, beanie, and dog toy seen in the photo, and the dog featured in the X post is also clearly visible. In the clip, Walz jokingly asks Scout if he’s “jealous” of the attention he’s giving other dogs before giving him an affectionate rub. The photo of Walz at the dog park has seemingly been removed from his X account.

Given that Scout has been in Walz’s family since 2019, and recently got his own *Vogue* profile, reasonable bipedal thinkers might assume that Walz was simply posting a photo with a friendly dog he met at a dog park — not concocting an elaborate scheme to trick voters about his family pet.

Nevertheless, the right ran with Grage’s post like a hound who’d just stolen the Thanksgiving turkey off the dining room table.

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) quoted Grage’s post with the caption: “Why would Tim Walz do this? It’s Creepy™️ and Weird™️.”

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“Tim Walz is an all-time legendary liar,” Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk wrote in a now-deleted tweet.

“Wait so Walz is even lying about his dog? Ruff stuff,” wrote former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is currently engaged to Donald Trump Jr.

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Monday, several prominent Republicans launched their latest attack on Tim Walz, this time coming after not his background or his policy, but his dog Scout.

“This is Tim Walz tweeting about his dog Scout. Only problem is that these are two completely different dogs,” right-wing columnist Dustin Grage wrote on X.

He shared two photos Walz had previously posted. One photo is from June 2022 and shows Walz with his dog Scout, who is a black labrador mix, and is captioned: “Sending a special birthday shoutout to our favorite pup, Scout.”

The other photo is from October 2022 and shows Walz petting a different dog at a dog park. “Couldn’t think of a better way to spend a beautiful fall day than at the dog park. I know Scout enjoyed it,” the caption reads.

Republicans falsely claimed the photos showed Walz was lying about the dog he’s very much had since 2019.

Sen. Eric Schmidt, R-Mo., wrote that Walz's dog posts were “creepy” and “weird.”

“Wait so Walz is even lying about his dog?” wrote Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host and the fiancee of Donald Trump Jr.

The rumor was quickly debunked by video of Scout and the other dog pictured running around the dog park together on that same day.

This is just the latest attack from Republicans on Walz. From questioning his military background to his relationship with his son, none of their criticisms have landed, argued MSNBC host Jen Psaki. They’ve now gotten so “desperate” they’ve come after his dog, Psaki said. “Better luck next time, guys."

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1 day ago — In the latest bizarre Republican attack, the Democratic vice presidential nominee was accused of faking Scout the dog's identity.

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  1. ### Newsmax host says Tim Walz “ran around looking like a crackhead” at the DNC

08/22/24 9:26 AM EDT

  1. ### Newsmax host says polls showing Kamala Harris in the lead are “almost like election meddling”

08/22/24 7:50 AM EDT

  1. ### Jesse Watters speculates that China has a sex tape of Tim Walz

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fox moves on to Comer’s Walz-China smears as his Biden impeachment inquiry collapses

Written by Matt Gertz

Published 08/20/24

Fox News hasn’t learned any lessons from the collapse of its long-sought impeachment probe of President Joe Biden. The network’s biggest stars remain eager to peddle the GOP’s politically motivated investigations of Democrats in hopes of returning Donald Trump to the White House.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) announced on Friday that his committee had opened an investigation into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s “longstanding connections to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entities and officials” and was seeking information from the FBI about the governor’s “problematic engagement” with China. While the connections are purportedly “longstanding,” Comer’s interest in them manifested just days after Vice President Kamala Harris named Walz as her running mate.

Comer pitched his new probe on Monday night to Fox’s Jesse Watters, who nodded along as the chairman claimed Walz “really has embraced China's view of the world, the Chinese ideology, which is communism.” Comer also cited Walz’s trips to China as an educator to claim that “it’s very possible” China had been “grooming” the Minnesota governor “to try to have a foothold in our government.”

“It says a lot about Kamala Harris that she picked this guy to be her No. 2,” concluded Watters, who is apparently incapable of subtext.

“Yes,” replied Comer, not pretending that his work is nonpartisan.

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CitationFrom the August 19, 2024, edition of Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime.

This is absurd. Walz is obviously not a communist; he’s a mainstream Democrat who regularly touts his work helping small business owners.

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Nor is Walz some sort of Manchurian candidate. Beginning in 1989, he frequently visited China as an educator in the 1990s and 2000s — first teaching in the country and later shepherding American students for visits — and has expressed admiration for its people. But as a member of Congress, Walz proved an “outspoken critic of the Chinese government,” The New York Times reported, noting his “sharp critiques of China’s human rights record” and meetings with dissidents from Tibet and Hong Kong.

Meanwhile, Trump’s companies received millions of dollars from Chinese government entities while he was in the White House, and the former president regularly praises Chinese president Xi Jinping and vouched for his efforts to contain COVID-19 as the virus spread worldwide — all without triggering concern from Comer or Fox’s hosts.

:{:{Comer’s McCarthyian turn on Fox came just hours after the chairman concluded his Biden impeachment inquiry with a whimper. House Republicans launched that investigation in response to pressure from Fox, which showered Comer with attention over his hapless probes into the business dealings of Biden’s son Hunter.}:

But the impeachment inquiry all but collapsed after the Justice Department indicted a key “informant” who had claimed the president had taken a hefty bribe for allegedly making up the story. The probe’s final report, released Monday morning, reveals “almost nothing … that wasn’t known or understood before the formal investigation began,” The Washington Post’s Philip Bump reported.}:

But Fox stars like Watters are happy to be used as a propaganda tool by the GOP, and so he’s seamlessly moved on to Comer’s next bit of nonsense.

“Please keep us posted on these developments, this is an important investigation,” Watters told Comer at the end of their interview. The House Republican will surely oblige him.

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  1. ### Sean Hannity’s response to Trump’s Chinese bribes shows staggering contempt for his audience

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  1. ### Fox News helps James Comer keep on trucking with Biden impeachment farce

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Liberty Counsel warns that “the LGBTQ lobby” seeks “to ram the LGBTQ agenda down every throat, from Olympic viewers to quiet Christian women seeking to live out their faith. The LGBTQ agenda seeks nothing less than to eliminate all religious freedom rights that might make them feel bad about their choices. And they have Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as their new mouthpieces.”

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Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., was convicted on Monday of tampering with voting machines under her control in a failed attempt to prove that they had been used to rig the 2020 election against former President Donald J. Trump.

A heavily publicized Twitter conversation between Elon Musk and Donald Trump on Monday night began with an immediate bed-shitting technical crash. When things finally kicked off 42 minutes later with a much smaller audience, Musk blamed a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which did not appear to be true, as the rest of his site continued to function as normal.

The campaign to reelect former President Donald Trump will host a virtual training event that features Jack Posobiec, a purveyor of far-right conspiracy theories.

JD Vance and like-minded conservatives are theorizing a kind of “neopatriarchy.”

“Now she’s picked, this guy, Tim Walz. Saw him at a rally. I mean, I hate to quote, Mel Brooks, in Blazing Saddles, but he was jumping around like a Kansas City f—–. This guy — really, really weird.”

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mma Right-wing media claim Tim Walz is a “tyrant” for defending the right to accurate election information

08/13/24

August 9, 2024, edition of CNN's The Source with Kaitlan Collins

PETE BUTTIGIEG (GUEST): I think this shows you how desperate Republicans are not to talk about the issues. They don't want to talk about their proposal for tax cuts for the rich. They don't want to talk about their campaign to end a woman's right to choose in this country. So, they need us to be quibbling over the finer points of how when you have a conditional promotion to Command Sergeant Major but don't retire at that rank, it's different from if you retire at that rank.

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Right-wing media smear Tim Walz by pushing misleading claims about Minnesota's crime rate

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  1. ### Right-wing media continue abhorrent racism and xenophobia as they try to push baseless “migrant crime" wave narrative

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August 8, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle

PETE HEGSETH (GUEST): All I know is — I wrote a book recently, The War on Warriors, about what's happening to our military. The only people I cared about read that book were the guys I served with. I said, "Read it, guys. Let me know. I want to make sure everything's right." And that matters the most to me. He can't look a single guy he served with in the eye.

And that's why all the guys he served with are coming out and calling him out. Remember Swift Vote Veterans for Truth? At least John Kerry went there and then threw his medals in the river. He didn't even go. National Guard Members for Truth, saying he was AWOL, Tim AWOLs when we needed him and he doesn't deserve to be on this ticket. I think this is a real problem because they can't answer these questions.

Contrary to Hegseth's absurd claims about being AWOL, Walz retired after 24 years of service:

Right-wing media are reviving old smears pushed by political rivals of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz about his retirement from the military, accusing him of “stolen valor” and misleading their audience about the reality of his 24-year service record with the National Guard. Specifically, right-wing media are claiming that Walz resigned and “abandoned” his National Guard unit and resigned after the unit received deployment orders to go to Iraq when in reality, Walz resigned two months before the unit received orders, and Walz likely submitted his retirement papers even earlier.

According to a copy of his service record obtained by Military.com, Walz enlisted in the Army National Guard in 1981 and reached the rank of command sergeant major before retiring in 2005, following a reenlistment after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Walz retired honorably as a master sergeant — a lower rank than command sergeant major — since he did not complete all of the necessary coursework for the higher rank before his service ended. Walz went on to successfully campaign for Congress, where he served for multiple terms, helping veterans exposed to toxins during their military service, sponsoring a veterans suicide prevention bill, and advocating for more GI Bill benefits.

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Right-wing media figures responded to Vice President Kamala Harris choosing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate by launching desperate, bigoted attacks on him.

As governor, Walz has pursued a robust pro-worker and pro-child agenda, two public policy areas where conservatives have attempted to make superficial inroads. While some conservative pundits attempted to level attacks on Walz for his progressive record as governor, many of their initial reactions to the news have been strange, bizarre, and — some might even say — weird.

Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro mocked Walz’s appearance on X (formerly Twitter), comparing him to Matt Foley, a fictional character played by the late (and beloved) Chris Farley.

Right-wing radio show host and former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch took aim at Walz’s folksy presentation, comparing him to fictional character Boss Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard.

MAGA commentator Joey Mannarino, meanwhile, posted about Walz' family for reasons even he couldn't describe.

This is Tim Walz’s family.

CitationFrom the X/Twitter account of Joey Mannarino (via @ettingermentum)

Right-wing commentator and failed anti-trans Republican politician Robby Starbuck’s approach was uglier. After referencing comments Walz made that were sympathetic to Black Lives Matter — highlighted by far-right account End Wokeness — Starbuck wrote that “Kamala/Waltz is the DEI Presidential ticket.” (Attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are a common and racist trope among right-wing media figures.)

Other right-wing figures leveled similarly bigoted charges at Walz. Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller highlighted a post about a pro-immigrant and pro-refugee program in Minnesota, commenting: “Together, Walz and Harris will turn the Midwest into the Middle East. Rapidly.”

Self-identified “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer issued a long screed that absurdly asserted “Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is tied to ISIS.”

Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk also wrote a lengthy post about Walz, which claimed in part: “Minneapolis is a war zone because of you.” (Crime rates were down in every major category in Minneapolis in 2023.)

TPUSA contributor Graham Allen also responded to Walz’s selection with anti-Black, anti-Muslim rhetoric, posting: “THROWBACK: Tim Walz is the governor who just changed the Minnesota flag to resemble the Somalian flag.” (Several right-wing figures made similar accusations late last year, often deploying racist rhetoric of the white nationalist “great replacement” conspiracy theory.)

The MAGA War Room account posted a screenshot of a headline describing a Minnesota program to support trans youth and added “This Tim Walz guy sounds weird…”

Daniel Baldwin, the national political correspondent at far-right One America News, also pushed a transphobic attack on Walz, writing: “Tim Walz signed a bill making Minnesota a ‘Trans Refugee State.’ No age limits for minors who could receive ‘gender affirming care.’ Truly radical.”

One of Walz’s signature achievements as governor was signing legislation that provided every child at public and charter schools in the state with free lunch. “We will feed our children,” he said at the time, according to the Star Tribune.

“Truly radical” indeed.

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  1. ### Delayed publication of Heritage president's book reflects Project 2025 shell game

08/07/24 12:38 PM EDT

  1. ### Michael Knowles attacks Tim Walz for being the faculty adviser to the gay-straight alliance when he was coach of the football team

08/07/24 10:57 AM EDT

  1. ### Republican state officials are investigating ActBlue after right-wing media used inaccurate information to claim the fundraising platform was laundering money

08/07/24 10:41 AM EDT

  1. ### Newsmax host: “Tim Walz is the white guy with a white wife and white kids who hates white people”

08/07/24 9:03 AM EDT

  1. ### On Newsmax, Stephen Miller says “Tim Walz's job is to be the Jack Kevorkian for America”

08/07/24 8:50 AM EDT

  1. ### Jesse Watters calls on the FBI to wiretap “everyone involved” in the Kamala Harris presidential campaign

08/06/24 9:08 PM EDT

  1. ### Jesse Watters attacks Tim Walz for spending his honeymoon in China

08/06/24 8:40 PM EDT

  1. ### Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld laugh at Donald Trump agreeing that is Doug Emhoff “a crappy Jew”

08/06/24 6:45 PM EDT

  1. ### Greg Gutfeld calls Tim Walz a “male Karen with a pot belly”

08/06/24 6:35 PM EDT

  1. ### Flailing MAGA media settle on strange attack against Harris VP pick Tim Walz: “Tampon Tim”

08/06/24 5:59 PM EDT

  1. ### Fox News' Jesse Watters has bizarre, unhinged reaction to choice of Tim Walz for the Democratic vice presidential nomination

08/06/24

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  1. ### Charlie Kirk: Kamala Harris “is more ambitious than Lucifer”

08/07/24 12:46 PM EDT

  1. ### Delayed publication of Heritage president's book reflects Project 2025 shell game

08/07/24 12:38 PM EDT

  1. ### Michael Knowles attacks Tim Walz for being the faculty adviser to the gay-straight alliance when he was coach of the football team

08/07/24 10:57 AM EDT

  1. ### Republican state officials are investigating ActBlue after right-wing media used inaccurate information to claim the fundraising platform was laundering money

08/07/24 10:41 AM EDT

  1. ### Newsmax host: “Tim Walz is the white guy with a white wife and white kids who hates white people”

08/07/24 9:03 AM EDT

  1. ### On Newsmax, Stephen Miller says “Tim Walz's job is to be the Jack Kevorkian for America”

08/07/24 8:50 AM EDT

  1. ### Jesse Watters calls on the FBI to wiretap “everyone involved” in the Kamala Harris presidential campaign

08/06/24 9:08 PM EDT

  1. ### Jesse Watters attacks Tim Walz for spending his honeymoon in China

08/06/24 8:40 PM EDT

  1. ### Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld laugh at Donald Trump agreeing that is Doug Emhoff “a crappy Jew”

08/06/24 6:45 PM EDT

  1. ### Greg Gutfeld calls Tim Walz a “male Karen with a pot belly”

08/06/24 6:35 PM EDT

  1. ### Flailing MAGA media settle on strange attack against Harris VP pick Tim Walz: “Tampon Tim”

08/06/24 5:59 PM EDT

  1. ### Fox News' Jesse Watters has bizarre, unhinged reaction to choice of Tim Walz for the Democratic vice presidential nomination

08/06/24 5:42 PM EDT

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Former Donald Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller made baseless claims about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's record on immigration during an interview with Fox News Tuesday.

"He is the biggest booster in the whole country for unlimited refugee resettlement," Miller, who helped to shape the Trump administration's immigration policies, said. "That means under the Harris/Walz plan, they’re going to turn the entire Midwest into Mogadishu."

Miller added, "That's their plan. That's their policy. I don't think there's a market for that in the United States of America."

READ MORE:Fox News host schools panel on Walz’s record: 'Something Vance wishes he were'

Responding to a video of the interview on social media, MSNBC's Katie Phang replied: "Wut?"

USA Today columnist Rex Huppke replied: GOOD MESSAGING! DEFINITELY GO WITH THIS, PERSON WHO FOR SURE DOESN'T HAVE AN ATTIC FULL OF EXTREMELY CREEPY DOLLS!

Mehdi Hasan wrote: "Under the Trump Miller plan, they’re going to turn the entire United States into a fascist dystopia."

Last June, Vanity Fair noted that Miller "was the architect of the Trump administration’s family-separation plan," managed "a program in which literal infants were taken from their parents, a policy the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics said amounted to 'government-sanctioned child abuse'," and was even "said to 'actually enjoy' seeing photos of families being separated at the border."

READ MORE:'Are you guys gonna get this guy the help?' Experts raise alarm over Trump’s latest off-the-rails post

Furthermore, earlier this year, Axios reported that if Trump wins the White House in November, Miller plans to head a program that would "focus on 'anti-white racism' rather than discrimination against people of color."

Watch the video below or at this link.

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For seven years, we have fought this project in the regulatory process of Minnesota, and despite almost 70,000 people testifying against the pipeline, and the clear need to deny this project on environmental, social and economic grounds, Minnesota's Governor Tim Walz approved the final permits for the pipeline. This leaves tribes, Honor the Earth, and citizen groups to uphold the interests of the water and wild rice in Court. (We are, however, joined in our appeal by another state agency- the Minnesota Department of Commerce seeks to overturn the pipeline approvals as not meeting the requirements for a certificate of need, nor meeting route permit requirements.) The appeals will grow, as will the resistance. But we need your support right now to stand for our water. We stand with our lawyers, and we stand with our people. Please make your gift to now help our cause.

It's ironic that one day after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz approved the final state permits for Line 3, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer revoked the 1953 easement that allows Enbridge to operate pipelines through the Straits of Mackinac. Governor Whitmer, acted under the state's public trust doctrine, which requires state authorities to protect the Great Lakes. The pipeline in question, known as Line 5, has been in operation since the 1950s. It carries the oil which would move in Line 3.

“Enbridge has imposed on the people of Michigan an unacceptable risk of a catastrophic oil spill in the Great Lakes that could devastate our economy and way of life,” Whitmer said in a statement. “That's why we're taking action now, and why I will continue to hold accountable anyone who threatens our Great Lakes and fresh water.” Two different Governors, same company.

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 we've gained TWO new cosponsors for the We the People Amendment (HJR48) - Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI). We don't yet know much of the backstory behind Kind, but we do know that Walz is the result of much hard work on the part of our folks on the ground in Minnesota - so hats off to everyone there who helped make this happen!

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