Just as it did one hundred and sixty-five years ago, the Democrat Party appears to be making war against the federal government.
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz have identified tens of billions of dollars in welfare fraud flowing through the Democrat-controlled state of Minnesota. President Trump has suggested that the level of Minnesota fraud may top a hundred billion dollars as investigations proceed.
The public is slowly learning that members of the state’s substantial population of Somali immigrants have been abusing state and federal programs to enrich themselves at the expense of American taxpayers. Fraudulent childcare centers were created to siphon federal tax dollars. Fraudulent healthcare clinics were designed to do the same. There are many signs that suggest Minneapolis is home to both a massive money laundering operation and a massive vote fraud scheme.
Because the amount of financial fraud is so high, it is difficult to believe that Somali immigrants orchestrated this massive theft on their own. Minnesota and Minneapolis have government agencies whose sole function is to seek, police, and prevent exactly these kinds of taxpayer thefts.
The idea that immigrants from across the world could arrive in Minnesota and figure out how to manipulate the existing bureaucracy to orchestrate large-scale fraud is unconvincing. It seems much more likely that government bureaucrats, elected officials, law enforcement personnel, and perhaps even judges facilitated such complex institutional fraud. If that is the case, then we are not looking at a massive welfare fraud scandal. We are looking at a government-orchestrated criminal syndicate.
Whether Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey have been actively participating in this crime syndicate, we don’t yet know. It is difficult to believe that they and the people who work for them could have been totally blind to a multi-billion-dollar fraud operation being run within their jurisdictions.
That is why the governor and mayor’s hysterical responses to the presence of federal agents in Minnesota are particularly alarming. Their state has just been accused of being the home base of one of the largest immigrant-run crime rings in American history. If state and local officials have nothing to hide, then they should welcome the arrival of federal authorities. Instead, they have demonized Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as “Nazis,” “murderers,” and “Trump’s Gestapo.”
As ICE officers and U.S. Border Patrol agents work with other federal agencies to track down criminal illegal aliens accused or convicted of rape, murder, and other violent crimes, Democrat officials in Minnesota are demanding that they leave dangerous criminals on the street. Governor Walz and Mayor Frey have repeatedly run to the cameras demanding that federal agents depart the state and allow violent felons to continue victimizing American citizens.
This is bizarre behavior and arguably a betrayal of their sworn duties to the people of Minnesota. Yet the Democrat-aligned propaganda media in the United States continue to frame violent felons as “victims” and the Democrat officials who wish to defend those felons as “civil rights heroes.”
Although local Democrat voters can be persuaded to take the side of Walz and Frey, objective Americans watching these events unfold from afar see what looks like a Minnesota-engineered rebellion against the U.S. federal government.
The idea that Minnesota Democrats are flirting with the possibility of turning Minneapolis into this century’s Fort Sumter becomes only more credible when we listen to the words coming from prominent Democrats outside of the state. Former Democrat presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have both released statements in which they defend the violent actions of leftist agitators who threatened the lives of federal agents.
Both Democrat presidents have portrayed the aggressors as “victims” and the law enforcement officers as “villains.” Both Democrat presidents have called for more citizens to rise up against federal authorities intervening in the state and to harass and intimidate those federal authorities until President Trump surrenders the state to Minnesota’s lawless state and local officials.
Minnesota’s Democrat members of Congress have attempted to stir up the mob’s passions by falsely framing lethal incidents of law enforcement self-defense as federal “executions” of law-abiding citizens. Democrat politicians across the country have made similar scandalous accusations in an attempt to disseminate a false public narrative that might justify violent mob action in Minneapolis. The most prominent Democrats in Congress, gubernatorial mansions, and city halls from coast to coast are all vocally defending both violent criminal illegal aliens residing within Minnesota as well as the violent actions of Minnesota’s Democrat-aligned street mobs.
At what point do prominent Democrats’ reckless calls for armed “resistance” against federal authorities constitute a Democrat Party-marshaled insurrection against the federal government? How many federal agents must have their lives threatened before we recognize that operatives of the Democrat Party are inciting violence? How many hotels, automobiles, and federal offices do Minnesota’s mobs have to attack before we acknowledge that factions of the Democrat Party are in a state of armed rebellion?
Among the many activities on the ground in Minnesota that indicate a Democrat Party-organized rebellion against the United States is currently underway, Democrat politicians and staffers are allegedly coordinating anti-ICE resistance in real time. Investigative journalist Cam Higby successfully infiltrated private messaging groups that Democrat-aligned domestic terrorists are using to surveil, identify, harass, sabotage, obstruct, and physically assault federal agents. Democrat-aligned street soldiers are utilizing tactics and conducting operations that have all the hallmarks of a classic military insurgency.
Retired Green Beret Officer Eric Schwalm, a man who fought insurgents in both Afghanistan and Iraq, bluntly assessed the ongoing rebellion in Minneapolis:
“Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners.
Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction — or worse. This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace ‘ICE agents’ with ‘occupying coalition forces’ and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.”
Schwalm concludes: “When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers — complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal — you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies.”
Whether Democrat Party officials are backing an insurgent force on the streets of Minneapolis to distract from their own complicity in a multi-billion-dollar fraud operation, we don’t yet know. But Democrats do appear to believe that Minnesota can ignore federal law and threaten federal agents with impunity. That smacks of rebellion and secession and cannot be permitted.
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