Why Aren’t Minnesotans Protesting the Real Fraud?

Minnesota was where I was born and raised. A lifelong liberal who would one day cover the 2016 DNC in Philadelphia and spend hours talking to Bernie Bros—passionate, idealistic, willing to debate. While we didn’t agree on everything, they were down to engage. They wanted to talk.

Fast forward to 2026, and I can’t even go home to Minnesota to cover what’s happening. Not because I don’t want to—I’d love to be on the ground doing interviews—but because today’s activists aren’t the same crowd. They’re not interested in conversation. They’re interested in mob justice.

Case in point: Conservative journalist Nick Sortor was literally robbed while covering the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests. His camera was stolen by protesters who swarmed his car. James O’Keefe documented an “army of anti-ICE agitators” operating with military-style coordination. These aren’t people looking for dialogue—they’re looking for targets!

But here’s what really gets me: Thousands of Minnesotans are in the streets defending illegal immigration enforcement, while their own congresswoman’s net worth mysteriously jumped from $250,000 to somewhere between $6 million and $30 million in a single year.

Where are the protests about that?

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The $30 Million Question Nobody’s Asking:

Ilhan Omar’s 2024 financial disclosure shows assets valued between $6 million and $30 million. The previous year? Between $40,000 and $250,000.

That’s not a typo. That’s one year.

According to The National Desk and even Al Jazeera, the jump is tied to interests in a winery and a venture capital firm. Members of Congress earn $174,000 a year—a salary that hasn’t changed in over a decade. So how does someone go from a few hundred thousand to potentially $30 million in 12 months?

The Department of Justice and House Republicans have opened investigations. Trump mentioned it. Even international outlets are covering it.

But where are the street protests? Where are the passionate activists demanding accountability?

They’re too busy tracking ICE agents.

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The Mob Over Dialogue:

Let’s talk about what activists are actually doing in Minnesota right now.

They’re not debating immigration policy. They’re not advocating for reform through democratic processes. They’re coordinating surveillance operations via encrypted Signal chats, tracking federal agents’ movements, sharing license plate numbers, and deploying rapid-response teams to obstruct law enforcement.

Cam Higby, an independent journalist, infiltrated these Signal groups and exposed their tactics—which prompted FBI Director Kash Patel to open a criminal investigation. The chats show activists:

• 1. Tracking ICE vehicle locations in real-time.
• 2. Coordinating “observers” (or intimidators) to swarm agents.
• 3. Sharing personal information about federal officers.
• 4. Organizing obstruction tactics.

When journalists like Nick Sortor show up to document this, they get robbed. When Ford Fischer films raw footage, he captures ICE agents pulling guns on “legal observers” who are actually there to harass and obstruct them.

This isn’t activism. It’s mob tactics.

And the activists refuse to engage in good faith. Try to have a rational conversation about why we have immigration laws? You’ll get called a fascist. Ask why they’re more concerned about illegal aliens than their own communities? They’ll try to dox you and follow you home.

I know this because multiple journalists have experienced exactly that.

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Stockholm Syndrome and the Media Bubble:

Here’s what I can’t wrap my head around: Why are everyday Minnesotans more defensive about protecting illegal aliens than demanding accountability from their own elected officials?

The mainstream media has convinced them that ICE agents are the villains. That anyone being deported must be an innocent victim. That questioning this narrative makes you a monster.

It’s textbook Stockholm syndrome. They’ve been gaslit so thoroughly by corporate media and paid influencers that they’re defending the very system that’s failing them—while attacking the people trying to enforce the law.

Meanwhile, Omar’s wealth skyrockets. And speaking of fraud—let’s talk about the elephant in the room that nobody’s protesting.

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The $9 Billion Fraud Scandal Walz and Ellison Ignored:

Federal prosecutors estimate over $9 billion in taxpayer funds may have been stolen across 14 Minnesota welfare programs since 2018. Not million. Billion. With a B.

Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison are now scheduled to testify under oath before the House Oversight Committee on March 4th, 2026.

Townhall columnist Dustin Grage put it perfectly: “Tim Walz’s DHS fabricated records, had zero internal controls, and employees ignored oversight on more than $400 MILLION in grants. The fraud and corruption continues.”

But it gets worse. A Minnesota Department of Human Services whistleblower named Faye Bernstein—who worked there for two decades—says she was subjected to a “smear campaign” after reporting the fraud. She claims Walz knew about the fraud since 2019 but chose political convenience over accountability. When she tried to sound the alarm, she was called “racist” and her responsibilities were stripped away.

Witnesses at Senate hearings say officials didn’t just ignore the fraud—they actively covered it up by backdating audit records and retaliating against whistleblowers.

To date, 98 defendants have been charged in Minnesota fraud cases. 64 have already been convicted. The Department of Justice has issued over 1,750 subpoenas, executed over 130 search warrants, and conducted over 1,000 witness interviews.

This is the largest expansion and fastest acceleration of fraud this country has ever seen.

And where are the protests? Where are the activists demanding Walz and Ellison resign? Where’s the outrage about billions of taxpayer dollars stolen while they looked the other way—or worse, actively covered it up?

They’re in the streets defending ICE obstruction.

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The Media Keeps Minnesotans in the Dark:

Minnesota was also the center of the massive Feeding Our Future scandal involving Somali daycare centers—a $250 million fraud scheme that Nick Shirley exposed and received death threats for reporting. Politicians get rich. Billions disappear. Communities suffer.

But ICE is the problem?

The media keeps people in a bubble where they never have to confront these contradictions. They’re fed a steady diet of emotional manipulation—”families are being separated!”—without any context about why deportations happen or who’s actually being targeted.

They’re so deep in the bubble, they can’t see what’s happening right in front of them.

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What Minnesotans Should Actually Be Demanding:

If I could talk to those Bernie Bros from 2016—the ones who actually cared about corruption and corporate power—here’s what I’d say:

Where’s your outrage for the real fraud?

• 1. Demand a full accounting of how Omar’s wealth increased by millions in one year?
• 2. Investigate the welfare fraud scandal that’s cost taxpayers billions?
• 3. Hold politicians accountable for getting rich while in office?
• 4. Ask why activists are more organized around obstructing ICE than fighting corruption?
• 5. Question why the media won’t touch these stories?

Stop letting yourself be manipulated into defending illegal immigration enforcement evasion while your own representatives potentially rob you blind.

I wish I could be there in Minnesota to have these conversations. To do the interviews. To talk to people face to face like I did in 2016.

But today’s activists aren’t interested in conversation. They’re interested in shutting you down, stealing your equipment, threatening your family, and making sure nobody asks the uncomfortable questions.

So I’ll ask from here: Why aren’t Minnesotans protesting the real fraud?

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