Caucuses Result in Strong Examples of Community Involvement

Minnesota Report People who have never attended Precinct Caucuses miss out on the feeling of appreciation one can have for the friends and neighbors who weather the cold on a Tuesday Night in February. People come from the warmth of their homes to sit in classrooms,...

Klobuchar Makes Formal & Expected Announcement for Governor

National & Minnesota Report It appears Minnesotan’s will be seeing a lot more of US Senator Amy Klobuchar in the coming months since she has made her formal announcement to be a candidate for Governor. She is the DFL’s best proven performer statewide,...

ICE in St Paul and Too Close to Home

National & Minnesota Report Here is what our Checks & Balances Publisher Shawn Towle personally experienced. Yesterday at approximately 4:30 pm, heard a car alarm and then heard shrill whistles. ICE came to the fourplex I live in St Paul. They had already...

Trump, Noem and Bovino Chalk Up 2nd Minneapolis Murder.

National & Minnesota Report As was the case with Renée Nicole Good two weeks prior, Alex Pretti did not need to die, and his actions clearly seen in the video of his last moments were in now way in any form cause for the surround ICE agents to draw weapons and...

Lasting Images of Trump’s Minnesota ICE Occupation

National & Minnesota Report Before the killing of Alex Pretti, the searing images of the ICE Occupation of Minnesota consisted of the (video) of Renée Nicole Good prior to her shooting, the forced march of 56-year old ChongLy Scott Thao, handcuffed and wearing...

56 Days of Minnesota’s Occupation

National & Minnesota As the temperature remains below freezing and the occupation of ICE in Minnesota continues it’s chilling effect, the decisions by the Orange Faced Imbecile (Donald J Trump) and Combat Barbie (Kristie Noem) have a profoundly adverse impact on...

Trumps Obsession with Greenland is Ironic

International, National & Minnesota Report Speaking at Davos, Switzerland, Donald J Trump (R) said, “We’re asking for a piece of ice, its a small ask.” saying, “we should have kept it after World War II.” He seemed to be trying to convince anyone who was...

America Is a Republic of Aspiration, Not Cynicism

International, National & Minnesota Report America was not founded on cynicism, grievance, or domination. It was founded on a radical moral claim: human dignity precedes power. The Declaration of Independence states that “all men are created equal… endowed… with...