Jul 25, 2025
Minnesota Report Since, our inception in 1995, Checks & Balances has prided itself on offering analytics based on numbers. Here are the numbers associated with all of the expected candidates in the mayoral contest at this time. 2025 St Paul Mayoral Candidate...
Jul 22, 2025
National & Minnesota Report Donald J Trump (R) has carefully curated a brand of dominance, vitality, and so-called “alpha masculinity.” But the image has always been manufactured, and now—under the weight of age, indictments, and cognitive erosion—it...
Jul 22, 2025
National, Arizona, California, Nebraska, New York & Pennsylvannia Report The passage of the what Donald J Trump (R) dubbed as the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) and Democrats call the Big, Bunch of Bullshit, has thrown a stark spotlight on the deep ideological fault...
Jul 22, 2025
National, Arizona, California, Nebraska, New York & Pennsylvania Report Target Audience: Student Voters, Recent Graduates, Young Professionals, and Working-Class Parents Objective: Leverage the Big Beautiful Bill to Flip Republican-Held Swing Seats CORE STRATEGIC...
Jul 22, 2025
Minnesota Report Some will question the rationale for a legislator to endorse a candidate for Minneapolis Mayor. Its quite simple to understand why a fellow state senator will put forward their support for a colleague in Sen Omar Fateh (DS-62, Minneapolis) it because...
Jun 27, 2025
Minnesota Report We attended the in state viewing of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (DFL-34B, Brookyn Park), her husband Mark and their Golden Retriever Gilbert. It is another sad day coupled with hugs, concern for our state’s democracy and questions of where we are...
Jun 27, 2025
Minnesota Report Is the writing on the wall? Is the reading in the tea leaves? Can Governor Tim Walz (DFL-MN) buck history and seek a third term of office? We have already stated our disbelief he could run again and succeed. We wrote the following on February 19, 2025...
Jun 27, 2025
International, National & Minnesota Report The attack ordered by Donald J Trump (R) isn’t as popular as he may have thought, but the divide in America remains prevalent. A new CNN poll shows 60% opposed the action and 40% in favor. A majority of Americans...
Jun 27, 2025
National & Minnesota Report Yesterday and today’s US Supreme Court is showing clearly, it is out of touch with the American public. The decisions they are reaching, in favor of the Chief Executive, supplanting the importance of the Congress to the authority of the...
Jun 25, 2025
National & Minnesota Report Once knowledge of Donald J Trump’s (R) order of coordinated air and naval strikes on Iran became known, then the criticisms and lauding of the efforts came forward. Each side was, as to be expected, Partisan. The House and Senate...
