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Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!
FinstadWatch: Last week Trump said, “We’re gonna be reducing drug prices down to a level that nobody—not by 20%, 30%—by like 1,000%. Because, you know, we’re paying sometimes 10 times more than other nations, . . .” Maybe we can ask Finstad how he’s doing with that 1,000% reduction?
December 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
FinstadWatch: Last week Trump said, “We’re gonna be reducing drug prices down to a level that nobody—not by 20%, 30%—by like 1,000%. Because, you know, we’re paying sometimes 10 times more than other nations, . . .” Maybe we can ask Finstad how he’s doing with that 1,000% reduction?
EmmerWatch: Cong. Emmer is also trying to shift voter attention away from the obvious failing and fraudulent activity of the Trumps by focusing attention on the Minnesota “Feeding our Future” fraud. They have nothing positive to point to, so they hope that their voters are still gullible enough.
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
EmmerWatch: Cong. Emmer is also trying to shift voter attention away from the obvious failing and fraudulent activity of the Trumps by focusing attention on the Minnesota “Feeding our Future” fraud. They have nothing positive to point to, so they hope that their voters are still gullible enough.
FinstadWatch: One reason that the pin-fraud-on-the-Democrats is so ineffective is that Trump family is a walking, talking example of fraud, corruption and self-dealing that anybody who pays attention can plainly see, and Republicans like Finstad are in lockstep support of the Trump fraudsters.
December 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
FinstadWatch: One reason that the pin-fraud-on-the-Democrats is so ineffective is that Trump family is a walking, talking example of fraud, corruption and self-dealing that anybody who pays attention can plainly see, and Republicans like Finstad are in lockstep support of the Trump fraudsters.
FinstadWatch: We can hope that the MAGA/Finstad tactic of amplifying grievances that can be tenuously linked to Democrats is gradually losing effectiveness. If only the Republicans were focused on supporting policies that help ordinary people; but their grievance galloping doesn’t feed people.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
FinstadWatch: We can hope that the MAGA/Finstad tactic of amplifying grievances that can be tenuously linked to Democrats is gradually losing effectiveness. If only the Republicans were focused on supporting policies that help ordinary people; but their grievance galloping doesn’t feed people.
FinstadWatch: For a man who is so focused on waste, fraud and abuse, when it comes to human services programs, you would think the Congressman would have some questions about a huge Trump family enrichment grant made by the Pentagon. Especially since he sits on the House Armed Services Committee.
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
FinstadWatch: For a man who is so focused on waste, fraud and abuse, when it comes to human services programs, you would think the Congressman would have some questions about a huge Trump family enrichment grant made by the Pentagon. Especially since he sits on the House Armed Services Committee.
FinstadWatch: For the second week in a row, the top story in Cong. Finstad’s newsletter is about the Minnesota “Feeding our Future” fraud. Not mentioned by Finstad, this week the Pentagon awarded a $620 million grant to Vulcan Elements a startup at which Donald Trump, Jr. serves as a partner.
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
FinstadWatch: For the second week in a row, the top story in Cong. Finstad’s newsletter is about the Minnesota “Feeding our Future” fraud. Not mentioned by Finstad, this week the Pentagon awarded a $620 million grant to Vulcan Elements a startup at which Donald Trump, Jr. serves as a partner.
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With #MN01 #RepFinstad's #HR5548 Fraud Accountability and Recovery Act being ignored ( 3 sponsors since being introduced 9/23 and no committee action) #BradFinstad has issued a #FinstadForCongress fundraising appeal.
#WordOfTheDay
Exploitation : deliberate manipulation for your benefit.
#WordOfTheDay
Exploitation : deliberate manipulation for your benefit.
December 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
With #MN01 #RepFinstad's #HR5548 Fraud Accountability and Recovery Act being ignored ( 3 sponsors since being introduced 9/23 and no committee action) #BradFinstad has issued a #FinstadForCongress fundraising appeal.
#WordOfTheDay
Exploitation : deliberate manipulation for your benefit.
#WordOfTheDay
Exploitation : deliberate manipulation for your benefit.
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Minneapolis banned ICE from staging raids on city property. Businesses can do the same.
Refusal is legal. Refusal is visible. Refusal is power.
Read the order: www.minneapolismn.gov/governm...
#NoICEinOurCommunities #SolidarityMN #RefuseToCooperate
#NoICEinOurCommunities
Refusal is legal. Refusal is visible. Refusal is power.
Read the order: www.minneapolismn.gov/governm...
#NoICEinOurCommunities #SolidarityMN #RefuseToCooperate
#NoICEinOurCommunities
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Minneapolis banned ICE from staging raids on city property. Businesses can do the same.
Refusal is legal. Refusal is visible. Refusal is power.
Read the order: www.minneapolismn.gov/governm...
#NoICEinOurCommunities #SolidarityMN #RefuseToCooperate
#NoICEinOurCommunities
Refusal is legal. Refusal is visible. Refusal is power.
Read the order: www.minneapolismn.gov/governm...
#NoICEinOurCommunities #SolidarityMN #RefuseToCooperate
#NoICEinOurCommunities
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ICE continues to have an active presence in the Twin Cities and suburbs today. Reports have centered on South Minneapolis/Bloomington, but we hear of sightings in St. Paul too.
Please report all sightings to the rapid response lines.
MONARCA: 612-441-2881
COPAL: 612-249-8736
WE KEEP US SAFE.
Please report all sightings to the rapid response lines.
MONARCA: 612-441-2881
COPAL: 612-249-8736
WE KEEP US SAFE.
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
ICE continues to have an active presence in the Twin Cities and suburbs today. Reports have centered on South Minneapolis/Bloomington, but we hear of sightings in St. Paul too.
Please report all sightings to the rapid response lines.
MONARCA: 612-441-2881
COPAL: 612-249-8736
WE KEEP US SAFE.
Please report all sightings to the rapid response lines.
MONARCA: 612-441-2881
COPAL: 612-249-8736
WE KEEP US SAFE.
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ICE has been in our cities all week and there will be a deportation flight at ~12:20pm. As usual, it'll land at Signature Aviation. Detainees will be shackled in the cold, then flown off to Louisiana. News crews will be there. Join if you can.
Track flight here: www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
Track flight here: www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
ICE has been in our cities all week and there will be a deportation flight at ~12:20pm. As usual, it'll land at Signature Aviation. Detainees will be shackled in the cold, then flown off to Louisiana. News crews will be there. Join if you can.
Track flight here: www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
Track flight here: www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
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Preview of Dec 6 2025 #FinstadInTheField
#RepFinstad of the #ArmedServices Committee will NOT discuss #SecretaryOfWar #PeteHegseth's leadership;
his involvement in the boat strike orders (#WarCrimes?);
nor the IG's report on his sharing of highly sensitive attack plans for airstrikes against Yemen
#RepFinstad of the #ArmedServices Committee will NOT discuss #SecretaryOfWar #PeteHegseth's leadership;
his involvement in the boat strike orders (#WarCrimes?);
nor the IG's report on his sharing of highly sensitive attack plans for airstrikes against Yemen
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Preview of Dec 6 2025 #FinstadInTheField
#RepFinstad of the #ArmedServices Committee will NOT discuss #SecretaryOfWar #PeteHegseth's leadership;
his involvement in the boat strike orders (#WarCrimes?);
nor the IG's report on his sharing of highly sensitive attack plans for airstrikes against Yemen
#RepFinstad of the #ArmedServices Committee will NOT discuss #SecretaryOfWar #PeteHegseth's leadership;
his involvement in the boat strike orders (#WarCrimes?);
nor the IG's report on his sharing of highly sensitive attack plans for airstrikes against Yemen
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“Of the 1,895 people detained by ICE, 1,271 lacked any criminal record.”
More evidence of an out of control, misguided & wildly dishonest immigration effort in Chicago:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
More evidence of an out of control, misguided & wildly dishonest immigration effort in Chicago:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record.
Newly released federal data shows that immigration agents booked in roughly 1,900 immigrants in the first half of Operation Midway Blitz – two-thirds of whom had no known criminal convictions or pe…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“Of the 1,895 people detained by ICE, 1,271 lacked any criminal record.”
More evidence of an out of control, misguided & wildly dishonest immigration effort in Chicago:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
More evidence of an out of control, misguided & wildly dishonest immigration effort in Chicago:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
FinstadWatch: Yesterday’s over-performance for Democratic candidate, Aftyn Behn, in the TN-CD-07 special election (13% over Trump’s 2024 margin) should give Finstad opponents more motivation. Finstad won in 2024 by 17% and in 2022 by 11.5%. And Finstad is too scared to campaign among regular voters.
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
FinstadWatch: Yesterday’s over-performance for Democratic candidate, Aftyn Behn, in the TN-CD-07 special election (13% over Trump’s 2024 margin) should give Finstad opponents more motivation. Finstad won in 2024 by 17% and in 2022 by 11.5%. And Finstad is too scared to campaign among regular voters.
FinstadWatch: President Trump pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a 45-year sentence, after he was convicted last year of helping drug cartels ship hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes. Killer pardons!
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
FinstadWatch: President Trump pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a 45-year sentence, after he was convicted last year of helping drug cartels ship hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes. Killer pardons!
FinstadWatch: With temperatures in the lower 20s and the 9 inches of snow from the weekend still on the ground, 54 Winona winter patriots showed up for the weekly Protect Democracy rally. How can we not, with this administration pardoning drug kings while blowing unidentified boats out of the water?
December 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
FinstadWatch: With temperatures in the lower 20s and the 9 inches of snow from the weekend still on the ground, 54 Winona winter patriots showed up for the weekly Protect Democracy rally. How can we not, with this administration pardoning drug kings while blowing unidentified boats out of the water?
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May 9, 2025
Multi-millionaire David Gentile sentenced to 7 years in prison for a $1.6 Billion scheme
Nov 14 Gentile reported to prison
Nov 28 Gentile released from prison after Trump commuted the sentence
#RepFinstad purports to be tough on crime says NOTHING
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...
Multi-millionaire David Gentile sentenced to 7 years in prison for a $1.6 Billion scheme
Nov 14 Gentile reported to prison
Nov 28 Gentile released from prison after Trump commuted the sentence
#RepFinstad purports to be tough on crime says NOTHING
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
May 9, 2025
Multi-millionaire David Gentile sentenced to 7 years in prison for a $1.6 Billion scheme
Nov 14 Gentile reported to prison
Nov 28 Gentile released from prison after Trump commuted the sentence
#RepFinstad purports to be tough on crime says NOTHING
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...
Multi-millionaire David Gentile sentenced to 7 years in prison for a $1.6 Billion scheme
Nov 14 Gentile reported to prison
Nov 28 Gentile released from prison after Trump commuted the sentence
#RepFinstad purports to be tough on crime says NOTHING
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...
FinstadWatch: We pause to remind Minnesota Republican Congressman like Finstad, Fischbach, Emmer, and Stauber of the words of arch-conservative Liz Cheney, “There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain,” These unAmericans need regular reminding of their complicity!
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
FinstadWatch: We pause to remind Minnesota Republican Congressman like Finstad, Fischbach, Emmer, and Stauber of the words of arch-conservative Liz Cheney, “There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain,” These unAmericans need regular reminding of their complicity!
FinstadWatch: Have any of the Minnesota Republican Representatives said a word about the Witkoff/Trump betrayal of Ukraine? Or for that matter the Hegseth’s illegal orders to murder people off the coast of Venezuela without the slimmest of evidence about the people in the boats that were blown up?
November 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
FinstadWatch: Have any of the Minnesota Republican Representatives said a word about the Witkoff/Trump betrayal of Ukraine? Or for that matter the Hegseth’s illegal orders to murder people off the coast of Venezuela without the slimmest of evidence about the people in the boats that were blown up?
FinstadWatch: Has Cong. Finstad said a word about the Witkoff/Trump betrayal of Ukraine? Not that I’ve seen evidence of! Instead of addressing this “beam” in Republican eyes, his newsletter and other public pronouncements have been about Democratic “motes.” He has to go -support Jake Johnson!
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
FinstadWatch: Has Cong. Finstad said a word about the Witkoff/Trump betrayal of Ukraine? Not that I’ve seen evidence of! Instead of addressing this “beam” in Republican eyes, his newsletter and other public pronouncements have been about Democratic “motes.” He has to go -support Jake Johnson!
FinstadWatch: The administration is unveiling their changes to SNAP, designed to knock people off the rolls, by providing guidance on October 31 that differs from even their own Big Ugly Bill; Democratic states are fighting back by suing.
thehill.com/regulation/c...
thehill.com/regulation/c...
thehill.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
FinstadWatch: The administration is unveiling their changes to SNAP, designed to knock people off the rolls, by providing guidance on October 31 that differs from even their own Big Ugly Bill; Democratic states are fighting back by suing.
thehill.com/regulation/c...
thehill.com/regulation/c...
FinstadWatch: It now seems like details of the proposed Republican changes to SNAP will be unveiled after Thanksgiving. The promised multi-billion dollar bailout of farmers is also still pending. China is still only buying a minuscule amount of American soybeans.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
FinstadWatch: It now seems like details of the proposed Republican changes to SNAP will be unveiled after Thanksgiving. The promised multi-billion dollar bailout of farmers is also still pending. China is still only buying a minuscule amount of American soybeans.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
FinstadWatch: It’s becoming very clear that Trump doesn’t remember and doesn’t care about positions he’s taken on issues. He just reacts based on what he’s read last or who he’s talked to last. A malleable man in the service of those who know how to manipulate him.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump says he would 'rather not' extend Obamacare tax credits 'at all'
The president said he prefers to let the Affordable Care Act subsidies expire on schedule at the end of December, saying that if anything, he wants the money to go to "the people directly."
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
FinstadWatch: It’s becoming very clear that Trump doesn’t remember and doesn’t care about positions he’s taken on issues. He just reacts based on what he’s read last or who he’s talked to last. A malleable man in the service of those who know how to manipulate him.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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"On a dry, rocky patch of his family’s farm in Door County, Wisconsin, Dave Klevesahl grows wildflowers. But he has a vision for how to squeeze more value out of the plot: lease it to a company that wants to build a community solar array." (reporting by @canarymedia.com)
Wisconsin lawmakers look to break utility grip on community solar
Utilities have blocked prior attempts to let other developers build community solar in the state. Now legislators have a bill meant to address opponents’ concerns.
wisconsinwatch.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"On a dry, rocky patch of his family’s farm in Door County, Wisconsin, Dave Klevesahl grows wildflowers. But he has a vision for how to squeeze more value out of the plot: lease it to a company that wants to build a community solar array." (reporting by @canarymedia.com)
FinstadWatch: The fight to democratize the benefits of creating a solar-powered economy remains local as well as federal; a state-by-state fight to make sure that the private utilities aren’t able to hog all the benefits:
wisconsinwatch.org/2025/11/wisc...
wisconsinwatch.org/2025/11/wisc...
Wisconsin lawmakers look to break utility grip on community solar
Utilities have blocked prior attempts to let other developers build community solar in the state. Now legislators have a bill meant to address opponents’ concerns.
wisconsinwatch.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
FinstadWatch: The fight to democratize the benefits of creating a solar-powered economy remains local as well as federal; a state-by-state fight to make sure that the private utilities aren’t able to hog all the benefits:
wisconsinwatch.org/2025/11/wisc...
wisconsinwatch.org/2025/11/wisc...
FinstadWatch: Finstad and the other MN Republican Representatives make wild claims about MN tax dollars funding Al Qaeda. Kayseh Magan responds thoughtfully in the Minnesota Reformer. The Republicans were silent about their leader, Trump fawning all over MBS.
minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/25/r...
minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/25/r...
Right-wing reporting on Somali money going to al-Shabaab is not new, still misses the mark • Minnesota Reformer
Thorpe and Rufo’s vulture journalism provides an opening to those who seek to dismiss the problem of fraud in Minnesota as right-wing demagoguery.
minnesotareformer.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
FinstadWatch: Finstad and the other MN Republican Representatives make wild claims about MN tax dollars funding Al Qaeda. Kayseh Magan responds thoughtfully in the Minnesota Reformer. The Republicans were silent about their leader, Trump fawning all over MBS.
minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/25/r...
minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/25/r...