From St. Michael to the Phoenix: How a Tiny Syndicate of Darkness Looted the State the Saints Built

Minnesotans, this is for you—every hardworking family, every believer, every taxpayer who’s watched the state you love get hollowed out from the inside. A tiny handful of operatives—politicians, nonprofit executives, ideological activists—have spent decades deceiving and destroying what generations built. They didn’t conquer with armies. They smiled, quoted compassion, twisted Scripture, and sold a half-gospel that turned faithful people into passive targets.

Minnesota wasn’t founded by chance. It was consecrated.

French missionaries, Jesuit and Franciscan priests, and waves of Catholic immigrants crossed oceans and wilderness to plant the Cross here. Father Lucien Galtier built the log chapel that became St. Paul in 1841. Father Louis Hennepin named the Falls of St. Anthony for the saint in 1680. Jesuits dedicated the first chapel at Fort Beauharnois to St. Michael the Archangel in 1727. St. Cloud honors St. Cloud the monk-prince. St. Peter, St. Joseph, St. Francis, St. Bonifacius, St. Charles, St. James, St. Michael, St. Croix River (“Holy Cross”), Saint Louis River—more than 1 in 20 Minnesota cities and towns start with “St.” or “Saint.” No other state matches this density. This land was baptized in missionary blood and settler sweat: abbeys, hospitals, schools, orphanages rising before the grift machine even existed.

St. Michael, who cast Lucifer from heaven, now overlooks a paper phoenix with the Sigil of Baphomet pentagram hanging in the State Capitol rotunda. December 2024: Minnesota Satanists (under Cerberus Ministries) got a permit from the Department of Administration, set up their “holiday display” near the rotunda—phoenix rising, inverted pentagram, paper cranes—while a nearby plaque read: “The Democrat Coalition of Satan Worshippers thanks Gov. Tim Walz for not standing in the way of spreading Satanism in the State Capitol building. Satan has a special place for you.” Walz’s office: “First Amendment protected speech… does not imply endorsement.” Christians prayed and sang carols outside in response, but the display stayed up until December 27. This isn’t religious freedom run amok. It’s deliberate mockery in the building named for St. Paul.

Paganistan didn’t emerge overnight. A 2011 Star Tribune report estimated 20,000 witches in the Twin Cities metro alone, gathering in 236 covens or groups. They proudly call it “Paganistan” for the concentration of Wiccans, Druids, Heathens, and others. Public festivals, tax-exempt pagan organizations, open rituals from Bloomington to Duluth—the scene thrives openly.

A tiny few engineered the takeover:

• The Thirty-Year Heist (and longer): Over $1.2 billion looted through refugee resettlement scams, ghost daycares, COVID “relief,” autism mills, and nonprofit fronts—cash wired overseas while Minnesotans face skyrocketing property taxes and broken budgets. The “humanitarian” outfits meant to help became pipelines for fraud.

• The Duluth Model: Cooked up in 1977 in the same city where Jesuits once celebrated Mass, Ellen Pence and crew built a $110 billion family-shredding operation on ideological lies. The Power and Control Wheel ignores mutual violence, mandates arrests on accusation, and feeds foster mills. Radical feminism’s anti-Christian roots made it a spiritual weapon—demolish father-led homes, harvest children into the grift, label it “protection.”

• The Affirmative Action Regime: State laws codify discrimination against the very people whose ancestors built this state—Christian families, veterans, merit-driven workers. The U.S. Department of Justice sued Minnesota in January 2026 for this pattern of intentional bias under Title VII.

This follows an ancient pattern: Wherever God plants light, darkness sends agents to subvert it. Favor from the Lord draws the adversary’s fire. Ephesians 6:12 names the real fight—principalities and powers operating through people.

The deepest deception? Generations taught a neutered Jesus: only “turn the other cheek,” never the full Gospel. Never the Christ who flipped tables in the temple, called out hypocrites as a brood of vipers, cast out demons routinely, and gave His followers authority over unclean spirits. Hollywood normalized witches and sympathetic Satanists so we’d feel like bigots for objecting. The half-gospel made believers passive, ashamed, and exploitable.

Matthew 3:10 lays down the line:

“Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

The fruit here is rotten: families torn apart, billions stolen, elections rigged, the Cross mocked in St. Paul’s own house. Jesus didn’t die so we could endure wickedness silently. He empowered us to cast out demons—the spirits parading in the Capitol and lurking behind the grifts. He commanded us to heal, proclaim the full Gospel, move mountains, confront false teachers, and drive out harm. The early Church advanced against pagan empires without begging permission. The Holy Trinity equips us with strength, wisdom, and courage—not for easy lives, but for this very battle.

Minnesotans—especially the faithful—this is your wake-up. A tiny syndicate deceived and destroyed because too many bought the half-truths. No more.

We cast it out by exposing the full racket—fraud networks, family-shredding policies, discrimination machines, pagan enablers.

We cast it out by reclaiming the full teachings of Christ—authority over darkness, not surrender to it.

We cast it out by defending the constitutional republic the saints helped establish—merit, truth, equal protection under law.

We swing the axe at the root—end the VOLAG pipelines, prosecute the grifters, scrap biased laws, restore justice.

The God who consecrated this land with saints’ names still reigns. The Savior who gave us power over demons is alive. The Spirit that fueled the missionaries is here now.

Remember who you are. Bear real fruit. Make the guilty sweat.

The phoenix they parade always burns. The Cross endures forever.

Phillip C. Parrish

Candidate for Governor of Minnesota 2026

Retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander

phillip@parrish4mn.com

Heidi Wanty

Campaign Manager

heidi@parrish4mn.com

1 (612) 460-1717

Share this. Print it. Talk about it with your neighbors. The time for silence is over. The axe is ready.

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