By Phillip C. Parrish
May 3, 2026
Take a good hard look at this recent history lesson making the rounds: the DNC donor class and party machine rigging the primaries against Bernie Sanders to install their hand-picked puppet. Same script, different jersey.
Here in Minnesota the donor class is running the exact same play on the Republican side.
Early in this race the usual naysayers crawled out with their tired “never Phil” nonsense. Scott Jensen jumped in — donor class didn’t bite. Kendall Qualls jumped in — donor class stayed lukewarm. Kristin Robbins jumped in and got a little traction, but then the losing strategists whispered in Lisa Demuth’s ear and suddenly the donor class went all-in. They even formed a PAC to hide who’s really cutting the checks.
Mike Lindell jumped in — donor class wouldn’t touch him with a ten-foot pole. He’s raising almost everything outside Minnesota. A handful of other solid candidates jumped in and out while the machine kept redirecting the money to their chosen one.
And in the middle of all that noise? The Parrish for Governor team just kept growing. Real Minnesotans. Real relationships. Sweat equity. No donor-class sugar daddies. No backroom deals. Just a modest but rock-solid campaign built on the ground — with a far more stable financial picture than any of the flashy “safe” options that are already burning through hundreds of thousands they don’t actually have.
The Republican Party of Minnesota is so broke they had to strong-arm every GOP candidate into a funding scheme just to hold a state convention.
Sound familiar?
It should. Because the MNDFL/DSA machine is doing the exact same thing on the other side — broke, propped up by Bernie Sanders, surviving on stolen tax dollars, fraud networks, and money laundering that would make seasoned mobsters blush.
This isn’t two parties. This is one UNIParty grift wearing different colored jerseys. The quick, easy, dirty money flows to the “safe” candidates who will never touch the real rackets — the daycare fraud syndicates, the Optum sweetheart deals, the COVID relief theft, the election-integrity black holes, the nonprofit slush funds, and the corporate enablers treating Minnesota taxpayers like their personal ATM.
The machine doesn’t want a fighter. It wants a placeholder who’ll keep the house of cards standing so the looting can continue uninterrupted.
Here’s the difference the donor class and their media allies desperately don’t want you noticing:
One side is building a house of cards on your stolen money — ghost kids in daycare scams, fake claims, rigged contracts, and endless redirection of your hard-earned dollars to keep the syndicate alive.
The other side? That’s the retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander (21 years intelligence), farmer, teacher, administrator, and lifelong Minnesotan who took the receipts straight to the FBI and filed the RICO referral because the industrial-scale exploitation finally became too disgusting to ignore. No machine money. No donor-class protection racket. Just sweat equity, real relationships, and a spine forged in service to this constitutional republic.
You want a governor the donor class buys with your own money? Or the one who will tear the entire house of cards down?
Minnesotans, this is your moment to get off the fence and stop being gaslit into compliance with a criminal syndicate that has zero regard for anything except keeping the thieving alive.
You’ve watched your tax dollars — earned by the calluses on your hands and the long hours in the fields, factories, and classrooms — get siphoned off year after year to feed this beast while farms struggle, small businesses choke under regulations, and working families foot the bill for their fake “compassion.”
Enough.
The constitutional republic our founders built demands better. It demands We the People decide — not the donor class, not the media gatekeepers, not the machine.
Imagine Minnesota taken back: fraud hunted down like the cancer it is, every tax dollar actually serving the people instead of the grifters, farms thriving again, businesses growing without the boot on their neck, and our kids inheriting a state rooted in truth, integrity, justice, and servant leadership that honors hard work and protects the vulnerable.
That future isn’t a fantasy. It starts the day we stop propping up the house of cards and start dismantling the syndicate that built it — with sweat equity and a heartfelt love for our state and our country.
What say you, Minnesotans?
Let the thieving grifting machine buy the Governor’s office again with your stolen money? Or roll up your sleeves, back the fighter who’s already doing the real work, and take it back for the people?
The machine is counting on your silence. I’m counting on you finally saying “no more.”
Candidate for Governor of Minnesota 2026
Phillip C. Parrish at phillip@parrish4mn.com
Campaign Manager Heidi Wanty at heidi@parrish4mn.com
Or by phone: 1 (612) 460-1717
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