Fellow Minnesotans,
They think we’re stupid. The political class, the donor class, and their nonprofit grifter allies strut around the Capitol like they invented the wheel, while the rest of us scrape by on the wreckage they leave behind. They play checkers—short-sighted moves fueled by fear, kickbacks, and the next election cycle. We’re playing chess, seeing the full board: a rigged system designed to loot our state, rig our elections, and destroy the families and communities that built Minnesota.
This isn’t “politics as usual.” This is an organized racket wearing a DFL label, enabled by weak-kneed collaborators who look the other way for power and profit. As a retired Navy Lieutenant Commander with 21 years in intelligence, a fraud whistleblower who flagged the daycare scams years before the feds woke up, and a lifelong Minnesotan who’s farmed these soils and raised kids here, I’ve seen the pattern up close. It’s not incompetence. It’s by design.
The Fear-for-Profit Machine
These small-minded operators have one play: manufacture crises, scare the public, then shovel taxpayer dollars to their networks. COVID relief? Billions vanished into ghost operations. Daycare assistance? Ghost centers, fake claims, hawala trails funneling money overseas—warnings I and others delivered in 2016-2017 ignored while the theft exploded. Feeding Our Future? A $250 million+ punch to the gut, with convictions piling up but the culture that enabled it still festering.
Now we’re talking potential $9 billion in welfare fraud across programs. That’s not a “glitch.” That’s racketeering on a state scale. The same networks exploiting social services rig the ballot game with voucher voting and paper-trail-free schemes that scream “no data exists” when you ask for accountability.
They treat the constitutional republic like their personal ATM. Nonprofits—supposedly serving the vulnerable—become pass-throughs for grift. For-profits and LLC shells hide the real operators. The DFL machine protects it all: slow-walk investigations, smear whistleblowers, restart fraudulent pipelines under “political pressure,” and lecture the rest of us about “compassion” while families get crushed by taxes, crime, and failing services.
Our kids’ futures? Sold for donor access. Rural communities? Hollowed out. Working families in West Concord and every corner of this state? Paying the bill for imported chaos and protected looters. This syndicate doesn’t build. It extracts. It fears strong families, self-reliant communities, and honest work because those things expose the con.
Shredding the Spectrum: It’s a Uniparty Grift in DFL Clothing
Call it the “political spectrum” if you want the polite lie. In reality, it’s a narrow band of insiders who all feed from the same trough. The donor class writes the checks, the nonprofits launder the narrative and the cash, the political operators deliver the votes (real or manufactured), and the street-level enforcers keep the chaos flowing to justify more “programs.”
Good people notice the pattern. We’ve watched one-party dominance turn Minnesota from a land of opportunity into a cautionary tale. Election integrity? Vapor. Fraud oversight? A partisan joke until the heat got too high. They shred families with policies that reward dependency and punish productivity. Communities fracture under unchecked crime and imported fraud rings. The state? Bleeding talent, businesses, and trust.
This isn’t governance. It’s predation. And it thrives because they’ve convinced too many that resistance is futile or “extreme.” Bull. Standing for constitutional order, secure borders for our programs and elections, prosecution of the guilty, and real accountability is just common sense rooted in truth.
A Vision Worth Fighting For
We don’t need more of their fear. We need fire and faith.
Imagine a Minnesota where your tax dollars actually serve Minnesotans first—not overseas networks or connected grifters. Where election integrity means every legal vote counts and fraud gets crushed. Where families thrive because work is rewarded, streets are safe, and kids get real education, not indoctrination.
A state rebuilt on honest labor, strong communities, and fidelity to our constitutional republic. Farmers, teachers, parents, veterans, and everyday workers at the center—not the syndicate. Where we expose the networks, dismantle the rackets, prosecute the looters, and restore what’s been stolen.
This is personal for me. As a man of faith who serves in a Catholic church, I answer to Jesus Christ before any machine. Mercy for the repentant. Justice for the predators. No hand-wringing. No false equivalence. The guilty should sweat.
The DFL syndicate and their enablers have had their run. The pattern is clear. The theft is documented. The destruction is measurable. Now comes the reckoning.
Minnesotans are waking up. We’re not stupid. We’re done being marks in their con game.
Join the fight. Expose the racket. Rebuild this state on truth, sweat, and unapologetic integrity.
Candidate for Governor of Minnesota 2026
Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor
Heidi Wanty
Or by phone: 1 (612) 460-1717
@phillipcparrish
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