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Operation Metro Surge swept 4,000 people off Minnesota streets. @tomemmer called it a win — "the worst of the worst," over and over.
Where did they go? Into a detention system that's ~90% private, that he whipped a $45B expansion for, run by a contractor that's put $40,000 into a committee bearing his name.
On the deaths inside those facilities — a ruled homicide, a lost loaded firearm, untreated detainees — the Majority Whip has said nothing.
He owns no stock in it. This isn't a payday. It's the votes, the money, and the silence.
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Editor Patrick Coolican writes about his last conversation with former House Speaker Melissa Hortman, and who she was: "Principled but willing to compromise; competitive while ethically grounded; a team player but not blind to her own side’s faults" minnesotareformer.com/2026/0…
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Colin Hortman, son of late House Speaker Melissa Hortman, urged state legislators in a private meeting in April to tone down the rhetoric that can contribute to the kind of political violence that destroyed his family. minnesotareformer.com/2026/0…
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I remember being at my son’s baseball tournament one year ago. The shock of what was happening was all too real.
Please read @jpcoolican’s commentary on Melissa Hortman.
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Today, @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan reported how Trump's White House moved to contain the Epstein files.
What the story doesn't mention:
The counsel running the House Oversight Committee's Epstein depositions is @GOPMajorityWhip Tom Emmer's son.
Emmer megaphones that same committee's Minnesota and COVID work. On Epstein — the one investigation that cuts against the President — he's said nothing.
Today's Daily: mn06watch.substack.com/p/emm…
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"Fraudsters and their enablers need to be held accountable. Full stop." @GOPMajorityWhip
That was Tom Emmer this week — between the Minnesota fraud report, a DOJ referral, and a deportation push.
The same week, he was the public face of a crypto bill that contains no rule barring the President or his family from profiting from digital assets while in office. The amendment to add one died in his own chamber, 21–30.
Asked directly about crypto on OAN this week, he talked regulators and entrepreneurs. He didn't mention World Liberty Financial — the Trump-family venture an Abu Dhabi royal bought into for $500M four days before the inauguration, now seeking a federal bank charter.
Full stop for Minnesota. A sentence that keeps going for the President's crypto venture.
Today's Daily: mn06watch.substack.com/p/ful…
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Tom Emmer (@GOPMajorityWhip) called this an economic "golden age" in January — then championed a war that sent gas and prices climbing.
This week, a tax-cut victory lap: "96% of filers… earned under $200,000."
So I itemized it for a median MN-06 household — the cut, vs. what it actually cost. The two numbers are closer than his tweet lets on.
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The Minnesota GOP spent Saturday in Duluth unable to count its own votes.
Ten ballots. A multi-hour delay. Delegates on the floor of the self-described "party of election integrity" arguing they couldn't certify the result — because the electronic "clickers" failed.
Here's the part worth getting straight before someone spins it: those clickers are rented audience-response keypads. They are not what Minnesota uses to run an election. The state already votes on hand-marked paper ballots, counted by scanners that are never online, and audited by hand after every election.
A convention gadget broke. Your ballot is paper. Those aren't the same story — and one is an argument for the system we already have.
Today in MN-06 Watch — what broke in Duluth, what didn't, and why the 6th District's challenger happens to be a national election-administration expert: mn06watch.substack.com/p/a-c…
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UPDATE: I asked Doug Chapin — the DFL's MN-06 candidate and a national election-administration expert — for his read on the Duluth clicker failure.
On the record: "'Real' elections in Minnesota are done on paper ballots, which can be reviewed and audited after the fact. Electronic systems used in both Rochester and Duluth do not have the same security features that we use in the state of Minnesota."
Both conventions ran on electronic systems. Neither is how the state runs a real election.
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On CNBC last Friday, House Majority Whip @tomemmer explained his job:
"You take care of the people at home first. There's nobody in Washington DC that cast a vote for you, so you take care of those people. You're their voice."
The seven days that followed:
- 6 national TV/radio hits — CNBC, Fox & Friends, Scott Jennings, Sid Rosenberg, Brian Kilmeade, Maria Bartiromo
- 0 documented in-district events
- 0 Memorial Day appearances in MN-06 we could find
- 1 floor vote his own leadership brought up — and lost
- 1,023 days since his last in-person town hall
Both of his 2026 challengers — DFL-endorsed @ChapinForMN6 (who officially filed Wednesday) and Marine veteran @MikeFoley4REAL — were in the district.
He was in Manhattan, sitting for back-to-back hits the morning after Memorial Day.
The standard is his. The receipts are his.
Full week, including the fact-check on the "86% Somali" line that doesn't add up the way he tells it:
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The same poll measured the gap. CBS/YouGov, March 16–19, 2026, n=2,500:
Photo ID to vote: 80%
The SAVE Act, by name: 28%
A 52-point gap between the concept and the actual bill. @CBSNews @YouGovAmerica
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The handbook is the document EIN published May 14.
The bill is the document EIN is fighting to pass.
They are not the same document.
Full comparison — every claim quoted from one of the two source texts:
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Receipts, not rage.
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