Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tried and failed to co-opt federal raids on day cares and autism centers amid allegations that he has obstructed anti-fraud investigations.

The Dept. of Justice announced an operation on nearly two dozen sites on Tuesday as part of an investigation into massive fraud in Minnesota, allegedly by members of the Somali community.

‘It’s too little too late because I have already referred him.’

Walz, who dropped a re-election campaign after the allegations of obstruction, posted a statement on social media to take credit for the federal raids.

“If you commit fraud in Minnesota you’re going to get caught — and that’s exactly what we saw today. We catch criminals when state and federal agencies share information. Joint investigations work, and securing justice depends on it,” the failed vice presidential candidate wrote.

He went on to claim that the raids were a result of state agencies catching “irregular behavior” and reporting it.

“Now let’s work on a joint investigation into the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good — instead of cherry picking when we seek justice and when we turn a blind eye,” he added.

Pretti and Good were killed while interfering with federal immigration agents in Minnesota.

Kash Patel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, forcefully rejected Walz’s claims.

“Come again? This FBI and DOJ with our DHS partners drafted and executed every search warrant today,” Patel wrote.

“But go ahead and take credit for our work while we smoke out the fraud plaguing Minnesota under your governorship,” he added.

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida also broadsided the governor.

“Glad to see Tim Walz has finally come around to holding fraudsters accountable, unfortunately it’s too little too late because I have already referred him, as well as other bad actors, to the DOJ for criminal referral for being complicit in this horrifying Minnesota fraud scheme,” Luna wrote.

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Numerous day care and autism treatment centers were included in the FBI raids in Minnesota Tuesday morning, including the infamous “Quality Learing Center” on Nicollet Avenue.

“The task force and the DOJ will be relentless in exposing these fraudsters wherever they may be hiding,” Vice President JD Vance wrote on social media.

Nearly 100 people have been indicted in Minnesota for fraud since 2021, and 67 have been convicted. One of the larger schemes involved the Feeding Our Future nonprofit organization that drained hundreds of millions of dollars from a federal nutrition program.

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The Virginia Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in Scott v. McDougle, a case initially brought before Tazewell County Circuit Judge Jack Hurley Jr. that could determine whether Old Dominion ultimately adopts a gerrymandered map that would all but guarantee that 10 out of the state’s 11 congressional seats go to Democrats in the upcoming midterm election.

On April 21, Virginia voters passed the redistricting referendum, but the next day, Hurley blocked certification of the result, ruffling the feathers of Democrats who eagerly want to see the result certified.

Hurley ruled in January that the constitutional amendment that ended up on the April 21 ballot was unlawful. He then declared on April 22 in a related case about the constitutional amendment — Koski v. Republican National Committee — that:

the Virginia General Assembly illegitimately usurped the powers of the Virginia Redistricting Commission; the legislation that prompted the special election for the amendment violated the submission, timing, and form of laws clauses of the Virginia Constitution; and”any and all votes for or against the proposed constitutional amendment in the April 21, 2026, special election are ineffective.”

The judge granted the Republican plaintiffs in the Koski case a permanent injunction against certification, noting that they “will be irreparably harmed absent permanent injunctive relief because of the numerous violations of the constitutional amendment process and because Congressmen [Ben] Cline and [Morgan] Griffith would be irreparably harmed by their districts changing at this juncture.”

On April 24, Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones (D) filed a motion for an emergency stay of Hurley’s order in the Koski case.

The Virginia Supreme Court delivered Jones and other Democrats bad news on Tuesday, denying them their coveted emergency stay.

RELATED: Virginia Supreme Court seems skeptical about Democratic gerrymandering

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Former Republican Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli said in response to the court’s rejection of the Democratic motion that “in the ‘tea leaves’ category, this is as positive a ‘tea leaf’ as one might imagine” with regard to the Scott case.

Cuccinelli said that if the Virginia Supreme Court “thought they would let the referendum stand, then logically they would have lifted the injunction on counting & certifying the votes.”

Virginia Del. Wren Williams (R) wrote, “The same Supreme Court that allowed the referendum to go forward in March, so voters could be heard, has now declined to override a final judgment finding the constitutional amendment process defective. Strong signal that process matters in Virginia.”

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In the wake of Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — in which 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen allegedly rushed a security checkpoint and opened fire in an attempt to assassinate President Trump and other administration officials — at least one prominent Democrat is showing signs of remorse.

On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn spoke with Turning Point USA spokesperson and executive producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show” Andrew Kolvet about Sen. John Fetterman’s recent conversation with Erika Kirk.

“There was a moment with John Fetterman and Erika that I heard about where he was pretty emotional, and he just apologized for whatever he could,” says Kolvet, noting that this conversation happened shortly after the WHCD incident.

“Good for John Fetterman. That’s a real moment,” he adds.

Glenn notes that for some time he has wanted to speak with Fetterman to tell him that despite their political differences, he admires Fetterman’s bravery to take stands against his own party, likely at the expense of being primaried.

“It’s interesting to me that somebody who just says common-sense stuff that is a Democrat … is so chased out of their own party. They can’t have anybody who is at all not a radical. They must have radicals in there,” Glenn emphasizes.

He calls the Democrats out for their complicity in the escalating political violence: “Democrats, you’re not an innocent bystander at this point. There’s too much evidence.”

“These people want to destroy the United States of America. If you want a violent destruction of your country, you just keep going down this road,” he cautions.

In the meantime, conservatives, he says, will continue to “do everything [they] can to stop it,” including continuing “to warn and to beg and to plead and to vote.”

But if Democrats continue to stoke the fires of violence, the consequences are bleak for everyone, including their own families.

“Your children and your grandchildren will suffer under Marxism and fascism and death and squalor — and you will be responsible for it!” Glenn warns.

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Nearly two dozen Minnesota day-care centers and other locations were raided Tuesday in a federal investigation into alleged fraud by members of the Somali community.

Dozens of people have already been arrested in the fraud investigations prior to the raids, and some officials estimate the scale of the illegal schemes to be in the billions.

‘We are pleased to see the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and our federal partners taking strong action based on information we have shared with them.’

Among those raided was the infamous “Quality Learing Center” on Nicollet Avenue, which was mocked online for misspelling “learning” in its business sign. Also raided were five centers for the treatment of autism.

“Today the FBI with federal, state, and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” read a statement from Homeland Security Investigations.

Other places raided included the Fahiye Child Care Center on Jackson Street, Baby Halimo Child Care Inc. on Cedar Avenue, and A Plus Universal Child Care and Learning Center on Shakopee Town Square.

Some of the scams involved the Feeding Our Future nonprofit that swallowed up millions of dollars in pandemic emergency relief funding but lied about supplying meals to hungry families and children. Sixty-five people have already been convicted in the FOF scam.

The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families, which is responsible for licensing day-care centers, applauded the raids in a statement.

“We are pleased to see the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and our federal partners taking strong action based on information we have shared with them,” the organization said. “We will continue sharing information with law enforcement to ensure they are able to conduct thorough criminal investigations.”

RELATED: Founder of Minneapolis autism center admits to kickbacks to Somali families in $6M scam

The fraud scandal has already severely damaged the political career of Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, who was accused of obstructing fraud investigations. Walz denied the allegations but dropped his campaign for re-election to a third term.

“Every minute I spend defending my own political interests would be a minute I can’t spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity and the cynics who prey on our differences,” Walz said in early January. “So I’ve decided to step out of the race and let others worry about the election while I focus on the work.”

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Pope Leo XIV has recognized the martyrdom of scores of Spanish Christians murdered by leftists in the 1930s, setting the stage for their possible canonization.

Spain was ravaged in the first half of the 20th century by a bloody civil war that saw a motley crew of Soviet-backed leftists — a coalition strained by infighting between anarchists and communists, to the great chagrin of George Orwell — pitted against an alliance of conservatives, nationalists, and monarchists who were alternatively reinforced by German and Italian forces.

In the years leading up to the war, the Catholic Church and its supporters in Spain became increasingly popular targets for deadly leftist attacks and political persecution by the Republican government.

That oppression paled, however, in comparison to the anti-Catholic campaign executed during the “Red Terror” — the leftist counterinsurgency described by the late Austrian-American polymath Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn as “an orgy of rape, sadism, and unspeakable obscenities.”

According to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation:

Republican partisans desecrated, burned, and looted churches and shrines all across Spain. Relics and statues were paraded through the streets in mock celebrations; the bodies of saints and clergy were dug up and abused. Priests and religious were hunted and massacred: around 6,800 Catholic clergy, including 13 bishops, were tortured and executed by left-wing forces. Nor were these killings a reaction to clerical abuses. According to historian José Sanchez, “Priests of all types were killed: strict, loose, moral, immoral, libertines and ascetics,” including “some priests who were social activists and had actively opposed the uprisings.” Indeed, murder of the local priest became de rigueur for loyal partisans: “Cassock we see, cassock we kill.”

On Monday, Pope Leo authorized the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to recognize the martyrdom of Brother Estanislao Ortega García and 48 of his companions from the Montfort Brothers of St. Gabriel along with diocesan priest Emanuele Berenguer Clusella, who were “killed between the months of July and November 1936 in hatred of the faith, in various parts of Catalonia, Spain, in the context of the same persecution.”

Vatican News noted that the recognition of the clerics’ martyrdom “marks a step forward in the respective causes for canonization.”

RELATED: Young men flocking to Christianity in record numbers

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InfoVaticana reported that the Archdiocese of Barcelona initially got the ball rolling on these martyrs’ beatification decades ago, collecting testimonies and documentation regarding the circumstances of their deaths.

‘They are models of consistency with the truth they professed.’

This is hardly the first time that Pope Leo or his predecessors have recognized the heroic faith of Christians murdered by Spanish leftists in the 1930s.

Last year, for instance, Pope Leo recognized as martyrs 109 diocesan priests, one religious sister, and 14 lay Catholics killed during the conflict along with 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

In 2013, Pope Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, enraged leftists by announcing the beatification of over 520 martyrs, mainly clergymen, killed for their faith during the Spanish Civil War. This beatification further advanced the cause of their potential recognition by the Catholic Church as saints.

The process for canonization, or official recognition of sainthood, is as follows: First, a candidate who “lived a heroically virtuous life or offered their life” is recognized by the pope as “venerable.” The second stage is beatification, which requires a finding of “one miracle acquired through the candidate’s intercession.” Finally, for canonization, a second miracle is required.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops notes on its website that “all Christians are called to be saints. Saints are persons in heaven (officially canonized or not), who lived heroically virtuous lives, offered their life for others, or were martyred for the faith, and who are worthy of imitation.”

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI beatified 498 martyrs “who poured out their blood for the faith during the religious persecution in Spain in 1934, 1936 and 1937” and whose ages ranged from 16 to 78.

In 2001, Pope John Paul II beatified 233 martyrs killed during the Spanish Civil War, including Maria Teresa Ferragud, an 83-year-old woman who was savagely murdered on the feast of Christ the King in 1936 along with her four daughters, all of whom were nuns.

“The Church wishes to recognize these men and women as examples of courage and constancy in faith, helped by God’s grace,” Pope John Paul II, who was canonized in 2014, said at the time. “For us they are models of consistency with the truth they professed, while at the same time they honor the noble Spanish people and the Church.”

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The Dept. of Justice announced Tuesday the indictment of a former top aide to Anthony Fauci, who headed up the government’s pandemic response.

Seventy-eight-year-old David Morens allegedly violated records protocols in order to hide pandemic information from Freedom of Information Act requests, according to a DOJ press release.

‘The conspiracy was Tony Fauci and his assistants doing Xi Jinping’s dirty work and lying about COVID’s origins.’

Morens was a senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 2006 through 2022.

He allegedly agreed with a co-conspirator “in writing to intentionally hide from public view their communications by corresponding using Morens’s personal Gmail account, rather than his official NIH email account.”

Morens allegedly received wine in exchange for his “shenanigans” and was allegedly offered other gifts, including meals at Michelin-starred restaurants in Paris, New York, and Washington, D.C.

In one alleged email to Fauci, Morens appeared to admit to his efforts to hide the communications.

“I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work or at his house. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble,” the email allegedly read.

Fauci has denied any knowledge about the emails and claimed Morens was not his top adviser.

“These allegations represent a profound abuse of trust at a time when the American people needed it most — during the height of a global pandemic,” read a statement from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

“As alleged in the indictment, Dr. Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately concealed information and falsified records in an effort to suppress alternative theories regarding the origins of COVID-19,” he added. “Government officials have a solemn duty to provide honest, well-grounded facts and advice in service of the public interest — not to advance their own personal or ideological agendas.”

Morens is charged with conspiracy against the United States, according to the DOJ, as well as destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal, or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting.

“In March of 2020, I made clear the virus almost certainly came from the Wuhan lab,” said former Trump State Secretary Mike Pompeo. “A massive campaign to undermine what we knew was undertaken. To call this an abuse of public trust is an understatement.”

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) thanked the feds for holding “fraudsters” accountable.

“Pointing out that COVID leaked from a lab in Communist China was never a conspiracy, it was common sense,” he said in a post on social media. “The conspiracy was Tony Fauci and his assistants doing Xi Jinping’s dirty work and lying about COVID’s origins.”

If convicted, Morens could face up to 20 years in prison for each count of destruction of records and possibly more for the other counts.

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