Walz signed an order blocking the Twin Metals copper-nickel mine upstream from the Boundary Waters. It dies 90 days into the next governor's term. Demuth is 'pro-mining, all mining, including Twin Metals' — and says it can be done 'safer than any other place in the country if not the world.'
On the first day of the 2025 session, Minnesota's top House Republican was handed a temporary one-seat majority by a court ruling — and used it to elect herself Speaker in a chamber that had no legal power to do anything. The Minnesota Supreme Court threw all of it out.
Minnesota's House Speaker bragged that her caucus worked with Nick Shirley on his viral daycare fraud video. Shirley said it was completely false. State inspectors found children at nearly every center in the video — and thousands of federal agents showed up anyway.
A PAC tied to Lisa Demuth's campaign for Minnesota governor has taken about $1.1 million from a group funded by billionaire Richard Uihlein, one of the country's biggest funders of anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ causes.