Earlier this year on March 5, the Center of the American Experiment (CAE) launched a public campaign to end the moratorium on expanding nuclear power in Minnesota. This was called “Nuke the Mandate, Free the Nukes!” As CAE put it then: “The campaign…features...
ABM’s sad attempt to smear American Experiment
Every election year, the DFL’s dark money group Alliance for a Better Minnesota (ABM) fills up their bank account with out of state money and uses it to go after Republicans running for office in Minnesota. You can hear all about ABM and their scheme to funnel...
Flock cameras – can we ditch the hysteria?
Photo courtesy of Flock Safety The recent outcry over Flock cameras is lacking in fact and echoes the same narrative driven hysteria that led people to vandalize Tesla cars just a year ago – only today that hysteria is leading people to vandalize and remove...
Back to school, back to the union?
It’s that time of year again — back to school! Teachers are diligently working on establishing classroom routines and writing lesson plans, but there is another important decision that falls during the busiest time of year: determining if union membership is...
The NEWEST Fraud Haunting Minnesota
The NEWEST fraud that has been haunting Minnesota just got exposed… Check out the American Experiment Podcast 👉 American Experiment Podcast “Ghost students” are Minnesota’s newest fraud problem, legacy media failed to debunk the infamous $9 billion fraud...
Minnesota taxpayers paid $3 Million for a “Medicare for ALL” cost estimate. Where is it?
P.J. O’Rourke put the problem in one sentence in 1993: “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.” Proponents such as Abdul El-Sayed, Peggy Flanagan, and the Democratic Socialists of America still sell Medicare...
Politics and crime
Abdimahat Bille Mohamed, now aged 29 of Minneapolis, appeared in federal court in downtown Minneapolis this morning in relation to his December 2025 indictment on two felony counts of kidnapping. Your correspondent was there. If his name rings a bell, his case...
How did the federal budget blow up?
Last month, the federal government’s total debt hit $40 trillion. How did this happen? The simple answer is that, every year since 2001, the federal government has spent more money than it has collected in revenue. As Figure 1 shows, using Congressional Budget...
Yet another Minnesota fraud? Natural Gas Innovation Act
On the evening of August 26, the Center of the American Experiment (CAE) won a hard-earned and well-deserved award from the State Policy Network (SPN), for bringing to national attention Minnesota’s fraud scandal of “Feeding Our Future”. In his acceptance...
Hennepin County leads USA in federal spending
A study by the financial website SmartAsset found that Minnesota’s largest county led America in receiving federal taxpayer money. The Center Square reported on the study last week, Hennepin County in Minnesota has received the most federal spending of any...










