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Meaningful Minnesota conversations with Liz Collin.
New stories and guests every episode.
Liz Collin is a Minnesota native raised in Worthington and a multi-Emmy-Award-winning investigative reporter and news anchor.
She is the producer of The Fall of Minneapolis and Minnesota v We the People documentary films, and author of They’re Lying: The Media, the Left, and The Death of George Floyd.
Her work has prompted important state laws. Yet perhaps most of all, Liz has been giving a voice to the truth—and helping others tell their stories—for more than 20 years.
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Send us Fan Mail Jenny Liang, a 21-year-old graduate of the University of Northwestern, and a research assistant for the University of Minnesota Law School, joined Liz Collin on her podcast. Liang is the GOP endorsed candidate for House District 40A in Minnesota. After learning about what her family went through during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, she's trying to make changes at the Capitol—and sounding the alarm about the need to bring civility back to the state before it's too late. Su...
Send a text A Minneapolis police officer who worked on the streets for decades spoke with Liz Collin on her podcast. Due to anti-law enforcement hostility and retaliation, he asked to remain anonymous. But he spoke candidly about a wide range of topics, including the shocking problems with retirements and recruits, Somali fraud, cars that have been stolen more than a few times, and more. But, he says, it was the politics of city hall—preventing cooperation with federal law enforcement and com...
Send a text Mary Restrepo joined Liz Collin on her podcast to talk about how her daughter Cristina was killed by a negligent driver—and how the Hennepin County Attorney's Office has made the family's nightmare even worse. She explained how prosecutors, under Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarity, apparently have been doing more for the negligent driver than seeking justice for Cristina, her family, and her 12-year-old son. There is a fund set up to help Cristina’s son in the future: h...
Send a text Edwin Reed, who had to shut down his business near George Floyd Square, and Michael Healy, his attorney, joined Liz Collin on her podcast. Reed explained that the city is "picking and choosing who's more important" as Minneapolis pushes funding for businesses following ICE's Operation Metro Surge. He also talked about how he and eight other business owners are suing the city for allowing gangs and activists to take over the area, which consequently ruined his business. Hea...
Send a text Rebecca Delahunt, director of public policy for Minnesota Family Council, joined Liz Collin on her podcast and talked about the latest developments with the so-called Equal Rights Amendment. Among her many concerns, Delahunt explained that "if this were to pass, it would give much higher legal protection for males to be housed at Shakopee,” Minnesota's prison for women. She said it could also lead to protections in the state constitution that would allow criminals to change their...
Send a text Cristine Trooien, executive director of Minnesota Partnership for Achievement, joined Liz Collin on her podcast. She's been an advocate for better public education and student achievement for quite some time, including as the founder of the Minnesota Parents Alliance. But with Ethnic Studies legislation set to take effect, Trooien said parents, political leaders, and legislators must take immediate action to restore Minnesota's educational values and prevent even more harm to stu...
Send a text Mille Lacs County Sheriff Kyle Burton, who puts public safety before politics, joined Liz Collin on her podcast. Sheriff Burton offered his perspective about the hard-won cooperation with ICE—and the chaos caused by anti-ICE rhetoric—as Operation Metro Surge comes to an end. Support the show
Send a text The St. Paul Field Office Director for ICE details some of the anti-ICE attacks and the rhetoric from Minnesota politicians as Operation Metro Surge comes to an end. Alpha News has been the only Minnesota media organization granted a behind the scenes look at the work ICE officers do in the state. Liz Collin first rode along with officers in September and this week we went back to cover the draw down of the operation. Support the show
1Send a text Anti-ICE activism has been causing chaos in the streets and creeping into classrooms in Minnesota and beyond. Pushing back against the political nonsense and the propaganda takes courage, as Alvin Lui, president of Courage is a Habit, explained to Liz Collin on her podcast. To help parents and concerned citizens, Courage is a Habit has released seven questions that parents can send their school, available at https://courageisahabit.org Support the show
Send a text Tim Macklin, a pastor and former father-in-law of Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis during anti-ICE activities, shares his message about faith and what really matters during trying times. Macklin spoke with Liz Collin on her podcast about matters of faith and his fight to gain custody of Renee's son—his grandson. "It's horrible that Renee lost her life at such a young age... But she just wasn't walking in the spirit of the Lord and that's what we...
Send a text Chris Birt, a Minnesota photographer, author, speaker, and consultant, spoke with Liz Collin on her podcast about his recent work during weeks of anti-ICE protests and riots. Along with capturing photos on scene at the Renee Good shooting, an Alex Pretti memorial and march, and his photo from an anti-ICE riot that was featured during a White House press conference, Birt spoke about how his images portray the socio-political trouble playing out on the streets. Support the show
Send a text Rep. Pam Altendorf, a Republican who represents the Red Wing area and is vice chair of the Minnesota House Elections Committee, spoke with Liz Collin on her podcast about her concerns with election integrity in the state. While three counties provided partial data, Hennepin County provided her with full voter rolls. Having reviewed the data with her team, Rep. Altendorf shared some of their findings and her growing concerns about voter roll data and election integrity in Mi...
Send a text A student at the University of Minnesota tells Alpha News she had to take part in what her professor called an "'ICE drill" during class. The student said it was meant to teach students how to respond if ICE ever came to the class—and how white students needed to use their bodies to "cover" and "shield" other students who may be likely targets of immigration enforcement. The student, who initially did not want to be anonymous but did so to protect family and friends, said ...
Send a text Alleister, a citizen journalist and videographer, joined Liz Collin on her podcast to talk about what happened behind the scenes of some of the viral videos he recorded. Alleister captured a man being beaten with a flagpole by an angry mob after an anti-ICE protest, a viral fist fight outside ICE headquarters at the Whipple Building in St. Paul, and more. He also offered his perspective on the failed leadership of Gov. Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey, Attorney General Keith Ellison, ...
Send a text Andrew Branca—an attorney, author, and internationally recognized expert on self-defense—joined Liz Collin on her podcast to explain. Branca also talked about mainstream media propaganda, "SignalGate," the Insurrection Act, and other issues that may affect this case. Support the show
Send a text In publicly telling his story for the first time, former GOP candidate Paul Wikstrom spoke with Liz Collin on her podcast about how his challenge to election fraud ultimately helped shine a light on all the other kinds of fraud in Minnesota. Wikstrom explained how he was running against DFL opponent Curtis Johnson to represent District 40B in the Minnesota House. But something wasn't right. Johnson didn't actually live in the district, as required by state law. After inves...
Send a text Somali American Abdi Nor Iftin is a naturalized U.S. citizen and the author of a memoir titled "Call Me American." Iftin has also been outspoken about Somali fraud—and facing threats from the Somali community. He spoke with Liz Collin on her podcast about the consequences of telling the truth instead of taking sides. Iftin admitted, “What's bothering me — it's just the fact that speaking up against fraud within my own community has become something that could get you in tr...
Send a text Attorney Dr. David Feinwachs joined Liz Collin on her podcast. He is former general counsel of the Minnesota Hospital Association. He was fired for asking too many questions after four HMOs in Minnesota were making an extraordinary amount of money from the state Medicaid program. The federal government has put Minnesota on notice: fix the fraud or lose the federal funds. Dr. Feinwachs said a recent filing from the feds is a “bombshell” and could lead to severe conseq...
Send a text Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Jim O'Neill, deputy secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), met with Liz Collin for an interview. Dr. Oz and Deputy Sec. O’Neill talked about what they saw when they visited daycare and autism centers in the Twin Cities for themselves. They told Collin that while checking out suspected fraud in St. Paul, within minutes they were chased out of buildings, flipped o...
Send a text Minnesota, Maine. Two different states, but they have a lot in common when it comes to Medicaid fraud. Steve Robinson, an independent journalist and editor-in-chief of the Maine Wire, has been sounding the alarm and pointed out some of the incredible similarities with Liz Collin on her podcast. Support the show
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Isn't it ironic that the folks who are biggest supporters of capitalism are the ones who were forced to live under socialism? Well done and best of luck to this candidate, who is wise beyond her years.Trusting the outcome presented by the election system in the MN twin cities, does seem a bit optimistic though.
Another daughter killed by a preferred citizen who treats public roads as a personal toilet. A poster child for soros funded "prosecuters" seeking social justice, prioritizes soros' machine to dismantle actual justice by giving favours over victims lives. Typical soros DA coddling offenders and re assaulting victims a second time. Families are being re-abused by "legal teams" that view crime victims lives as misfortunes in their quest to faithfully serve up victims at the alter of progressivism.
Thanks!
There was a time when the upper Midwest did lead the nation in education standards. Unfortunately that was many decades ago and long before unionized activists were allowed to take over and wreck the education system. Thanks for this. Great conversation.
Thank you for providing a glimmer of truth through the legacy media darkness. 80 of 87 counties in 287G while only 12 counties devastate the electoral process.
Great work getting the truth out! Thanks!
Great Conversation!!! 2:08 The language has been perverted and polluted for decades now, but the push came in the 90s. 4:00 This is what leftist control of the education system has delivered. 5:00 Mao's Red Gaurd is now shaping the education of your offspring.
Hopefully your guest will be successful in extracting the child from that situation and redirect his upbringing to build a stable citizen, who aids in the success of our future society, but given the perverse regulations paired with rebelious judicial activists grinding the wheels of justice in MN, this will be likely be a daunting battle.
Great coverage of the purchased performative neo-confederate insurrection in support of slave wage labor. And of course the ongoing probing revolution against Our Republic. Great conversation with a knowledgeable guest who even through cancelation adversities sees and understands the present hazards. The iron triangle of propaganda is at work and being utilized to perfection by the paid theatrical activists, #LeftWingLegacyMedia, and corrupt politicians in MN. Will we lear our lessons?
Yep, it's set up to facilitate wide spread fraud. The dims like it that way, and rely on it.
It is shocking the types of idiots that are allowed to influence students by attempting indoctrination within the established educational industrial complex. Thanks for this story.
Elections with DFL involvement in MN has been crooked since the Coleman election was hijacked.
More MN graft. Will the governing leadership of the state not ever lear?
More nonsense out of the juvenile governance from the petulant children in charge of governing MN. Hopefully timpon and his corrupt team of dimocrat imbeciles will we removed and replaced by common sense adults.
Maine has learing centers too. Common threads, dimocrat politicians and foreigner controlled taxslave funded 'charity' entities. Everyone except the taxslaves get a cut of the graft. Foreigners fund their homeland causes and recycle a tithe to elect their benefactor politicians including helping to fund their enabling politicians favorite agitating activist groups.
Very accurate recounting of events! Thank you!
More "learing" centers for fraud?
Wow! Deport her now! Has anyone bothered to verify Ilhan is present in this nation and grifting in Congress legally? Changing her birth year is a red flag? I wonder about marrying her husbro? Is tax fraud also a criminal act for this #dimocrat super citizen?
Wow! US citizens can't even move ten thousand dollars within their banks with out special paperwork and Timpon's Ilhan army moved millions through MSP with out any scrutiny whatsoever.
1:30 obligatory disclaimer to avoid cancellation, which is likely already in the works.