Democrats love to climb onto a moral high horse and lecture the rest of America, but recent revelations make that posture harder to sell by the day. There’s no polite way to put it: a pattern is emerging, and it’s ugly. Fraud isn’t an occasional embarrassment on the fringes—it’s beginning to look like a recurring feature that the party shrugs off when it serves their agenda.

We’ve been covering the staggering scale of fraud—up to $300 billion—tied to Minnesota’s Somali community under Governor Tim Walz. The numbers are jaw-dropping. The oversight has been nonexistent. And now, even Democrats are starting to admit how radioactive this is for Walz politically. Some are urging him to stay out of next year’s race entirely.

Former Minnesota Democrat state senator Ember Junge put it this way: “The governor, I think, has done a very respectable job, a good job, in Minnesota for the years that he’s been here. But he clearly is vulnerable and in my view, he is riskier than any Democratic candidate that might run.” That’s a generous review for a governor presiding over what looks like a fraud free-for-all. If this qualifies as “very respectable,” the bar is somewhere in the basement.

But that’s the modern Democrat Party in a nutshell: fraud is no big deal as long as it advances the cause. And when anyone dares to raise a red flag, the playbook kicks in—change the subject, accuse the critics, and smear them with the usual labels. Representative Ilhan Omar has perfected this routine. She regularly plays the race card, then goes even further, claiming that expecting immigrants to assimilate and adopt American values reminds her of Nazis.

CBS’ Margaret Brennan practically rolled out the red carpet for that talking point. And this is how the distraction machine works: if you can make the conversation about “bigotry,” you never have to answer for waste, fraud, and abuse.

But not everyone is willing to let it slide. The Trump administration isn’t either—at least not according to Dr. Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Oz says CMS is giving Walz 60 days to fix this mess, or else.

Don’t hold your breath for Walz to take responsibility. Accountability isn’t exactly a core Democrat value these days. If anything, this kind of story is a preview of what the Trump administration will be dealing with over the next three years as corruption keeps surfacing in blue strongholds across the country.

Take Maine. A whistleblower from a health company there says similar fraud may be happening in that state, too—again involving a Somali-American. NewsNation has the details. And yes, Maine is another blue state, run by Democrat Governor Janet Mills, who is now running for a U.S. Senate seat. Authorities are looking into the claims, and we’ll keep watching this one. But given the pattern, it wouldn’t surprise anyone if the whistleblower turns out to be right.

And if she is right, expect Democrats to respond the same way they always do: attack the people demanding accountability. Omar is already calling Trump “creepy” and “obsessed” for insisting taxpayers get justice.

Here she is again:

That’s rich coming from a party whose rhetoric has helped fuel real-world violence in America over the last year—Charlie Kirk’s assassination being the most horrific example. Yet the Nazi name-calling hasn’t slowed down for even a second. If anything, it’s their favorite smokescreen.

And Minnesota isn’t the only place where Democrats seem comfortable letting fraud bloom. The Small Business Administration has launched an investigation into the federal government’s 8(a) program—created in the 1970s to help small businesses owned by people deemed “socially and economically disadvantaged.”

The idea sounds noble on paper. The reality has become a DEI slush fund that practically invites exploitation. Here’s how it works: the federal government wants to award contracts for everything from IT services to construction to consulting. In a normal system, companies compete and bid. But the 8(a) program—run by the SBA—creates a shortcut lane reserved for businesses owned by certain protected groups. Black, Hispanic, Native American owners, women, and others who fit the program’s definition get access to set-aside contracts with limited competition. Predictably, projects run 5–25% pricier without real market pressure.

Under Biden, the administration cranked up spending goals, aiming for 15% of all federal contracts to flow through these “disadvantaged” firms. That dumped tens of billions more into a system already full of holes. It wasn’t about helping the little guy. It was about virtue-signaling, rewarding allies, and letting fraudsters gorge on taxpayer money—while discriminating against qualified non-minority businesses.

The grift is as obvious as it is common. A big non-minority company wants a lucrative contract but doesn’t qualify. So they find a minority family member or associate to serve as the paper “owner.” The real company does almost all the work. The “owner” gets a small cut—maybe 2–4%—and the contractor pockets the rest. It’s a pass-through scheme, and it exploded as rules loosened.

Even the government’s own watchdogs know this. A GAO report found $325 million in questionable 8(a) contracts across just 14 cases. The SBA’s inspector general said 80% of the biggest 8(a) firms were outright ineligible yet still took in $127 million in a single year.

And then there’s the bribery. In a massive scandal extending into Biden’s term through 2022, a USAID official pocketed over $1 million in cash, tickets, gifts, and favors to rig $550 million in no-bid contracts. One crooked joint venture pulled in an $800 million deal to study “migration.” So much for “disadvantaged.” The only thing disadvantaged here is the taxpayer.

Trump’s SBA, led by Kelly Loeffler, has slashed contracting goals, kicked USAID out as an authority over the program, and launched audits of contracts going back 15 years. This crackdown followed revelations by James O’Keefe, who interviewed an ATI Government Solutions contract manager undercover.

Biden’s 8(a) program wasn’t empowerment. It was a rigged racial spoils system where fraudsters thrived and everyday Americans—especially the people Democrats claim to champion—got burned. ATI uses the Susanville Indian Rancheria to claim “Native-owned” status, but tribe members say they’re suffering from the arrangement. Here’s more from O’Keefe.

When government tries to play favorites and pick winners, crooks win and real people lose. Race and gender don’t change that. Fraud doesn’t magically become justice because it wears a DEI badge.

And this pattern doesn’t stop with contracts. Democrats are fine with fraud in fundraising too, and ActBlue is the poster child. Congressional investigations show ActBlue repeatedly adjusted rules during the 2024 election to push donations through rather than block suspicious transactions. They’d been skipping CVV requirements on credit cards for years—something every legitimate donation platform uses to prevent fraud.

Their own internal data shows those changes opened the floodgates to as many as 28 extra fake donations per month. Investigators also found hundreds of contributions from foreign countries, prepaid gift cards, and organized fraud rings tied to places like China, Russia, and Iran. The bottom line: ActBlue knew what was happening and kept taking the money anyway.

Federal law is crystal clear. Knowingly accepting donations funneled through false names is a crime, punishable by prison. Only Americans with real identities should decide American elections.

The latest revelations, uncovered by Bob Cushman, point directly at the so-called “Seditious Six.” Cushman tracked suspicious donor patterns—like a single address in California linked to “Daphne,” who reportedly gave small amounts repeatedly to multiple candidates. Those donations reportedly flowed to all six members of the group, totaling nearly $3 million.

These are the same Democrats trying to play moral police right now. Yet nobody’s rushing to return the cash. Because, once again, Democrats are totally fine with fraud if it furthers their agenda.