Minnesota

Happy Labor Day Weekend! Host Jason Flohrs chatted with Rep. Jim Nash about all the recent local and state scandals of waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars. From cities overcharging for permitting fees and then pocketing the profits to DHS giving out tens of millions of dollars to the wrong people – it’s time […]

Grassroots group praises Rep. Emmer for standing up for fiscal responsibility  ST. PAUL, MN – Americans for Prosperity-Minnesota (AFP-MN) today launched a new direct mail and digital effort thanking U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer for taking a principled stand for fiscal responsibility by voting against the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019. This campaign comes as lawmakers […]

This week on Americans for Prosperity Radio: Tori Whiting from the Heritage Foundation joins host Jason Flohrs to talk about another $300 billion in tariffs from the Trump administration – this time forcing every family in America to pay more for basic consumer goods. We’ll talk about how we got into this mess, and what […]

Want to become a better advocate for the causes important to you? Rachel Burgin previews our free Grassroots Leadership Academy training course coming up next weekend! Then in the second half, host Jason Flohrs talks with Bruce Nustad from the MN Retailers Association about the unintended economic impacts of local ordinances on minimum wage, sick/safe […]

More Americans than ever think the deck is stacked against them – but is the answer really a big-government system that INCREASES government control? We chat with Russ Latino about free-market reforms that will help “Unrig the Economy”. Then in the second half, economist Veronique de Rugy from the Mercatus Center joins the show to […]

AFP-MN Joins National Campaign to “Unrig the Economy” ST. PAUL, MN—Americans for Prosperity-Minnesota (AFP-MN) today highlighted its role as part of an integrated campaign to create a strong economy by leveling the playing field for all. The campaign, “Unrig the Economy,” is a multi-year, multi-million-dollar national effort that will harness the power of AFP’s grassroots […]

The 2019 legislative session has come to a close in St. Paul. Thanks to the efforts of our activists and supporters all over the state, Americans for Prosperity saw progress on many of our priorities at the legislature. We also saw the defeat of a more than a few bad bills that would have moved Minnesota in the wrong direction – on […]

Trump threatened tariffs on Mexico if they didn’t do more to control their side of the border. But this “negotiating tactic” has the potential to be the biggest tax increase on the American people since WWII, and undermines all the work that went into crafting the USMCA. We talk with Kevin Hernandez from the Libre […]

PAUL, MN – Following the budget’s passage in the legislature, Americans for Prosperity-Minnesota (AFP-MN) today issued the following statement: “It was unfortunate it took a special session to finish their work, but Minnesotans will be better off now that Legislators left billions of dollars of unsustainable tax increases and spending proposals out of the final […]