The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1724 - The Somali Fraud In Minnesota Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg. This State Is Even WORSE.
28 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the Somali invasion of Minnesota about?
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Now streaming only on Daily Wire Plus. Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we've heard quite a bit about the Somali invasion of Minnesota, but the same thing's happening to an even worse degree in other places in the country. In fact, in the state of Maine, there's been an explicit out-in-the-open campaign to make the state less white by importing foreigners from Africa.
This deserves much more attention than it's getting. We'll talk about it today. Also, a feminist woman writes what is perhaps the most deranged op-ed ever published, trying to explain why she doesn't want the men who allegedly gang-ramped her to go to prison. And Ilhan Omar is sprayed with a liquid during a town hall event. The media and Democrats are treating this like a national tragedy.
We'll talk about all of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. 10 years ago, the state of Maine had many easily identifiable, objectively serious problems. Poverty rates in the so-called rim counties, which are rural, exceeded 20%. The population was declining substantially. The paper industry was collapsing with several mills going bankrupt in a short period of time.
Thousands of jobs were disappearing. And on top of that, the workforce was getting much older with a median age of 44 years old. But in the eyes of leftists in New England, including wealthy leftists in Maine, none of these issues really mattered very much. Instead, the biggest problem in Maine, the only one they cared about, was that a lot of white people lived there.
Something like 95% of Maine's population at the time was white. Now, you might think to yourselves, if you're normal people, so what? Why would well-to-do leftists care so much about the demographics of a relatively small state? Why would they despise the presence of a lot of white people in Maine? Well, here's why.
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Chapter 2: How is Maine's demographic change impacting its community?
Now, in any other context, leftists would immediately identify this rhetoric as obviously not only racist, but genocidal and all the rest of it, because it is. But when you're trying to get rid of white people instead of, say, you know, illiterate criminals in Baltimore or Detroit, it's totally fine to talk this way.
You know, as long as you're not taking issue with the presence of thousands of fentanyl addicted, violent black felons like George Floyd in your state, then you're good. So the forcible demographic replacement of whites began. And to add humiliation to injury, white taxpayers, many of them poor, were forced to fund their own replacement.
Again, this is from the New York Times, quote, In 2009, refugees accounted for 16% of Lewiston's welfare costs, according to the Lewiston Social Services Department. But in 2010, the city began seeing a steady increase in asylum seekers and welfare costs started climbing. This year, asylum seekers accounted for 37% of the city's welfare costs, while other refugees accounted for 11%.
Now, those are from 15 years ago, those numbers. Demographic replacement was only just beginning in Maine. In fact, the governor of Maine, Janet Mills, went on to announce a new Office of New Americans, along with a proclamation saying that she intended to bring 75,000 so-called New Mainers to the state of Maine by 2029. Of course, New Mainers is code for foreign nationals and fake refugees.
In 2019, Mills stated that so-called asylum seekers would be entitled to general assistance, meaning taxpayer-funded welfare. So what's happened in the intervening years as foreigners from the third world have been imported into Maine without interruption on the order of the Democrat Party? Well, let's see. This is from News Nation just a couple of weeks ago.
A small community in Maine is calling for accountability tonight after they say money for mass shooting victims instead went to Somali-linked nonprofits. You'll likely recall that in October, 2023, 18 people were killed in Lewiston, Maine, when a US Army reservist opened fire at a bowling alley in a bar and grill.
In the wake of the shooting, a local nonprofit created a fund promising that 100% of the money would go to the victims. Generous donors gave millions of dollars, but a large chunk of that money did not go to victims. That's part of the outrage. Where it ended up is the other part.
In the wake of the shooting, a local nonprofit, the Maine Community Foundation, established the Lewiston-Auburn Area Response Fund.
We all met in an auditorium in the school, and they told us that night that 100% of the funds would go to the victims. And then I received the email, too, to say that.
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Chapter 3: What are the historical issues faced by Maine's population?
She was on a podcast with Mark Elias, the Democrat operative. And here's what she said. Watch.
So then you go into the darker motivations. Why would they want a national voter file? Are they on a fishing expedition? Is this a witch hunt to try to find every single potential problem? And guess what? There are duplicates on the voter rolls because people don't tell their clerks when they move. not duplicate voters, but duplicate registrants.
Sometimes there may be, I'm sure there are in some isolated instances, some non-citizens may be on the rolls. And that's what election officials do every day is verify the integrity of the voter rolls.
So to repeat, quote, sometimes there may be, I'm sure there are in some isolated instances, some non-citizens may be on the rolls. But you shouldn't worry about that, according to Shano Bellows, because Democrats are working very hard to ensure the integrity of our democracy.
That's her answer when she's explaining why she doesn't want to turn over Maine's voter rolls to independent investigators for an audit. But wait a minute. How would a single illegal alien ever get on the voter rolls in the first place? Seems like that'd be pretty easy to prevent that from happening.
What safeguards does the state of Maine employ to ensure that only American citizens are voting in our elections? And how many illegal aliens have been able to circumvent those safeguards? Those are important questions for a Secretary of State to address, but for Shenabellos, it's no big deal. And we all know why that is. These foreigners voted for Shenabellos and her party. That's it.
And actually, they do a lot more than that. Again, Steve Robinson, the editor of The Main Wire, who also writes on Substack, has done extraordinary reporting on the relationship between foreign fraudsters and the Democrat Party. And here's what he found. Quote,
Gateway Community Services, founded in 2014 by Somali-American refugee Abdullah Ali, came under fire last week thanks to whistleblower allegations reported exclusively by the Robinson Report that detailed an elaborate effort to overbill Medicaid, known in Maine as MaineCare.
At the same time the alleged fraud was happening, the Mills administration handed lucrative contracts to Ali's company and related nonprofit, while Ali and a former employee were creating the Community Organizing Alliance, COA, to boost voting for Democrats in migrant neighborhoods.
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Chapter 4: What does the op-ed about gang rape reveal about current feminist views?
Main care spending records obtained under the Freedom of Access Act show that the five main care agencies located within the office building at 203 Anderson Street have increased their combined annual billing from $900,000 in 2019 to $4 million in 2024. The building houses a branch of Dahabashil, the largest money transfer business in Africa, founded in Somalia and now based in the UAE.
It allows for the easy transfer of funds back into African nations, including Somalia. Now for Robinson, the solution here is simple. Watch.
the more you investigate this as a journalist or the more the law enforcement investigates this, you find more and more these connections to political actors in Somalia or Central Africa. You find more and more that there are
high-level political figures in Somalia who are benefiting from this scheme on the money transmission side, they have their own daycares or healthcare businesses in Minnesota or in Maine, and you can't help but view this as a form of nation-building for Somalia, but also economic terrorism against the middle class in Maine, in Minnesota.
I think this is economic terrorism, and I think it needs to be treated that way. They are systematically defrauding the American taxpayer at the nation state level in order to build out their country in Somalia. And it is economic terrorism. And the victims are the people who are dying of overdoses in Lewiston. The victims are the people who those benefits could have been spent on.
The victims are the people in northern rural Maine, the working class people, guys I went to high school with who are seeing, you know, half their paycheck go away in taxes so that Abdullahi Ali can drive a Mercedes and have an estate in Kenya while he's running for warlord of Jubaland. Like, those are the victims of the economic terrorism that the Medicaid fraud is wreaking.
And once you start treating it like economic terrorism, it becomes a national security problem. So, I think you need to unlock national security level responses to stop the fraud, to prevent it from happening in the future. And if you're ever going to get some semblance of justice for what's happened here, it has to be at the national security level.
There has to be a kinetic response to remove this, to stop this.
This is the attitude we need to adopt from this moment forward concerning these foreign fraudsters and criminals who are stealing our money, including money that's intended for the victims of mass shootings. They aren't coming here by themselves. They're coming here because they've been aided and abetted by foreign governments that despise this country and white people in general.
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Chapter 5: How are welfare costs affected by the influx of refugees in Maine?
And it very well may have not been. It may have been a thing that just happened. This was a crazy guy who did a thing. That's possible. But whether that's the case or not, it's still fake. This is all fake. The whole thing is still fake, no matter what. The hand-wringing and the panicking over it and the condemnations, it's all fake. You don't mean it. Like you can't actually be horrified.
There's no way that you could be horrified by a liquid being sprayed on somebody, but not horrified by a guy getting shot in the throat on camera. So it's all fake. This episode is sponsored by American Financing. Let's be honest, the math just isn't adding up lately, especially between the grocery store and those skyrocketing insurance premiums.
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The Post Millennial has a report about this op-ed. It says, a leftist writer has published a piece in The Nation explaining why she did not report her alleged 2021 gang rape at the hands of six men in Las Vegas, saying that she believes in the abolition of police and prisons.
Anna Krauthammer, a writer and doctoral candidate in English literature at Columbia University, wrote that in June of 2021, I was raped by a group of men during a three-day trip I took to Las Vegas with two of my best friends. Of the rape, which lasted all night, I remember both too much and too little. I never did anything about it.
I didn't tell anyone who could have done something about it, either, such as the hotel staff or the Las Vegas police. The simple answer to the question of why I never reported the rape is that I believe in the abolition of police and prisons.
The less simple, less articulate answer is that to pursue prosecuting and potentially incarcerating other people is inconceivable to me, even when they hurt me more than I could have ever believed possible. Because of this, I can only vocalize what I want in negative and inherently impossible terms. That all I want is for it to never have happened.
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Chapter 6: What recent events highlight the issues within the Somali community in Maine?
And for another, it disincentivizes future criminal activity. Now, in many cases, evil people don't respond to incentives and don't respond to it the way normal people do. But even so, without prison, if you're an evil scumbag, there is no incentive to not run around doing whatever you want. So all of that is obvious.
The problem is that the point of view that Anna is expressing is for the most part mainstream on the left. Now, the difference is that most leftists make an exception for crimes where they themselves are the victims or might be the victims. So usually they're in favor of prison abolition, except in cases where their own lives are personally jeopardized or affected in some way.
But aside from that, this is a mainstream view. It just is. This is mainstream on the left, especially in the kind of academia and in people who are the supposedly highly educated leftists as this woman is. And we're experiencing the consequences. I mean, there are judges and DAs across the country who basically have this same point of view.
And it's a point of view that, it's a point of view, I don't know how else to put it aside from we cannot share a civilization with people like this. We cannot share a country with people like this.
You know, this is a point of view that you either condemn and exclude and ostracize, or it eats away at the pillars that are holding up the whole structure of civilization and everything comes tumbling down. Even debating this. I mean, this is the most frustrating thing about modern leftism, which is to even debate what these people believe is to go backwards.
It's to go back and debate stuff that human beings already figured out 10,000 years ago. Okay, it's like the year 2026, we should be talking about how to get to Mars or whatever. Instead, we have to debate whether dangerous people should go to prison. This is literally something that human beings figured out, you know, a thousand centuries ago. We're way, way past that.
Okay, go back to the year like 9,000 BC and have that debate. And this is what they do with everything, right? I mean, we have to debate whether families are good. Is it good to have a family? Is it good to have kids? Is it good for society to continue to exist? Is it, should we kill babies? Is marriage good? We had to waste five years debating whether men can have babies. Do women have penises?
And on and on. And this is why, honestly, I've just, I've kind of soured on the idea of debate at this point. I got to be honest with you. Like, you want me to debate this? Should we have a debate about this? Should we debate whether gang rapists should be in prison? Should we abolish prisons like we're going to have a debate about that?
Should we just let violent criminals like just do whatever they want? Should we just should we open the prison gates and let them all out? Debated. Anyone who's on, like there are certain things that are just absolutely fundamental if you want to have a civilization at all. And so really these are the questions they're asking.
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