There Is Something Rotten in Minneapolis: Outside Money and Organizations Pretending to Be Local

Charlie Rybak is correct that “There’s something rotten in Minneapolis politics” but he misses what. The answer is outside money, especially money from one PAC, the Movement Voter Project PAC or MVP-PAC supporting far-left groups that pretend to be supporting local concerns.

Who is MVP-PAC?

MVP-PAC is a national PAC from Massachusetts, working to create a national far-left movement. In its own words,

“The Movement Voter Project is a one-stop shop for investing in year-round organizing and movement building to shift culture, win elections, and transform policy.”

In 2024, it funded 334 different organizations across the country. From January 2023 to December 2024, it raised $52M. 1.2% of its donors were from Minnesota.

MVP-PAC Buying Influence in Minnesota

MVP-PAC provided over $1.6 million to groups located in Minnesota in 2024. And when they did, often they were the largest donor for these organizations. Examples include:

• Minneapolis for the Many is putting out a massive amount of far-left messaging and supporting far-left candidates in Minneapolis. In 2024, 87% of their funding came from the MVP-PAC.
• ISAIAH is a faith-based organization in Minnesota. In 2024, its advocacy arm, Faith in Minnesota, got 44% of its funds from the MVP-PAC. In 2022, during the rent control debate in St. Paul, 75% of Faith in Minnesota’s funds came from the MVP-PAC.
• Gender Justice is made up of two groups, “Gender Justice Action” and “Gender Justice PAC”. Gender Justice Action raised $39,743 in 2024. Gender Justice PAC raised $75,000 in 2024, all of from MVP PAC.

And MVP-PAC’s influence in Minnesota is much bigger than these numbers would indicate as social media advocacy doesn’t require an organization actually be located in Minnesota.

What Has MVP-PAC Done, In Their Own Words

MVP-PAC takes credit for the far-left Minneapolis City Council. They say,

“In Minnesota, MVP partners reaped the fruits of over a decade of consistent, strategic organizing and electoral power-building, which enabled Democrats to pass a progressive agenda so bold that it has become a blueprint for state governance. We also helped elect progressive majorities on the Minneapolis and St. Paul City Councils.”

They also take credit for what happened when Democrats were in control of both houses and the Governorship.

“In 2023, this emboldened trifecta has enacted an almost-dizzyingly vast progressive agenda including 100% carbon-free energy by 2040, abortion rights, restoring voting rights for 50,000 formerly incarcerated citizens, gun safety, paid leave, $1 billion for affordable housing, trans health refuge rights, universal school meals, and more. As Governor Tim Walz (D) put it: “[Our] wish list is a to-do list and we’re checking it off.”

What Governor Walz did not say is that these policy breakthroughs didn’t just happen overnight — they were the result of a coordinated, decade-long organizing strategy by progressive grassroots groups. “

Got it? These things didn’t happen because of local people. They happened because of this national PAC and its puppet organizations.

There Is Something Rotten in Minneapolis: Outside Money and Organizations Pretending to Be Local  

Rybak is right. There is something rotten in Minneapolis and it is social media advocacy groups driven by outside money and outside agendas. Voters get there is a dissonance between what they know and what they are reading on social media. That the messaging isn’t representing their concerns. And this isn’t surprising because these nationally-funded groups flooding social media are not there to uplift local voices but sell their national agenda. And that is what is rotten.