Exposed by Rachel Hurley
Pam Bondi just gave America the clearest window yet into what this is actually about. And it’s not immigration.
Today – the same day federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse in Minneapolis whose only prior offense was a couple traffic tickets – Bondi fired off a letter to Governor Tim Walz with a list of demands. Most of it was the usual: end sanctuary policies, cooperate with ICE, hand over Medicaid data. But buried in the demands was this gem:
“Allow the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to access voter rolls to confirm that Minnesota’s voter registration practices comply with federal law.”
Read that again.
The Attorney General is demanding access to every Minnesota voter’s personal information – names, addresses, birth dates, driver’s license numbers – in a letter explicitly connected to stopping ICE operations in the state.
This isn’t subtext anymore. This is text.
Bondi’s been suing states for their voter data since last summer. DOJ has already filed lawsuits against 14 states – California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, and more – for refusing to hand over their voter rolls. Every single one is a state that went for Biden. Every single one has refused to comply.
The courts have mostly told DOJ to pound sand. A California judge threw out their lawsuit, warning it would have a “chilling effect on voter registration.” Oregon dismissed theirs too. Georgia’s got tossed for being filed in the wrong district. But Bondi keeps filing.
And now she’s connecting those voter roll demands directly to Minnesota’s “compliance” with immigration enforcement. Give us your voters’ personal data, or the federal occupation continues.
Here’s what you need to understand about what “voter roll access” actually means. It’s not about checking if dead people are registered. It’s not about verifying citizenship. That’s the cover story. The real play is building a federal database of every voter in swing states – addresses, registration dates, party affiliations – that can be cross-referenced with immigration data, benefits data, whatever data they can get their hands on.
Senator Chris Murphy laid it out: “This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.”
Consider the timeline. Trump said on January 9th that Minnesota is “crooked” and “corrupt” because officials there “accurately reported election results and those results did not declare him the winner.” His actual quote: “I won Minnesota three times and I didn’t get credit for it. That’s a crooked state.”
Within weeks, Minnesota had 3,000 federal agents on the ground – more than the sworn police officers in Minneapolis and St. Paul combined. Two people have been shot dead by federal agents in three weeks. Today’s victim was an American citizen, a nurse, legally carrying a firearm with a permit. Bystander video shows agents wrestling him to the ground, removing his gun from his waistband, and then shooting him at least ten times while he lay motionless.
And hours later, Bondi’s letter arrives demanding voter rolls.
The Minneapolis lawsuit against the Trump administration – filed by the city, the state AG, and others – lays it out explicitly: “Immigration enforcement is clearly a pretext for the surge, as the percentage of Minnesota’s population that are noncitizen immigrants without legal status sits at roughly 1.5%, which is less than half of the national average.”
So why Minnesota? Why not Arizona, with its actual border? Why not Texas?
Because Minnesota is a swing state Trump believes he won. Because Tim Walz was Kamala Harris’s running mate. Because Ilhan Omar’s district is there. Because this administration sees a blue state that it can’t flip at the ballot box and decided to flip it with federal agents instead.
The quid pro quo is right there in Bondi’s letter. Do what we want on immigration, do what we want on benefits fraud – and give us your voter data while you’re at it. Or the federal occupation continues.
This is what it looks like when immigration enforcement becomes election enforcement. Same agents, same tactics, different target.
They shot an ICU nurse ten times today. And then they asked for the voter rolls.
