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(1971)
11 months ago today, Rep. Melissa Hortman was murdered by a right-wing extremist.
A Democratic legislator was assassinated; right-wing influencers coughed out disinformation
Just hours after Minnesotans learned that Democratic House leader Melissa Hortman had been assassinated, right-wing influencer Collin Rugg, who has 1.8 million followers on X, posted a “report” that hinted that she’d been killed because of a recent vote on ending undocumented adults’ ability to enroll in MinnesotaCare, a subsidized health insurance for the working poor.
Mike Cernovich, another right-wing influencer who has 1.4 million followers on X, took Rugg’s post and amped it up, but in the “just asking questions” style of many conspiracy theories:
“Did Tim Walz have her executed to send a message?”
They were deeply ignorant about the MinnesotaCare issue.
Walz and Hortman — who was instrumental in passing legislation allowing undocumented people to sign up for MinnesotaCare as speaker of the House in 2023 — negotiated a compromise with Republicans in the Minnesota Legislature to end eligibility for adults, but keep it for children. They did so to win necessary Republican support in the 67-67 House to pass a state budget. Without it, state government would have shut down on July 1.
Both Hortman and Walz signed the compromise agreement in mid-May. This week, Hortman spoke tearfully about how difficult the vote was for her, but she was bound to vote yes on the issue because of the prior agreement.
Right-wing influencers marred Hortman’s death and smeared Walz on a pile of lies.
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist, was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Photo credit: Joseph Louw/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images
one of my seventh graders saw my Buddie phone background. Squinted at it. Squinted at me. Said, “you watched Heated Rivalry, didn’t you”
