​​The Somali Fraud In Minnesota Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg. This State Is Even Worse.

Ten 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.

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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 that they cared about — was that a lot of white people lived there. Something like 95% of Maine’s population was white.

Now, you might think to yourselves: 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. Take a look at this screenshot, which is from an actual article that was published by USA Today in 2018. You may have seen this screenshot before, because it became something of a meme. But again, it’s all real. I just looked it up. The article is called “The best and worst thing about each state.”

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For Maine, the USA Today article states: 

The best thing: Lowest violent crime rate. Maine ranks as the safest state in the country, as there were just 124 violent crimes reported for every 100,000 residents — less than a third of the national rate. … The worst thing: Least diverse. According to the latest Census data, 94.4% of Maine’s population is white, beating out nearby Vermont and New Hampshire as the least diverse states.

Yes, the best part of the state is that there’s no violent crime. But the worst part of the state is that there’s no diversity. And over at USA Today, no one even considered the possibility that there might be a causal link between these two statements. (Because if they did, they wouldn’t have published this in a million years).

So there it is. In the era of BLM, racial equity, and George Floyd, the state of Maine was a living rebuttal to the fundamental tenets of modern Leftism. Maine was proof that diversity is not, in fact, our strength. In fact, diversity is a clear and present danger to every American.

Additionally, Maine proved that, contrary to Leftist orthodoxy, extreme poverty does not necessarily lead to high rates of violent crime. Instead, Maine demonstrated that all of the FBI crime statistics are true. Non-white people commit an overwhelming, staggering amount of serious crime in this country. And therefore, in a state with only white people, there’s much less serious crime.

This status quo was obviously unacceptable to the Democratic Party and to Leftists everywhere. So they immediately set out to destroy Maine — particularly the poor white areas. This isn’t some fringe conspiracy theory, by the way. Leftists were very open about what they were planning.

Here’s the New York Times in 2018, for example:

New Hampshire, like its neighbors Vermont and Maine, is nearly all white. This has posed an array of problems for new arrivals, who often find themselves isolated and alone, without the comfort and support of a built-in community. … It has also posed problems for employers in these states, who find that their homogeneity can be a barrier to recruiting and retaining workers of different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds. The issue prompted about 100 business leaders, government officials and members of nonprofit organizations to meet Thursday to search for ways that New Hampshire — which is 94 percent white — might lure other racial and ethnic groups, as well as younger people. … The irony is that with their own populations stagnant, these states must look to outsiders if they want to grow.

To restate: According to the New York Times and Democrats across New England, the fact that Maine is mostly white has caused “an array of problems.” It’s an “issue” that needs to be solved as quickly as possible.

In any other context, Leftists would immediately identify this rhetoric as racist, genocidal, homophobic, and so on. But when you’re trying to get rid of white people — instead of, say, illiterate criminals in Baltimore or Detroit — it’s totally fine to talk this way. 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:

In 2009, refugees accounted for 16 percent 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 percent of the city’s welfare costs, while other refugees accounted for 11 percent.

Those numbers are from 15 years ago. Demographic replacement was 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 she intends to bring 75,000 so-called “New Mainers” to the state by 2029. And 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? Let’s see.

This is from News Nation, a couple of weeks ago:

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You probably remember that mass shooting in Maine. We talked about it on the show at the time. The media never told us what drugs the shooter may have been taking, even though there’s no conceivable reason to hide that information — other than to appease Big Pharma, which coincidentally buys more media advertising than any other industry on the planet. And at the time, that’s what we focused on when we talked about this shooting on the air. We wanted to figure out how it happened and how similar shootings could be prevented in the future.

But the Somali community in Maine, and the broader network of Leftist NGOs that facilitate mass migration, were not asking those questions. They didn’t remotely care about the loss of life that resulted from the mass shooting. They didn’t care that 18 people had died, including a 14-year-old and several members of the local deaf community, who were playing club cornhole. Instead, without missing a beat, they immediately concocted a multi-million-dollar fraud. Within 48 hours, they drew up a scam. In the end, some of these fake Somali nonprofits made far more money from this fundraiser than the actual survivors of the shooting — who were white. There were no Somalis among the victims.

The reason this scam was uncovered is that, beginning in February of last year, Edward Tomic and Steve Robinson of “The Maine Wire” started reporting on where the donations were going. Robinson reported that the Maine Community Foundation, a nonprofit founded in 1983, launched “two concurrent fundraisers just two days after the mass shooting, on October 27, 2023.” The foundation ultimately raised more than $6 million across the two fundraisers — one of which was explicitly earmarked for victims. The other fundraiser was earmarked for “Lewiston-Auburn Area Broad Recovery and Organizations Fund.” The idea was that, by donating, you’d help the community recover from the mass shooting.

The Maine Wire found that roughly $4.7 million was indeed sent to victims and their families. But nearly $2 million went to immigrant and refugee-related nonprofits that have no connection to the shooting whatsoever. And it’s clear why this happened. At least four members on the 10-person steering committee on the fund were, in turn, representatives for organizations that received money from the foundation. Those four members included “Muhidin Libah of the Somali Bantu Community Association,” as well as a representative from United Way and Gateway Community Services (another Somali nonprofit).

Even by the standards of unapologetic, low-IQ Somali fraud, this is truly sociopathic behavior. But the important thing to understand here is that, as in Minneapolis, the Somalis aren’t coming up with these schemes on their own. The NGOs and the Democrat Party are enabling all of it. And they’re doing it because these foreigners are the key to their political power.

For one thing, a lot of these illegal aliens vote. Maine’s Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, admitted that, just a few months ago.

She was on a podcast with Marc Elias, the Democrat operative.

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She says, “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 Shenna 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? 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 Shenna Bellows, it’s no big deal. And we all know why that is. These foreigners vote for Shenna Bellows and her party.

And actually, they do a lot more than that. Again, Steve Robinson — the editor of the Maine 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’s found. 

Gateway Community Services, founded in 2014 by Somali-American refugee Abdullahi 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.

What happened is that, in 2018, an audit uncovered that the Somali nonprofit had allegedly over-billed MaineCare by nearly $1 million from 2015 to 2017. More than 35% of their claims to MaineCare supposedly contained errors. These are claims that were made by whistleblowers who worked there.

But instead of forcing the nonprofit to return that money, Janet Mills and the Democrats have showered them with even more taxpayer cash:

Since Feb. 2022, state contract records show Gateway has received nearly $3.3 million in taxpayer money under agreements with state agencies, including Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations, the Department of Education, and the Department of Economic and Community Development.

For good measure, here’s Governor Janet Mills, standing alongside Gateway Community Services CEO Abdullahi Ali and Ekhlas Ahmed, a Gateway Community Services employee who now works for the Office of New Americans. They all look very happy together — and why wouldn’t they? They seem to have a mutually beneficial arrangement going on. The Somali nonprofit gets cash. And the Democrats get a “grassroots” operation that churns out votes.

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Of course, Maine’s mostly-white population isn’t benefiting from this arrangement. Instead, in addition to being robbed, they’re also losing their cats. 

This is from late 2024.

Bangor Animal Control is continuing to investigate the mysterious disappearance of cats in Bangor’s Fairmount neighborhood, with officials saying multiple factors could be responsible for the recent uptick in unexplained vanishing felines—aside from wild predators. Animal Control Officer for the Bangor Police Department Trisha Bruen [said] on Monday that the recent wave of residents reporting their cats as missing began this summer, and is now close to 20 cases. Residents in the neighborhood have been left perplexed by the sudden disappearance of their beloved pets, with some questioning whether wildlife is responsible due to the lack of remains or collars being found.

Those cats, coincidentally enough, disappeared shortly after Catholic Charities began settling a bunch of Haitians in Bangor. Who’s to say if there’s a connection?

For all the attention that’s been paid to Minneapolis in recent weeks, it needs to be said that the full-scale assault on white people in Maine — who are being replaced *and* defrauded at the same time — truly stands apart. Keep in mind that many of the people being defrauded in Maine are poor whites. This is sociopathic. They’re targeting people who are old and poor and white, simply because of the fact that they’re old and poor and white. And the scale of the theft is staggering.

Recently, auditors with the Department of Health and Human Services took a look at claims for reimbursement for autism treatment services that were submitted to the federal government by DHHS, which is the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) swears in DHHS Commissioner Sara Gagne-Holmes, Sept. 2024 (Photo: Facebook): SUBSTACK/Robinson Report

Here’s what the inspector general of the federal HHS found. This is also from Robinson:

A federal report published Thursday threatens to blow yet another hole in the state’s budget. … The fiscal wreckage of the audit is substantial, with federal auditors estimating that DHHS made at least $45.6 million in improper payments in 2023 alone. Of that total, the feds are demanding that the state refund the $28.7 million federal share immediately. … The OIG flagged another $22.4 million ($14.2 million federal share) as “potentially improper,” citing documentation so unreliable or incomplete that officials could not verify if the services were actually rendered.

Just to underscore how guilty Democrats in Maine are, here’s an email from a senior appointee of Janet Mills, which was sent to other Democrat staffers in September of 2025. This email is a response to House Republicans’ effort to conduct oversight into Maine’s Medicaid spending.

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It reads: “The goal here is to avoid a congressional subpoena.” 

Yes, they put that in writing. Their objective is to avoid federal oversight. Put another way, they want to be able to spend millions of dollars of taxpayer money without having to explain where the money is going. This is the position of Maine’s entire government. And to illustrate that point some more, here’s another email, from Maine’s attorney general.

This is from January of last year, shortly after Trump took office. Again, it was obtained by the Maine Wire.

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The email reads: 

All DHHS Departments have received a directive from the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) advising staff that if an attorney, or anyone else, from the Department of Justice or the U.S. Attorney’s Office reach out looking to meet or seeking information, staff should not respond. Instead, they should forward the correspondence to their supervisor and the Superintendent’s office. The Superintendent’s office will then reach out to the appropriate Assistant Attorney General (AAG) to advise. If the communication happens to occur over the phone, staff should tell the individual that they cannot provide information at this time and will need to speak with counsel first.

So none of this looks good for Democrats in Maine, or the foreigners they’re importing. It looks a lot like they have a consciousness of guilt.

If you want to see the Somali side of the argument, because I want to be fair, just check out the response from a woman named “Ina Jirde InaRooti” on Facebook. She really takes Steve Robinson to task. She immediately accuses him of racism. This is what the Somalis learned to do in Minneapolis. They do it in Maine, as well. They just accuse you of racism when you point out their rampant fraud. That’s their tactic. And they rely on that tactic because it always works.

That needs to change. And on top of that, this administration needs to recognize the national security implications of what these foreigners are doing. This is not a domestic story. These invaders are coming from a foreign country, with the intent to defraud us, and then they’re sending a lot of our money back home to Somalia. We’ve already talked about Chris Rufo’s reporting, about how some of this taxpayer money is ending up in the hands of terrorists.

And as the Maine Wire reports, it’s not exactly hard for Somalis to send this money overseas.

An investigation into an unassuming office building on Portland’s Anderson Street has revealed an interlinked network of lucrative Medicaid agencies co-located with Dahabshiil, an Emirati money transfer business favored by the Central Bank of Somalia. MaineCare spending records obtained under the Freedom of Access Act show that the five MaineCare agencies located within the office building at 203 Anderson St. have increased their combined annual billing from $900,000 in 2019 to $4 million in 2024. … The building houses a branch of Dahabshiil, the largest money transfer business in Africa, founded in Somalia and now based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It allows for the easy transfer of funds back into African nations, including Somalia.

For Robinson, the solution here is simple.

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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. These foreigners are financially and politically supported by hostile foreign governments because these foreign governments benefit financially from the fraud.

Meanwhile, as a result, you won’t find Maine on the list of “safest places to be” anymore. It’s more diverse, which USA Today would celebrate. But it’s far more dangerous. Lewiston, the second-largest city in Maine, experienced a total of 192 shootings from 2019 to July 2025, along with 1,500 drug overdoses. In 2019, there were only 10 shootings and 113 overdoses for the whole year. In just the first six months of 2025, there were 20 shootings and 115 overdoses. In other words, the rates of shootings and overdoses have increased exponentially, along with the rate of “diversity” in Maine, as Janet Mills calls it.

It should not fall on an independent journalist like Robinson to uncover what’s happening in Maine. This should be one of the highest priorities of the Trump administration. The Left views Maine as a blueprint for their plan to engineer mass demographic replacement, to cause mass casualties and poverty among white populations. And because they’ve faced no resistance whatsoever in Maine, they’re going to do the same thing all over the country — unless the White House goes to war with these people. Arrest the fraudsters. Punish the foreign governments that are sponsoring this. Allow Americans to live in their own country. And — using the military if needed — force everyone else to live in theirs.