MN-01: This Congressman is attacking Black Lives Matter with white nationalist talking points.

In a Facebook post published on June 23, Congressman Jim Hagedorn (R-MN) used white nationalist rhetoric to condemn the Black Lives Matter movement. Hagedorn wrote that the Black Lives Matter movement is “at war with our country, our beliefs and western culture.” He insisted that Americans must oppose the Black Lives Matter movement to defend the nation’s “Judeo-Christian values” and “way of life.” Hagedorn represents a congressional district just 50 minutes south of where a police officer murdered George Floyd in May.

Hagedorn's Facebook post is not an anomaly. He has a history of racist, sexist, and homophobic screeds going back decades. Yet, major corporations that publicly champion racial justice, equality, and inclusion – including UnitedHealth Group, U.S. Bank, Intel, and Best Buy – have donated thousands of dollars to Hagedorn's reelection campaign.

The author of a now-deleted blog, Mr.Conservative, Hagedorn once falsely alleged Democrats committed voter fraud with Indigenous populations. Hagedorn claimed “many of the voters registered for absentee ballots were found to be chiefs and squaws who had returned to the spirit world many moons ago.” He added, “Leave it to liberals to ruin John Wayne’s wisdom of the only good Indian being a dead Indian.” In 2008, he said that if Obama was elected, it would turn America into a “low-budget remake of Eddie Murphy’s hit comedy Coming to America.”



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