What Next - The Scandal That Took Down Tim Walz
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
How a mixture of real investigations, wild allegations, evidence of actual fraud, and the right-wing echo chamber ended Tim Walz’s governor campaign in Minnesota.
Guest: Deena Winter, Minneapolis City Hall reporter for the Star Tribune.
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| 0:25.1 | Visit Slack.com slash podcast to get 50% of Slack Business Plus. I've been thinking a lot about what qualifies as an investigation these days. |
| 0:41.6 | I say that because my social feeds are filled with investigations, of all kinds. |
| 0:47.2 | Like there's this one guy I follow who seems exclusively interested in abandoned buildings. |
| 0:53.7 | He takes pictures of empty office parks with |
| 0:56.4 | drained swimming pools and kitchens still filled with food. And then he tells you the story of |
| 1:02.7 | what happened there, or at least what he thinks happened there. Anyway, over the Christmas |
| 1:07.6 | holiday, I got flooded with a different kind of investigation. |
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| 1:18.1 | This is a video from a right-wing YouTuber named Nick Shirley. Maybe you caught it too. |
| 1:24.1 | I don't think anybody is enabling fraud to happen. |
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