MN Republican State Rep Claims Minnesota Is 'Done' After Blue Wave

ST. PAUL, MN — A Republican state representative is declaring Minnesota finished after Tuesday's DFL sweep, warning that Democrats will permanently cancel representative government.

But the proposals behind his warning are far from certain, and one of his key claims doesn't match the legislation he cites.

"Minnesota is done," state Rep. Walter Hudson, R-Albertville, wrote on X.

In a video recorded the day after the election, he called the results "apocalyptic" and insisted, "that's not hyperbole, that's not an exaggeration." He warned of future generations "living under Maoist tyranny" and of people being imprisoned and possibly starving to death.

Democrats took every statewide office and full control of the State Capitol. Hudson presented two outcomes as certainties:

The first is redistricting. Hudson said Democrats will redraw the maps, likely costing Republicans at least two congressional seats. Talk of redrawing the maps before the next census surfaced among some Minnesota Democrats in May, according to Axios, but Democratic insiders and House GOP Leader Harry Niska both said they believe it would take a constitutional amendment.

The second is the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, which Hudson said "nullifies the legislature." He told viewers the bill creates a right to sue over "actual or perceived discrimination," calling that "the actual language in the bill," and listed a business, a school district, a city and a neighbor as possible targets.

That phrase does not appear in the version of the amendment that went to the House floor in 2024 or in the Senate version introduced in 2025. Neither text mentions businesses or neighbors, though the language would appear to cover cities and school districts.

Opponents argued at a 2025 House hearing that the proposal would give judges a "blank check" to rewrite the law. The 2024 sponsor argued that rights should be written into the constitution because laws and court rulings can shift with politics, the Star Tribune reported.

The amendment passed the House 68-62 in May 2024, but the Senate did not vote on it before adjourning, even with Democrats in full control. Amendments go from the Legislature directly to voters. Passage takes a majority of everyone casting a ballot in that election, according to KARE 11.

Axios expects a less sweeping agenda from this trifecta than the one Democrats passed in 2023 and 2024.