Liz Collin Reports

Liz Collin Reports

Meaningful Minnesota conversations with Liz Collin. New stories and guests every episode. Liz Collin is a Minnesota native raised in Worthington and a multi-Emmy-Award-winning investigative reporter and news anchor. She is the producer of The Fall of Minneapolis and Minnesota v We the People documentary films, and author of They’re Lying: The Media, the Left, and The Death of George Floyd. Her work has prompted important state laws. Yet perhaps most of all, Liz has been giving a voice to the truth—and helping others tell their stories—for more than 20 years.

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August 7, 2026 14 mins

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Film director Chris Burgard joined Liz Collin on her podcast. Burgard is the director of the new documentary "Remember the Alamo - Don't Sharia My Texas" that looks at how Sharia law and mass Muslim immigration represent a battle for the soul of Texas.

“We know that they are targeting Texas because they absolutely believe that if they take down Texas, they can take down the whole United States and once ...

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Sgt. Bryan Savaloja from the Wadena County Sheriff’s Office joined Liz Collin on her podcast. He explained some of the details involved in a drug bust in rural Minnesota and the law enforcement partnership that nabbed five suspects, including two illegal aliens, who were collectively sentenced to more than 43 years in prison.

"This was a huge case," he said. "We have dangerous people who are entering ou...

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Daniel Rosen, the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota, joined Liz Collin on her podcast. Rosen provided explained more about the indictment of Antifa-related groups that were allegedly behind the threats, the stalking, and the violence that played out in Minnesota earlier this year. 

Rosen explained why the 95-page indictment against 15 defendants should be "mandatory reading"—espe...

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Attorney Brian Karalus joined Liz Collin on her podcast. He represents Shiloh Hendrix, the Rochester woman who was recently convicted of one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct after she used a racial slur when confronted by a man who used the same racial slur and recorded her while taunting her to repeat it.

Karalus talked about how the case raises important questions about freedom of speech, the mainstr...

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Congressman Tom Emmer, a Republican who represents Minnesota's Sixth District and serves as majority whip in the U.S. House of Representatives, joined Liz Collin on her podcast.

Rep. Emmer spoke about the rise of Somali gang violence, socialism and communism in America, and some of the failures of the Walz administration.

He also spoke about assimilation and Sharia law and said, "we are not creating a ...

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Anthony Sinople joined Liz Collin on her podcast. He’s a Maple Grove resident who lives in the Evanswood neighborhood, which includes more than 200 homes with prices advertised from $600,000 to more than $1 million. 

Sinople and several others in Evanswood who reached out to Alpha News are concerned about ties to potential fraud. They say there are dozens of businesses—from group homes, to da...

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Allen Shen joined Liz Collin on her podcast. He’s a Republican candidate for District 40B in the Minnesota House. Shen is also an Army veteran, yet he knows communism quite well as he was born in China. 

Shen appears in the Alpha News documentary “Minnesota Mao.” But now, after speaking in classrooms and at political events across the state, Shen believes he’s seen how people now ...

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Fraternal Order of Police, joined Liz Collin on her podcast. 

Gamaldi weighed in on some of the problems with policing in Minneapolis as yet another violent summer in Minneapolis unfolds on the heels of an alleged sex scandal that led the former chief of police to pack his bags. 

He also discussed problems with crime and leadership as as the department continues to struggle meeting minimum staffing levels.

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Heather Bacchus joined Liz Collin on her podcast. Bacchus lost her son, Randy Michael, to cannabis-induced psychosis and suicide at the age of 21. Since then, she has been a brave voice in Minnesota, battling through her own grief to help others and advocate for better laws and safeguards in the cannabis industry.

Bacchus spoke about parallels between how tobacco products were marketed in the past and how can...

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Rep. Kristin Robbins, Chair of the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee, joined Liz Collin on her podcast to answer lingering questions about fraud submitted by the Alpha News audience.

Rep. Robbins spoke about accountability, the handling of whistleblowers by Gov. Walz's administration, and the need to push back against rising socialism in Minnesota and throughout the nation.

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With more and more information about the COVID pandemic being released, Jason Lewis, a former Minnesota congressman , joined Liz Collin on her podcast to talk about his new feature film project, "State of Deception." 

The film aims to provide much-needed perspective about the scandals and so-called conspiracies of the COVID era. 

“This is really something that I think is going to go dow...

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Linda Hunsberger, a Minnesota mom who was shocked to learn that her son identified as trans, spoke with Liz Collin on her podcast. 

She shared her story publicly for the first time —and warned other parents to avoid being left in the dark while children are preyed upon.

“There really is a silent majority that is not for this, but you wouldn't think that just by hearing what the media is saying,”...

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Heidi Linhoff, a registered nurse, spoke with Liz Collin about how young patients assault hospital staff without consequences. 

Heidi Linhoff, a registered nurse at Fairview Riverside Children's Emergency Department in Minneapolis, joined Liz Collin on her podcast. Linhoff spoke about some of the harrowing stories of young patients assaulting nurses and hospital staff without consequences. 

She explained how...

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Josh Liljenquist joined Liz Collin on her podcast to set the record straight about what really happened after being banned from St. Paul parks—while helping the homeless—and the media manipulation behind it all.

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Tou Thao, one of the four Minneapolis police officers sent to prison for being involved in the arrest and heart attack of George Floyd, spoke with Liz Collin on her podcast.

Thao was one of the officers sent to prison for being involved in George Floyd's arrest and heart attack. He spoke out about his political imprisonment, the weaponization of Minnesota's justice system, and his powerful message in the brand new do...

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Janeen Balsimo, a retired Minnesota state employee, spoke with Liz Collin on her podcast about what she believes to be yet another kind of Somali fraud involving workers' comp cases and “fake employees” with “fake injuries.”

She explained how "it seemed like 50% of my work comp cases … were Somali cases” — and how up to $150,000 was awarded for injuries.

Balsimo said that it ...

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Dr. Kurt Miceli, the chief medical officer at Do No Harm, joined Liz Collin on her podcast to expose how a radical agenda based on DEI and identity politics took shape at Hennepin Healthcare—and how hospital administrators tried to hide it from the public.

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Jace Svensk, a student at Osseo Senior High School, spoke to Liz Collin on her podcast about how he believes his classmates were “forced" to take part in an LGBTQIA+ lesson and how the school made an “error” when he attempted to opt out.

Svensk told Collin that the school appears to be "more focused on identity politics and promoting these pride celebrations than they are actually teaching u...

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Aitkin County Sheriff Dan Guida spoke with Liz Collin on her podcast about the case of Brian Pippitt—who was convicted of killing an 84-year-old store owner—and how he believes the questionable decision-making of Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and his Conviction Review Unit has put confidence in the Minnesota criminal justice system on the line. 

“The sheriffs across the ...

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Retired St. Paul Fire Captain Thomas Bever joined Liz Collin on her podcast. He spoke about how he fell from a ladder while fighting a fire and the unbelievable, head-scratching bureaucracy that left his career and his family in ruins.

“Why does that person get gender reassignment surgery, but I got hurt in the line of duty and I can't get a shoulder operation or a knee surgery and I have to fight for t...

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