Show 15-51 Summary: USAID? The Social Security gateway fraud? All that fraud, waste, and abuse DOGE uncovered? That was bad. But more extensive fraud will be uncovered at the state levels. This week we bring back Rep. Ed Diehl to discuss this success of the No Gas Tax referendum movement. And what that success means for ODOT, an agency that oozes overspending and waste. And what it means for the Democrats who pushed this bill on Oregonians. ODOT is a prime example of a government agency abusing the taxpayer. We are seeing fraud, waste, and abuse exposed at every level of government. We drill down into the Somali fraud in Minnesota because there are patterns now emerging in other states where additional fraud is being uncovered. And those are very similar patterns to fraud that Ed is exposing at Oregon’s Health Authority.
15-51 If the Fraud Happened There, It is Happening Here
Show 15-51 Summary: This week we bring back Rep. Ed Diehl to discuss the success of the No Gas Tax referendum movement. And what that success means for ODOT, an agency that oozes overspending and waste. And for the Democrats who pushed this bill on Oregonians. ODOT is a prime example of a government agency abusing the taxpayer. We are seeing fraud, waste, and abuse exposed at every level of government. But it turns out there’s a lot more fraud out there happening the more we look. We drill down into the Somali fraud in Minnesota because there are patterns now emerging in other states where additional fraud is being uncovered. And those are very similar patterns to fraud that Ed is looking into from Oregon’s Health Authority.
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Air Dates: December 20th & 21st, 2025 | Guest: Rep. Ed Diehl
This Week – Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
Did it occur to anyone the reason why Oregon democrats shoved through the Gas Tax Bill is because throwing more money at ODOT makes it easier to cover up fraud, waste, and abuse? With big spending has come expansive, and expensive fraud. And we’ve only just started to see this exposed.
We welcome back Rep Ed Diehl to talk about the phenomenal success of the No Gas Tax signature gathering to put the referendum on the November election. They needed over 78,000 qualified signatures but have already turned in 193,000. Talk about room for margin of error.
Why not congratulate Oregon Freedom Coalition for their outstanding work? Head to OregonFreedom.com to drop them a Christmas gift to help them build on that success in 2026. Plus, as a registered 501(c)4 and PAC, Oregon residents get a $50 tax credit ($100 per couple) for political donations.
Somali Fraud Framework Here in Oregon?
We’ve said Oregon is the Wuhan Lab of Leftist policies. And that’s true. They try out policies here, do some gain of function (trial and error, improve processes, persuasion points, marketing, funding, etc.,), and then export it to other states. Fraud happens that same way.
Someone schemes up something, they figure a way to make it work, then others in other states replicate it. And that’s what has happened with the Somali fraud. Which is being uncovered in other states.
It requires an expansive and overly generous social benefit program. Like welfare, Medicaid, food stamps, rental assistance, etc. And, in places like Oregon, they throw a whole bunch more of it under the umbrella of “health care.”
By having such massive amounts of money fly out the door, fraud becomes harder to find, despite there being more of it. It’s one thing to to find a single needle in a haystack. But a haystack the size of a barn can hide a lot more needles. Even worse: use illegal immigrants so anyone who looks can be labelled a “racist” to stop potential investigations in their tracks.
Don’t think that works? It did. In Minnesota, merely suggesting racism was enough to stall investigations. And now at least $1 billion was stolen from Minnesota. And some are saying it’s as high at $9 billion .
We talk with Ed about a fraud scandal through Oregon’s Health Authority. Which is so eager to create a football-field sized haystack they include things like Climate Change as “healthcare.” Literally anything can now be called healthcare.
But what to do about? Those are our questions too.
Show Notes: Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info
Ed Diehl’s organization is Oregon Freedom Coalition. Head to OregonFreedom.com to learn more. And please donate to reward them for their success—and to grow it in 2026!
‘It makes me want to knee someone in the groin,’ Senator says of $1B Somali fraud scheme (KOMO News, December 6, 2025)
Fear of being called ‘racist’ was key factor in Minnesota’s fraud scandal, expert reveals (Fox News, December 9, 2025)
Luxury cars and private villas: See how Minnesota fraudsters spent millions intended for hungry kids (CBS News, December 11, 2025)
Expert reveals key factor that led to massive Minnesota fraud scheme (Fox News, Dec 9, 2025)
‘Schemes stacked upon schemes’: $1B public benefits fraud fuels scrutiny of Minnesota’s Somali community (Fox News, Dec 7, 2025)
In 2021, when the Minnesota Department of Education grew suspicious and tried to stop the flow of funds, Feeding Our Future sued, alleging racial discrimination. A judge ordered the state to restart reimbursements — a ruling prosecutors said enabled the scheme to escalate.
An Oregon Health Authority contracts manager emailed senior leaders in May about a “circuitous” bunch of businesses tied to $60M Arizona Medicaid fraud case
OHA paid Uplifting Journey $2.3 million in drug and alcohol treatment Medicaid reimbursements
State Rep. Ed Diehl triggered the investigation when he asked OHA whether Uplifting Journeys had ever received state or federal funding.
Diehl wanted to know after The Post Millennial reported police responded to 17 calls at the Lake Oswego house operated by Uplifting Journey and alleged gang ties
Related
Fraud at the highest levels — inside the White House: “Trump Administration Moves To Expose Autopen Presidency Records Biden Tried To Hide” (Trending Politics, Dec 17, 2025)
Time for Some Pushback! Winning Strategies to Stand for Health Freedom
Show Summary: It’s been a year of being pushed around. Endless mandates. Lockdowns. And now communist-style vaccine passports? Here’s what you can do to push back. And win. We talk with Leah Wilson about Stand for Health Freedom’s winning strategies to pressure lawmakers into making the right votes on legislation that would take away our freedoms. Because we only truly have the freedoms we’re willing to fight for.
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This Week: With all these covid mandates and lockdowns and executive orders that have fines and punishments attached and yet aren’t really laws but are being portrayed as though they are—combined with our loss of freedoms, it’s hard to know where and how to push back. It’s bewildering. Wouldn’t it be nice to have an easy toolkit to take the guesswork out of it? Make things easy. And yet still be highly effective?
Well, look no further. We have it for you.
Covid Pushback
In all of this covid pandemic, it’s been the loss of our freedoms that is the most heartbreaking. The country our Founding Fathers gave their lives for, and our ancestors fought to maintain, is being stolen out from under us. Where did America go? When dictator-like governors, like Oregon’s, makes rules with whatever pops into her head.
Take a Stand! Text “stand” to 313131 to tell your legislators you believe in health freedom!
What’s worse is that these rules and mandates are designed to make us weak. We gained our freedoms by a commitment to God and country. We spoke with our fellow man. And we discussed and debated what freedom really was. We came together as a society. All these rules and mandates have driven us apart. They have kept us apart.
They have made us weak by taking away our normal means of standing up for the very freedoms being taken away.
The Next Phase: Covid Vaccine Passports
Have those in power learned a lesson? Do they fear the people—as they should? No. Those that have suffered no genuine pushback (like Oregon’s and New York’s governors) are more emboldened than ever. Which is why they are pushing now covid vaccine passports.
Make no mistake. These are completely modeled after China’s social credit score system. Doubt us? China has said they want to run the vaccine passport system. Because this hardened communist country that thinks nothing of murdering, imprisoning, and enslaving their own citizens totally want to make sure the rest of the world is free. Right?
Haven’t taken the covid vaccine yet? Thinking about it? Before you do, watch this short video.
What You’ll Learn This Week
We welcome Leah Wilson to the show this week. Leah is the co-founder and executive director of Stand for Health Freedom. We get to know her organization, what they do, and how they got their start—due to drugs being pushed onto helpless kids trapped in the foster-care system.
On this week’s show, you’ll get some clarity on the health care laws and rules out there. And some things you as an every day citizen can do. Not to mention what you can do to defend your business. We also talk about what’s happening right now in Oregon. The Petri Dish of Leftist politics and ideology.
Pay attention to Oregon. What happens here doesn’t stay here. It spreads like a disease, infecting other states. Right now, Oregon is on the verge of vaccine passports. We NEED to stop this. And here’s how.
Vaccine Passports Pushback: Tools to Win
Activism can be tough. It’s even harder when you don’t know where to start. Or you feel alone and powerless. Which is exactly how those in power want you to feel.
Well, no more. Now, using Health for Freedom’s simple, and easy to use tools, you can take a stand for freedom in as little as five minutes. You simply fill in some details and they do all the work for you. And it works.
Why? Because it applies the biggest pressure known to politicians: daylight. Politicians love to work in secret and not have people know what they’re doing. Stand for Health Freedom’s tools bring public exposure and lets politicians know you are watching them. You know. And you’re against it.
Face it. Politicians say they love democracy. But when it gets right down to it, they hate when people actually get engaged.
And that’s how you win.
Do it Now. Don’t Wait.
And time is of the essence. Oregon’s HB3057 that opens the door to vaccine passports breezed through the House. The bill will allow the Nazi-named Oregon Health Authority to disclose your “individually identifiable information and health status related to covid 19.”
Yep. It’s the vaccine passport. And, as we say, it already passed the House. Now it’s on to the Senate.
Why did it pass? Because people were silent. And not many people knew about it. That’s why it’s critical you get engaged right now.
And remember: if it happens in Oregon, it’s coming to your state too.
There are two ways to do it:
Go to Stand for Health Freedom’s Take Action page. Select your state and look for the action items. And then just follow the simple directions
Text the word “stand” (without the quotes) to 313131. Fill out the information and they will walk you through the rest.
The Covid Grand Jury
Remember two weeks ago when we had Dr. Henry Ealy on? He talked about the need to impanel a covid grand jury to dig into what really happened in the covid pandemic. The gain of function. How covid-19 was released in the first place. The involvement of our health departments. Dr. Fauci’s role. The bad data that led to the lockdowns. And so much more.
Now, you can help make that happen. Just head to SFHF’s petition page. Or simply text “CDC” to 313131.
Remember: being silent is how you lose freedoms. Don’t be silent.
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Links & Info
Leah Wilson is the co-founder and executive director for Stand for Health Freedom, a 501c3 non-profit fighting for your rights to protect your health as you see fit
VIDEO: Leah Wilson Interviews Ilana Rachel Daniel | Stand for Health Freedom (BitChute, May 3, 2021)
If you think things are bad here in the U.S., especially here in Oregon, it’s way worse in Israel. Take a listen.
OSHA Imposes New Guidance For Employer-Required COVID-19 Vaccines: Contractors criticize mandate to classify adverse reactions as recordable safety incidents (ENR, May 3, 2021)
The question asks whether an employer should record adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccination if the employer requires the vaccine. OSHA states that if a vaccine is required, then any adverse reaction is considered work-related and therefore it must be recorded.
Oregon Senator Brian Boquist: Vaccine Passports, Checking Government Power, and More (Oregon Catalyst, May 16, 2021)
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Top CDC Official Steps Down Weeks After Emails Surface Showing Collusion With Teachers Union (The Federalist, May 18, 2021)
Use of Fear to Control Behavior in Covid Crisis was ‘Totalitarian’, Admit Scientists: Members of Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behavior express regret about ‘unethical’ methods (The UK Telegraph, May 14, 2021)
Tucker Carlson: Why isn’t Fauci being investigated for his role in covid? (FoxNews, May 11. 2021)
Constitutional powers and issues during a quarantine situation (March 13, 2021)
The 5 Most Popular Safety Laws (That Don’t Work) (via Cracked.com)
Why Oregon’s Health Care Lost Its Way—and Can It Recover?
Show Summary: It was only six years ago that Oregon had one of the health care systems and markets in the nation. But then Democrats “fixed it” with their zeal for universal health care. A look back—and can it be fixed?
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There’s a scene in Star Trek III when the crew of the Enterprise have stolen the ship and they’re being pursued by the Excelsior, the newest, fastest ship in the Federation fleet. The Enterprise goes to warp and the Excelsior prepares to give chase—only to have the engines grind to a halt and come to a dead stop. Scotty turns to Dr. McCoy, hands him some bolts, and says, “Here, Doctor. From one surgeon to another. The more they overhaul the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.”
And that’s pretty much what happened to Oregon’s health care.
Oregon’s Health Care: What Happened?
What happened? In a word: Democrats. In their zeal to push Oregon into “universal health care,” also known as “single payer.” Or, more accurately, “socialized medicine.”
A Look Back at Oregon’s Health Care
This week, we’re joined by Lisa Lettenmaier, the owner and operator of Health Source Northwest. Lisa is our go-to expert for health care, especially the “unique aspects” of Oregon’s health care market, given our lurch toward socialized medicine.
It’s open enrollment time. Do you have an insurance plan? The deadline is Dec. 7th for Medicare and Dec. 15th for individuals. See HealthSourceNW.com
Oregon’s Health Care System Transformation
In 2013, then-Oregon-Governor John Kitzhaber, a huge proponent of single-payer/universal health care/socialized medicine introduced a grand plan for Oregon’s health care. It was generally known (in typical socialist lingo) as “Oregon’s health system transformation.”
Kitzhaber convinced Obama to spend billions on this new innovative health care system that was going to transform health care as we know it: improve care and lower costs. You read that correctly. We spent billions to lower costs.
It introduced regional monopolies known as “coordinated care organizations” (CCOs). This, despite studies that repeatedly shown that ACOs (associated care organizations, as they are known in Obamacare) do not save money. And do not improve care.
Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations
To set up these monopolies, they introduced legislation to bypass antitrust laws, violating the free market. The Oregon Health Authority (nice name, Nazis!) became the overseer of all things health. And the bureaucracies. Multiple layers of bureaucrats between you and your doctor. All of whom end up on Oregon’s PERS. A global budget that removed the ability to track monies allocated per patient. (Because that wouldn’t ever lead to abuse, grift, and corruption.) And a never-before seen cap on Medicare and Medicaid.
Basically, CCOs violated every free-market principle that would lower costs and improve care.
And, sadly, Oregon Republicans helped pass it. Yes, Republicans. How did this happen?
Useful Idiots: Oregon’s Republicans
Basically, the transformation was sold to gullible Republicans under the guise of “saving money” and “local control.” After the fact, they were “surprised” that this turned out to be a big giant push toward socialized medicine.
In reality, it shouldn’t have surprised any of them. Why? Because on the first page, the first paragraph of the bill it clearly said, “It is the intention of the Legislative Assembly to achieve the goals of universal access.” Yes. Universal health care. Single payer. No private health care. The finest that Venezuela has to offer.
True Stories of Socialized Medicine
Here’s a reminder: no democrat running for president has ever lived under socialism. Not one. That’s right. None of them have ever lived under universal health care. And yet Bernie and Warren and several others are pushing for both socialism and universal health care.
Know what’s funny? Have you noticed that when people in those universal health care systems run into trouble, they go to where there isn’t a universal health care system? Instead, they come here to the U.S. rather than waiting weeks or months for treatment.
Well, not everyone. Just the rich. And the politicians.
When you run into trouble in a universal health care system, you go to where there isn’t a universal health care system
Want some true stories from people who have lived under socialized medicine? See this thread on Twitter from Carlos Osweda.
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Obscure Model Puts a Price on Good Health—and Drives Down Drug Costs: Concept called QALY places dollar value on the health medicines can restore; ‘starting to influence decision-making’ (Wall Street Journal, Nov 4, 2019)
Don’t want to do abortions, sterilization, or assisted suicide? Tough. Or so says a NY Federal Judge: “Federal judge blocks HHS ‘conscience rule’ for health care workers. Rule was slated to go into effect November 22” (KTVZ, Nov 6, 2019)
