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Source Target is boarded up in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota as closing arguments take place in the Derek Chauvin trial (Credit: Lorie Shaull)
Woke retail giant Target Corp. has reportedly shelled out a jaw-dropping $110 million just to walk away from its massive office space in downtown Minneapolis.
The move marks a final, desperate retreat from the 51-story City Center tower, where the company once occupied nearly one million square feet of prime real estate.
Rather than waiting out a lease set to expire in 2031, Target chose to cut a massive check to wash its hands of the property.
The Star Tribune reported:
After moving out of nearly a million square feet of office space in downtown Minneapolis’ City Center building five years ago, Target paid almost $110 million last month to officially break its lease that ran through 2031.
Now the owner of the 51-story tower at 33 S. 6th St. — an entity tied to South Korean conglomerate Samsung — is preparing to list the property for sale, according to a Feb. 2 loan servicer report.
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The Minneapolis-based retailer has continued to pay rent for the offices as they sat dark, making City Center a symbol of the challenges and uncertainties facing a downtown that relied heavily on its white-collar commuter crowds.
Target did try to sublet the space but didn’t have much luck beyond law firm Fox Rothschild moving into about 40,000 square feet of offices in 2022.
A spokesman for Target declined to comment on the lease-ending agreement but emphasized the company’s commitment to downtown Minneapolis as its second-largest employer. The retailer had been the biggest employer in the area for years until Hennepin Healthcare took the spot in 2024. Last summer, Target called its largest corporate unit back to the office three days a week and consolidated employees into other downtown properties near its Nicollet Mall headquarters.
Several other downtown office towers have sold in recent years, many at deep discounts as they grappled with high vacancies, maturing loans, rising borrowing costs and leery lenders.
Minneapolis, which became the national epicenter of radical “Defund the Police” rhetoric and unrest following the 2020 riots, has struggled to regain its footing.
While Target executives publicly tout “hybrid work models,” the reality on the ground is much grimmer. The City Center building has sat largely dark for years, a towering monument to the failed policies of the radical left that have turned downtown into a ghost town of vacant storefronts and rising crime.
The $110 million exit fee is one of the largest lease buyouts in the history of the Twin Cities, and it comes at a time when Target is already under fire from all sides.
This massive financial hit follows a disastrous period for the retailer, which has seen its brand identity shattered by “woke” marketing campaigns and aggressive DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives that alienated its core customer base.
New CEO Michael Fiddelke took the helm amid a firestorm of controversy. Fiddelke, one of a group of Minnesota CEOs begging for “de-escalation” after recent federal immigration enforcement actions in the state, now oversees a company in retreat.
It can be recalled that multiple Target stores across Minnesota and in other states were targeted by protesters with demands for Target’s corporate leadership to prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from being allowed in Target stores to arrest criminals.
Video from a Target location in Richfield, Minnesota, shows reportedly over 100 protesters illegally marching through the store, chanting, “The people united will never be defeated,” while holding a Socialist Alternative banner that read, “National Strike Shut Down Trump & ICE.”
Local police were at the scene but refused to do anything as the anti-ICE protesters berated them and called for Target to be shut down.
Not only is Target fleeing its namesake downtown, but the company recently announced it is slashing 500 jobs and reshuffling its entire leadership team in a desperate bid to “move with speed” as sales continue to slump.
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Congressman Moulton harbored an illegal alien in his office during the SOTU address! pic.twitter.com/AAFFXqpm9B
— Victor Nieves (@ItsVictorNieves) February 26, 2026

I hope that every American has someone in their life who loves them the way that Democrats in Congress love those who violate America’s immigration laws.
The Gateway Pundit reported,
A Democrat member of Congress spat in the face of law enforcement earlier this week by not only bringing an illegal alien to the State of the Union speech, but also helping him evade capture.
Before the speech, far-left Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) decided to invite a teenage illegal alien named Marcelo Gomes DaSilva. As CBS notes, Gomes da Silva was detained for several days last May because his student visa had expired and he was in the country illegally.
While Moulton was not the only Democrat to invite an illegal, he and his staff went a step further than his colleagues in making a mockery of the law.
As MSNBC notes, Moulton’s chief of staff, Neesha Suarez, noticed the DHS tweet and took action.
Worried about Gomes being arrested and deported, she helped him evade potential trouble by escorting him out of the chamber. The Boston Globe reported there was a heavy law enforcement presence in the House gallery.
The Congressman may want to familiarize himself with the laws about harboring illegal aliens:
Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts.
Harboring — Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii) makes it an offense for any person who — knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation.
How much more obvious could Democrats in Congress possibly make it that they do not value American citizens? Their top priority is protecting illegal aliens from far corners of the globe and ensuring that your hard earned tax dollars pay for them.
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No accountability – No justice.  Again, we have another example of AG Pam Bondi and FBI Head Kash Patel’s fatal mistake of not cleaning house the first day on the … Read more
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Woke Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat, invited 19-year-old Brazilian-born immigrant Marcelo Gomes da Silva, who was previously detained by ICE after his student visa expired, to attend President Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address as his guest. Gomes took his seat in the House visitors’ gallery, seemingly used as a political prop.
Midway through Trump’s speech, however, the Department of Homeland Security posted on X that Moulton was “planning to bring illegal alien Marcelo Gomes da Silva” and declared that he “has no right to be in our nation” and is subject to arrest and removal, echoing an earlier DHS message accusing Democrats of “planning to bring illegal aliens as guests to the State of the Union” and “putting illegal aliens above the safety of American citizens.” After seeing the post and noting the heavy law-enforcement presence in the chamber, Moulton’s chief of staff Neesha (also reported as Nisha) Suarez quietly escorted Gomes out of the gallery “out of an abundance of caution” and brought him back to the congressman’s office.
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From there, the “special guest” watched the remainder of the address on television. Moulton has said he invited Gomes because he sees him as exactly the kind of young person the United States should be investing in, while DHS officials have insisted in interviews and statements that Gomes “is still an illegal alien and subject to removal proceedings.”
The clash unfolded against a broader backdrop in which several Democratic lawmakers — including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sen. Dick Durbin, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Rep. Mike Levin, Sen. John Hickenlooper and Rep. Robert Menendez Jr. — invited so-called “immigrants” caught up in enforcement operations or lacking legal status as their State of the Union guests, prompting DHS to circulate lists of what it called “illegal aliens” among their invitees. Conservative outlets and X accounts amplified DHS’s language, highlighting the agency’s claim that Democrats were favoring “illegal aliens” over public safety and praising the administration’s vow that such immigrants would be found, arrested and “never return.”
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Minnesota Republicans are turning up the heat on the state’s far-left executive leadership as members of the Minnesota Freedom Caucus move forward with impeachment efforts targeting Democrat Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison.
For years, the Walz-Ellison administration has looked the other way while fraudsters looted Minnesota’s social services. We aren’t just talking about a few thousand dollars, federal investigators now estimate a mind-blowing $9 billion or more has been drained from programs meant for hungry children and the disabled.
And it gets worse. Reports have surfaced indicating that a significant portion of these “stolen” funds may have been funneled to overseas terrorist networks, including al-Shabaab.
“In my hands, I have articles of impeachment against Attorney General Keith Ellison. As I’m sure you’re aware, he had the Feeding our Future fraudsters in his office doing an alleged quid pro quo. He’s not fit for office,” State Rep. Ben Davis said in a video statement.
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FLASHBACK: MN AG Keith Ellison CAUGHT ON TAPE Promising Favors to Somali Immigrant Fraudsters — Including Now-Convicted Defendants — In Exchange for Campaign Cash
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Senators are under fire for holding a “Doggi Gras Pawrade” as the SAVE America Act stalls.
On Tuesday evening, President Trump urged Congress to secure our elections and pass the SAVE America Act.
“All voters must show voter ID,” Trump said.
On Wednesday morning, Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed that he will indeed bring the SAVE America Act to the floor.
Unfortunately, the SAVE America Act has stalled because it requires 60 votes in the Senate, and unless the filibuster is nuked, the measure is dead on arrival.
Thune quashed the ‘talking filibuster’ because four Republican Senators would not commit to tabling Democrat amendments.
The only way to pass the SAVE America Act would be to nuke the filibuster.
President Trump has repeatedly called for the Senate to kill the filibuster but the Senators are digging in their heels.
On Wednesday, Senators held a ‘bipawtisan’ doggie parade in the Hart Senate Building, where dogs in costumes were paraded through the halls.
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Credit: Gage Skidmore
The congresswoman at the center of Thursday’s wild closed-door testimony involving Crooked Hillary Clinton is not backing down from her Democratic haters, who are flipping out.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Hillary Clinton’s lawyers abruptly halted the Epstein deposition on Thursday after a photo of Hillary was leaked to conservative podcast host Benny Johnson.
The photo of Johnson was provided by Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO).
Clinton left the room over the leaked photo, and when she returned, she sparred with Chairman James Comer (R-KY).
Following the incident, Democrats angrily lashed out at Boebert and her fellow Republicans.
“What is not acceptable is Oversight Republicans breaking their own committee rules that they established with the Secretary and her team,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) fumed at a press conference during a break in the deposition.
“We are sitting through an incredibly unserious clown show of a deposition where members of Congress and the Republican Party are more concerned about getting their photo op of Secretary Clinton than actually getting to the truth and holding anyone accountable,” Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) added.
Clinton’s lawyers also accused Boebert of violating the House rules by snapping a photo of Hillary and releasing it to Johnson.
Boebert responded perfectly to the outcry over her taking the photo, referencing an event Hillary Clinton would love to forget.
“No U.S. ambassadors were harmed in the taking of today’s photo,” she wrote.

No U.S. Ambassadors were harmed in the taking of today’s photo. https://t.co/RdllTjCJDR
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) February 26, 2026

This post by Boebert is, of course, in reference to the U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
As TGP readers know, Stevens was assassinated by Islamic terrorists who attacked the US Consulate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, eleven years after the attacks on the World Trade Center.
The Libyan nightmare was the result of a war that President Obama and Hillary Clinton started. They never should have started the war in Libya, never should have placed Americans there unprotected, and when the Americans in Benghazi were under attack, they should have provided help.
Instead, four Americans, including Stevens, died in Benghazi as was famously portrayed in the movie 13 Hours.
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Hillary Clinton lashed out at James Comer and Republicans on the House Oversight Committee after her testimony on Jeffrey Epstein.
Clinton fumed over the leaked photo of her mid-testimony.
Hillary Clinton’s lawyers abruptly halted the Epstein deposition on Thursday after a photo of Hillary was leaked to conservative podcast host Benny Johnson.
The photo was provided by Congresswoman Lauren Boebert.

BREAKING: The first image of Hillary Clinton testifying under oath about Jeffery Epstein to the Republican Oversight Committee.
This is the first time Hillary has had to answer real questions about Epstein. Clinton does not look happy.
Photo provided by Rep. Lauren Boebert. pic.twitter.com/mPtUyA4u5i
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 26, 2026

Additional leaked photo:

Full Shot of the Clinton Epstein Testimony currently ongoing: pic.twitter.com/W4JuJhUjCN
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 26, 2026

Clinton left the room over the leaked photo and when she came back, she sparred with Chairman Comer, according to MSNOW.
The deposition eventually resumed.
Clinton held an impromptu press conference and lashed out over the photo leak.
“I did not know Jeffrey Epstein! I never went to his island. I never went to his home. I never went to his offices,” Hillary said.
Hillary said Boebert violated the rules by leaking the photo.
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Edited collab photo of Carl Grillmair, Judge Osman Abbasi, and Grillmair’s property via Caltech, Office of Gavin Newsom & Google Earth
 
New details have emerged regarding the accused killer of Caltech astrophysicist Carl Grillmair.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, 67, was shot in his torso by a gunman who approached him on his porch on February 16.
Authorities have since arrested Freddy Snyder, 29, who has been charged with Grillmair’s murder and is being held on a $3 million bail.
New details obtained by the Los Angeles Times have revealed that Snyder was previously arrested two months earlier for trespassing on Grillmair’s property with a loaded, unregistered rifle.
Per The Los Angeles Times:
On Dec. 20, Lt. Michael Modica of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said, the scientist spotted someone possibly trespassing on his property and called law enforcement.
When deputies arrived and found Snyder in the area, Modica said, he was carrying a rifle and explained that he was on his way to the post office.
Grillmair’s home and the local post office are in opposite directions from Snyder’s home, property records show.
According to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, Snyder told deputies he was carrying the rifle just in case he ran into wild animals. But deputies noted that the rifle was loaded and not registered to Snyder, so they took him into custody.
In addition to one felony count of carrying a loaded firearm, the criminal complaint against Snyder charged him with trying to escape from the Palmdale station jail the day after he was arrested.
The New York Post further reported that Judge Osman Abbasi, appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom, dismissed Snyder’s felony gun charges.

Exclusive | Newsom-appointed judge gave suspect in Caltech genius’s slaying a slap on the wrist weeks before bloodbath https://t.co/WoJPp0m7ug pic.twitter.com/IJtk4VU0zR
— California Post (@californiapost) February 24, 2026

After dropping the felony gun charge, Judge Abbasi ordered Snyder to complete a gun safety course, and he was released from jail shortly thereafter.
Snyder was scheduled to appear in court again on February 5 regarding his case, but he did not show up for the hearing.
Despite not appearing, Snyder’s charges were dismissed under California Penal Code 1385, and just 11 days later, he allegedly murdered Grillmair.
Grillmair’s murder has rocked the astrophysicists’ community, considering he was a renowned researcher in the studies of Dark matter, Galactic structure, stellar populations, and exoplanets.
Grillmair was also notable in the community for finding water on a distant planet orbiting a star.
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A registered sex offender, Rene Campos, has launched a campaign for Fresno’s District 7 City Council seat, sparking intense local and national backlash. Campos, who pleaded no contest to a 2018 misdemeanor charge for possessing child sex abuse material and remains on California’s sex offender registry, argues that he has rehabilitated and wants to turn his “lived experience” with the justice system into reforms focused on public safety.
Campos has told local media that “Fresno deserves leaders who are honest from the very beginning” and says he is “putting [his] life out there,” insisting that people “are not [their] past” and that his conviction gives him unique insight into fixing laws from “the inside out.” California law does not bar registered sex offenders who have completed their sentences and regained voting rights from running for local office, and Fresno County’s registrar has confirmed that Campos is legally eligible to appear on the ballot if he files in time.
Opponents in the crowded District 7 race, including fellow candidate Nav Gurm, contend that Campos’ status should effectively disqualify him from office, pointing out that a registered sex offender cannot visit school campuses and questioning how someone under such restrictions could fully represent families and children in the district. Several Fresno city council members have also said they plan to pursue an ordinance to prevent registered sex offenders from holding city office in the future, arguing that people convicted of crimes against children should not serve in positions where minors regularly visit city facilities.
On social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok, reaction has been overwhelmingly negative, with viral posts describing Campos as a “literal sex offender” running on a “public safety” message and questioning how he can campaign on protecting children while being barred from school grounds. Commenters on high-traffic accounts and local news reels have called the candidacy “insane” and “only in California,” with many users demanding that lawmakers “change the law” so that registered child sex offenders cannot seek public office at all.
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