Nick Shirley Effect Fuels Calls For Crowdfunded Citizen Journalist Grant Program To Expose Democrat Fraud Nationwide

The Democratic Party entered Monday morning facing a massive firestorm following the viral spread of citizen journalist Nick Shirley’s on-the-ground bombshell investigation into alleged Somali-linked daycare centers siphoning taxpayer funds and operating as apparent front companies.

Shirley’s exposé earned 111 million views on X within three days, significantly increasing public awareness of what appears to be large-scale welfare fraud in Minnesota. The magnitude of the alleged welfare fraud suggests systemic failures in Democrat-run government oversight, with a high probability that irregularities occurred at the local, county, and potentially state levels.

The Democratic Party’s propaganda machine would usually be firing on all cylinders in corporate media outlets at about now to counter the welfare fraud narrative, labeling anyone who investigated or even questioned the suspiciously run Somali-linked child daycare, adult and autism care, home health care, and non-emergency medical transportation industries raking in taxpayer funds as “racists” and “fascists.”

Well, Forbes appears to have received its marching orders.

Truly amazing headline work here @Forbes. A+ stuff. pic.twitter.com/NXtRLNmmHt

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 29, 2025

Continued silence from much of the corporate media only reinforces what we already know: MSM acts less as news organizations and more as de facto public relations firms for Democrats.

Not CBS

Not PBS

Not CNN

Not ABC

Not MSNBC

Not Fox News

Not 60 Minutes

Not New York Times

Not Washington Post

Not Associated Press

But an independent Journalist on 𝕏, exposed millions of Fraud with a hoodie and a camera

KEEP GOING NICK SHIRLEY pic.twitter.com/40RX4wW3go

— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) December 27, 2025

Shirley’s exposé was a left-field event for Democrats, as it exposed state-level fraud – something Elon Musk and DOGE had been attempting to uncover and dismantle at the federal level. Instead, recall that earlier this year, Democrats mobilized the protest-industrial complex of dark-money-funded NGOs against Musk and Tesla. There was even alarming left-wing terrorism against Tesla showrooms.

Let’s not forget what happened here…

Remember when a Tim Walz appointee murdered the only lawmaker who tried to stop the fraud in Minnesota?

Is it starting to make sense now? pic.twitter.com/q4NBuUUNfD

— Bruce (@Bpeters1558) December 28, 2025

What America First is beginning to understand is that the success of exposing welfare fraud in Minnesota through a citizen-journalist model needs to be replicated across blue states in a coordinated blitz campaign that overwhelms whatever narrative control the Democratic Party’s propaganda machine still retains.

SPAC King Chamath Palihapitiya on X wrote, “I trust @Cernovich instincts here. If he thinks a grant program can unlock tens of investigative journalists to uncover the breadth and scale of California, many people will support it.”

Palihapitiya’s response was directed at an X user’s idea about a crowdfunding grant program to support citizen journalists who expose fraud in California. 

I trust @Cernovich instincts here. If he thinks a grant program can unlock tens of investigative journalists to uncover the breadth and scale of California’s fraud, many people will support it.

Cerno? https://t.co/yoWfLMV8Lb

— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) December 28, 2025

What could soon emerge is an early, crowdfunded, DOGE-like network of citizen journalists – funded by tech bros, supported by private investigators, guided by tips and prior research, and aimed at systematically exposing and documenting alleged Democratic Party fraud across blue states. Such an effort could flood the news cycle with so many egregious fraud cases that Democrats would face immense difficulty mounting any compelling counter-narrative. This is info war gearing up before midterm election cycle.