DAILY BOBBER: Don't miss today's interactive Bobber by Helland for House - A CONGRESIONAL CORRUPTION QUIZ! How will your representative fight corruption in Congress? Do they know its roots and stems? DO YOU? Then ace it! open.substack.com/pub/helland4...

I'd love to focus on how Trump is manipulating stock markets, profiting from crypto fraud, and handing the keys to humanity's castle to the AI broligarchy... but mainstream news broadcasts are looking for "steamy." Let these NEWS folks know they got a "hot one" in MN. youtube.com/shorts/nsRuM...

You want steamy, @ms.now and @cnn.com? I'll give you steamy. If you're looking for the 2nd steamiest candidate in Minnesota's Eight - that's Luke Gulbranson - I'm Bob Helland and I'm running for Congress, the steamiest candidate in CD8. #VoteForSteam #MSNOW #CNN youtube.com/shorts/nsRuM...

Ladies and gentlemen: THIS is why I am running for Congress. We are doomed if we force AI onto society without protections (and taxes) while making Sam Altman a trillionaire. DOOMED. The painful, eye-searing Agony and Irony of AI, juxtaposed. #AI #Agony #Irony

New stack on BWCA: open.substack.com/pub/helland4...

Happy Spring, Planters! 🪴 Up in Duluth this time of year, our starter plants are still cozy inside and the Red Wagon migration brings 12cu yds of dirt! The official tester inspects quality by climbing the dirt mountain, starting the offload. That's just #Duluth. How do y'all do it, and where from?

CD8 DFL cand Bob Helland "raging against" the Keith Ellison election influence-machine. Here's the DFL local unit statement to me and why I take objection to Ellison's narrow endorsement. Chair Carlbom "If you are a transformational candidate, then you will break through." Let's break shit.

My formal request to DFL CD8 Chair Richard Gehrke and then DFL State Chair Richard Carlbom was met with boilerplate: we will not comment on media coverage as a party.. yet. So with AG Ellison interfering in CD8, time to put him on blast for 'unofficial' conduct. open.substack.com/pub/helland4...

Me and Gulbranson on the way to the APRIL 30 forum in Biwabik, MN:

This is a parody account, right? Please tell me this is a parody account.

Fair. But saying his name gives him power when no one is saying his challengers' names. We can pick an anti-Stauber stance, but we can also pick a pro-Candidate stance. Meet them all. Back a horse. I suggest: vote for viable. www.kaxe.org/local-news/2...

Hot off the presses! My story, episode 2: A chance to do something huge. Check it before Trump wrecks it. #bwca open.substack.com/pub/helland4...

Can you name this band?

New header pic. Thanks KAXE! www.kaxe.org/local-news/2...

DFLFGO!!! Let's get it, DFL! #FlipTheSwitch I am Bob Helland and I approve this message. (I would also buy a ticket to this band's show.) Stauber gonna quit before May 19. Watch this space.

Notourluke.com the best organized DFL digital effort in Minnesota CD8 is a reactionary anti-Luke consortium... wild. Elect Bob bob4mn.com

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When Copilot becomes Pilot, you become Passenger.

I mean, I think so. Out of context this is defeatist. But the clear answer to the question of Mandani is: direcntess, likability, and compassion. A lot of great things and election success will follow-up. It's really up to Minnesota & @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to decide #MinnesotaMamdani. Not me.

@golikehellmachine.com Like your style. Go like Helland machine? bob4mn.com We have a funny race in Minnesota. I'm the funniest candidate. In 2026 that's spelt V-I-A-B-L-E! Check a guy it, you know, because Minnesota.

This is the moment. I'll be your Frodo. open.substack.com/pub/helland4...

More of this, please! How do we boycott something we wouldn't buy? We need a vocal anti-consumer union to counter Big Gamble and we need to elect leaders like Bob Helland (hi, it me) to Congress. Please, please, and thank you.

Yes, I will use citizen power for good, if they will have me. I see Northern Minnesota as an Arrakis of Dune, rich in resource but hidden ecology upon hidden ecology, nested value of eons not decades and years. I see our citizenry as the rugged, feared Fremen. We must cultivate #LakePower.

Am I viable? Am I competent? Am I caring? Its not enough for me to know my character intimately and speak highly of myself. If other people don't find the courage to voice intense support for viable, competent, caring candidates seeking office... we may get more incompetence and ambivalence, right?

#WheresTrina Goal getting in the race was to test our candidates, improve our candidates, and if I happen to best our candidates, I will accept the nomination and use all my power to evict Stauber. The Swanson committee FEC filing must be tested: its really everything Northern Minns despise.

Respect @jodellm.bsky.social election opining and level of research 🔎. Do you also research FEC filings and what do you make of the Swanson committee latest 🏦 FEC filing 👀 💵 receipts 💵 disbursements Who's dancing? 🔥 🕺 🔥 How do we 🏆 ? Is it 💰 or 🎵? 🙏 💯

Good news, fam. Katy Tur at @ms.now owes me an on-camera interview! What day/time works well for you, Katy? If you cared about Colbert and the "equal time" rule... If you cared about Kimmel and the FCC racket... Then you will care about THIS. Don't let this slide, America. bob4mn.com

Mark my words: Republican US House Rep. Pete Stauber will not run for office in Northern Minnesota with his crutch - Joe Biden - off the ballot. Doesn't have a leg to stand on in this district; looking towards a November knockout. Make sure he hears me say it. open.substack.com/pub/helland4...

This is a serious matter and the issue where I am most radically different and opposed with my fellow DFL contenders taking the 'trad candidate' for fundraising path rather than answer voters hunger for a new way. I know the way, do you see it, too? substack.com/@helland4hou...

The DFL presumptive frontrunner fundraising, imo, is problematic. Will TRINA SWANSON supporters or campaign comment: Total raise: $55K Avg Ind donation: $450 PACs: $5000 Donor over limit: $5700 ($3500 limit) DHS/USCIS: $12,050 ActBlue: $24,000 Stauber 6:1 raising rate 300K 50:1 cash on hand $1.0M

Got any Eightheists out there?

Welcome, Jeremiah Liend of Turtle River, to the DFL race. He will, like me, be pursuing a signature drive vs cash to get on the ballot. May the eventual nominee win.

"Its not the Anchorman, im not trying to fight them" re: other local meteorologists ~Lea Zmurko, WDIO

Enjoying "Women in Science Forum" at Duluth's Great Lakes Aquarium. Talented WDIO weather reporters talking about the rigor and reward of the job.

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Free the Eighth!

Me and Luke Gulbranson competing for the DFL congressional nomination in Minnesota: Yeah, I'll be the Hansel to his Zoolander. bob4mn.com

Welcome to the race!

How am I going to reshape a divided America? Me to America:

I am going to frame and hang this picture in my congressional office one day. IYKYK Setting: April 25th, 2014, Minnpost Minnroast GOP CD6 Candidate Tom Emmer DFL Senator Al Franken @alfranken.bsky.social IND Candidate for SoS Bob Helland That dude in the middle kills me lol let's find that dude

I want to see examples of good candidate websites that you feel do a good job. I need a focus group. Will you share images/link of candidate sites you like and tell me what you do or don't like about mine, bob4mn.com? Please and thank you. Me: dense content, rapid response, data viz, pics You: ?

Testing, substack, testing... open.substack.com/pub/helland4...

Hey @microsoft.com ... got any prior history of federal candidates using POWER BI to power online presence instead of a typical web page? bob4mn.com (DISCLAIMER: Likes, replies, skeets by Microsoft or other will not be considered an endorsement of me personally but of my tech stack and capability)

How many federal candidates have launched a campaign website in a Power BI public page? You can use the FEC copied to my site to inquire 45 years of candidate campaign financing and learn more about the wizard behind the curtain. Check it out: bob4mn.com

If Orban wins, will our economic might to support Hungary come from: A:the $40B promised to interfere in Argentina's election B:the $10B spent on Maduro capture and Venezuelan fishing boat slaughter C:the $500B Stargate AI corruptobribe D:the $1T Iran War carte blanche E:more illegal tariffs F:YOU

Very strange to me, kind of embarrassing to the platform really that users reward lazy simple cross-pollination of Twitter screens on Bluesky. 1) a poster who is on X does not meet my ethical and moral standards to share 2) do they not realize this is the whole problem in the billionaire paradigm?

And I am old enough to remember when it was called The Prime Directive.

98% your NEXT congressional representative *does not* support this next year. 50% chance your CURRENT representative *does* support this today. What a difference a year will make...

We just need to get Trump to wager his presidency on a polymarket bet that Viktor Orban wins re-election. Because that's looking like a losing bet the more he talks about it.... #FasterThanImpeachment

Presidents and precedents. Any thoughts on modern warfare?