In a shocking meltdown on the Minneapolis City Hall steps, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) erupted in fury after Somali clans from the Darod and Isaaq communities overwhelmingly rejected her handpicked candidate, city council hopeful Abdi Fateh, and instead threw their bloc votes behind incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey in Tuesday’s municipal election. Eyewitnesses report Omar screaming in Somali, demanding the “traitor clans” be “expelled from the city” and stripped of their voting rights, especially after community translators began circulating English subtitles of her campaign videos—revealing her explicit calls for clan-based governance and threats against non-Hawiye rivals. “They translate my words to poison Americans against us!” she allegedly shrieked, as stunned onlookers recorded the tirade that quickly went viral.

The election itself devolved into a proxy war straight out of Mogadishu’s 1990s clan battles, with Hawiye elders mobilizing door-to-door for Fateh while Darod and Isaaq imams urged their followers to “protect Minneapolis from one-clan rule.” Voter turnout in Cedar-Riverside hit 78%—the highest in decades—driven entirely by WhatsApp voice notes and mosque sermons framing the race as a blood feud imported from Somalia. Frey, who won by a razor-thin 312 votes, later told reporters, “This isn’t about left or right; it’s about whether Minneapolis elections are decided in Hennepin County or Hargeisa.” Local police confirmed three separate fistfights broke out at polling stations over clan chants.

What began as a routine city election has now exposed Minnesota’s politics as a full-blown Somali clan war, with federal immigration officials quietly reopening files on dual-citizenship voters tied to warlord networks. Critics point to the 1990s refugee resettlement programs—pushed by Lutheran Social Services and the State Department—that dumped tens of thousands of unvetted clan fighters into the Twin Cities, turning wards into fiefdoms. “Send them all back,” one lifelong DFL voter told reporters outside the government center. “They don’t belong here, and to hell with the bureaucrats who thought importing tribal warfare was ‘diversity.’” As Omar doubles down, vowing “clan justice” in Congress, the question looms: how much longer will America tolerate foreign feuds dictating its democracy?