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The 69th Legislative Assembly has come to an end! Please help us
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District 11 Legislative Session Forum
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Saturday, May 10, 2025 – 9:00 AM
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ALL RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT 11 WELCOME!
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📍 FARGO SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL: Room C30
📅: Saturday, May 10th 2025
🕰️: 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
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District 10 Legislative Session Forum
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Saturday, May 10, 2025 – 10:00 AM
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Caribou Coffee, West Fargo
1625 13th Ave E West Fargo
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Join Senator Braunberger and Representative Swiontek for a cup of coffee. Bring your questions about the legislative session
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District 44 Public Forum
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Saturday, May 10, 2025 – 10:00 AM
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Sen. Josh Boschee and Reps. Karla Rose Hanson and Austin Foss will provide updates about the session and take questions
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District 2 Monthly Meeting
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Saturday, May 10, 2025 – 2:00 PM
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Wildrose Fire Hall
416 Main Street, Wildrose
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Join the D2 Dems in Wildrose, ND, for our monthly meeting. Our featured speaker will be Tyler Stafslien, a local farmer and member of the North Dakota Farmers Union board of directors, representing Burke, Divide, Mountrail, Renville, and Williams counties. Tyler will speak with us about the impact of tariffs on North Dakota farmers and provide an update on the Farm Bill. To learn more about Tyler: https://ndfu.org/about/leadership/state-board/tyler-stafslien/
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Cass County Democratic-NPL Policy Meeting
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025 – 5:30 PM
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1325 23rd St S, Suite B, Fargo
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Sen. Josh Boschee and Reps. Karla Rose Hanson and Austin Foss will provide updates about the session and take
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Our monthly meeting which includes representatives from the 11 Legislative Districts in Cass County, elected Legislators and staff.
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Northern Valley Democratic-NPL Meeting with Dave Berger
2105 S Washington St, Grand Forks
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Join us this Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 5:30 PM at Red Ray Lanes (backroom) for a conversation with Grand Forks School Board President Dave Berger. Hosted by District 42 and NVD. All are welcome!
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District 24 Monthly Meeting
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025 – 7:00 PM
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200 N. Central Ave, Ste J (downstairs), Valley City
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You are invited to attend our next monthly meeting to be held on Tuesday May 20, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. at the District 24 headquarters located at 200 N. Central Ave, Ste J (downstairs), Valley City, ND. This location is more commonly known as the Straus Mall.
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And hey! Guess what! It costs you nothing attend our meeting unlike another political party that actually charges their members for their attendance. Heck, we will even offer you coffee and water for free!
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Our Democratic Party stands for working families, rescuing our economy not just in the short run, but to rebuild it for the LONG run. We support public education, fair and equitable tax structures and accessible health care for all. But that is not all! Come join us and learn how you can make a difference in these days of near dictatorship.
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2025 North Dakota Legislative Recap
Josh Boschee, Senator D44, is in studio on Afternoons Live with Tyler Axness to discuss the flurry of activity to close out the 2025 legislative session.
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North Dakota lawmakers approve Ethics Commission bill with deadline removed
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Sen. Tim Mathern, D-Fargo, unsuccessfully brought a budget amendment to more than double the commission’s staff, arguing that the funding is necessary for the body to do its job effectively.
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“I think the activity thus far indicates that we have a lack in that we don’t have another staff person,” Mathern said on the floor Friday. “However, we’ve made some progress, and hopefully by the next time we meet next session, we can get that other staff person to help us all do a great job.”
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A separate amendment brought by Rep. Karla Rose Hanson, D-Fargo, requires the commission to publish an annual report providing details about its work, including the number of complaints filed and what the commission has done to resolve them.
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Letter: Sen. Powers just made homelessness issue worse
When the encampments swell under the Republican's failed economic policies like Trump's tariffs, we can thank this Republican from south Fargo for personally tanking funding that would help alleviate this persistent problem in our city.
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As Trump slashes AmeriCorps, states lose a federal partner in community service
Technically, SB 2265 creates a line of credit of up to $3 million. Since the new memorial center will require approvals at the federal level, its in-state backers must wait before moving ahead with construction. Since the Legislature only meets every other year, the line of credit allows the project to move forward once it receives federal approval, rather than waiting for state approval – and funding – in a future biennium.
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Armstrong signs bill to open path for funding for new Veterans Memorial Center
Technically, SB 2265 creates a line of credit of up to $3 million. Since the new memorial center will require approvals at the federal level, its in-state backers must wait before moving ahead with construction. Since the Legislature only meets every other year, the line of credit allows the project to move forward once it receives federal approval, rather than waiting for state approval – and funding – in a future biennium.
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Health care legislation will improve access, affordability for North Dakotans
When health care isn’t prioritized, small issues can quickly turn into large problems and treatable conditions can become life-threatening, such as late-stage cancer. When the time comes to make an appointment, everyone wants the same things: simplicity, accessibility and affordability.
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ND Senate Rejects Funding for Deflection Center
Taylor Hort, program coordinator for the Withdrawal Management unit Fargo Cass Public Health, is in studio to help us understand what a Deflection Center is and what the next steps are now that the ND Senate has decided not to provide funds.
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North Dakota lawmakers approve Prairie Public funding, but reduced amount
North Dakota lawmakers set state funding for public broadcasting at $400,000 early Saturday, providing money for tower improvements after threatening to cut off Prairie Public funding completely earlier in the session.
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Port: The North Dakota Ethics Commission could sue the Legislature and probably win
By refusing to require disclosure of campaign expenditures, the legislative assembly has made it impossible to detect these violations. Without disclosing expenditures and beginning and ending fund balances, how would anyone in the news media or the public even know if a candidate is using campaign donations to pay for yard signs and parade candy instead of a tropical vacation?
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Effort to improve North Dakota campaign finance reporting fails
House Bill 1377 was the last bill on the House and Senate floor for the 2025 legislative session. Some lawmakers hoped it would be a vehicle for ambitious changes in campaign spending transparency, as well as for streamlining financial disclosure regulations for candidates.
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North Dakota lawmakers approve needs, some wants with $20.3 billion budget
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House Minority Leader Zac Ista, D-Grand Forks, told his colleagues he’s glad they spent more time on the “real issues facing North Dakotans” this year than they had in recent years, referring to culture war issues that dominated much of the 2023 session.
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“Let that be the start of a positive trend for our body, and let us commit to resisting the pull of polarization and extremism,” Ista said.
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Progressive groups plan ‘People’s Session’ to set North Dakota priorities for future legislation
“We hope to take the people’s agenda forward, crafting and refining it into bills through public input, and then put it forward for sponsors to bring to the 2027 legislative session,” North Dakota Human Rights Coalition Executive Director Dalton Erickson said.
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The real priorities of North Dakotans are being ignored
The vast majority of North Dakotans support policies like making child care more affordable (84%), expanding access to affordable housing (80%), paid family and medical leave (76%), and increasing funding for public schools (76%). But this session, lawmakers did not do enough to meaningfully address those needs. Instead, they pushed more bills targeting trans youth, tried to undermine marriage equality and blocked widely supported initiatives, like free school meals for kids.
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GOP plan for Medicaid cuts largely opposed by public: Poll
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According to the poll, released Thursday, three-quarters of the public say they broadly oppose major federal funding cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
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Just about 55% of Republicans, but 95% of Democrats and 79& of independents, said they specifically oppose major Medicaid cuts.
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Without AmeriCorps, Rural Communities Will Lose Essential Social Services
“AmeriCorps members’ service is the only support system in many rural towns, so losing these programs isn’t just a budget issue, it’s a community resilience issue,” Primavera said in an interview with the Daily Yonder.
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Primavera emphasized that AmeriCorps is a workforce development program – many AmeriCorps members go on to become teachers, mental health professionals, firefighters and other vital community professions, based on their experiences in AmeriCorps.
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“This isn’t a time to cut AmeriCorps. It’s a time really, to double down on services, not dismantle it,” said Primavera.
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Trump’s Sneaky Plot to Steal Your Data—and Weaponize It Against You
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Senator Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat representing Wisconsin, called the arrest of a sitting judge a “gravely serious and drastic move” that “threatens to breach” the separation of power between the executive and judicial branches.
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“Make no mistake, we do not have kings in this country and we are a democracy governed by laws that everyone must abide by,” Baldwin said in an emailed statement after Dugan’s arrest.
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'Out of control': Kristi Noem on defense over Homeland Security spending overrun
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Sen. Chris Murphy warned Noem that DHS is at risk of running out of its $65 billion in funding by July – two months before the end of the fiscal year – and therefore close to triggering the Antideficiency Act, a federal law prohibiting government agencies from spending funds in excess of their appropriations.
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“Your department is out of control,” the Connecticut Democrat told Noem. “You are running out of money.”
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An American Pope and the Turn of the Tide
Cardinal Wojtyła had been a great opponent of the Communist dictatorship that ruled over his native land. As pope, he saw Poland liberated from it. Cardinal Prevost has been a critic of the nativist bigotry and cruelty now ascendant in the United States. Could his selection help spark an increased revulsion against that bigotry and cruelty, and even herald a liberation from it?
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Improving Access to Healthcare in Rural America
Healthcare in rural America has been a complex situation with unequal access to care, uneven outcomes for patients, and closing facilities. In this conversation from the 2024 Rural Progress Summit, Dr. Yvonne Jonk from the Maine Rural Health Research Center, Ben Anderson from Families USA, Dr. Julie Yaroch from the ProMedica Charles & Virginia Hickman Hospital discuss options for improving access and how rural patients can get the care they deserve.
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The Century Club supports our year-round work to build party infrastructure supporting candidate recruitment, local district and regional leadership, issue-based education, and tools for Dem-NPL success.
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Help us elect great Democrats up and down the ballot!
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The North Dakota Democratic-NPL is launching a new grassroots program called “Neighbor to Neighbor” where volunteers will connect with voters in your community to elect Democrats up and down the ballot. As a volunteer, you will be responsible for connecting with voters in 25 homes in your neighborhood or friends and family to help elect Democrats up and down the ballot about 3-4 times this year.
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Grassroots organizers are the lifeblood of the Dem-NPL! Sign up to volunteer with the Dem-NPL!
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