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Welcome to the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Insider, a newsletter that features regular updates about upcoming Dem-NPL events, legislative happenings, and news that affects North Dakotans!
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DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta is coming to North Dakota
Join Northern Valley Dems this evening in Manvel, ND for an energizing evening of community, conversation, and action! Enjoy dinner, a cash bar, and exciting raffle items as we hear from keynote speaker DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta. VIP Reception begins at 5:30 PM. General Admission starts at 6:00 PM. Programming begins at 6:30 PM (Open house style until 8:00 PM) Guests will leave engaged, energized, and equipped with tools and next steps to help create change heading into the 2026 elections. Use this link to purchase your ticket today!
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Join ND Democratic-NPL Chairman Adam Goldwyn for a VIP luncheon with Malcolm! Space is limited, so get your ticket today!
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Enjoy refreshments as we hear from DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta and the Democratic-NPL State Party Chair Adam Golwdyn! Get your tickets here!
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Locally Grown, Nationally Strong - An Evening With Malcolm Kenyatta
Join us on Friday, August 22nd in Manvel, ND for an energizing evening of community, conversation, and action! Enjoy dinner, a cash bar, and exciting raffle items as we hear from keynote speaker DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta.
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- VIP Reception begins at 5:30 PM
- General Admission starts at 6:00 PM
- Programming begins at 6:30 PM (Open house style until 8:00 PM)
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Guests will leave engaged, energized, and equipped with tools and next steps to help create change heading into the 2026 elections.
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VIP Luncheon with DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta
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Join us on Saturday, August 23rd in Fargo, ND for an energizing evening of community, conversation, and action! Enjoy refreshments as we hear from DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta and the Democratic-NPL State Party Chair Adam Golwdyn.
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Ransom County Fair Parade – Saturday, August 23 at 10:00 a.m. in Lisbon
Sat, Aug 23, 9:15 am CDT line up
Lisbon
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We need volunteers to help throw candy and wave flags! If you’re available, please email me and plan to arrive in Lisbon by 9:15 a.m. to line up.
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District 1 and 23 Dem-NPL Summer Potluck Fundraiser
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Sat, Aug 23, 4:00pm-7:00pm CDT
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Spring Lake Park Williston
5906 2nd Ave W, Williston
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The District 1 and 23 Dem-NPL is hosting a Summer Potluck Fundraiser at Spring Lake Park, East 2 Pavilion starting at 4pm on August 23rd. This is a potluck so bring your best dishes! There will be a free will donation to help support both districts! See you there!
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An Evening with DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta and North Dakota Democratic-NPL Chair Adam Goldwyn
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Join us on Saturday, August 23rd in Fargo, ND for an energizing evening of community, conversation, and action! Enjoy refreshments as we hear from DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta and the Democratic-NPL State Party Chair Adam Golwdyn.
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Battle of the Brats!
Sertoma Park, Shelter #10
Riverside Park Rd, Bismarck
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Mark your calendars. August is picnic time. Join the Bismarck-Mandan Dem-NPL at Sertoma Park Shelter 10 for Battle of the Brats!
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AFL-CIO Event: Red River Valley Celebration of Labor
Fargo Labor Temple
3002 1st Ave. N., Fargo
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Join our friends with the AFL-CIO to celebrate working people and our unions with food, music, speakers, and a special town hall with our “Cardboard Congress”.
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District 21 Summer Connection Series - August Garden with District 21
Village West Park
4415 9th Ave Cir S, Fargo
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Garden with D21! We will be the Village West Park Community Garden 4415 9th Ave Cir S, Fargo from 5:30-8:00pm on August 26, 2025
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Dem-NPL District 13 Meeting with Mac Schneider
1405 Prairie Pkwy, West Fargo
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Speaker -- ND US Attorney and Senator Mac Schneider -- Tuesday, August 26 - 6:00 Social / 7:00 Meeting -- The Local 701-Bar, 1405 Prairie Pkwy, West Fargo, North Dakota -- Quentin E. Carlson, Chair -- Dem-NPL District 13 - West Fargo - EVERYONE WELCOME !!— at The Local 701.
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District 45 Monthly Meeting
Northport Library Community Room
2714 Broadway North, Fargo
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This will be our regular monthly District 45 meeting.
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Drinking Liberally!
The Press Box at Players Sports Bar & Grill
2050 1st Ave E. Dickinson
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Join other like-minded individuals in Dickinson every Wednesday!
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Drinking Liberally!
The Press Box at Players Sports Bar & Grill
2050 1st Ave E. Dickinson
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Join other like-minded individuals in Dickinson every Wednesday!
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AFL-CIO Event: BisMan Celebration of Labor
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Thurs, Sept 4, 5:00pm CDT
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Jaycee Leadership Building
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321 W. Century Ave, Bismarck
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Join our friends with the AFL-CIO for a Celebration of Labor on Sept. 4 at the Jaycee Leadership Hall at the Jaycee Centennial Park! We will be serving up a union-made picnic along with some inspiring speakers! This is a family-friendly event, union families and union allies are all welcome!
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Cass County Democratic-NPL Policy Meeting
1325 23rd St S, Suite B, Fargo
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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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Drinking Liberally!
The Press Box at Players Sports Bar & Grill
2050 1st Ave E. Dickinson
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Join other like-minded individuals in Dickinson every Wednesday!
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Dickinson Area Democratic-NPL meeting
The Press Box at Players Sports Bar & Grill
2050 1st Ave E. Dickinson
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Districts 37, 36, and 39 meet every second Wednesday after Drinking Liberally!
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Burdick Dinner 2025 with Jess Piper
Radisson Blu Fargo
201 5th St N, Fargo, ND 58102
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The Burdick Dinner 2025 will be held on October 4th, 2025, at the Radisson Blu located in downtown Fargo! The fun-filled event will begin with a reception at 5:30pm followed by the dinner and program beginning at 6:30pm. Our featured speaker is Jess Piper, the Executive Direcor for Blue Missouri. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Purchase your tickets before September 12 for a $25 early bird discount!
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Almost a dozen North Dakota children, teens have disappeared in 17 days
Some lawmakers have successfully introduced legislation to bridge that gap, like Rep. Jayme Davis, D-Rolette, who brought a bill to create an alert system specifically for endangered indigenous North Dakotans, and another to establish a state task force for missing and murdered indigenous people.
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Davis previously told Forum News Service the original intent of the "feather alert" was for it to sound when a tribal member went missing, but it was distilled to just abductions after other lawmakers, in addition to the Highway Patrol, voiced concerns of it going off too frequently.
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ND Farmers Union Director Tyler Stafslien says farmers "are trying to figure out how they're not going to go bankrupt"
Joel Heitkamp is joined by Tyler Stafslien to have a conversation about farmers dealing with the current Administration's trade actions. Tyler was elected as District 3 North Dakota Farmers Union Director in January 2018. He is a fourth-generation farmer, living on a farm homesteaded by his family in 1912. He farms 2,000 acres of wheat, barley, peas, lentils, flax and soybeans. Although he resides in the country, Stafslien is the mayor of Makoti. He has served on his local grain elevator cooperative board since 2005.
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ND Dem-NPL Chair reacts to potential mail-in voting executive order
“We have another situation where the Dem-NPL is standing up for all North Dakotans for the rights of all North Dakotans and republicans. We’ll see, will they stand up for their own voter base,” said Goldwyn.
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Jamie Selzler visits with Cheryl Biller, the Executive Director of the Dem-NPL
Jamie Selzler is a Democratic National Committeeman from North Dakota, and is joined by the Executive Director of the Dem-NPL, Cheryl Biller. She shares comments after hearing Jamie's interview with Jennifer Benson regarding public dollars to private schools, and also gives an update on the state party.
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Letter: Rationalization of Medicaid vote weak
Just how does one abuse Medicaid? Are Medicaid recipients gleefully getting second or third colonoscopies so their providers get paid more? Maybe women want multiple mammograms or pap smears? For a self-proclaimed “pro-life” Congresswoman, her statement suggests a shocking lack of support for life maintenance.
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The premise of the congresswoman’s piece seems to be is that healthcare is a luxury meant only for those with a job, while she willingly signed a bill that continues the huge tax cuts provided to multi-billionaires and ADDS $3-4 trillion to our already exploding national deficit.
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Port: Paying the back-to-school tax
Now, imagine if we removed the burden. Imagine that money, currently earmarked for lunches, stayed in the family budget. Wouldn’t that make life a little easier for young families?
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And don’t we want life in North Dakota to be easier for those very families?
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Letter: Rolling out the red carpet for a dictator
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In case anyone has forgotten, Putin is a murderer, thug, a dictator who kills his political opponents. He routinely breaks his promises. He is not to be trusted. Journalists in Russia mysteriously fall from windows to their death. Political opponents are arrested and sent to prison on trumped up charges. His most serious political challenger, Alexi Navalny, was poisoned but recovered. Then was arrested on fake charges and kept in prison and finally died of mysterious causes.
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These are facts. To believe otherwise is delusional.
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Sadly, our president is delusional.
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The Spectacle and the Spectators
Maybe they will get to witness an expensive military flyover for a visiting war criminal or a military parade for the Tsar’s birthday. Even if they don’t, I’m sure we can count on them to sit on their hands and keep their mouths shut when, say, a legally present graduate student in Massachusetts is snatched by masked men and sent to a Louisiana prison for writing something the President doesn’t like.
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Brickner: Voting is fundamental
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Organizations like the Native American Rights Fund continue to fight this decision. And should.
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After visiting the National Museum of the American Indian, in Washington, D.C., I learned how almost every treaty between European colonists and the Indigenous was broken by the colonists. That’s a bad tradition. We cannot have a democracy if citizens are denied the vote.
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Port: Why should it cost 600% more to have a baby in Fargo?
The congressional action he's referring to is the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," and his criticism is noteworthy, both because it's true, and because it's coming from a Republican at a time when it's politically dangerous for any member of the GOP to dissent against President Donald Trump.
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But bad policymaking in Washington, D.C. isn't the only problem Godfread flagged. He said we tend to discuss the rising cost of health insurance as a problem distinct from the spiraling cost of health care. But the former is driven by the latter, and the trends in the latter, at times, don't seem driven by reality.
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Plain Talk: Big Beautiful Bill Act could lead to health insurance 'death spiral'
"If they look at doing something, changing it in December, well, at that point, I've already gone on, shopped as a consumer, and realized the price is too high. I'm not going back in the last two weeks of the year to say, 'Oh, well, maybe this time they promise it's going to be better.'"
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Pricing healthy people out of the insurance market would narrow the pool and drive up costs, creating what Godfread described as a "death spiral."
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"We're on a track right now that is not sustainable, right? I mean, there is no more to give when you get to health insurance premiums."
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Prairie Rose Seminole speaks to crisis regarding disappearing teenagers in North Dakota
Prairie Rose Seminole is a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota. She served on the Fargo Human Relations Commission in Fargo from 2001 to 2010, serving as Chairperson from 2007-2010. She joins Joel Heitkamp on KFGO radio to talk about a large amount of missing North Dakota teenagers.
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Congresswoman Debbie Dingell says "you are not alone when your voices are heard" with Jamie Selzler
Jamie Selzler, a Democratic National Committeeman from North Dakota, is joined by Congresswoman Debbie Dingell from Michigan’s 6th Congressional District. She is a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Natural Resources Committee, where she leads on critical issues including affordable and accessible health care, clean energy and water, domestic manufacturing and supply chain resilience, and protecting our wildlife and natural resources.
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She and Jamie have a conversation about President Trump bringing in the National Guard to Washington, D.C., the future of the Democratic Party, and more.
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North Dakota emergency response staffing in 'crisis,' officials say
For Wangen, who runs the Carrington Fire Department, even relying on the help of other agencies to respond to major emergencies has been limited. When a train crash in Barnes County caused a huge release of ammonia and other dangerous chemicals in 2024, Wangen said, he could only staff the response locally for eight days before he had to rely on the emergency service that the railroad company brought in.
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"If it had been an incident on the highway, I didn't have the railroad to fall back on," he said.
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Though shrinking populations are in part driving the emergency responder shortfall, growth in rural areas poses its own problems.
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Episode 7: 10 Years in Federal Prison
Former North Dakota Senator Ray Holmberg went from political power to prison. Secret raids, coded messages, a hidden alias, and shocking revelations of child sex tourism led to his 10-year federal sentence. This episode unpacks how it all came crashing down.
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Poll: Voters want to tap Legacy Fund, with limits
“We see again that voters in North Dakota are strongly in favor of that,” said House Minority Leader Zac Ista, D-Grand Forks. “It's one of those things that will take a financial obligation off their plates and help our students and teachers do better in the classroom.”
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Joel Heitkamp and Kari Odermann break down Trump visits with Putin and Zelensky
Joel Heitkamp is joined again by Dr. Kari Odermann for a conversation on President Trump's recent meetings with the Russian and Ukrainian Presidents. Dr. Odermann is a North Dakota native and fled Kyiv with her family prior to the attacks on the city. She has been a political commentator in Ukraine and covered President Zelensky when she was a news anchor.
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Shaw: ‘You can’t erase us’
Emery is especially hurt by the North Dakota Legislature’s efforts to ban same-sex marriage.
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“It’s disgusting,” she said. “They’re trying to take our rights away. Why should they care? Why can’t they just let people love people? We’re heading backwards.”
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“I’m afraid and concerned,” Anthony Birklid, 33, told me. Anthony is transgender. He, too, was born and raised in North Dakota, but moved to Moorhead because Minnesota is a sanctuary state.
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“These are tough and dark times for our community,” he said. “I don’t want to see any of us lost to suicide or violence. We’re under attack because we’re different. We don’t fit the mold of what others want us to be. So, we’re a target.”
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Zaleski: Praise for League and Grandmas
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No need for an Ethics Commission? You gotta be kidding. Indeed, a strong commission is essential to shine a light on a plague of ethical lapses in areas of state government now off limits to the commission’s jurisdiction. And if majority legislators continue myopic efforts to weaken the voter-mandated constitutional commission, another initiated ballot measure might be in order. That, too, would be a proud legacy of the BadAss Grandmas.
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So, how to explain specious criticism of effective organizations dominated by competent women? Could it be that a censorious columnist allowed manifest chauvinism to skew his screed?
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Check out these messages from national Democrats
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Soybean Growers Warn of ‘Extreme Financial Stress’ as Export Sales Stall Amid Tariffs
“Unfortunately for our soybean growers, China has contracted with Brazil to meet future months’ needs to avoid purchasing any soybeans from the United States,” the group says in a letter to the White House. The letter was accompanied by a 11-page white paper laying out the export situation facing soybean growers.
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“Soybean farmers are under extreme financial stress. Prices continue to drop and at the same time our farmers are paying significantly more for inputs and equipment. U.S. soybean farmers cannot survive a prolonged trade dispute with our largest customer,” the letter says.
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Are you better off since Donald Trump took office?
Now, I know that’s not the case. We’re the party of the working class, the small business, the farmer. Before leading the DNC, I headed up the Minnesota DFL – and you know what DFL stands for? Democratic-Farmer-Labor.
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We’re the party that says, we don't want to dismantle the VA or fire vets from their jobs, we want the men and women who put their lives on the line for our freedom to be able to find an affordable home or get care after they've served. We’re the party that promises, if you’re going to work your butt off for decades, then you shouldn’t have to worry about some snake oil salesman blowing up your Social Security. And now it seems we’re the only party that still believes the Constitution matters.
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Stephen Miller Erupts in Manic Fascist Rant—and Reveals a Big Weakness
Stephen Miller exploded in a long, unhinged rant about demonstrators who are protesting President Trump’s military occupation of Washington, D.C. It was classic authoritarian agitprop, attacking demonstrators as “Communists” who are secretly trying to make the city more dangerous to its salt-of-the-earth working-class residents. Ominously flanked by the defense secretary and members of the military, he threatened to respond with more troops. But we think this is really an expression of weakness. Trump and Miller were certain that a latent majority is prepared to rally to authoritarian rule. But poll after poll shows voters rebelling. Miller’s hubris has become a major vulnerability.
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Texas Democrat abruptly leaves DNC call after being warned she’s committing felony
“At the moment that the directive was issued, I felt like it was wrong. It’s just wrong to require grown people to get a permission slip to roam about freely,” Collier said in a recent interview on MSNBC. “So I resisted. I objected, in the only way I knew how, and that’s to resist.”
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How Trump is Using Short Attention Spans to Destroy Democracy
Ben Rhodes—bestselling author, ‪@podsavetheworld‬ co-host, and fellow Obama administration alum—joins Offline to explain how America is being torn apart by short-term thinking and the technology that stokes it. Ben recently wrote a piece for the New York Times on the topic, and he and Jon connect the dots between big tech, the attention economy and domestic dogmas, drawing on fifty years of foreign policy to explain how we got to a place where no one can focus on the worst of what Trump’s doing—let alone agree on a national narrative.
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FBI searches the home of former Trump adviser John Bolton
The FBI on Friday searched the home of President Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton.
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Bolton served in Trump's first term in the White House for just over a year but has since become a sharp critic of the president. He has said he believed Trump would use the Department of Justice to enact a "retribution presidency."
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Trump issued an order targeting homeless people. In D.C., he’s giving it a test run.
Oliva, of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, noted that while the events of the past week are “certainly alarming,” they mark a broader trend that has gained steam, beginning with the 2024 Supreme Court decision that allowed cities to punish homeless people for sleeping outdoors, even where there is no shelter available to them.
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“What we’ve seen since President Trump came into office is a series of policies put in place — or attempted to put in place — through executive orders that really don’t do anything to address the root causes of homelessness because we know that homelessness itself is not actually a criminal issue, it’s an economic issue,” she said.
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How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
One of the key responsibilities of scientists at the CDC is surveillance — gathering and studying data on deaths or disease outcomes; many of the experts leading this work are gone. The team tracking maternal and infant health outcomes, which helps the public understand how people die in childbirth, has been placed on administrative leave. The program cataloguing the frequency of common injuries, such as car accidents, overdoses, dog bites and drownings, was cut. The staff that monitors lead poisoning in children was eliminated.
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Dr. Thomas Frieden, who led the CDC during the Obama administration, said the cuts were endangering the public.
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“What public health does is it helps us see the invisible: See whether it’s the microbes that are killing us, or the toxins that are poisoning us, or the trends in diseases that we need to respond to protect ourselves and our families,” he said. “To the extent that these actions weaken our ability to see health trends and health risks, they make Americans less safe.”
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A week after Trump embraced Putin, the Ukraine peace effort is going nowhere
It’s a week since Trump applauded Russian President Vladimir Putin down a red carpet in Alaska. The US president has orchestrated spectacles and statesmanlike photo-ops with European leaders, and the White House has proclaimed stunning breakthroughs. But the underlying realities of the war have barely changed.
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Doctor Mike's RFK Jr. Problem is Getting Worse
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The biggest way—and the way people probably don’t feel yet—is we’re screwed on our innovation front, especially healthcare innovation. Because with this administration, they’ve come in raising all of these flags on issues that are important, that have been discussed, that haven’t been neglected, but they’re complex problems that require time to solve—like the chronic health issues that face America, the obesity epidemic that faces America. But instead of actually solving those problems, they just talk about them and then cut all the research funding and the labs that evaluate the problem and try to find unique solutions. They talk about cancer rates going up, and then they cut half a billion dollars of research for mRNA vaccines, which can potentially be used to prevent cancer. So all the innovation that we could be having as a country to prolong our lives, improve our quality of life, and give us a competitive edge in this very tough landscape against other countries that are trying to create their own innovations—we’re losing that battle big time.
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So my fear is that in 10, 15, 20 years from now, when people come to their doctor hoping there’s a solution to their problem, there might not be one—and we’ll all look back at this moment and understand why.
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The Very Real Possibility That Trump Could Try To Destroy Women’s Voting Rights
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“In my ideal society, we would vote as households,” Doug Wilson, an extreme right-wing pastor said in a video clip posted to X, formerly known as Twitter. “And I would ordinarily be the one that would cast the vote, but I would cast the vote having discussed it with my household.”
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It was part of last Thursday’s CNN segment on Wilson, who believes in Christian reconstruction, an extreme version of Christianity that does not support the right of women to vote. But if that wasn’t disturbing enough on its own, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video last week, simply commenting “All of Christ for All of Life.” When Slate magazine reached out to the Pentagon earlier this week seeking clarification on whether or not Hegseth believed women should vote, an agency spokesperson responded with a statement that notably did not say Hegseth believed in women’s right to vote.
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'Terrible sign' for Republicans: Joe reacts to Rep. Stefanik being booed offstage by crowd
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., received boos Monday during a ceremony held to rename a county government center in Plattsburgh, N.Y. The Morning Joe panel discusses.
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California legislature poised to vote on redistricting plan in response to Texas gerrymandering
Testifying in favor of the changes during a hearing earlier this week, Sara Sadhwani, a political science professor who served as a Democratic member of the state’s independent redistricting commission in 2020, said the map-drawing tit-for-tat presented California voters with a “moral conflict”. But she argued that Democrats had to push back on the president’s power grab.
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“It brings me no joy to see the maps that we passed fairly by the commission to be tossed aside,” she said. “I do believe this is a necessary step in a much bigger battle to shore up free and fair elections in our nation.”
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Judge blocks transfers to 'Alligator Alcatraz,' effectively winding down operations
The preliminary injunction marks one of the most high-profile uses of environmental law to challenge the Trump administration's policies.
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"Every Florida governor, every Florida senator, and countless local and national political figures, including presidents, have publicly pledged their unequivocal support for the restoration, conservation, and protection of the Everglades. This Order does nothing more than uphold the basic requirements of legislation designed to fulfill those promises," the judge wrote.
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Supreme Court allows Trump administration to terminate $783 million in NIH grants linked to DEI initiatives
The challengers urged the justices to leave Young’s order in place. The states contended that the termination of the grants “caused unrecoverable loss of scientific knowledge,” and the private plaintiffs wrote that putting Young’s order on hold even for a short time would “inflict[] incalculable losses in public health and human life because of delays in bringing the fruits of” their research “to Americans who desperately await clinical advancements.” And they distinguished their case from the Department of Education case in which the justices allowed the government to stop payments for teacher-training grants, noting that, unlike the challengers in that case, they do not have the money to make up for the lost NIH funding.
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The Smithsonian Is Already Giving In to Trump. It Won’t Save Them.
In 2026, the U.S. will commemorate its 250th anniversary, but under the Trump administration, the Smithsonian may be barred from showcasing “the complexity of how this country began, the bloodshed,” the Smithsonian staffer said. Whatever patriotism might be inherent in the semiquincentennial commemoration of this nation’s founding, ignoring simple historical facts like slavery and the displacement of native populations is a disservice not only to the scholars dedicated to studying these topics, but also to the public, who deserve to understand the full breadth of our nation’s past. “We won’t be able to even explain that or make it understandable,” the staffer noted. “If we’re reluctant to talk about, understand, and comprehend how we got here today, we’re never going to make it to the future.”
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Why the Epstein drama isn’t going away anytime soon
The Justice Department is expected on Friday to start handing the first batch of Jeffrey Epstein files over to Congress. But it may be a while before lawmakers get the information they want — if ever.
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The DOJ is taking a piecemeal approach to transmitting documents to Capitol Hill, pursuant to a subpoena issued this month by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after Democrats on the panel forced the matter.
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'Nothing short of extraordinary': See Nicolle Wallace react to new Epstein ruling
Voting Rights Attorney and Founder of Democracy Docket Marc Elias, former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Justice Department Mary McCord, and MSNBC Senior Contributing Editor Michele Norris join Nicolle Wallace to react to a new ruling from a judge on the DOJ's request to unseal the Epstein transcripts and exhibits.
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Trump’s Next Target: All 55 Million U.S. Visa Holders
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The State Department is reviewing the records of all U.S. immigrants in search of deportable offenses.
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As many as 55 million immigrants hold visas. The department told the Associated Press Thursday that they are the focus of “continuous vetting.”
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“We review all available information as part of our vetting, including law enforcement or immigration records or any other information that comes to light after visa issuance indicating a potential ineligibility,” the department said.
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A Funding Cut to a Literacy Program Hits the Most Vulnerable in Small Missouri Town
While Barsby plans to apply for grant funding in the future, she says the sudden change means drastic shifts for the nonprofit, which is grappling with a new reality: for its tutors, who are now effectively out of work, and to the literacy council’s six-county footprint.
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“It changes your whole community,” Barsby said. “We’re part of the Department of Economic Development because if you don’t have an educated workforce, you can’t bring in new business, you can’t bring in new industry – you don’t have that workforce.
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“Our rural companies have got to continue to invest in and bring industry to us and bring business to us so there are jobs in our area and our young people stay here.”
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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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