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During the 69th Legislative Assembly, North Dakota Democratic-NPL Insider will provide updates and calls to action each day of the regular session. If you would like to have something added to the newsletter, email us at [email protected]. Spread the word of our newsletter by sharing our sign-up link today: https://demnpl.com/join-our-newsletter/.
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human rights peaceful protest
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Saturday, March 8, 2025 – 12:00 PM
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South side closest to Boulevard
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Not a Dem-NPL event, but you may be interested in this event hosted by Unitd Womxn of North Dakota.
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We are going to gather and protest for human rights, it also happens to be international women's day and we will be peacefully protesting anything you feel the need to stand up for.
we will meet on the South side closest to Boulevard. on the sidewalks only and on the median. Learn More
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District 15 Reorganization Meeting
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Saturday, March 15, 2025 – 10:00 AM
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Lake Region Public Library
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423 7th Street Northeast, Devils Lake
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District 15 Democratic-NPL Party District Reorganization Meeting
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2025 Souris Valley Dem-NPL District Reorganization Conventions
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Saturday, March 15, 2025 – Noon
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IBEW Local 714 Minot Office
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The Souris Valley Dem-NPL 2025 District Reorganization Conventions for Districts 3, 5, 38, and 40 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 15th at noon at the IBEW Local 714 Hall (125 35th Ave NE, Minot, ND) in northwest Minot. Sen. Josh Boschee, DNC Committeeman Jamie Selzler, and Dem-NPL Executive Director Cheryl Biller will be there to speak with local Democrats. A lunch of chili and knoephla soup will be provided. Anyone who is a resident of District 3, 5, 38, or 40 who shares the ideals of the Dem-NPL is free to attend and participate. There are no party dues or other requirements for participation.
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The purpose of our 2025 District Conventions is to elect new leadership for each of the local district organizations in 3, 5, 38, and 40. The leadership of each Dem-NPL district organization is tasked with the important work of organizing fellow Dem-NPLers in the district to help support our candidates up and down the ballot.
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Dist 29 Dem-NPL Reorganization Meeting
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Sunday, March 16, 2025 – 2:00 PM
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District 29 Democratic-NPL will host their Re-Organization meeting March 16 2pm at the Pekin Community Center.
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District 28 Dem - NPL Reorganization Meeting
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Sunday, March 16, 2025 – 2:00 PM
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District 28 Dem-NPL will be hosting their Reorganization meeting at Growing Small Towns in Oakes, ND on Sunday, March 16th starting at 2pm.
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Bismarck-Mandan Dem-NPL Reorganization Meeting
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Saturday, March 22, 2025 – 10:00 AM
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If you have concerns about the future of our democracy, then it is time for you to get involved in civic engagement. You are invited to join the Bismarck/Mandan Democratic-NPL party and participate in our reorganization meeting in March! No dues, no litmus test. Know that your views, suggestions, and concerns are welcome.
Mark your calendar. More details to follow!
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D12 Reorg
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Sunday, March 23, 2025 – 11:30 AM
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the club room
210 3rd St SW Jamestown
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Join the District 12 DEM-NPL to elect the District Leadership we need for the next election cycle. Want to help organize positive community events? Don’t want public dollars going to private schools? Join in and make a difference. Change begins at the District level. The reorganization meeting will be March 23rd, 2024 at 11:30 am to 2 pm. Join us for a potluck to start and stay for the Jamestown Trivia at the end. We will meet at The Club Room 210 3rd St SW, Jamestown, ND
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Rally to Save USPS
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Sunday, March 23, 2025 – 1:00 PM
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Not a Dem-NPL event, but many of you may be interested in this event organized by National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 205.
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“Our jobs, our service, and the entire Postal Service are on the line. We need everyone’s help in our fight like hell against these attacks."
“These local rallies nationwide will bring together NALC members and the public to show their support for letter carriers, all postal employees, and the Postal Service,” NALC President Brian L. Renfroe said. “At a crucial time, this is an opportunity to educate our customers about everything at stake if the Postal Service is privatized or restructured.
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NALC Branch 205 Hell No! To Dismantling the Postal Service
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Sunday, March 23, 2025 – 2:00 PM
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Downtown Fargo Post Office - Federal Building
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Not a Dem-NPL event, but many of you may be interested in this event organized by National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 205.
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“Our jobs, our service, and the entire Postal Service are on the line. We need everyone’s help in our fight like hell against these attacks."
“These local rallies nationwide will bring together NALC members and the public to show their support for letter carriers, all postal employees, and the Postal Service,” NALC President Brian L. Renfroe said. “At a crucial time, this is an opportunity to educate our customers about everything at stake if the Postal Service is privatized or restructured.
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Legislative Update on Education
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Saturday, March 29, 2025 – 10:00 AM
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Rustad Recreation Center
601 26th Ave E, West Fargo
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Districts 10, 13, 16, and 21 Dem-NPL leadership are proud to invite the public to a Legislative Update on Education on March 29th at the Rustad Recreation Center in West Fargo from 10am to 12pm!
Senators Kathy Hogan (21) and Ryan Braunberger (10) and Representatives Mary Schneider (21) and LaurieBeth Hager (21) will be there to talk about their priorities with the remainder of the legislative session regarding education and by extension funding/taxes. There will be an open question segment for the public after the short addresses from each legislator.
We will have donuts and coffee courtesy of District 13!
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District 44 Legislative Forum
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Saturday, March 29, 2025 – 10:00 AM
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Roosevelt Elementary School Community Room
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Join us for our third public forum of the 2025 legislative session! Sen. Josh Boschee, Rep. Karla Rose Hanson & Rep. Austin Foss will provides updates and take questions.
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District 14 Democratic/NPL Reorganizing Meeting
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Saturday, March 29, 2025 – 12:30 PM
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Hometown Tavern
114 8th St W, Harvey
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Now is the time to get organized to fight back on the terrible trump agenda and to prepare for the 2026 elections. Join us for an optional lunch at noon (lasagna dinner for $13) or for the meeting which will start at 12:30.
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District 1 and 23 Reorganizing Meeting
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Saturday, March 29, 2025 – 2:00 PM
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Williston State College
1410 University Avenue Williston
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Come join the District 1 and 23 Dem-NPL at our reorganizing meeting! We will be meeting on March 29th at the Ready Room at Frontier Hall on the campus of Williston State College Meeting will start at 2PM.
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8th Annual Governors Dinner with Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn
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Saturday, May 3, 2025 – 6:15 PM
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The Annual Governors Dinner Fundraiser, featuring January 6 Capitol Police officer and former Congressional candidate Harry Dunn, is May 3rd at 6:15 pm, in Mandan.
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Dinner options are coming soon and will be sent out to you, along with ticketing information, next week. We are so excited to welcome Mr. Dunn to ND and we hope you will plan to join us!
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State Sen. Rob Kupec compares MN to ND legislature with State Rep. Zac Ista
Minnesota State Senator Rob Kupec is filling in for Joel Heitkamp on "News and Views," and is joined by North Dakota State Representative Zachary Ista. Representative Ista is the House Minority Leader and compares the two legislative sessions with Senator Kupec.
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Kindseth and Kujawa: Senate Bill 2307 would have big consequences for public libraries
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If SB 2307 becomes law, citizens who disagree with the library's decisions on reconsideration requests may report the library to their local state's attorney. If the state's attorney disagrees with the library's decisions, consequences could include criminal charges for librarians and loss of state funding. Ultimate authority over what is available in the library and who has access to it would be shifted from trained librarians to individual citizens and state's attorneys.
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SB 2307 includes a “decision-making committee” to monitor library decisions on material. If this committee disagrees with material decisions, they may also report librarians to their local state's attorney. It is unclear who will form this “decision-making committee” and who will represent it.
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‘Light for Our Democracy’ rallies concerned residents
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The evening included readings giving support to democracy.
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“Tonight, as we light our candles, our lanterns and our hearts, let’s reflect on the power that we have to shape the future,” Dykeman read in kicking off the event. “Let’s be reminded that democracy requires more than just casting a ballot. It requires vigilance, engagement and action at every level – every conversation we have, every issue we stand for, every moment we take to educate and empower others and come together. These are the steps that help safeguard the freedoms that we hold dear.”
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NDFU's Mark Watne speaks to Farm Bill and foreign trade
Joel Heitkamp is joined by the President of North Dakota Farmers Union, Mark Watne. Mark recently got back from lobbying for the Farm Bill in Washington D.C., and speaks to that as well as the tariffs being put in place by President Trump.
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ND State Senator Josh Boschee talks about EMS with Bill Tuttle
Joel Heitkamp is off, and North Dakota State Senator Josh Boschee is filling in. Bill Tuttle joins Josh in the KFGO studio to talk about emergency services in rural North Dakota, specifically hitting on the challenges throughout the state. Bill Tuttle is the NE Region Director of the North Dakota Emergency Medical Services Association, and works with the Drayton Volunteer Ambulance.
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Letter: Prairie Public bill is a made-up concern
Republican Rep Jorin Johnson said “In this DOGE era of budgetary sense, this money would be better allocated to other public services like education, health care or infrastructure." I would like to remind Rep Johnson that DOGE is not an official government agency. Government agencies can only be established by Congress, no one should be following orders from Elon Musk or this fraud of an agency.
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ND leaders respond to president’s address
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On behalf of the state Democratic-NPL, Communications Director Laura Dronen issued a statement saying, “Over and over Trump subjected Americans to lies. Costs are skyrocketing. The economy is plummeting. Planes are falling out of the sky as they gut the FAA. We are less safe and worse off since Trump handed over the keys to our country to Elon Musk and his teeny-bobber minions.
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“As they destroy Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, where will our seniors turn? As they erode the Affordable Care Act, how will North Dakotans with preexisting conditions afford to see a doctor? As they obliterate consumer protections, who will safeguard us from real waste, fraud, and abuse?” she said. “When everything that makes the United States of America the leader of the free world has been hacked and slashed to death, what will be left of us?”
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Friday Federal News Round Up - 7 March 2025
Today is the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. On this day 60 years ago, peaceful protestors marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in support of the rights of black Americans to vote. They were met with tear gas and police batons and brutally beaten, including future Congressman John Lewis who narrowly escaped with his life. In August of that same year, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law.
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This was progress. But progress is rarely linear. Sometimes we build on small gains to see big results. But sadly, like now, we also see huge amounts of progress ripped away. The Supreme Court case in 2023 that gutted the Voting Rights Act, Shelby v Holder, also came out of Alabama.
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We are watching the progress of the Biden Harris administration in terms of job growth and economic recovery be decimated by Trump and his unelected buddies. Biden put people back to work in record numbers - so they could feed their families, pay taxes, participate in their communities and local economies, and have dignity. This POTUS has put more than tens of thousands of people out of work in a month. The likely result is a tanking economy with prices going up, not down. Trump tariffs will mean a further tax on everyday North Dakotans. We face a serious housing shortage and taxing our ally who shares our border and supplies the majority of the lumber for housing is a terrible idea. There is nothing America First about being a bully on the continental block and spitting in the face of your friend, while at the same time making life financially that much harder for Americans.
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We are watching the progress of the Affordable Health Act be gutted so that POTUS can give more away in tax breaks to the ultra wealthy. More than 60 million Americans rely on government backed healthcare in the form of Medicare and Medicaid and they are about to lose that. When you hear that 880 million in waste is being eliminated from Medicaid, you need to remember that the budget for Medicaid is not much over that. Republicans (Fedorchak already voted yes but you can still call Hoeven and Cramer) plan to eliminate the entire budget so they can take for themselves and their cronies another big tax break. One Dem NPL leader in Minot, Zach Raknerud, took it on himself to contact 4 rural nursing homes to ask what they will do if these cuts are actually made. All 4 told him they would have to close.
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We are watching all the progress of Veterans health care under the Biden Harris administration - the PACT Act and the Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Improvement Act - fall apart as POTUS attempts to cut 83,000 VA jobs. We knew when POTUS called Sen John McCain a sucker and a loser that his contempt for veterans was real, and now we are seeing it play out in real time. One local VA nurse explained that no direct care provider positions have been cut so far but nearly all the support positions are being eliminated from the Fargo VA so that doctors and nurses are having to do everything. They were short staffed already.
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The selfless, peaceful, defiant act of thousands of Americans who knew that they would have to sacrifice to make real the promise of our constitution that ALL are created equal led to a Voting Rights Act that ensured black Americans of their right to self governance. We must see their bravery and match it today to ensure that our founders’ dream of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people is kept alive.
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-Cheryl Biller, Democratic-NPL Executive Director
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BREAKING: Trump Explodes in Oval Office Meeting with Zelensky
Tommy and Ben discuss Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous meeting at the White House that erupted in a yelling match and resulted in Zelensky being told to leave. They dig into JD Vance’s role as instigator, the revealed motivations for attacking Zelensky in front of the press, and what Zelensky’s options are for pursuing peace from here.
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Homeland Security ends TSA collective bargaining agreement, in effort to dismantle union protections
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Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, a Democrat of Mississippi, who is the ranking member of the House’s Homeland Security Committee, said the decision makes “zero sense” and would reduce morale.
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Thompson also criticized the Homeland Security press release, saying the department was using “flat out wrong anti-union talking points.” He said the real aim was “diminishing” the workforce so “they can transform it in the mold of Project 2025.”
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BREAKING! Trump & Vance Pick NAUSEATING Fight with Zelenskyy! SHAMEFUL Moment in History!
Sam Stein, Jonathan V. Last and Will Saletan react to the shameful confrontation between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.
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Donald Trump Just Proved He’s an Economic Idiot. Again.
These are indelible facts. As is the fact that tariffs are taxes. American consumers will pay them, as will farmers and importers, if Trump ever gets around to imposing them for real. If he keeps “imposing” tariffs and then backing off, well, it will be better for the economy than if he leaves them in place. But Democrats and our free press had better make sure that the public understands that the candidate who supposedly was “in touch” with the working class built his campaign around a proposal that’s about as real as spinning straw into gold. The sanewashing must not continue.
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Tuesday Talkers - Tariffs and Tensions and a Brewing Trade War (oh my)!
Just last week, House Republicans passed a massive budget proposal, directing key committees to oversee large spending cuts for health care and agriculture. Several critical social safety net programs are on the chopping block including Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). According to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, close to 43 million people receive benefits from SNAP. The New Republic writes “Because of its widespread use, any potential future cuts to SNAP would affect constituents of every ideological leaning, including rural Americans who live in Republican areas.
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Democrats Sue Trump Over Attempt to Control Independent Election Agency
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The Democratic Party is suing President Donald Trump over an executive order that could make it easier for him to tilt elections in the GOP’s favor.
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The lawsuit, filed Friday by Elias Law Group on behalf of the three national Democratic committees, challenges an expansive executive order Trump issued earlier this month that would give him unprecedented power over key regulatory agencies that were designed to operate without direct White House control.
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Committees
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Every bill is voted on in the North Dakota legislature, but first, it must go through a committee hearing. The committee will vote to give the bill a "Do Pass" or a "Do Not Pass" recommendation. Below is a list of Standing Committees this legislative session.
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Senate Standing Committee Members
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Meets Thursday and Friday
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Meets Monday through Friday
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Meets Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
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Meets Thursday and Friday
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Desiree Van Oosting (R-36)
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Meets Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
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Meets Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
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Desiree Van Oosting (R-36)
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Meets Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
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Meets Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
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Meets Thursday and Friday
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Meets Thursday and Friday
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Meets Thursday and Friday
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House Standing Committee Members
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Meets Thursday and Friday
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Gretchen Dobervich (D-11)
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Cynthia Schreiber-Beck (R-25)
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Meets Monday through Friday
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Meets Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
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Cynthia Schreiber-Beck (R-25)
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Patrick R. Hatlestad (R-1)
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Meets Thursday and Friday
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Meets Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
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Mike Motschenbacher (R-47)
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Meets Thursday and Friday
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Gretchen Dobervich (D-11)
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Meets Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
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Lisa Finley-DeVille (D-4A)
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Meets Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
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Lawrence R. Klemin (R-47)
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Meets Thursday and Friday
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Patrick R. Hatlestad (R-1)
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Lawrence R. Klemin (R-47)
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Mike Motschenbacher (R-47)
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Meets Thursday and Friday
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Lisa Finley-DeVille (D-4A)
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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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