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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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Did you know the DNC hosts a morning news show called the Daily Blueprint that is livestreamed on YouTube weekdays at 9 AM CDT? You can watch it live or later on the DNC’s YouTube channel here.
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Letter Stuffing Party!
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Tue, Nov 18 - Fri, Nov 21
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Help us with our next mailing!
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Coffee with Friends
Luna Fargo
1545 S University Dr, Fargo
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We are excited to have a guest speaker, Carolyn Becraft, Captain, US Army, Retired. Carolyn once served as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs and as an advocate for women and military families. The recipient of many awards during a lifetime of service will share some words with us. Hope to see you there!!
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Executive Committee Meeting
The Executive Committee Meeting for the State Democratic-NPL Party. Each Third Monday of the Month
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For more information contact Adam Goldwyn at adam.goldwyn@demnpl.com
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District 24 Dem-NPL Meeting
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Lisbon Senior Citizen Center
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625 Main Street, Lisbon, ND
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District 24 Dem-NPL members meet every 3rd Tuesday or Thursday in either Enderlin, Lisbon, or Valley City (depending on the month).
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District 11 Meeting
1325 23rd St S, Suite B, Fargo
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District 11 Democratic-NPL meets every 3rd Wednesday of the month
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Drinks and Discussion with Dems
El Zagal Shrine Fargo
1429 3rd Street North, Fargo
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Our informal get-together to talk about current events, brainstorm on activities we can do together as a two district partnership, and just enjoy each others’ company in general.
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Districts 1 and 23 Meeting
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Our informal get-together to talk about current events, brainstorm on activities we can do together as a two district partnership, and just enjoy each others’ company in general.
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Drinks and Discussion with Dems
El Zagal Shrine Fargo
1429 3rd Street North, Fargo
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Our informal get-together to talk about current events, brainstorm on activities we can do together as a two district partnership, and just enjoy each others’ company in general.
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District 45 Monthly Meeting
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Northport Library Community Room
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This will be our regular monthly District 45 meeting.
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Help us spread our message—share these recent posts!
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More to be done, vet says, as North Dakota sees uptick in veteran homelessness
Dan Thorstad, chief administrator for the Department of Veterans Affairs, previously worked as a state service officer and veterans service officer for Cass County. He said one issue for veterans, or anyone facing homelessness, is North Dakota’s quick eviction timeline where landlords only need to provide a three-day notice of their intent to evict a tenant.
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“You can’t get anything done in 72 hours,” Thorstad said.
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If a renter falls behind on rent, he said, they are not able to find new housing until their previous balance is cleared.
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“That becomes a sticking point because how do we get them housed now when they owe?” Thorstad said.
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Tribune editorial: ND officials need to review investments
While researching the lawsuit, Tribune reporter Grant Coursey also uncovered another investment issue involving not just one but two of the state’s economic development investment funds.
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The Wonder Fund was created in 2023 as a federally funded state program to provide early investment for small businesses that are in North Dakota or impacting the state. O’Leary Ventures, owned by Kevin O’Leary of “Shark Tank” fame, manages the fund. And that didn’t come without controversy — O’Leary’s firm was the only company to respond to a request for proposal to head up the fund, doing so at the invitation of the state commerce commissioner at the time.
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Joel talks about Dickinson State University with Ty Orton and Shirley Meyer
Joel Heitkamp is broadcasting live from Killdeer on his way to Williston, ND, and talks about Dickinson State University. Joel chats with Ty Orton, the executive director for the DSU Heritage Foundation. They are also joined by former State Legislator, Shirley Meyer, to elaborate on the greatness of Dickinson, ND.
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Letter: Trump's actions don't match ND value system
I didn't attend the "NO KINGS" demonstrations, several members of my family did. Senator Cramer, with fine impartially, referred to them, as “rowdy NUT JOBS”.
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People exercising their constitutional rights that day were likely born and raised in North Dakota, and familiar with our value system. One of those values is the firm expectation that the President of the United States (at the VERY base) be a DECENT HUMAN BEING, a requirement Cramer and other Trumpers find an inconvenience.
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Marc Caputo, Axios Reporter, breaks down the Epstein files controversy
Joel Heitkamp is joined on "News and Views" by Marc Caputo to have a conversation on the Epstein files under the Trump Administration. Marc is a Trump White House Reporter for Axios and formerly was a senior writer for Politico.
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Speaking out: Congress puts politics over people
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It has no problem finding money to support Argentina’s strongman leader, to pay for fancy jetliners for the benefit of government officials, to remodel the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House, and to triple the cost and the inhumanity of immigration enforcement. It has declined to find money to fund SNAP to feed the hungry, to ensure Head Start students get the start they need and to pay the salaries of essential workers.
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It would rather pay lawyers to fight efforts that support citizens in need.
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All this pain, agony, consternation, bitterness and division would have been avoided if only Congress had done its job, but the U.S. House of Representatives hasn’t even gaveled in for a month and a half, preferring instead to let its members stay home and complain that “the other side” is responsible for the chaos and heartbreak.
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North Dakota food assistance benefits restored, but exact timing uncertain
Great Plains Food Bank spokesperson Darby Njos said the nonprofit expects to distribute 3.5 million pounds of food in November and December — about a 60% increase in the amount of food it usually distributes to food pantries around the state.
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She said even though SNAP will soon be restored, the food bank expects to see high demand for food assistance to continue.
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“We’re seeing consistently strong turnouts at our mobile food pantries, at our pop-up pantries, and our partner food pantries have been reporting heavy, consistent usage,” Njos said.
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Have an opinion about the news? Consider joining The Forum's Readers Board
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In December, the Readers Board will select six new members. The board members come from different communities, range in age from high school student to senior citizen, and have varied life experiences.
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Interested? Send a letter about yourself that includes your name, age, city of residence, occupation and any other personal information you would like to share.
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Shaw: Falsehoods and deception from North Dakota leaders about the shutdown
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Speaking of Fedorchak, she sent out a letter stating, “Millions of American families pay premiums and deductibles every month, yet under the Democrats’ proposal, those who break our immigration laws could get access to government-funded benefits.” Totally false. Illegal immigrants are not eligible for Obamacare and that is not in the Democrats’ proposal. She must know that.
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To throw more fuel on the fire, Fedorchak shamefully asks in her letter, “Do you support giving taxpayer-funded health care to illegal immigrants?” Fedorchak is deliberately deceiving her constituents that this is even an issue now.
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Check out these messages from national Democrats
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Trump Doesn’t “Want to Hear About” Affordability While His Economy Implodes
When Americans buy their Thanksgiving turkeys or shop their usual Black Friday deals and are met with sky-high prices, they can thank Donald Trump. Everyone, from consumers to small business owners, is being crushed by Trump’s chaotic tariffs and facade of policy solutions that don’t come close to addressing the most pressing needs of Americans struggling to put food on the table every day. Trump could spend his time addressing the needs of everyday Americans — but instead, he prefers to insult them, while spending his days partying at Mar-a-Lago with his billionaire buddies, playing golf, or building his gilded ballroom.
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Epstein email says Trump ‘knew about the girls’ as White House calls its release a Democratic smear
Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a 2019 email to a journalist that Donald Trump “knew about the girls,” according to documents made public Wednesday, but what he knew — and whether it pertained to the sex offender’s crimes — is unclear. The White House quickly accused Democrats of selectively leaking the emails to smear the president.
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FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
He’s had a rocky tenure so far, marked by public fights with senior Cabinet officials and accusations that he leaked information to the press, which Bongino denied. In August, Trump appointed Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as co-deputy director at the FBI, setting off speculation that the White House had lost faith in Bongino. But he remains in the job.
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ProPublica could not determine whether Bongino sat for a polygraph exam or what its results were. Though the existence of a polygraph waiver is an indication he may not have passed the test, it is possible Bongino received a preemptive exemption, a former senior FBI official with knowledge of the vetting program told ProPublica.
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Activists Hope to Reengage Democrats with Rural Challenges on a National Level
“What we’ve seen is a great mobilization of mostly Democrats and liberals speaking out against these horrific injustices that are happening, but there’s a giant gap of lifting up what’s happening to rural and working-class people,” Flaccavento said.
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“You don’t see signs about them. There’s not social media memes. There aren’t huge meetings being organized on the left to bring those folks together. And the other big gap has been the complete lack of a positive vision, not just a rhetorical one, but a specific policy platform. And we know from the research that this is what people are looking for.”
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Trump Boat Bombings Darken as Secret Memo Reveals Holes in Legal Case
“It signals a fear that what they’re doing is illegal and that they could possibly be subject to criminal action under U.S. law and under international law,” Smith told me. He added that administration lawyers may be looking at Trump’s bombings and saying, in effect, “Damn, we are really pushing the envelope here. We’d better do something a little extra special to protect our people.”
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Bondi assigns prosecutor to lead investigation into Trump adversaries over Epstein ties
Earlier, Trump called the latest release of emails that renewed focus on the president’s relationship with the late sex-offender a “hoax”, and directed the justice department to launch a probe into former president Bill Clinton, Democratic donor and entrepreneur Reid Hoffman, and former treasury secretary Larry Summers (who served under Clinton). “This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats,” the president wrote on Truth Social earlier.
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Shutdown ends, but more federal chaos looms for states
But even after the government reopening restores SNAP aid, other challenges loom. The major tax and spending law enacted this summer tied SNAP funding to state error rates, which measure the accuracy of benefit payments. Advocates fear the shutdown will increase error rates because of conflicting federal guidance.
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Data centers are spiking electricity costs in Maryland. It’s the ‘tip of the iceberg,’ one expert warns
Data centers have powered the internet for years, but with the rise of artificial intelligence, they are projected to need eye-popping amounts of power, along with costly infrastructure upgrades to deliver it. A 2024 report by the US Department of Energy estimated that data centers would use between 6.7 and 12% of the nation’s electricity by 2028.
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The Trump administration plans major shift away from long-term housing for homelessness
Critics warn the major overhaul could put 170,000 people at risk of losing their housing again. And they say the timing is terrible. Normally, funding notices go out months earlier, but now programs around the country will have little time to start applying for new funding. And in many places, it will leave a months-long gap after current funding runs out and before new money flows.
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Megyn Kelly Suddenly Finds Pedophilia Very Hard to Define
There was her insistence that Santa Claus is white, for example, and her claim that wearing blackface used to not be so bad (that one got her fired from NBC News). Wednesday, on her eponymous SiriusXM show, Kelly picked another hill to die on: She implied, in conversation with NewsNation host Batya Ungar-Sargon, that it wasn’t quite fair to call Jeffrey Epstein a pedophile because he was “into the barely legal type” of minors—which Kelly appallingly defines as “like, 15-year-olds”—who look like they could be legal adults. Epstein was charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, and the Department of Justice said he abused and exploited dozens of underage girls, some as young as 14.
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“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed more than 700 video clips posted to social media by protesters, counterprotesters and others in the three months preceding the Sept. 4 broadcast.
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The review found that the news network repeatedly provided a misleading picture of what was happening in Portland.
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As The Guardian and The Oregonian/OregonLive have reported, Fox News on Sept. 4 used footage from the 2020 protests after the police killing of George Floyd and said it was from 2025. We found two clear cases from that night as well as one that seemed to match a scene filmed at a key site of the 2020 protests. Fox also mislabeled two other dates of actions shown on screen, and one broadcast implied that a protest from elsewhere was happening in Portland.
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Trump officials say Alaska is ‘open for business.’ So far, no one’s buying.
Moreland, a Gwich’in leader and executive director of the tribal committee dedicated to protecting the Nation’s sacred coastal plain, sat stunned as the YouTube stream continued. The place she grew up — where generations have lived on the tundra alongside the caribou, weaving their history into the land — had been reduced to a line item on someone’s balance sheet. When Burgum said opening the refuge would benefit northern communities, “it felt like a slap in the face,” she said.
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“They’ve never reached out to us to listen to how this would affect our livelihood,” she said. Moreland fears development will drive the herd that the Gwich’in rely on out of range and contaminate rivers in a region where hunting and fishing are a matter of survival. For her, it felt like erasure. “It’s another disrespectful action from decision-makers,” she said. “It ignores our voice as Gwich’in and violates our rights as Indigenous people.”
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Trump pressures Boebert, Mace to back down on Epstein files
Driving the news: Boebert met Wednesday with Justice Department and FBI officials who tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade her to withdraw her name, according to a source familiar with the meeting.
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Indiana redistricting push likely dead despite White House pressure
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President Donald Trump’s effort to force mid-decade redistricting suffered a major setback Friday, after Indiana’s GOP state Senate leader declared the chamber will not convene in December to redraw maps.
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In response, Trump’s team has begun summoning Indiana lawmakers to meet with the president in the Oval Office as early as next week, according to two sources familiar with the request, including one who had fielded an invite over the phone Friday.
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Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
Grocery prices are up, not down. Grocery prices have increased during Trump’s second term. Average US grocery prices in September were 1.4% higher than they were in January, the month he returned to office, and 2.7% higher than they were in September 2024 under former President Joe Biden, Consumer Price Index figures show. The 0.6% increase in average grocery prices from July 2025 to August 2025 was the biggest month-to-month jump in three years, and it was followed by a 0.3% increase from August to September.
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Share these Dem-NPL Graphics!
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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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