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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! 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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Upcoming Events!
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Pre-Parade Party
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 – 5:30 PM (CDT)
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Jaycee Centennial Park E. Century Ave. Bismarck
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Come and join the fun! Bring your family and friends to help decorate the Dem-NPL Parade float! Chat with our statewide and local candidates, and cheer on our volunteer walkers!
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Grilled brats and hotdogs provided. Entertainment by Chuck Suchy!
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Mandan Fourth of July Parade
Thursday, July 4, 2024 – 8:00 AM line up, 10:00 AM Start
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Mandan Rodeo Days/Dacotah Centennial Park 2500 Longspur Trail, Mandan
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March with the Bismarck-Mandan Democratic-NPL in the Fourth of July parade!
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Summerfest at Red River Valley Fair
Friday, July 12, 2024 – 5:30 PM (CDT)
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Red River Valley Fairgrounds 1805 Main Ave W., West Fargo
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Summerfest will be held at the Red River Valley Fair with an Ice Cream Social and Merrill Piepkorn & friends performing on the free stage. The Ice Cream Social will be held in the Hartl Ag Building.
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Tickets are $10.00 and will be available in the near future.
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Merrill Piepkorn for Governor Prairie Fire Picnic – Ellendale
Monday, July 15, 2024 – 5:00 PM (CDT)
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South Park 420 2nd St S, Ellendale
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Join Merrill Piepkorn in Ellendale on July 15! Merrill is crisscrossing the state hosting Prairie Fire Picnics! Food Provided–bring your lawn chairs!
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Merrill believes that if we want a bigger and better workforce, we need to be a welcoming state. We need to support public education and school lunches. People need to make a good living, have access to affordable housing and quality child care. And, a woman’s healthcare decision should never be placed in the hands of the government.
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Merrill Piepkorn for Governor Prairie Fire Picnic – Wishek
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 – 11:30 AM (CDT)
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Join Merrill Piepkorn in Wishek! Merrill is crisscrossing the state hosting Prairie Fire Picnics! Lunch Provided–bring your lawn chairs!
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Merrill believes that if we want a bigger and better workforce, we need to be a welcoming state. We need to support public education and school lunches. People need to make a good living, have access to affordable housing and quality child care. And, a woman’s healthcare decision should never be placed in the hands of the government.
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Merrill Piepkorn for Governor Prairie Fire Picnic – Bismarck
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 – 5:30 PM (CDT)
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320 E Custer Park Street, Bismarck
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Food provided and live music 5:30-7:00 pm, July 16, at Custer Park, 320 E Custer Park Street. Bring a lawn chair.
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Join Merrill Piepkorn in Bismarck! Merrill is crisscrossing the state hosting Prairie Fire Picnics!
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District 10 Meeting
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 – 6:00 PM (CDT)
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Fargo Democratic-NPL Office
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1325 2rd Ave. S. Suite B, Fargo
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Food provided and live music 5:30-7:00 pm, July 16, at Custer Park, 320 E Custer Park Street. Bring a lawn chair.
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Join Merrill Piepkorn in Bismarck! Merrill is crisscrossing the state hosting Prairie Fire Picnics!
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Executive Committee Meeting
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 – 7:00 PM (CDT)
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The Executive Committee Meeting for the State Democratic-NPL Party. Each Third Wednesday of the Month.
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Merrill Piepkorn for Governor Prairie Fire Picnic – Dickinson
Thursday, July 18, 2024 – 11:30 AM (MDT)
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Prairie Outpost Park 188 Museum Dr E, Dickinson
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Join Merrill Piepkorn in Dickinson on July 18! Merrill is crisscrossing the state hosting Prairie Fire Picnics! Food Provided–bring your lawn chairs!
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Merrill believes that if we want a bigger and better workforce, we need to be a welcoming state. We need to support public education and school lunches. People need to make a good living, have access to affordable housing and quality child care. And, a woman’s healthcare decision should never be placed in the hands of the government.
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Flasher Parade
Saturday, July 20, 2024 – 4:00 PM
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Buffalo Days Parade and Kickball Tournament
Saturday, July 27, 2024 – 11:30 AM
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Behind Cashwise 410 10th St SE, Jamestown
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All supporters are welcome, from near and far, to enjoy the sites and people of Jamestown! Come explore Jamestown “beyond the Buffalo…” Put a pep in your step as we walk in the parade downtown with District and Statewide Candidates, and cheer on or join some courageous teammates who will take the kickball field near the be-a-utiful Jamestown Reservoir. It’s sure to be a day of fun with good community.
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Let’s us know you’re ready to walk or roll in the parade here: https://www.mobilize.us/northdakotademocraticnplparty/event/634766/
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District 20 Barn Dance for John Pederson
Sunday, August 4, 2024 – 6:00 PM (CDT)
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735 153rd Ave N, Mayville
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Barn dance at Elroy Lindaas’, 2 miles E of Mayville on Hwy 200, then N 1 1/4 miles on County 12. Food and music by Merrill Piepkorn and the Radio Stars.
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Food and beverages. No alcohol.
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Burdick Dinner 2024
Saturday, September 14, 2024 – 6:30 PM
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Delta Hotels Fargo 1635 42nd St SW, Fargo
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Celebrate ND Democrats with Statewide Candidates and Keynote Speaker: Rachel Bitecofer
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This years annual dinner will feature a keynote speaker you will not want to miss. Bitecofer is an advocate for a new strategy to win elections and with a proven record of doing so. Look no further than Michigan to see the results. The DNC has embraced her philosophy and we hope you will come hear from her in person.
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Help us spread our message—share these posts from the past week!
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Candidate for U.S. Senate Katrina Christiansen
Katrina Christiansen has been on the campaign trail and she finds herself in the KFGO studios for a discussion on Afternoons Live with Tyler Axness.
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The danger of Christian nationalism
This is a dangerous idea that plays fast and loose with our history. If the founders of our country wanted an officially Christian nation, that concept would appear in the Constitution. The question was debated. Some delegates to the Constitutional Convention argued for formal recognition of Christianity in the Constitution. But ultimately, the framers did not adopt that view.
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Plea hearing set in former state lawmaker child sex abuse case
In the agreement, Holmberg admits to repeatedly traveling from North Dakota to the Czech Republic between June 24, 2011, and Nov. 1, 2016, for the purpose of having sex with adolescents under age 18.
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Letter: A profile in betrayal and cowardice
Gov. Burgum has just proven he is unfit for public office in a democracy. He supports Donald Trump for a second term, a man who was unable and/or unwilling to answer a single question in the presidential debate. Instead, he cynically gas-lighted the American people with at least 100 lies.
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Don't miss these national stories!
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Biden proposes new rule to protect 36 million workers from extreme heat
“More people die from extreme heat than floods, hurricanes and tornadoes combined,” Biden said. “These climate fueled extreme weather events don’t just affect people’s lives. They also cost money. They hurt the economy, and they have a significant negative psychological effect on people.”
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Trump reposts image calling for military tribunals against Liz Cheney
Donald Trump on Sunday reposted on his social media account an image calling for military tribunals for former Rep. Liz Cheney.
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Top leader of RNC Platform Committee entertained idea of imprisoning women who get abortions, opposes exceptions
In May 2022, in the days after a draft opinion striking down Roe v. Wade was leaked, Martin discussed on his radio show possible prison sentences for women and abortion doctors. Martin said if anti-abortion activists accepted abortion rights advocates’ framing – that it was about a woman’s right – women could not be imprisoned for getting an abortion. But if the argument was reframed as being about a baby, the question whether to punish women was open.
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First Lady Jill Biden on What’s at Stake in 2024
“We are the first generation in half a century to give our daughters a country with fewer rights than we had,” she tells the Women for Biden crowd a few minutes later. “Book bans. Voting laws gutted. Court decisions that strip away our most basic freedoms. But circumstance is not destiny.” The women here are fighting mad. Nice, Midwestern ladies, all of them, but gurgling away inside like those brewing vats—only with righteous fury, instead of beer. That’s what the Biden-Harris campaign is counting on: “We will decide our future,” the first lady tells them.
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AFL-CIO Stands in Strong Solidarity With Biden-Harris Ticket
The stakes of the 2024 presidential election couldn’t be higher and no one understands this better than working people—their livelihoods and union contracts are on the line. That is why the AFL-CIO endorsed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in June of last year, earlier than we’ve ever endorsed in a presidential race, and why we continue to stand in strong support of them today.
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Biden says Supreme Court's immunity ruling 'undermines the rule of law'
“Today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what the president can do,” Biden said. “The power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law, even including the Supreme Court of the United States. The only limits will be self-imposed by the president alone.”.
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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: “We are in the process of the second American Revolution”
And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.
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Behind the Curtain: Trump's imperial presidency in waiting
Trump promises an unabashedly imperial presidency — one that would turn the Justice Department against critics, deport millions of people in the U.S. illegally, slap 10% tariffs on thousands of products, and fire perhaps tens of thousands of government staff deemed insufficiently loyal.
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“The President Is Now a King”: The Most Blistering Lines From Dissents in the Trump Immunity Case
The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military dissenting coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune. Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today.
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'Trump is trying to make an example out of me': Stormy Daniels menaced by MAGAs for telling truth
In an exclusive interview with Rachel Maddow, Stormy Daniels talks about how Donald Trump and his followers have terrorized, menaced, and tried to ruin her financially for telling the truth about her encounter with Trump, targeting not just herself but her family and loved ones with no support or protection from the justice system that put her in the way of Trump's wrath.
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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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