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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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Make America Good Again Campaign
Our candidates are furiously fundraising right now, and one of the best ways we can support them is by hitting the streets and the phones to talk to voters.
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Statewide: Mondays at 6 pm - Minivan training and office hours with Andrea
Mon 6:30-8 pm Doorknocking and phonebanking - Cass County
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Tues 6-8 Doorknocking and phonebanking - Cass County
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Wed 6-8 Doorknocking and phonebanking - Cass County
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Thurs 6-8 Doorknocking and phonebanking - Cass County
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Sat 11-3 (2 shifts) Doorknocking and phonebanking - Cass County
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Sat afternoons Doorknocking and phonebanking - Minot area
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We are so excited to have 3 all organizers on staff to drive the Make American Good Again Campaign! Andrea Alfson is working in Fargo, and all of Region 8; Sarah Grossbauer will be starting July 1, covering the greater Grand Forks area; and Nicole DesRosier continues working in Minot and the western regions. They all bring so much experience to our team to make sure volunteers not only stay on track with our goals but also make sure we all have some fun along the way.
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Finally Friday Social in Minot!
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Fri, Jul 3, 6:00pm-8:00pm CDT
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Time to celebrate the weekend!
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July 3rd Rally
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Fri, Jul 3, 4:00pm-6:00pm CDT
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1021 Mustang Dr, Bismarck
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Join us to start the celebrations for the 250th Independence Day right! We are hosting a rally where you can come eat food, meet candidates, sign up for opportunities to get involved, decorate our parade float, join the Cornhole Tournament, and participate in our silent auction.
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Walk in the Sanborn Independence Day Parade
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Sat, Jul 4, 9:30 a.m. lineup CDT
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Walk in the Independence Day Parade in Sanborn!
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Walk with the Bis-Man Dem-NPL in the Independence Day Parade
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Walk with the Bis-Man Dem-NPL in the Independence Day Parade
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Walk in the Minot Shriners Independence Day Parade
Corner of 25th St NW and 4th Ave NW
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Vern Thompson's team is looking for volunteers to walk for Vern in the Minot Shriners Parade. The parade starts at 10 am, and they have a spot.
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They will supply a banner to carry, t-shirts, giveaways, etc.
DATE: July 4
TIME: 10am CDT
If you are interested, please contact Bruce Palmer at bruce@thompson4nd.com.
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Rural Mental Health Roundtable
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Tuesday, July 7, 6:00 pm CDT
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Living Waters Lutheran Church
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Vern Thompson, Candidate for North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner, will host a round table to address mental health in agriculture. Tuesday, July 7, 6:00 pm at the Living Waters Lutheran Church, 4451 40th Ave S, Fargo.
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North Dakota is experiencing a crisis: farmer suicides. According to the CDC, farmers are three times more likely to die by suicide than the general population. This round table will bring farmers, legislators, agriculture organizations, healthcare professionals, and faith and community leaders together to figure out a solution.
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Our goal is to eventually draft legislation for the 2027 session. Ideally, the Department of Agriculture could work with the Department of Health and Human Services to specifically address mental health and suicide prevention together.
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Souris Valley Dem-NPL
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Tuesday, July 7, 6:00 pm CDT
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This month's Souris Valley Dem-NPL Monthly Meeting will be a week early.
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All Democrats and Nonpartisan Leaguers in Minot and the surrounding area are welcome as we discuss news and upcoming events.
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We will be meeting at the Parker Center (21 1st Ave SE, Minot, ND) on Tuesday, July 7th. There will be a social from 6PM - 6:30PM followed by the meeting from 6:30PM - 7:30PM.
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Dickinson Area Democratic-NPL meeting
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Wed Jul 8, 7:00pm-8:00pm MDT
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The Press Box at Players Sports Bar & Grill
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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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People's Town Hall - New Town
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Tue, Jul 14, 6:00pm-8:00pm CDT
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4 Bears Casino & Lodge
202 Frontage Rd, New Town
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Real change starts with real conversations. Hear from our candidates and have your questions answered at our People's Town Hall in New Town!
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People's Town Hall - Rugby
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Thu, Jul 30, 6:00pm-8:00pm CDT
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Dakota Farms Restaurant Rugby
308 US-2, Rugby
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Real change starts with real conversations. Hear from our candidates and have your questions answered at our People's Town Hall in Rugby!
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Guest column: These are our homelands
The 250th anniversary of the United States should be that opportunity to tell the truth about how we arrived at this current day. That truth must include our continued existence on these lands despite the many attempts to erase us.
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Through disease, displacement, broken promises, boarding schools, and generations of devastating Indian policies, our Tribal Nations are still here. Our languages are being revitalized.
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Our ceremonies continue. Our governments remain. Our young people are reclaiming their identities, and our elders continue to pass on the teachings that have sustained us. We are not relics of the past. We are part of America’s present and its future.
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As our nation marks these 250 years, I hope we celebrate not by silencing difficult history but by embracing it. The American story is stronger, and more honest when it includes the voices of the First Peoples.
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The United States is 250 years old. Our nations have been here since time immemorial. There is room in this country to honor both histories.
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Heidi Heitkamp joins News and Views
Heidi Heitkamp served in the US Senate representing North Dakota from 2013 to 2019. She joins the show to talk about everything politics, including the war in Iran, upcoming elections, crypto, and much more.
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Amy Jacobson joins News and Views
Amy Jacobson is the Organizational Member for Together for School Meals and is the director of Prairie Action ND. Together for School Meals will host a virtual Lunch and Learn Tuesday, June 30th, at noon on rising child poverty in North Dakota.
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Trump-Vance Administration has Wreaked Havoc on North Dakotans
Trump has made $2 billion since returning to office, mostly by selling the Presidency for the benefit of family and friends. Trump's corruption is not an abstract thing happening somewhere else to those people over there. Stealing from us, breaking our economy, wasting our money on wars and golf courses and arches and ballrooms and reflecting pools—all of this is hurting real people in our own communities.
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Letter: Opening of Roosevelt Library marred by Trump
It is unfortunate and ironic that the grand opening is marred by a despicable person who isn't a fraction the scholar, leader, man or human that Theodore Roosevelt was. I'm sure the always insightful words given by our elected leader onsite will be easily understood by all the elementary students that are unfortunate to observe. A celebration and tragedy held simultaneously!
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Theodore Roosevelt’s racist rhetoric complicates his legacy in North Dakota
Rep. Lisa Finley DeVille, D-Mandaree, suggested the United States’ 250th anniversary celebrations this week should include recognizing the thousands of years of Native American history before the country’s founding.
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“Patriotism is not weakened by truth,” she said. “Tribal nations are pushed out of their homelands, forced into reservations, and introduced to devastating diseases by Europeans. Our sacred places became commodities, and the Earth became something to be bought, sold, and exploited for profit.”
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Teddy would run ’em out of town
But this much is sure: Roosevelt’s legacy on conservation is honorable. The record being compiled by Trump and Burgum is not. It is easy to imagine that if TR had been in Medora when Burgum and Trump arrived, he’d have rounded up his Rough Riders and run the president and the secretary out of town. That would really qualify as “a hot time in the old town….”
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Speaking out: DOJ memo causes concerns about disability segregation
The fate of disabled people is linked with our own: We come into this world as helpless infants. Aging changes our bodies and minds, and a disabling accident or illness can occur at any time. Let us rally for the continued integration of our neighbors and ultimately ourselves. Let us refuse to go backward.
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Boschee begins first day as Fargo mayor
"Day 1, we have to be in here at the budget that Mayor Tim Mahoney and the finance team has started to put together for the commission, so really digging into that over the next month will be an important key aspect of the role," Boschee said.
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Amplifying Indigenous history at the Roosevelt library
The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library will open its doors to the public this Saturday on the 250th anniversary of the United States’ declaration of independence.
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The library will explore the former president’s legacy and his transformational years in the Badlands of North Dakota in the 1880s. But it will also confront Roosevelt’s history of racist remarks and the policies he supported that continue to have a detrimental effect on Native Americans across the country.
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North Dakota Monitor reporter Jacob Orledge joins host Craig Blumenshine to discuss his reporting on the subject and what he learned from speaking to Native American leaders, historians and a member of the Roosevelt family.
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Jolene Garty joins News and Views
Jolene Garty won her race for the Fargo School Board. Jolene worked for a regional education association for 12 years, working with school districts in Southeast North Dakota and across the state with funding, programming, and professional development for teachers. She is now self-employed working with nonprofit and public sector agencies. Before that, she worked for Senator Conrad in his Fargo office.
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Viewpoint: Defend against efforts to weaken laws that support individuals with disabilities
The federal government is also moving special education oversight — including the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act — from the Department of Education to the Department of Health and Human Services. IDEA guarantees children a free, appropriate education, not management of a medical condition. Moving it into a health agency risks treating a child's right to learn alongside peers as a diagnosis rather than an entitlement.
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For North Dakota, this isn't abstract. It's whether a young man with Down syndrome in Bismarck keeps the job coach who helped him land his first paycheck, or a mother in rural North Dakota keeps the in-home aide who lets her daughter sleep in her own bed rather than in a facility two hours away. Nearly nine in 10 disability service providers nationwide already report staffing shortages, and North Dakota is not immune.
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Port: As predicted, Trump said something stupid and wildly offensive while in North Dakota
No, Trump was joking, but the joke came out awkwardly, and his decision to make light of our nation's most hallowed military honor just isn't that funny in the first place. In fact, it's offensive, and I think we can all imagine how our MAGA-orientated friends would have reacted had former President Joe Biden joked about awarding himself and his son Hunter Biden the honor.
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Check out these posts from national Democrats
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US labor market weakened in June
The jobs increases were especially weak considering that the men’s World Cup soccer tournament likely added 40,000 jobs in June, said Elise Gould, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, in a statement. Gould said the unemployment rate drop was “for the wrong reasons” as 720,000 people left the labor market.
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IN THE STATES: From the Grill to the Gas Pump, Everything is Costing More This Fourth of July Weekend
As American families prepare to hit the road and fire up the grill this Fourth of July weekend, they are finding the holiday to be more expensive than ever thanks to Donald Trump and Republicans’ cost-hiking agenda. From the grocery store to the gas pump, families are having to fork over more of their hard-earned money to afford classic Fourth of July cookout and celebration staples.
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Trump bought as much as $5 million in Axon stock before ICE sought $220 million Taser deal
President Donald Trump bought as much as $5 million in shares of Axon Enterprise
— maker of Tasers, body cameras and policing software — two weeks before Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought a five-year, $220 million contract that experts told CNBC appeared tailored to the company’s weapons.
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On Feb. 10, Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million worth of Axon stock, according to federal disclosures he filed in May. On Feb. 24, ICE posted a notice seeking roughly 17,800 new Tasers, along with unlimited cartridges and training.
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The Founders’ Warnings About Excess Wealth Have Come Appallingly True
In fact, the Founders were deeply worried that concentrations of wealth would corrode self-governance and hollow out the republic from within. In their study of history, they saw how wealth inequality fueled political division, class conflict, and social unrest, eroding governance and ultimately contributing to failed states like the Roman Empire.
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How Trump’s Latest Grift Turned The Government Into a “Tollbooth” | Pivot
Kara and Scott unpack Trump’s crypto fortune, Democratic primary shakeups, and the Supreme Court’s latest rulings. Then, they discuss SpaceX backing Trump Accounts, OpenAI’s reported proposal to give the government a stake in the company, and Scott's Bending Spoons IPO prediction coming true.
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Investigating PragerU's Big Stupid Propaganda Truck
So, where did the Freedom Truck come from? As I dug further into their origin and design, I found myself in a rabbit hole of ideology and corruption. What I thought would be a fun little video about a big stupid truck turned out to be a [ __ ] show much shittier than I could have ever imagined. As demoralizing as this might sound, if there's any refuge, it's in the knowledge that Trumpism is not the ultra powerful larger-than-life authoritarianism that our dystopian fiction warned us about. The fascists who run our country are far more stupid, corrupt, and all too human.
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One Year Later, Trump’s Big Ugly Bill Continues To Crush Working Families While Billionaires Cash In
“One year after Donald Trump signed his ‘signature achievement’ into law, it’s clearer than ever where his loyalties lie: with himself, his billionaire donors, special interests, and corporations — not working families. Trump and Republicans made a clear choice: They cut trillions of dollars from programs Americans rely on to afford healthcare and groceries to give tax handouts to the ultra-rich, leaving working families barely scraping to get by. No amount of spin can change the unimaginable reality that Americans are staring down: being forced to make impossible decisions about paying their medical bills, forgoing healthcare coverage, or putting food on the table — all so that Trump and his wealthy donors could make an extra buck. As Trump and Republicans cement themselves as the party of the rich and powerful, Democrats will continue fighting to lower costs and make life better for working families.”
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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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