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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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Does North Dakota Need New Leadership? Meet the Candidates!
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Wed, June 24, 2026 6:00 PM CDT
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Festival Hall
604 ND-15, Fessenden
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Join all our Statewide Candidates to hear their perspectives on key issues in North Dakota! There will be a Taco Supper!
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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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North Dakota Democratic-NPL candidates hold West Fargo town hall
Organizers say North Dakotans deserve leaders willing to meet them face to face.
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Hammer said voters are raising concerns about rising costs.
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“What we’re finding is a lot of people are concerned that everything is getting more expensive for them, for young folks trying to buy a home trying to pay for healthcare just everyday expenses,” Hammer said.
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Kelsh said voters are concerned about industrial development across the state.
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“People are there’s a lot of activity going on across the state right now, especially in heavy industrial facilities that are being built known as data centers that are going up in every corner of North Dakota or at least being proposed and people are just being caught off guard,” Kelsh said.
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Two more town halls are planned. The next event is scheduled for July 14 at 4 Bears Casino in New Town, and July 30 at Dakota Farms in Rugby. Both run from 6 to 8 p.m.
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Dem-NPL Leaders remember Former House Minority Leader Merle Boucher
Senator Tim Mathern (D-11) said, “Merle and I were like brothers campaigning for the governor nomination. We packed District meetings with Merle always speaking with emotion and care for our people. The 2008 Democratic -NPL convention erupted with unbridled shouts of joy when the rules were suspended and Merle was unanimously elected to be our lieutenant governor candidate!”
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Former Congressman Riggleman, "we have destroyed what we have always claimed to be" regarding Iran war
Mr. Denver Riggleman previously served in the U.S. Congress, as a Republican representing the 5th District of Virginia and as Senior Technical Adviser to the January 6th Select Committee. His national security background includes serving as an intelligence officer for the USAF where he deployed for multiple operations including directly after 9/11 with the 34th Bomb Squadron.
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Letter: Trump is not protecting Social Security, Medicare
Yup, he’s doing nothing to reduce benefits nor is he doing anything to prevent program insolvency. Apparently, the other gutless Republicans in Congress are hiding from this issue too. It’s time to get off your #%&’s Congress and do something. Raise the cap significantly on payroll taxes now. Musk, Trump and those million dollar athletes can afford it.
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Plain Talk: 'Glutton for punishment'
"I feel in Bismarck they get caught up in the national politics thing," he said. "I want to bring it closer to home and just make sure everything works."
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Democratic-NPL town hall makes stop in West Fargo
State Sen. Ryan Braunberger of Fargo said the growth of AI data centers, windmills and large agriculture plants in-state were among the biggest concerns for voters he's spoken with.
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"I think our next steps is making sure that we put words to action, making sure that we make sure that we have laws in place that help protect the citizens of North Dakota, and not the oligarchs and the people that own these big businesses," Braunberger said.
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Letter: ND officials bestow insult and injury in AI data centers battle
Like the infamous Fargo representative Treadwell Twitchell in 1915, state officials are once again directing us to “go home and slop the hogs.” (Twitchell’s haughtiness helped spark the historic success of the populist uprising known as the Nonpartisan League.) The NPLers did not go home, and local AI opponents aren’t likely to, either. We realize the perils of all the AI billionaires’ dollars flooding our capital. Bismarck’s supermajority has overstepped. Their condescension has only solidified the people’s resolve.
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Drop in Canadian visits hinders North Dakota tourism, report says
A steep decline in Canadian travel took its toll on North Dakota tourism, a new report shows.
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According to the research by the private company Tourism Economics, North Dakota had 25.6 million visitors in 2025, a 2.6% decrease from the previous year.
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International visits declined sharply, driven largely by reduced Canadian travel with a 24% drop in border crossings reported in the state’s annual travel update.
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McFeely: You have no chance in data center fight, ND residents
As written here before, Minnesota has it right on data centers. Some legislators proposed outlawing non-disclosure agreements between data center companies and government officials while putting a two-year moratorium on permitting, just to give everybody time to figure out how to regulate them.
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Have you seen what’s happening in Utah? Billionaire Kevin O’Leary of reality TV fame — remember that charlatan? — wants to build a 40,000-acre data center complex near the Great Salt Lake and he doesn’t want to hear from local residents opposed to it. The state, led by GOP Gov. Spencer Cox, worked with O’Leary and completely bypassed county commissioners. Locals are going apoplectic.
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Prediction: There are massive data center complexes like the one planned for Utah in North Dakota’s future. The wheels are being greased by the state and AI billionaires.
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There’s nothing you can do about it, North Dakotans, because they don’t care what you think.
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Check out these posts from national Democrats
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Trump team fears LEAK of Epstein Situation Room tapes: Report
According to Axios, Trump aides are worried that recordings of Situation Room meetings about the Epstein files made their way to New York Times reporters. Rep. Ro Khanna joins to discuss.
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EXCLUSIVE: Kash Patel may have used $1 MILLION in taxpayer funds to pay off MAGA-loyal FBI henchmen
Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin alleges that FBI Director Kash Patel may have a 'personal slush fund' of taxpayer dollars to pay off loyalist agents willing to carry out his orders and cover up his misbehavior. Ken Dilanian, who broke this story exclusively for MS NOW, joins Nicolle on Deadline White House for discussion. Also joining: Michael Feinberg.
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Obama says U.S. may be ‘worse off’ now than before Iran war
“We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse off,” Obama said in an interview with “TODAY” co-host Craig Melvin that aired Friday.
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Trump’s Coalition Outraged Over Trump and Vance’s Iran Deal
Trump and Vance’s “deal” gives Iran sanctions relief, oil sales, and a $300 billion fund — while Americans get nothing except reeling from higher prices and footing the bill for the war. Voices from every corner of their coalition are asking: What did Americans get out of the war Trump started with Iran?
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Reflecting Pool renovations to cost more than $16 million
The cost to repaint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has ballooned to more than $14.65 million -- exceeding the original estimated cost of the no-bid contract by more than $4 million, according to federal contract data.
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In addition to the repainting by Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the National Park Service paid $1.74 million to Green Water Solutions, an Ohio-based company, earlier this year to install a "nano bubble" system to kill algae, using a similar no-bid contract to speed up the work in time for Fourth of July celebrations.
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The Hidden Cost of America's Data Center Boom
As data centers sprout across Georgia, the state’s utility providers are building new power lines to meet the demand for electricity. We speak with residents in Fayetteville, about 25 miles south of Atlanta, who say the new lines will run through their backyards and make it impossible to resell their homes at their current value.
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Big Tech’s AI Civil War Just Got Ugly
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Three words — “fix this code” — were apparently enough to trigger one of the most dramatic AI shutdowns we’ve seen so far. In this video, I break down why the US government ordered Anthropic to disable two of its most powerful Claude models worldwide, what the alleged jailbreak actually did, why cybersecurity experts say the problem cannot really be “fixed,” and why this story may be about much more than AI safety.
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We’ll look at Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models, Amazon’s role in discovering the jailbreak, the Pentagon’s conflict with Anthropic over autonomous weapons, OpenAI’s competing position, and the bigger question at the heart of all this: are governments focusing on the real AI risks, or are they fighting the wrong fire?
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New Study: Families Are Losing Their Insurance Amidst Republicans’ Continued Assault on Healthcare and Trump’s Affordability Crisis
“Thanks to Donald Trump and Republicans’ all-out assault on healthcare, families throughout our country have lost their ability to see a doctor, afford their prescriptions, and get the coverage they need. While Republicans continue to rip insurance away from millions of Americans and jack up prices, Democrats are working tirelessly to expand access to healthcare, bring down costs, and make life more affordable.”
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
But nearly a year after the measure was signed into law, the number of children receiving food assistance has plummeted by at least 776,000, according to a ProPublica analysis. At least 12 states break down program participation by age, and of the 1,670,011 people who are no longer receiving benefits in those states, 776,134, or 46%, were children.
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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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