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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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KNOCK DOORS. MAKE CALLS. WIN ELECTIONS.
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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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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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Horace "Bean Days" Parade
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Sat, Sep 12, 11:00am-1:00pm CDT
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The Horace Bean days includes the parade and lots of fun activities. Join our candidates in the parade and check out the other events. https://www.horacebeandays.com/event-details
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Grand Forks Pride Parade with The Northern Valley Democrats
Downtown on the Parade Route!
Grand Forks, ND 58203
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Sign up to be a Proud Dem-NPLer in the Grand Forks on Sept 13th! Meet us at our float downtown at 1:30PM. Wear your best Dem-NPL wear or PRIDE gear! We will have t-shirts for anyone who joins us! We will walk and hand out candy! Please join in the fun! Please reach out to Sarah with any questions! 701-317-3589
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District 28 Democratic-NPL Summer BBQ
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Brats and burgers on the grill and all the fixin’s will be provided! Water and tea will also be provided, but feel free to bring your own beverages. Social hour begins at 3PM, Grilling to start at 4PM. To RSVP call Joan at 701-710-0201.
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Mapleton Data Center Forum
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Mapleton Community Center
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Vern Thompson, candidate for North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner, will host a Data Center Forum on Tuesday, September 15, 7:00-9:00 PM, at the Mapleton Community Center, 651 2nd St, Mapleton, ND. This event is for the public to have their voices heard and get answers on what we know about data center development across the state of North Dakota. Presenters will talk about energy and water use, development scale, benefits, impacts, and what communities can do to plan.
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The Water Use Myth, presented by Environmental Engineer Sandra Larson
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Data Center Power Use and Infrastructure, presented by Nuclear Engineer Ian Gilley
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Responsible Hyperscale Development Framework, presented by Vern Thompson
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Current Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has been invited to attend. Representatives from Geronimo Power, a Minnesota company that is acquiring a parcel of land in Durbin Township between Casselton and Mapleton, have also been invited.
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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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Souris Valley Campaign Rally
Minot Oak Park
12 Oak Dr, Minot
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Come and meet the Democratic-Nonpartisan League candidates of District 3 and District 5, as well as some our Statewide Dem-NPL candidates.
Confirmed Candidates are:
D3 Senate candidate Michael Thiesen
D3 House candidate Natalie Mclaughlin
D3 House candidate Tara Hiatt
D5 House candidate Zach Raknerud
D5 House candidate Kyle Erickson
U.S. House candidate Trygve Hammer
Secretary of State candidate Ryan Braunberger
Ag Commissioner candidate Vern Thompson
Enjoy free food, live music, and the Blue Rider will have beverages available to purchase.
Free & open to the public.
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WestFest Parade
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Let's celebrate West Fargo! Join our candidates in the parade - 3 vehicles and all of our walkers. We'll send detailed info on time and starting location.
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D29 Neighborhood Meet and Greet
10th ST. & 17th AVE. S.W, Jamestown, ND
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District 29 legislative candidates,
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John Kelly and Dianne Norris
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for open-house style conversation and refreshments!
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Trygve Hammer, Vern Thompson,
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and others will stop by too!
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D12 Farm to Table Fundraiser
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Hillcrest Pro Shop Hospitality Room
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606 26th Ave SE, Jamestown
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Join us for good company, mocktails, cocktails, locally sourced sirloin steaks & farm-fresh side dishes
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Visit with local and statewide candidates!
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Fort Yates Town Hall
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Wed, Sep 23, 6:30pm-9:00pm CDT
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Prairie Knights Casino & Resort
7932 ND-24, Fort Yates, ND 58538
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Join us for another Town Hall and ask the Dem-NPL-endorsed candidates about rural healthcare, data centers, and other issues!
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Burdick Dinner with Jon Tester
Join us for the 16th Annual Burdick Dinner! Senator Tester has a long history of standing up for rural America. As a third-generation farmer and former school teacher, Senator Tester is more than familiar with the issues facing us in North Dakota today.
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Join Sens. Tester and Heidi Heitkamp and help celebrate our award winners, Former U.S. Representative Earl Pomeroy, ND Representative Gretchen Dobervich, Katrina Christiansen, and Carter Hass!
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Seats are going fast, so get your tickets today!
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Help us spread our message—share these recent posts!
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State Sen. Jamie Selzler remembers 9/11 with former U.S. Senator Kent Conrad
North Dakota State Senator Jamie Selzler is hosting "News and Views" and is joined by former United States Senator Kent Conrad. Senator Conrad reflects on September 11, 2001 and hears some sound from 25 years ago.
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Shortfall for childcare not addressed in special session
Afternoons Live with guest host Karla Rose-Hanson is joined by Rep. Alisa Mitskog to discuss the recent special session and the decision by the majority party to not discuss a childcare shortfall.
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Special session recap with Rep Austin Foss
Afternoons Live with guest host Karla Rose-Hanson is joined in studio by Representative Austin Foss for a recap of the recent special session of the North Dakota Legislature.
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Record demand for food assistance
More than 186,000 people in North Dakota and a neighboring county in Minnesota sought food assistance in the past year, a record for the Great Plains Food Bank.
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Monitor reporter Michael Achterling talks to host Craig Blumenshine about the increase and the impacts from cuts to federal programs.
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In the second half of this week’s podcast episode, deputy editor Jeff Beach talks about his recent reporting on low water levels at Lake Sakakawea and impacts to recreation.
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McFeely: Data center propaganda in full swing
Recent polls show 70% of Americans don’t want data centers built near them and that a majority now oppose data centers no matter where they’re built. One poll showed Americans would rather have a nuclear power plant near them than a data center. Environmental and energy concerns continue to grow, too.
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It’s become a national issue for the mid-term elections. Even in red Texas, Republicans are trying to slow the data center train in response to strong bipartisan backlash.
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Concerns are many and legitimate. Fear of artificial intelligence, extreme distrust of Smarmy Tech Bro Billionaire Guys, questions about the local benefit of data centers, water usage, rising energy costs.
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But here in North Dakota, instead of trying to assuage their fears, Republicans consider you a dolt for raising your hand and asking questions.
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Continue asking them, propaganda campaigns or not.
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Jamie Selzler remembers ND 9/11 victim Bob Rasmussen with his friend John Stibbe
North Dakota State Senator Jamie Selzler is filling in for Joel Heitkamp and is joined by John Stibbe to reflect on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. John was close friends with and a fraternity brother of Bob Rasmussen. Bob was born in Fargo and grew up in Hunter, N.D. and graduated from NDSU in 1982. Bob was last seen on the 78th floor of 2 World Trade Center, approximately 45 seconds prior to the airplane's impact. He was identified via photo by a survivor
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LABOR DAY SPECIAL: Joel and Heidi Heitkamp full show 9-11am
Joel is joined by his sister, former U.S. Senator from North Dakota, Heidi Heitkamp about everything that is going on in the world, including data centers, the war in Iran, the upcoming mid-term elections and much more!
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Jim Shaw covers flock cameras with Barry Nelson and Curt Stofferahn
KFGO columnist Jim Shaw is hosting "News and Views" and is joined by Barry Nelson and Curt Stofferahn to discuss the controversy around flock cameras.
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Minnesota and North Dakota Representatives compare the state legislatures after special session
Minnesota State Representative Heather Keeler is hosting "News and Views" while Joel is off. She's joined by North Dakota State Representative Karla Rose Hanson to discuss the recent special session and recap her time in the legislature.
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Republican Lawmakers kill bill to ban data center NDAs
Senator Jamie Selzler (D-Fargo) remarked, “North Dakotans have made it incredibly clear that they want transparency in the data center industry. The bill that Republicans defeated today would have done just that. Elected officials should work out in the open on the people’s business, not in secret and behind closed doors. While this idea lost today, Democrats will come back in the regular session to again make the case that an open government is the best government.”
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Former Sen. Heitkamp believes the Legislature should change open records law because of data centers
“NDA’s signed by a county who is not part of an economic development project, who are just giving approvals one way or another on zoning, should never be subject to an NDA,” Heitkamp explained. “They’re going to hide behind that trade secret exception and I happen to know a little bit about this because I basically wrote it.”
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Former Montana senator to speak at North Dakota Democrats' dinner in Fargo
In a release, North Dakota Democratic-NPL Chair Adam Goldwyn said Tester "has a long history of standing up for rural America. As a third-generation farmer and former school teacher, Senator Tester is more than familiar with the issues facing us in North Dakota today. We’re thrilled he’ll be joining us."
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Dem-NPL leaders call out missed opportunities of special session
Republicans also stonewalled action on data centers, again refusing to debate a pause on new development that would give the state time to erect guardrails. The GOP even killed a bill to ban government officials from signing non-disclosure agreements with data center corporations, letting negotiations stay behind closed doors. These secret NDAs fly in the face of the open, transparent government North Dakotans deserve.
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From childcare and data centers to affordable housing, no-cost school meals, and fully funded public education, it’s time to elect lawmakers who actually listen to you so your priorities finally make the agenda in Bismarck.
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State Sen. Jamie Selzler remembers 9/11 with former ABC Producer Ed O'Keefe
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Ed O'Keefe is the CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation. He previously spent two decades in broadcast and digital media at ABC News, CNN, and NowThis, during which time he received a Primetime Emmy Award for his work with Anthony Bourdain, two Webby Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and a George Foster Peabody Award for ABC’s coverage of 9/11.
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Guest host and North Dakota State Senator Jamie Selzler brings Ed on "News and Views" to hear his story from 9/11 and who the ABC interview was with to earn a Peabody Award.
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Legislature rejects Dem-led attempts to add childcare, data center moratorium for special session
During a press conference Friday morning, Sen. Jamie Selzler, D-Fargo, said the lawmakers were attempting to introduce the bills for discussion.
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“We just wanted to talk about it,” Selzler said. “Republicans are not listening, because if they were listening, they’d be willing to talk about these things.”
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Goldwyn calls for accountability in Military Museum Event Center
Veterans don’t want a gilded event space. They want better care at the VA. They want better schools for their kids. Veteran homelessness is up in our state. We could be turning this into subsidized housing for veterans. Imagine what the Veterans home in Lisbon could do with more funding! Just last night, I heard from a veteran who said buildings for our current soldiers sit in disrepair in our state. We honor our veterans by addressing these issues, not by mismanaging their tax dollars. And where’s accountability? These failed fundraisers need to be fired!
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Data center nondisclosure bill lacks support in committee
Rep. Austin Foss, D-Foss, called the penalties under current law “a slap on the wrist.”
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He supported the bill because it includes the possibility that an industrial developer could have a permit revoked if a nondisclosure agreement is in place.
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“The crux of this bill is basically saying it’s not all on the public official, that both parties are in violation of that law,” Foss said.
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Grand Forks D-NPL candidates talk housing, data centers, school lunches as special session begins
Tyler York, a House candidate in District 43, called on the lawmakers to look again at previously proposed housing investments. In February 2025, the Senate voted down a bipartisan bill that would have seen $200 million put into the state’s Housing Incentive Fund.
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“(Former Gov. Doug) Burgum proposed investing $95 million — it died,” York said. “Gov. (Kelly) Armstrong proposed $105 million. Legislators denied both Republican governors’ requests. That record removed every excuse. This is not partisan gridlock. Republicans hold a legislative supermajority. They have the power to act.”
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Check out these posts from national Democrats
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Empty seats, socialism and Trump dominate the Republican midterm convention
But the Republican Party's chances in November are less optimistic, as Trump faces record low approval ratings, an unpopular war in Iran, rising gas prices and the historic expectation that the party in power loses.
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Trump’s trade war with Canada escalates as new tariffs launch
Nearly $28 billion in U.S. exports crossing the border to Canada now carry up to 50% tariffs, a dollar-for-dollar match on Trump’s taxes on Canadian goods imposed last month, according to Canadian officials.
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Among the 629 categories of products Canada has targeted are key outputs from U.S. states with hotly contested races in the fast-approaching November midterm elections, including Maine’s paper and lumber industry, Michigan’s vehicle manufacturing and Wisconsin dairy production.
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US consumers faced more high prices in August as Iran war raised energy costs
US consumer prices remained stubbornly high in August as the end of the ceasefire between the US and Iran pushed energy prices up, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Friday.
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Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Reflecting Pool Failure
US consumer prices remained stubbornly high in August as the end of the ceasefire between the US and Iran pushed energy prices up, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Friday.
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Democrats Have a Chance to “Destroy” the GOP. Will They Take It? Feat. the Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell.
After Donald Trump won the 2024 election, Sarah Longwell did what she’s done every week for the past eight years: She sat down with voters. In How to Eat an Elephant, she lays out the playbook for building a pro-democracy coalition big enough, bold enough, and tough enough to defeat authoritarian populism for good. With the midterms around the corner, how much is the MAGA coalition fraying under the numerous issues brought on by this administration? And does it matter, given the Trump administration's meddling with mail-in voting?
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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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