Sioux Falls, SD — When your roots are planted too deep in red soil to move, and the GOP has applied Roundup to your party, the question becomes, now what? For our feisty little band of Dakotans, the answer is direct democracy. The instrument is unwieldy. It can explode in your hands. But it’s all […]

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“We have Fedor the Russian. His thing is inflicting death on people,” said Donald J. Trump in 2008, breathlessly in awe of Fedor Emelianenko, a world-renowned, Russian mixed martial arts (MMA) cage-fighter. “It’s sort of like, you just — somebody dies!” Back in 2008, Trump and his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, teamed up with a St. […]

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Sharply rising prices in 2022 and 2023 made “Bidenflation” a Republican talking point. Inflation, Republicans claimed, was due to a 2021 Democratic spending bill that gave substantial money to people while the US economy suffered the effects of Covid. As this money was spent, prices rose. Reality repudiates this Republican fiction. Presidents have limited control […]

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Of the many currents at the nexus of American religious and political life, Christian Nationalism is unquestionably the dominant force. Christian Nationalists and allied elements of the far right have taken over the Republican Party; purged moderate Republicans from the precinct level as well as their side of the House and much of the Senate; […]

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The campaign to elect Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an independent candidate for president, recently announced it has signatures required to appear on ballots in every state. This news was released a few days before a New York Supreme Court Justice ruled Kennedy had falsely claimed that a friend’s house in Katonah, NY is his “place […]

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