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Nov 30, 2022

In 2007, a bipartisan majority of North Dakota lawmakers passed a near-total ban on abortions that was introduced by two Democratic legislators. It was written so that it would only take effect should the courts overturn Roe v. Wade and other legal precedents that created a right to an abortion.

Those precedents have...


Nov 23, 2022

Election day has come and gone, and in North Dakota, that means a new session of the state legislature is looming. There will be an organizational meeting and a budget address from Gov. Doug Burgum in December, and then the regular session commences in January, tasked with tackling issues ranging from income tax and...


Nov 16, 2022

Nationally, Republicans didn't perform as well in the midterm elections as expected. The "red wave" was more of a "red mist."

North Dakota Republicans bucked that trend, though, and Congressman Kelly Armstrong's re-election was a part of that.

On this episode of Plain Talk, he argued that, despite Republicans not living...


Nov 9, 2022

Is there any question that disgraced former President Donald Trump had a big hand in the failure of Republicans to fulfill expectations in last night's midterms?

In Pennsylvania Doug Mastriano, a Trump-endorsed MAGA candidate who fully embraced 2020 election conspiracy theories, lost big in the gubernatorial race. In...


Nov 2, 2022

Minot, N.D. — A controversial decision to move departments of North Dakota's Attorney General's office to a new building started with an informal discussion between a state lawmaker and the director of the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

An audit report has found multiple red flags in that transaction,...