Two former legislators—one Republican, one Democratic—who now lobby for South Dakota’s health care sector say the Legislature should get the message from the failure of…
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Clearly heeding retail lobbyist Nathan Sanderson’s call for boring government, Senate Republicans have joined their 2026 primary electorate in pushing mugwumps out of power. While…
The Department of Education released its annual report card on South Dakota schools last week. The demographic data show that, over the last decade, 2%…
The 2027 South Dakota Legislature will have 93 Republicans and 12 Democrats: Elected Apportionment of 2027–2028 SD Legislature Party Senate House Total GOP 33 60…
Remember hatemonger Ron Branstner, who’s been out stoking Trumpist racism and wild conspiracy theories around rural America for over a decade? Look what all of…
South Dakota’s voter turnout in the 2026 midterm dropped below 50% for the first time in at least 60 years. 310,298 South Dakotans cast ballots…
A District 15 denizen asks if the sharp decline in South Dakota’s midterm voter turnout from 59.40% in 2022 to 49.37% this year might be…
If delivering bread-and-butter change to voters isn’t enough, maybe newly empowered Democrats can take the White House in 2028 by binding the absurd, racism-rooted Electoral…
We should never celebrate low voter turnout. The more people who vote, the more accurately the results reflect the real will of the people. But…