On Wednesday, new advocacy group Turn South Dakota Purple hosted a “conversation” with independent Brian Bengs and Democrat Julian Beaudion, the men challenging Republican Mike…
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South Dakota Searchlight notes that the National Park Service has designated a “First Amendment area” just outside the Mount Rushmore National Memorial for anyone who’d…
The League of Women Voters and other friends of democracy told an under-quorumed Board of Elections Tuesday to let county auditors accept photocopies of official…
The wingnuts may be coalescing behind Toby Doeden in the Republican gubernatorial runoff. Bob Mercer notes that former House Speaker and radical right-winger Steve Haugaard…
…and guns are a problem, not a solution. Organizers of the new Day One Movement announced in the Black Hills yesterday say they want to…
Republiucan establishment figure Nathan Sanderson, currently chief of the South Dakota Retailers Association, expresses his hope for a return to boring state government: And so,…
For all the noise Republicans make about maintaining the historical and well-documented integrity of our elections, their picks for Secretary of State suggest they aren’t…
I grit my teeth at the prospect of Donald Trump sullying Mount Rushmore with his presence again and begging to have his face carved into…
South Dakota’s body politic has endorsed Governor Larry Rhoden’s statewide property-tax/sales-tax swap with its silence. South Dakotans for Fair Taxes, a coalition of Dakota Rural…
Election/democracy denier and Minnehaha County Auditor Leah Anderson finally caught someone committing election fraud: Republican Senator Tom Pischke. According to an arrest warrant affidavit filed…