While Governor Kristi Noem bored the Legislature with her incredibly ridiculous misinterpretation of freedom and fake culture-war posturing, President Joe Biden delivered a meaningful speech in…
Tag: democracy
A casual reader asks me to name the one change I would make to the initiative process. One? Ha! If you review the “People Power Initiative”…
Yeah, yeah, yeah, another off-year election has voters picking Republicans over Democrats for a few elected offices. But get past personalities and party labels, and…
Bloomberg sends Anders Melin to downtown Sioux Falls to look into South Dakota’s facilitation of global corruption. Melin gets the usual a-few-bad-apples downplaying of the…
In an article on the fake audits that fascists are staging around the nation to perpetuate their false claims that the 2020 election was rigged, Governing‘s…
Dr. Bob Burns, the eminence grise of South Dakota political science, rises to the defense of our imperiled democracy and calls on all of us…
You don’t need to be a university professor to recognize that radical right-wingers are threatening to kill democracy in America. But 119 (and counting—they’re still…
A new poll from South Dakota News Watch and the Chiesman Center for Democracy shows just how out of step Senator Al Novstrup and his anti-democracy…
For the biggest, meanest, most dangerous attack on initiative in South Dakota, turn to Representative Fred Deutsch’s House Bill 1054, which would price grassroots, volunteer…
I seem to recall that, back in 2017, when the South Dakota Senate prepared to offend democracy by repealing Initiated Measure 22, there was some…