South Dakota

Florida and Missouri refused requests from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to place federal election monitors inside polling locations during the 2022 elections, arguing doing so would be tantamount to federal voter intimidation. The…

Former President Donald Trump said he is considering South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem as his vice presidential nominee for 2024. “Kristi Noem has been incredible fighting for me,” Trump said on Fox News last month. “She said, ‘I’d…

Joe Biden delivered one of the most partisan, divisive, hate-filled speeches of his presidency Thursday night with seething criticisms of his chief political opponent and direct threats to democratic institutions. If the speaker had been…

With the help of Republican lawmakers, South Dakota Secretary of State Monae Johnson has brought a handful of election-related bills to the 2024 legislative session, all to the ire of her campaign supporters. At her request, lawmakers have…

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says “the anxiety driving MAGA isn’t driven by reality” but “dystopian visions unrelated to real experience.” As proof, he points to Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota, “a MAGA hard-liner” (who…

A pair of bipartisan senators proposed legislation last week to keep lab-grown meat out of the school cafeteria. On Friday, Sens. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced the School Lunch Integrity Act of 2024 prohibiting…

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin temporarily foiled abortion activists this week when he rejected their attempt to put a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow abortion through all nine months of pregnancy on the 2024…

More than 100 South Dakota landowners are faced with eminent domain lawsuits as a major carbon capture company constructs a more than 2,000-mile pipeline spanning the upper midwestern plains. The pipeline is a project by Summit Carbon…

I knew media bias runs rampant across our nation, but it runs equally as biased in my home state of South Dakota. South Dakota Searchlight published a recent hit piece by business reporter Makenzie Huber titled, “Physicians feel ‘trapped’…

South Dakota scored a major win for election integrity on Tuesday by becoming the first state in 2023 to ban ranked-choice voting (RCV) in elections, with Idaho potentially following suit. On Tuesday, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed SB…