Many North Dakotans have already early voted. Yet, Tuesday is our state’s Primary Election. When it comes to legislative and state-wide races, it’s actually a nomination process, not an election. Technically the election happens in November. Semantics I suppose. Unless [read more…]
Yesterday I wrote about Robbie Lauf— a former advisor to Governor Doug Burgum who was named as Director of Partnerships and Programming for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation back in February. You can read the article here, but in [read more…]
Two years ago, we were the first to make the detailed connections between Governor Doug Burgum and the Dakota Leadership PAC. Burgum was using this PAC to campaign against conservative candidates in the 2020 June primary. As illustrated by the [read more…]
Five years ago I wrote about the Bismarck City Commission denying a resident the opportunity to build a home on her own property. It was a despicable move. One that was reversed just two years later when some new faces [read more…]
Yesterday I wrote about a situation in northwest North Dakota in which the Tioga Tribune published a false statement regarding the Common Core State Standards. It’s not entirely uncommon for news publications to get things wrong but refusing to correct [read more…]
Under some circumstances, if you tell a lie enough, the uninformed will eventually come to accept it as truth. A recent article in the Tioga Tribune proves that this is indeed the case when it comes to North Dakota and [read more…]
Establishment Republicans in North Dakota are doing everything they can to hang on to power in the NDGOP. They might ignore the realities of an inner party “civil war” that clearly surfaced a year ago, participate in power grabs, and [read more…]
In the weeks leading up to the North Dakota Republican Party’s (NDGOP) recent state convention, U.S. Senate candidate Rick Becker drew a clear distinction between himself and incumbent Senator John Hoeven. A summary of this can still be found on [read more…]
Last Saturday was the North Dakota Republican Party’s (NDGOP) state convention. Not only were delegates silenced on the rules, but the convention as a whole was quite a mess. Amidst it all, the delegates got to hear calls from Senators [read more…]
The 2022 State Convention for the North Dakota Republican Party (NDGOP) saw record attendance this last Saturday. Over 2,300 delegates were seated at that event. Unfortunately, that was probably the most impressive thing about it— with the exception of U.S. [read more…]
There was a myriad of problems with this last weekend’s state convention for the North Dakota Republican Party (NDGOP). In fact, a number of long-time Republicans have told me that it’s the worst convention they’ve ever been a part of. [read more…]
The conservative movement in North Dakota faces a number of challenges. If we’re honest with ourselves, we’ve taken a pretty good beating in recent years. But could it be that we’re our own worst enemy? It’s true that there’s a [read more…]
Last month the North Dakota Legislature convened in special session. The primary purpose of their doing so was to complete the state’s legislative redistricting required by federal law. This occurs every ten years after the results of the United States [read more…]
In recent weeks, North Dakotans are being exposed to media coverage about the “toxic” state of politics in North Dakota. Much of this stems from the retirements of two state senators— Erin Oban (D-District 35) and Nicole Poolman (R-District 7). [read more…]
It’s been a while. In fact, it’s been nearly six months. Indeed, the old adage that “Time flies!” is most certainly true. For those of you who’d like an explanation as to why The Minuteman has been fairly quiet, please [read more…]
This article was published with the permission of its author, Leon Francis. Leon is an IT guy, radio talk show host, former district chair for the NDGOP, husband, and father. Think you’re insulated from Critical Race Theory (CRT)? Do you [read more…]
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