Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Stu Cvrk 
Part I (see here) discussed the first six of the top 12 issues that continue to be debated in the state, with the ranking order determined by estimated public interest and salience. Each of the issues presented concludes with a positional statement on the issue from a traditionalist constitutional and fiscal conservative standpoint.
South Dakota’s 101st session of its state legislature recently completed work and adjourned last month, with a number of unresolved matters carrying forward for further work and deliberation.
The top 12 issues that continue to be debated are discussed below, with the ranking order determined by estimated public interest and salience. Each of the issues presented concludes with a positional statement on the issue from a traditionalist constitutional and fiscal conservative standpoint.
President Trump has put US allies in NATO on notice about providing security for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. He has also condemned specific NATO countries for denying use of NATO air bases and other facilities in support of Operation Epic Fury (the Iran rescue that is ongoing).
By initiating Operation Epic Fury, President Trump has pulled the trigger on a strategic reset in the Middle East. This is the third act in a campaign that has unfolded from June 2025 through March 2026. Epic Fury is not a single military event but a phased, coordinated strategic campaign with no clear precedent in post-Cold War American foreign policy. Understanding it requires tracing the sequence.
Robert Conquest’s Second Law of Politics states: “Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.” The corollary logic is that progressive activists, being more ideologically motivated than moderates, systematically infiltrate, outlast, and eventually dominate institutions — whether universities, media organizations, NGOs, professional associations, or political parties.
As Operation Epic Fury continues, the nooks and crannies of 47 years of failed relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran are being explored by many observers. Much is focused on Iran’s progress toward obtaining a nuclear weapon. That ignores the forest for the trees, as the mere possession of nuclear weapons is not the concern. The real issue is what would the IRI do with any nuclear weapons it possessed.
Cognitive dissonance is in the air once again. Failed former Obama and Biden national security and foreign policy apparatchiks, Democrats in Congress, assorted globalists in Europe, pro-CCP influence peddlers, the descendants of Neville Chamberlain, and the legion of legacy media talking heads afflicted with TDS have been doing their damnedest to undermine the long-delayed rescue operation of the Iranian people who have been held hostage by a theocratic autocracy since 1979.
For decades, the Democrat Party and the broader American left built a governing philosophy on a foundation of deliberate misidentification. Name the problem wrongly, propose the wrong solution, spend trillions achieving nothing, then demand more money and more power to try again.
is hell-bent on tackling heretofore seemingly intransigent problems that have existed across multiple presidencies.
Let’s face it, fraud has been a persistent shadow in human affairs since the dawn of organized society—whether it was ancient merchants short-weighting grain, medieval alchemists peddling fake elixirs, or modern actors exploiting loopholes in massive government programs.
Apparently disregarding 47 years of murder carried out by the Iranian regime and its proxies around the world, top Democrats were quick to condemn the lightning strike that essentially decapitated the regime
“That filthy neck that barged in on its own — I’ve got no choice but to cut it off without a moment’s hesitation. Are you prepared for that?” – Consul General Xue Jian of the Chinese Consulate General in Osaka, Japan, 9 November
The smell of fraud is in the air – from fraud fires burning in many states! Fortunately, the prevailing winds in South Dakota are from the west, or we would have been smoked out by Minnesota fraud fires in a manner similar to the Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil well fires that blackened the sun after Operation Desert Storm.
The “Minnesota fraud” story was a dagger in the heart of the Democrat Party before the anti-ICE riots “conveniently” diverted Americans’ attention.
For China, renewables represent the intersection of green technology development, 15-minute cities, and comprehensive social controls glued together by local police bureaus and lubricated by money.
“Minnesota fraud” is becoming a cliché and part of the American political vernacular. The total amount of fraud being uncovered throughout the welfare and assistance programs administered by the state is almost inconceivable.
This multi-part series has been examining the premise that the Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.
I am sick and tired of all the virtue-signaling about the unnamed “neighbors” of Minnesota protestors who are supposedly being “attacked” by ICE and other federal officers in the illegal immigrant sweeps that have been ongoing over the past couple of months. Note: the vast majority of those “neighbors” are illegal aliens because that is …
The Democrat Party may not have invented political corruption, but they have perfected and exported it throughout Blue states over the last 125 years. In recent years, the Democrats have been building and intertwining vast fraud networks as a means to fund their illicit enterprise in their efforts to turn the US into a one-party …
The Democrat Party may not have invented political corruption, but they have perfected and exported it throughout Blue states over the last 125 years. Democrats are hell-bent on a quest to turn the US into a one-party state for all time. This is Part VI of a multi-part series that is examining the premise that …