Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Stu Cvrk 
There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that does not know it is dishonest. It wraps itself in the language of compassion, hides its power hunger behind slogans of liberation, and mistakes its own cultural preferences for universal moral law. American progressivism, in its current form as embodied by the Democrat Party, has become a nearly perfect specimen of this condition.
The United Nations was chartered in 1945 as a creation of American strategic vision – a Pax Americana scaffolding dressed in multilateral language that was intended to be a cornerstone of the American-made international order shaped after World War II. That calculus has been fundamentally altered over time. The institution has been methodically infiltrated, staffed, and redirected by the Chinese Communist Party over the past 25+ years, transforming the UN from a tool America shaped into a platform Beijing increasingly controls – and paid for in large part by the American taxpayer.
Joe Biden was in Sioux Falls on Friday; he spoke at the South Dakota Democrat Party State Convention. South Dakota media have been competing with each other in producing puff-pieces about his appearance. That’s nothing new because what passes for “major media” in this state are reflexively pro-Democrat despite the fact that 52% of the registered voters in South Dakota are Republicans (a paltry 22% are registered Democrats with the rest independents, third parties, or “no party affiliation”). No wonder their readership/subscriptions have been in the tank for years!
The Democrat Party and their legacy media allies are framing the 2026 midterms as a referendum on President Trump and Republican governance in Congress, leveraging historical midterm dynamics where the president’s party often loses seats. Democratic leaders (e.g., Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee chairman) explicitly call for making it a referendum on “Trump’s one big beautiful bill and agenda.” Their messaging focuses on affordability, health care costs, farm/economic impacts from policies, and immigration enforcement effects in key districts. They are targeting ostensibly vulnerable GOP seats in Trump-won areas, expanding maps and emphasizing “MAGA extremism” or unfulfilled promises.
American self-governance rests on one indispensable foundation: that elections reflect the will of eligible citizens, counted accurately, administered transparently. Republicans and election integrity advocates argue that this foundation has been progressively undermined — not necessarily by a single grand conspiracy, but by a systemic pattern of loosened safeguards, dirty voter rolls, exploitable mail-ballot systems, and aggressive Democrat opposition to the audits and reforms that would resolve public doubt once and for all.
In keeping with the “move on” narrative concocted by Democrat activists during the Monica Lewinsky scandal in 1998 to protect Bill Clinton from impeachment, Democrats in 2024 probably thought they had successfully delayed, obfuscated, covered up, and pushed past various statutes of limitations for potential crimes associated with the scandals detailed in Part I of this series.
As Democrat operatives have been rooted out in the Justice Dept and FBI since January 2025, some very inconvenient facts have been discovered leading to grand jury and congressional investigations into long-buried corrupt criminal activities of prominent Democrats.
President Trump’s dragon-proof foreign policy systematically targets and reverses Xi Jinping-era Chinese geopolitical and economic gains. It combines economic pressure, targeted regime disruptions, military actions, and hemispheric reassertion to erode China’s influence in key regions, disrupt cheap resource flows, undermine proxy networks, and reassert US dominance. This directly counters Xi’s narrative of inevitable US decline and multipolar “Global South” realignment, and that private meeting between Xi and President Trump in Beijing must have been a doozy!
South Dakota stands at an energy crossroads. The explosive growth of data center development, driven by the artificial intelligence revolution and the insatiable demand for cloud computing, is converging with longstanding agricultural and industrial energy needs to strain the state’s grid in ways that cannot be managed through inertia or wishful thinking.
One of the three South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) billets is up for election in 2026 (commissioners are elected in partisan elections to staggered six-year terms).
Let’s examine some questions that should be asked of PUC candidates this year.
“So long as the judiciary remains truly distinct from both the legislature and the Executive. … [L]iberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have every thing to fear from its union with either of the other departments.” — James Madison, Federalist No. 78
Many rank-and-file Republicans and political commentators have expressed shock at the unprecedented lawfare being employed by the Democrat Party and its political allies against President Trump during his second term. Over 700 lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration, and the number of executive orders impeded/blocked by Democrat/leftwing activist judges currently exceeds 200 (full and partial).
This is Part II of a two-part series that examines economic development in South Dakota. Part I covered the Future Fund, crony capitalism vs. free markets, out-of-state and foreign beneficiaries, and tax increment financing. This part covers data centers, reserve funds, the pro-development counter argument, and legislative reform efforts.
Analysis from a constitutional conservative perspective Economic development has been a hot topic in South Dakota for years. At one extreme, there are those among the political class who push development on behalf of out-of-state interests constantly (and seemingly regardless of the impact on long-time residents). At the other end of the spectrum are those …
Rising property taxes in South Dakota have become a major burden on homeowners, particularly seniors on fixed incomes and young families, often making homeownership feel unaffordable or like “renting from the government.”
Managed helplessness is a political and institutional strategy in which those in power deliberately frame solvable problems as hopelessly complex, systemic, or intractable — not because solutions are genuinely unavailable, but because sustained unsolvability serves their interests.
On 23 April, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the IRS plans to revise Form 990 — the annual information return filed by tax-exempt organizations — to improve transparency and strengthen oversight, specifically targeting reporting on government contracts, government grants, and fiscal sponsorship arrangements. The stated goals are to detect misconduct and hold wrongdoers accountable.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent framed it bluntly: “We are ending the days of hiding fraud, abuse, and extremist activity behind complicated nonprofit arrangements. When bad actors misuse charitable structures, directors and officers should understand that transparency can lead to scrutiny, accountability, and liability under the law.”
With the failed attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, there have been seven (7) major attempts to assassinate President Trump since 2016.
Feminism has been a curse on the American body politic since it merged with Marxist critical theory concepts in the 1960s, long after the woman’s suffrage movement led the passage of the 19th Amendment (women’s right to vote). It has been in the vanguard of the leftwing cultural revolution that has divided America – and men and women – for six decades while destroying the hopes and dreams of two generations of young women who absorbed the radical ideology at the cost of human happiness and fulfillment.
The Democrat-NGO-media complex buries anything that distracts from their support for illegal aliens of all stripes, no matter the havoc wrought on individual American citizens and society in general. No discussion of the downsides, especially the violent crimes committed and resultant deaths of innocent America citizens at their hands. They’d rather manufacture stories that tug on the heartstrings of their drive-by viewership as opposed to discussing the lives ripped apart in the wake of family members and loved ones cruelly murdered by people who shouldn’t have been in the US in the first place.