Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Stu Cvrk 
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.
Democrats and their media sycophants and allies have been reflexively against President Trump’s policies throughout both of his terms to date. For example, analyses of 2025 roll-call votes in Congress (e.g., CQ Roll Call vote studies) show Democrats opposed Trump’s policy positions ~88% of the time overall.
The chattering class has once again been shocked by President Trump’s out-of-the box actions. For years, we’ve been led to believe in the oft-repeated international consensus among “experts” that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and has a stranglehold on the world’s hydrocarbon-powered economy.
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