Local Politics

Choices: The South Dakota 2026 GOP Gubernatorial Runoff

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There will be a runoff for the two GOP candidates for governor on 28 July, as none of the four candidates achieved the 35% threshold required to win outright in the 2 June primary election. Political newcomer Toby Doeden finished first with 31% of the votes, followed by Rhoden at 25%, U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson at 23%, and state House Speaker Jon Hansen at 21%. The race saw one of the highest statewide turnouts in over a decade, over 34% — and for the first time in state history, a runoff is needed to decide the GOP nominee for governor.

Lindsey Graham, a profile in courage

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Senator Lindsey Graham died this weekend from a heart attack, two days after his 71st birthday. He left behind no wife, no children and not much of a fortune—at best $3 million after 33 years in Congress.

But he bequeathed to the American people a fair and impartial Supreme Court that had the boldness to take on the powers of the federal bureaucracy (West Virginia v. EPA) and return to the states powers previous courts and Congress had stolen (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization).

Visiting Behind Enemy Lines, Tale #103: Three Pennsylvanians Toured Portland, Called It A “****hole”

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Three tourists from Reading & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, spent a week on the West Coast, coming home to declare that Portland is a “shithole.” “Why do these people shit where they eat?” Jack asked his granddad who responded “Democrats!” 

574 Governments, Zero Consensus

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The myth that America would magically function better with more political parties ignores one stubborn fact: more factions don’t automatically create more agreement. Look at the 574 federally recognized tribal governments. They don’t speak with one voice—and they shouldn’t be expected to. The 2022 renaming of 643 geographic features proved that even within Native communities, history, language, and culture are far more complex than Washington’s one-size-fits-all solutions. Diversity of opinion is a strength, but pretending there’s only one “correct” voice is politics masquerading as consensus.

America Didn’t Become More Political. It Became More Tribal

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The real problem isn’t that America has two political parties—it’s that we’ve rediscovered tribalism. I remember growing up in the 1980s when your “tribe” was mostly your family, your neighborhood, your church, or the people your parents spent time with. Democrats and Republicans certainly disagreed, but most Americans weren’t immersed in the other side’s outrage 24 hours a day. Social media changed that. Today we’re constantly exposed to the loudest, angriest voices from the “other tribe,” and algorithms profit by keeping us divided, suspicious, and emotionally invested in conflict. Every insult, every viral clip, and every political flashpoint reinforces the idea that our fellow Americans are enemies rather than neighbors. When political hatred escalates into threats or acts of violence—including attacks targeting public figures—it should remind us that tribalism, left unchecked, stops being politics and starts becoming something far more dangerous. A constitutional republic cannot survive if our highest loyalty is to the tribe instead of to the principles that bind us together.

Springtime for Platner ends

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As the British would say, the Democrat Party is about to give Graham Platner the Spanish archer, aka, the El-Bow. The Nazi-tattooed misogynist mess who raises oysters for his mommy’s restaurant has begun to slip in the polls made public—an indication that Democrats are horrified by the results of their more accurate internal polling.

On Monday, he suspended his campaign, which paves the way for replacing him before the weekend deadline.

Hannity: ‘SUFFERING’ is a part of the socialism equation…

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Fox News host Sean Hannity discusses the Democratic Party’s shift with the rise of socialist candidates and criticizes New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and U.S. congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier over their positions on ‘Hannity.’

Abolitionist Republican

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The Republican Party was birthed by Abolitionists who refused to compromise on slavery. They left the Northern Whigs who always compromised. Today, career politician Establishment Republicans always compromise or collaborate cheerfully. Their votes and budgets make a lie of their campaigns as “Republicans” and “Conservatives”. Career politicians made those labels utterly meaningless. Conversely, the Democrats …

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TRUMP IS A CHINA AGENT? — Sir, Your Party Has Been SLEEPING With China

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I need you to do something before you read another word.

I need you to think about every time you have seen a Democrat politician, a cable news anchor, a blue-checkmark activist, or a college professor call a Republican a Nazi in the last eight years. Elon Musk waved at a crowd and three days of “expert Nazi imagery analysis” hit every network. JD Vance used an old computer game reference and people in the media spent forty-eight hours explaining why it was secret fascist code. They called Trump literally Hitler. They called his voters fascists. They called the MAGA hat a white supremacist symbol. They called a circle made with fingers a white power hand sign. They had a whole infrastructure — lists, watchdogs, funded organizations, congressional statements, nonprofit endowments in the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS — dedicated to finding Nazis on the right.

Another of Larry Krasner’s minions has been sanctioned for lying through her scummy teeth

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At what point should the District Attorney himself be disbarred? It seems as though I wrote too soon. Yes, the previous article, Larry Krasner gets bitch-slapped by the state Supreme Court, remains accurate and valid, but just this morning, only a few hours after the previous post was published on the American Free News Network, …

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