Port: Remind me again how the MAGA movement isn’t a cult?
MINOT — A friend told me a joke recently, and it's a pretty good one, though it's one of those...
Port: Second iteration of misnomered ‘election integrity’ measure is as appallingly stupid as the first one
MINOT — Earlier this month, a bunch of election conspiracy cranks sought approval to circulate a ballot measure that would have made...
Port: NDGOP sees fourth month of cash declines under new leadership
MINOT — The financial situation for the North Dakota Republican Party continues to worsen under the leadership of controversial new...
Port: Fargo television station Valley News Live falsely reports Donald Trump attack on Doug Burgum
MINOT — Valley News Live, a Fargo-based television station, published a news article purporting that former President Donald Trump had...
Port: Mystery company donated nearly 20% of funds to committee supporting Doug Burgum
MINOT, N.D. — The Best of America PAC, a political action committee aligned with, but officially independent from, Gov. Doug...
Plain Talk: ‘I didn’t have any idea who the hell he was’
MINOT, N.D. — Collin Peterson represented western Minnesota's 7th Congressional District for 30 years, and during that time got a...
Port: How much is Doug Burgum willing to spend to qualify for the GOP’s second debate?
MINOT, N.D. — After much ballyhoo about Gov. Doug Burgum's gift card gimmick — a tactic some of his competitors in...
Port: Turns out tough enforcement laws for campaign finance violations are already on North Dakota’s books
MINOT, N.D. — North Dakota's campaign finance laws are distressingly lax. They're routinely violated with near impunity. My reporting recently...
Port: Does anyone believe in individual liberty anymore?
MINOT — This week marked Nobel Prize-winning economist Milt Friedman's 111th birthday (or, as Bilbo put it, "one hundred and eleventieth" )....
Port: Libraries belong to everyone, including people you don’t like
MINOT — Earlier this year, during the legislative session, we were subjected to much Sturm und Drangfrom populist culture warriors...