ND xPlains

28/08/2024

Trump's campaign using our fallen soldiers as campaign props. Is Kevin Cramer advising this campaign? He filmed a campaign ad in North Dakota's Veteran Cemetery in the 2014 election and had to stop using it because it threatened their federal funding.

The cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried, a source with knowledge of the incident told NPR.

23/08/2024

"Deplorable" was too nice.

The ghouls who took a moment of unconditional love between a son and his father and turned it into a moment to trash talk, demean and be cruel need to be call out. They aren't the party of family values, nor decency. They are DEPLORABLE. To put it mildly. More Republicans need to call out the behavi...

28/06/2024

4 years ago, Biden might have been the only one to beat Trump. This year, he might be the only one who can lose to him.

10/05/2024

Lt. Gov. Tammy Miller is afraid of tough conversations. If all we are left to do is listen to the same manufactured ads, we will dissect them. For example, she claims she isn't a politician, when in fact she is the worst kind of politician.

Lt. Gov. Tammy Miller is afraid of tough conversations. If all we are left to do is listen to the same manufactured ads, we will dissect them. For example, she claims she isn't a politician, when in fact she is the worst kind of politician.

04/05/2024

Voters created the Ethics Commission after corrupt politicians rejected it. We filed an ethics complaint against Dockter when this obvious violation occurred. Our ethics complaint turned into a guilty verdict today.

https://northdakotamonitor.com/2024/05/03/attorney-argues-rep-dockter-was-just-doing-his-job-with-lease-budget-votes/

02/03/2024

A lazy decision based on a report that wasn't allowed to be completed. Sadly, nobody is surprised.

STANLEY, N.D. (KFGO) - The state's attorney tasked with reviewing an outside investigation into the deletion o...

28/02/2024

Can you be considered a "political outsider" if you had insider information?

North Dakota’s Lieutenant Governor wants you to believe she is an “outsider.” Just scroll on any website. The banner ads will tell you. Repeatedly. My question, can you really be considered an “outsider” when you likely had the insider information about your boss’s – the Governor of No...

30/01/2024

All the legitimate concerns about the troubles at the border and its impacts on Americans as repeated for the past decade are pushed aside for partisan politics in an election year. A tale as old as time, but perhaps not as obvious as in this moment. They can’t help themselves.

Don’t tell us it is a crisis when you’re guilty of squandering the latest opportunity to address conditions at the southern border. A bipartisan negotiation to address the humanitarian crisis is in limbo simply because Donald Trump and Republicans are afraid it might bolster up President Biden.....

26/01/2024

Who would you like to see run for Congress in North Dakota?

25/01/2024

Who would you like to see run for Governor in North Dakota?

10/01/2024

Earlier this year, lawmakers were caught abusing their process by throwing unrelated policy decisions into the Office of Management and Budget bill. They had been doing this for years. Business as usual. Until they got caught and were forced into a special session. Now, a lawmaker with a cozy relationship to the former Attorney General allegedly steered state dollars to his private businesses. Some think that is business as usual. Until he got caught and will now have his day in court.

Republican Representative Jason Dockter has been charged with a class A misdemeanor. Charges were brought because of his involvement with the Attorney General’s building and the cost overrun. These charges were brought by State’s Attorney Lad Erickson who received the criminal referral following...

13/12/2023

It was a hot mic and window into the attitude some lawmakers have about the federal charges against Ray Holmberg. A shoulder shrug and a joke. It is no laughing matter.

It was a hot mic and window into the attitude some lawmakers have about the federal charges against Ray Holmbe...

26/04/2023

Governor Doug Burgum has issued his seventh veto of the 68th Legislative Session. It has some lawmakers claiming they're being disrespected. Tyler's question, who is really the one being disrespectful? The Governor or your lawmaker?

21/04/2023

These 22 Republicans in the North Dakota House hate the thought of feeding underprivileged children in public schools. Shame on every single one of them.

07/04/2023

Cover meals for students in public school? Absolutely not. Increase what we are reimbursed for our lunches? Of course!

Self serving? Without question. Here are the ND Senators that voted against children but for themselves when it comes to covering food costs.

Tyler Axness Calls out all the senators who voted against free school lunches for low-income kids and voted FOR Senate Meal Reimbursements.--- ...

27/03/2023

The names in red voted against $6 million for feeding students in public schools. I'd contact them and ask them to reconsider.

I wonder how many of them went to church yesterday and voted against feeding kids today.

25/10/2022

https://ndxplains.com/2017/05/08/ndgop-new-tax-rate-would-put-less-money-into-oil-tax-buckets/

I can't believe all these years later I need to continue to share this article, but the lie continues.

The political debate surrounding the Republican decision to cut the oil extraction tax in 2015 continues over two years later. Rightly so, because this rushed change to North Dakota’s oil tax collections is having profound long-term impacts on our state budget. Moreover, the Republican decision to...

11/10/2022

If you missed the Congressional debate between Kelly Armstrong and Cara Mund, it will be replayed tonight on 790AM and 104.7FM. You can also watch it at anytime on

Top Stories Walz calls for investigation into judge who ordered payments to food program continued after irregularities were found ST. PAUL, Minn. (KFGO/WCCO) - Gov. Tim Walz is calling for an investigation into a Ramsey County judge who ruled payments must continue to Feeding Our Future. According....

29/08/2022

Hundreds of classified documents were recovered from former President Trump. Law Professor from Ohio State University Dakota Rudesill joined Tyler Axness on KFGO to discuss the latest and address comparisons to Hillary Clinton's emails.

https://omny.fm/shows/afternoons-live-with-tyler-axness/classified-documents-at-mar-a-lago

19/04/2022

We have a problem on our hands that isn’t going to disappear without us facing it head on and investing in the mental health of our children.

https://ndxplains.com/2022/04/18/gould-how-do-we-help-kids-hurt-by-the-pandemic/

About a month ago, I had brunch with a longtime friend and her husband, who teaches kindergarten, in suburban Maryland. We caught up on all the things friends do at brunch, but one story he told has stuck with me all these days later. He told me about an incident that happened recently at his school...

29/03/2022

Citizens of Grand Forks and Falconer township have concerns about the proposed corn milling plant being pushed in their area. Frank Matejcek and Greg Spicer joined Tyler Axness on KFGO's Afternoons Live to discuss the situation.

https://omny.fm/shows/afternoons-live-with-tyler-axness/citizens-fight-against-proposed-grand-forks-corn-m

Frank Matejcek and Greg Spicer are in studio on Afternoons Live with Tyler Axness to talk about why they are fighting against the proposed Grand Forks Corn Milling Plant 

17/03/2022

State Senator Erin Oban has been appointed by President Biden to USDA State Director of Rural Development in North Dakota.

26/02/2022

Since Russia's war started, this 2018 article on NDx has been unexpectedly shared by many again. What did Hoeven gain from his trip to Russia?

https://ndxplains.com/2018/07/06/what-did-hoeven-gain-from-his-trip-to-russia/

By now you may have learned that North Dakota’s Senator John Hoeven was one of eight Republican Senators to spend our Independence Day in Russia. July 4th was only one of the multi-day trip Hoeven and his seven colleagues spent in the region. If you hadn’t heard about it until now, that may be b...

24/02/2022

Dakota Rudesill, Professor & Senior Fellow at Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University, gives insight on Putin's Invasion of Ukraine.

https://omny.fm/shows/afternoons-live-with-tyler-axness/russia-begins-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine

Dakota Rudesill, Professor & Senior Fellow at Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University, is on Afternoons Live with Tyler Axness to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

17/02/2022

A lot of us talk about inflation and how it’s been impacting our bank accounts. The inflation rate has been setting records. Bread, milk, parts, nearly everything has gone up. But you already know that. People have admitted there are things needed to be done. Republicans and Democrats. Yet in Washington, only one of those parties showed up for their shift this week.

https://ndxplains.com/2022/02/16/cramer-skipped-out-on-senate-work-to-address-inflation/

A lot of us talk about inflation and how it’s been impacting our bank accounts. The inflation rate has been setting records. Bread, milk, parts, nearly everything has gone up. But you already know that. People have admitted there are things needed to be done. Republicans and Democrats. Yet in Wash...