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Legacy of a Northern lynching

January 26th, 2018

Editor's note: warning, this article includes graphic images some readers may find disturbing.

MOORHEAD, MINNESOTA – During the dark days after three African Americans were lynched by an angry mob in Duluth, Minnesota, a sepia-toned postcard was sold depicting the event. Two bodies against a lamppost, necks twisted away from the camera, ropes taught against their skin, dangled over a third body on the ground. In the postcard, the lynched men are cut out, pasted across a massive crowd…

Government shutdown ends, the blame game picks up pace

January 22nd, 2018

WASHINGTON D.C. – The federal government reopened Monday, but not after blame shifting and a reluctant agreement made on key issues. Republicans declared victory, and some analysts agree, adding it will be short-lived.

Short-lived because now responsibility lies with Republicans to live up to their promises.

Despite a Republican in the White House and current majorities in Congress, the federal government went into shutdown on the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s…

Fargo’s 2018 Women’s March photographic feature

January 20th, 2018

FARGO - Hundreds of thousands of women and men, young and old, took to the streets across America on Saturday, raising awareness for issues from women's rights, Black Lives Matter, missing Indigenous women, DACA, immigration freedom, misogyny, the MeToo movement, reproductive rights, and more. In Fargo-Moorhead, nearly 1,000 people participated in the march.

Indivisible FM led the march, and issues such as Black Lives Matter, missing Indigenous women, fight white supremacy, gay rights, women's rights, DACA, and reproductive rights were brought up - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Nationwide, the Women's March attracted hundreds of thousands of people marching for women's rights and more - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Democracy not fascism - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Fargo police were keeping an eye on the marchers, no rubber bullets, pepper sprays, or water cannons were observed - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Other issues marchers brought up included Trupm and state politician's practice of misogyny - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Marchers included the

Fargo's 2018 Women's March marched through downtown Fargo, circled the Fargo Forum building, and ended back at the Civic Center - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Fargo police on the streets - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Marchers also raised awareness for missing Indigenous women - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Native Americans were also represented at the Women's March - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Local white supremacist, Pete Tefft, attended the rally, and marchers shouted him out - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Fargo's Women's March 2018 - encircling white supremacist Pete Teft - photograph by C.S. Hagen

While President Trump tweets about women marching for

2018 Women's March in Fargo began and ended at the Civic Center - photograph by C.S. Hagen

GOP optimism turning blue

January 17th, 2018

FARGO – Republican optimism for enlisting Senate candidates is suffering blow after blow. Democrats have flipped eight Republican-controlled state legislative seats across the nation, from Roy Moore’s loss to former federal prosecutor Doug Jones in Alabama, to elections in Florida, and to Virginia. The GOP’s majority grip is slipping.

The day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Republican Party had a majority in the Senate of 53 out of 100 Senate seats, but now…

Stonewalled by federal court, Red Fawn Fallis changes plea

January 16th, 2018

FARGO – Red Fawn Fallis, the woman charged with firing a handgun during the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy, changed her plea Tuesday to guilty after federal prosecutors agreed to drop one of her charges.

If District of North Dakota Chief Judge Daniel Hovland accepts the change of plea, the most serious charge – discharge of a firearm in relation to a felony crime of violence – will be dropped. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and the possibility of up…

Rep. Cramer not running for Senate

January 11th, 2018

FARGO – Days after Congressman Kevin Cramer came under attack for nepotism and using taxpayer-funded Congressional resources to further a possible bid for a Senate seat, the state’s only Congressman announced he will not be running for higher office.

Instead, Cramer, a Republican, will try to keep his seat in the House of Representatives, and will run against ‘hard-charging Democrat opponent,” Ben Hanson.

“He [Cramer] is seeking re-election to the U.S. House,” Jason Stverak,…

Infiltrated: No-DAPL activist hoodwinked by paid FBI informant, defense says

January 11th, 2018

FARGO – Events leading up to the arrest of one of the Dakota Access Pipeline’s most prominent defendants played out like a game of bughouse chess. Little did an isolated pawn, Red Fawn Fallis, know of an apparent trap set for her near Standing Rock on October 27, 2016, the day police took over the northern 1851 Treaty Camp, according to her defense attorneys.

The state’s side, heavily armed, bolstered by a governor’s emergency declaration and taxpayers dollars, were short on…

Democratic-NPL petitions national ethics entity to investigate Congressman Kevin Cramer

January 8th, 2018

BISMARCK – Claiming the state’s only congressman uses campaign funds as a personal cash cow, fueling nepotism, and now using taxpayer-funded Congressional resources to further a possible bid for the Senate, the North Dakota Democratic-NPL has requested the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Congressman Kevin Cramer.

“Congressman Cramer has a clear pattern of unethical behavior – ranging from paying himself to essentially running a family business through his campaign…

One state rep. badmouths constituents, another throws white power hand signals

January 3rd, 2018

BISMARCK – While a state representative from Minot faces criticism and an impeachment petition for repeatedly using offensive language in online posts, other elected officials in the state have also come under scrutiny.

On Twitter, Representative Roscoe Streyle, a Republican from District 3, which includes Minot, has been calling out those who disagree with him as “libtards,” and has used the name “Pocahontas” three times in a derogatory way, as responses to Tweets, since…

The Laney Files: September 2016

December 27th, 2017

FARGO – Internal documents obtained by the High Plains Reader from the Cass County Sheriff’s Department reveal a disturbing familiarity between state police chiefs and sheriffs with TigerSwan’s analysts and upper echelon.

In early September 2016, oil magnates, private security personnel, and law enforcement cooperated in creating a “rhythm” for moving the Dakota Access Pipeline forward – together.

Four days after security dogs were brought to the front line on September 3,…

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