Shout Out to a Real One
The North Dakota State University Bisons football team was honored today with an invite to visit the White House today…
Trump Endorses 'Bible Literacy' Classes, Another Great Idea Ripped Straight Off Fox News
President Donald Trump, a deeply religious man who definitely lives by a strict code of moral and ethical standards,…
Heidi Heitkamp Apologizes for Outing Survivors of Sexual Assault in a Campaign Ad
North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s tough re-election campaign just got a little tougher: several women…
Heidi Heitkamp Powerfully Rebukes GOP Senate Rival After He Slanders #MeToo
After her opponent, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer, slammed #MeToo as a “movement toward victimization” and suggested…
North Dakota Mayor Proposes Dissolving Town Government to Prevent Neo-Nazis Gaining Power
The mayor of a tiny North Dakota town is petitioning to get rid of its local government so he can stop suspected white…
North Dakota GOP Senate Candidate Mad That Trump Loves His Democratic Opponent
Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota has been one of Donald Trump’s best friends in Congress. She’s backed mos…
The Koch Brothers Are Stepping in to Help Out Embattled Democrat Heidi Heitkamp in Trump Country
Senator Heidi Heitkamp is a Democrat from North Dakota in real danger of losing this fall, with Real Clear Politics rank…
Professor Resigns After University Repeatedly Rejects Proposed Seminar on Dakota Access Pipeline
Mark Trahant, a journalism professor at the University of North Dakota, has tried to teach a seminar on the Dakota…
The Fight at Standing Rock
From frontline battles with police to life inside the camp where the unprecedented movement began, Splinter has been…
Just Because the Dakota Access Pipeline Is Live Doesn't Mean the Fight Against It Is Dead
In a blow to indigenous rights and the fight for environmental justice, the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline is…
Private Counterterrorism Firm Targeted Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters on Behalf of Energy Transfer Partners
The United States needs to take a serious look in the mirror in light of this story. An investigation by The Intercept…
UN Warns U.S. Lawmakers: Stop Trying to Curb the Right to Protest
UN human rights experts have sounded the alarm over an “undemocratic” trend in the U.S. by lawmakers to criminalize and…
A North Dakota oil spill turns out to have been much, much worse than we thought
In early December 2016, the Belle Fourche oil pipeline spewed tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the Ash…
A North Dakota oil spill turns out to have been much, much worse than we thought
In early December 2016, the Belle Fourche oil pipeline spewed tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the Ash…
Standing Rock activists just released their first, brutally effective #NoDAPL TV commercial
Since it began, the fight against the Dakota Access oil pipeline has always existed in two separate, but related…
Standing Rock protesters are burning their camp to the ground ahead of a forced evacuation
With just hours to go before they are reportedly due to be forcibly evacuated, some protesters outside the Standing…
The Army just said it will let construction on the Dakota Access pipeline start up again
In a crushing setback for the opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers notified…
Republicans across the country want to make it harder for you to protest
Last weekend, hundreds of thousands of people crammed into the streets of Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, New…
Trump just signed executive orders to push ahead with Dakota Access and Keystone Pipelines
Just one day after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer suggested Donald Trump would push forward the Dakota Access…
This bill would protect drivers who 'accidentally' hit protesters from getting in trouble
In response to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, one lawmaker in North Dakota has introduced a bill that would…