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As Pro-Trump Mob Boasts About Roles in Deadly Capitol Invasion, Indigenous Water Protecters Charged for Peaceful Keystone XL Protests

Protesters rally against the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines at the White House in Washington, D.C. on January 24, 2017. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

Despite 'Meager Numbers,' Trump Administration Removes Gray Wolves From Endangered Species List

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

Gray wolves were delisted from the Endangered Species Act on January 4, 2021. (Photo: Chad Horwedel/Flickr/cc)

"The delisting of gray wolves is the latest causality of the Trump administration's willful ignorance of the biodiversity crisis and scientific facts."

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'Taking Sledgehammer' to Failed US Drug War, Oregon Votes to Decriminalize Narcotics as Five States Legalize Marijuana

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Huge night against the War on Drugs."

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'Worst-Case Scenario': Report Finds Sturgis Motorcycle Rally a Superspreader Event Infecting Over 260,000

Lisa Newcomb, staff writer

"These cases represent a cost of over $12.2 billion," researchers wrote.

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Visitors look at Mount Rushmore National Monument on July 02, 2020 near Keystone, South Dakota.

'An Attack on Indigenous People': Mount Rushmore Trump Event Denounced as Racist, Dangerous, and Disrespectful

Mount Rushmore National Memorial on April 23, 2020, in Keystone, South Dakota. (Photo: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images)

Cheyenne River Sioux Chair Offers to Rip Down Mount Rushmore—"Free of Charge... By Myself If I Must"

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ACLU Celebrates Settlement Ending Unconstitutional Efforts to Silence Pipeline Protesters in South Dakota

Applause as Federal Court Blocks 'Unconstitutional' South Dakota Law That Would Hit Pipeline Protesters With Up to 25 Years in Prison

Protesters march during a demonstration against the Dakota Access Pipeline on March 10, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

'Vague, Overly Broad, and Sweeping in Scope': Lawsuits Take Aim at Efforts to Criminalize Anti-Pipeline Protests

Flooding at Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

'State of Emergency': Pine Ridge Reservation Flooding Exposes Racial Divide in Climate Crisis

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Keystone XL Developer "Infiltrates Our Democracy" With Major Campaign Contributions in Nebraska

The 'Told You So' Everyone Was Dreading—First DAPL Spill Reported

Tribe Files New Suit as Army Corps Announces Eviction Deadline for Water Protectors

From Citizens United to Ranked-Choice Voting: Democracy on the Ballot 2016

Koch Brothers Waging War Against Local Effort to Expose Dark Money

'They're Trying to Poison Our Future,' Resistance Heats Up to Stop 'Black Snake' From Slithering Through Midwest

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ACLU

South Dakota Governor Drops Anti-Protest Laws in Settlement Agreement With ACLU

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Global Indigenous Women’s Delegation Visits North Dakota to Share Strategies to Oppose Mega Oil and Gas Projects, Impact on Women and Girls

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Federal Court Overrules Trump and Calls For Full Environmental Review of Keystone XL in Nebraska

Friends of the Earth

Statement on TransCanada Oil Spill on Keystone Pipeline

Indigenous Environmental Network

IEN Responds to Reports of Leaks in Dakota Access Pipeline

ACLU

Federal Court Again Backs Native American Families in ACLU Lawsuit

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Evelyn Red Lodge

The Art of Criminalization

Andrew Malone, Vera Eidelman

The South Dakota Legislature Has Invented a New Legal Term to Target Pipeline Protesters

Judith Le Blanc

Native People and Allies Pledge to Stop Keystone XL

Chase Strangio

Legislatures Gear Up to Target Transgender People. We Gear Up to Fight Back.

Chase Strangio

'If I Were a Student in South Dakota, Chances Are I Would Not Survive Into Adulthood.'