Morton County

And yeah, I think, um, the fact of Trump too, beyond...

I've, I spoke to a fair amount of local people in, you know, in both Bismarck, Mandan, Morton County, which are North Dakota, and, and folks in Iowa, because there was, some of this propaganda was aimed at the anti-pipeline movement in Iowa.

And people, like, on their own say, well, you know, this was 2016, 2017, so it was the moment of Make America Great Again.

People were feeling sort of really empowered around the ideas that Donald Trump was spreading.

I live in Morton.

And Morton County had close to 600 people at a public meeting.

And they keep moving to bigger venues.

And the city is going to have to decide.

Well, you have to go to the county to get that.

Again! The counties are,

you know, go to Oliver Mercer, go to Morton County.

This is what the county, you know, in Cass County, where was the county commission? I mean, this is black and white for me.

Eventually, according to someone who worked for Robert, the digital metaverse he was trying to build ran out of money.

It's hard to tell what TigerSwan, with all that infiltration and propaganda, deserves credit for, but what I do know is that after Standing Rock ended, Energy Transfer kept directing money and messaging at communities in Morton County.

There were ads on TV and YouTube, and there was also the Mandan Library renovation the company funded, the vocational school Energy Transfer co-founder, Kelcy Warren, helped build in the small city of Flasher, $3 million for the University of Mary's new engineering building.

In 2025, the company's lawyers helped select jurors to decide one of the most important free speech cases in recent memory.

The jury pool came from Morton County, the same community Energy Transfer's messaging had targeted.

In court, Energy Transfer told the jury that it was Greenpeace that was responsible for the Standing Rock movement, and the jurors agreed.

And now, as wildfire smoke fills the skies, one of the oldest environmental organizations in the US is fighting to overturn a judgment that could end them.

A North Dakota mother accused of killing her two young children and seriously injuring a third remains in custody on a $3 million cash bond as she awaits preliminary hearing scheduled for October 6.

Um, she has been charged in Morton County District Court for two counts of murder and several additional offenses in connection with the alleged August 6th attack at her family's home in Mandan.

A three-year-old and a five-month-old child died, while one-year-old, uh, injured during the incident is expected to make a full recovery according to an update.

The case has generated significant online attention, with some social media users comparing it to the prosecutions of mother Lindsay Clancy of North Carolina, and North Carolina mother Andrea Faust.