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  "path": "/opinion/columns/plain-talk-what-the-party-says-needs-to-happen-overrides-what-the-people-say",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-11T19:41:53.000Z",
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  "textContent": "On this Plain Talk, the NDGOP is at war with its own candidates, and a Bismarck-area legislative candidate talks about his campaign and his deeply personal connection to suicide.",
  "title": "Plain Talk: 'What the party says needs to happen overrides what the people say'"
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