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September 12, 2024

Speaker Mike Johnson is the face of GOP leadership. But another man with the same last name is quietly helping shape a legislative agenda to power Republicans through the election and beyond.

Issues:Congress

August 29, 2024

WOONSOCKET, S.D. — When Huron resident Franklin Rau returned from Vietnam in 1970, he was met not with gratitude, but with hostility.

Issues:Veterans

July 28, 2024

Dusty Johnson, a Republican, represents South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives. This piece first appeared in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader.


July 26, 2024

U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) secured several wins for tribal communities in the House Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations package.


July 12, 2024

You’ve been hearing it all year, 2024 is an election year, and with that comes campaigning, voter anxiety, and election safety issues.


July 3, 2024

U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson is now a member of the Fentanyl Policy Working Group, a part of Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party which works to address China’s part in the production of illegal fentanyl coming into the United States.


June 24, 2024

Gov. Kristi Noem held a press briefing in Dakota Dunes on Monday to give an update about storms and flooding in southeast South Dakota.

Rep. Dusty Johnson and leaders involved with emergency response also spoke at the press briefing in North Sioux City, South Dakota.


May 31, 2024

The Memorial Day holiday usually begins the election-year countdown sprint where partisan politics typically overshadow serious legislation.

Issues:Agriculture

May 28, 2024

A provision from legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) last week passed the U.S. House Armed Services Committee as part of the annual defense bill.


May 27, 2024

The House Ag Committee has passed their version of the next five-year farm bill, but congressional leaders are less than hopeful the bill will get across the finish line before a new fall deadline.

Issues:Agriculture