Plain Talk is a podcast hosted by Rob Port and Chad Oban focusing on political news and current events in North Dakota. Port is a columnist for the Forum News Service published in papers including the Fargo Forum, Grand Forks Herald, Jamestown Sun, and the Dickinson Press. Oban is a long-time political consultant.

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619: 'Conservation sometimes becomes the dog that everybody can get behind kicking' 2025-07-11
618: Legislature stepped up with funding to move public defenders 'in the right direction' 2025-07-09
617: Rep. Nico Rios didn't show up (REPLAY) 2025-07-04
616: 'We have...lifelong Republicans saying I'm done.' (REPLAY) 2025-07-02
615: 'Donald Trump likes people who like him' 2025-06-26
614: 'When someone on your own side is referring to them as cuts, you're losing that war' 2025-06-25
613: 'We're not providing a grant. We do expect a return to come back to us.' 2025-06-19
612: 'I'm a North Dakotan first. I'm the governor second and a Republican third.' 2025-06-18
611: 'The escalation is 100% the point' 2025-06-13
610: 'There's going to be an election day reckoning' 2025-06-11
609: Remembering Rep. Josh Christy on AI (REPLAY) 2025-06-06
608: 'That is a blatant falsehood’ (REPLAY) 2025-06-04
607: How do we do politics in the classroom? (REPLAY) 2025-05-30
606: ‘We can disagree and still respect each other’ 2025-05-28
605: ‘It just doesn’t work for me’ 2025-05-23
604: 'Our partners in the Republican Party' 2025-05-21
603: 'Nobody in the nation is doing what North Dakota is doing' 2025-05-16
602: 'We are horrible at telling our success stories' 2025-05-14
601: 'We found out about it in the newspaper' 2025-05-10
600: 'We're going to have problems with the caps' 2025-05-07
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