At Sam Adams Alliance, we always love it when things — and bloggers — come together. This weekend, at SamSphere South Dakota, besides coming together as a community for a free lunch and some free advice, the liberty-minded bloggers of South Dakota came together on their own to form South Dakota Shovel, a group blog designed to aggregate liberty-minded online journalism from across the state in one handy place. The idea is not only to combat the influence of mainstream media in South Dakota, which leans heavily toward favoring big government policies and the officials who champion them, but to provide an alternative news source for people seeking real information about whats going on in their communities, and about candidates for public office who share their views.

So far, the Shovel has three sources who have graciously volunteered their content, SD Wingnuts, Dakota Voice, and the pro-life team at Voices Carry. Look for many new additions in the days and weeks to come.

We at Sam Adams couldn’t be prouder of the liberty-minded online activist community in South Dakota. What we do is all about building community effort so that freedom wins out, and the South Dakota bloggers are definitely on the front lines of that battle! Way to go guys!