A local Republican leader in North Carolina threatened to get an elections director fired if he wasn’t given illegal access to voting equipment.
Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is being investigated for criminal voter fraud in North Carolina.
The North Carolina Republican Party is set to vote later today to censure Senator Richard Burr for his vote to convict former President Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection against Congress. North Carolina’s GOP Chair Michael Whatley said his vote “in a trial that he declared unconstitutional is shocking and disappointing.†Kyshia Lineberger, the Republican National Committee Chairwoman…
Senators and congresspeople have access to information that the American public doesn’t. It is expected that they don’t use these inside information to make money in the stock market. But a number of Republicans made questionable stock trades during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Richard Burr was among them. As a result, the North…
State data reveals that over 864,000 Americans have already voted, and in states where party data is available it suggests a majority preference for Biden.
An election official in North Carolina has suggested that Donald Trump could be investigated for potentially committing a felony after he said voters in the state should cast their ballots twice. Gerry Cohen is a member of the Wake County Board of Elections. He took to Twitter on Thursday to explain North Carolina law and…
Senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) says he regrets not wearing a mask to protect himself from contracting the novel coronavirus during the Republican National Convention (RNC). Tillis, who has been vocal about the need to wear face coverings, says he “fell short” by not setting an example and wearing one. “I’ve stressed the importance of mask…
The state of North Carolina will relax its restrictions on public gatherings for the Republican National Convention (RNC) scheduled August 21 – 24. The state’s health director and chief medical officer, Elizabeth Cuervo Tilson, said the Department of Health and Human Services, wrote in a letter to the RNC that restrictions on gatherings of more…
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s lead over President Donald Trump has grown in North Carolina, a state increasingly in play for Democrats during this year’s general election. According to the latest survey from the left-leaning firm Public Policy Polling (PPP), Biden has a 4-point lead over Trump 49 percent to 45 percent, the biggest lead…
President Donald Trump threatened to find a new site for August’s Republican National Convention (RNC) if North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (D) can’t guarantee “full attendance” as the state slowly reopens amid the coronavirus pandemic. The president attacked Cooper in a series of tweets, saying he is in “Shutdown mood & unable to guarantee that…
Trump responded to audience chants of four more years at a taxpayer-funded event by telling the crowd to chant 12 more years or 16 more years.
The Republican candidate who initially appeared to have won that race, Mark Harris, said he would not make a second run for the seat. Dan McCready, the Democrat who ran against Harris, does plan to run again.
A woman said Monday that a Bladen County, N.C., Republican election official paid her to illegally collect absentee ballots from the November 6 midterm elections. Absentee ballot witness Ginger Eason told WSOCTV, a local news station in Charlotte, that the official, McCrae Dowless, paid her between $75 and $100 to take completed absentee ballots from…
A combination of the overturning of the Republican gerrymander and Trump’s unpopularity could flip up to 4 House seats to Democrats in North Carolina. The Princeton Election Consortium found some interesting data in North Carolina: Disapproval of Trump has hit North Carolina particularly hard. In four Congressional districts where polls are available – the 2nd,…
President Donald Trump continued this week to deny the effects of climate change in the face of overwhelming scientific agreement that it is occurring. However, even while Trump and many other Republicans deny man-made climate change, a shift appears to be occurring among Republican voters in North Carolina, a state which has been severely damaged…
Trump had another one of his “moments,” when announced that the flood water in North Carolina will be moving to South Carolina.
Yesterday a three-judge federal panel ruled that Republican-drawn congressional districts in North Carolina have been gerrymandered in such a way that they violate the United States Constitution. The panel held that the districts were established by the GOP legislature for the purpose of favoring Republicans over Democrats, which is not a valid reason for delineating…
North Carolina Republican legislators surprised critics when they passed a $15-per-hour “living wage” for 10,000 state workers. The increase will affect about 10,000 state government and university system employees, such as secretaries, hospital workers, security guards and housekeepers. “North Carolina’s GOP — Republicans — surprise critics by passing a $15 living wage for state workers,…
The NCAA said “this new law is far from perfect,” but it will reward the discrimination-minded N. C. by reopening the state for consideration in hosting its championship events.
“If you disagree with the politically correct thought police … you’re a bigot, you’re the worst of evil. It’s almost as if I broke a law.”
North Carolina does so poorly on the measures of legal framework and voter registration that it ranks alongside Iran and is not classified as a democracy.
“The legislature may not be willing to undo their unconstitutional overreach and respect the rights of LGBT people, so we’ll just have to see them in court.”
It’s part of a larger trend that’s occurred over the last eight to 10 years to manipulate state supreme courts to maintain political power.
“Only In States Controlled By Republican Legislatures Has Early Voting Been Reduced”
New polling shows that newly registered and voters who sat out the 2012 election are breaking strongly for Hillary Clinton in North Carolina, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
The voter suppression tactic is right out of the GOP [election rigging] playbook to suppress the Black vote in North Carolina.â€
A sign that the Trump campaign is dying a slow death on the ground can be seen in the fact that Donald Trump drew a crowd less than half of the size of Obama’s at the same venue three days after the President spoke.
With a single sentence, President Obama explained why every Republican who is still supporting Donald Trump is unfit to serve the public.
“I wouldn’t vote for anybody that does something like that. The logic, I just can’t figure it out at all. It’s not comprehensible for me. It’s just too stupid.â€
Rachel Maddow broke some huge good news for Hillary Clinton, as Democrats have an eight-point lead in the early balloting in North Carolina.
A new poll of North Carolina shows Hillary Clinton leading a very close race 44%-42% over Donald Trump.
“North Carolina’s provisions deliberately target African Americans with…surgical precision…to depress Black turnout at the polls.”
Governor McCrory and Republicans “diverted” $500,000 from North Carolina disaster relief to defend an unconstitutional theocratic edict in court.
Why does Donald Trump repeatedly compliment barbaric dictators?
The Obama White House takes a huge stand in the fight to expand the rights of transgender Americans.
“It may be a pretty valuable tool to have on the female students if they go to the bathroom, not knowing who may come in.”
Robertson offers old, outdated beliefs even he doesn’t understand or really care about except as a cloak to sanctify his bigotry
“North Carolina’s HB2 is deeply discriminatory and violates civil rights law in all kinds of manners.”
“I wanted to make sure she was going to the right place. Because in times like these, you can never be too careful.”
Religious Republicans passed unconstitutional legislation denying a wide swathe of the population their constitutional rights.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s southern surge crested tonight with a huge win in the North Carolina Democratic primary tonight.
By withdrawing his promise to pay violent supporters’ legal fees, Trump proved he would turn on his supporters because it’s in his nature.
A federal district court ordered North Carolina to redraw two gerrymandered maps. NC wanted a stay but without Scalia, they didn’t get it
Wielding crosses like pitchforks, parents at a public school in North Carolina want a gay club out of their school and a teacher punished
The school is not paying Duke Energy for the electricity being generated by that clean source of electrical power, the Sun
Ted Cruz picked up the endorsement of notorious bigot Sandy Rios, wowed the haters at a Texas megachurch, and won the Tea Party caucus in NC
A new poll found Biden performing better than both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in head to head contests with the leading Republicans.
North Carolina GOP State Rep. Michael Speciale sunk to new depths by posting a meme that referred to Obama as an “Islamic son of a b*tch.”
Trump leads Clinton 45-42 in North Carolina, raising GOP fears that he might be more electable than his critics realize.
Republican political corruption in North Carolina is even worse than you thought, as the Paul Foley episode reveals
What makes this decision particularly noteworthy is that the Justices agreed with a Circuit Court ruling that disabused evangelical Republicans, and theocratic governors from North Carolina and Wisconsin, of the idea that forcing women to undergo rape by medical device is not, as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker claims, “just cool.”
Today, more so than at any time in the nation’s history, evangelical Republicans are on a crusade to base the nation’s laws on the Christian religion to discriminate against Americans who do not fall into the mold of a religious Republican.
A PPP poll found Democrat Hillary Clinton enjoying a modest 47-40 lead over Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush in North Carolina.
Because they own most of the Republican state’s governors and legislatures, it is there that the Kochs’ ideology is doing the most damage that their GOP surrogates are unrepentant about.
President Obama issued a statement on the murders of three students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, saying, “No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship.”
American Catholic bishops are taking advantage of the power bestowed on them by the conservative Catholics on the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby ruling. As is typical of the bishops, their aim is controlling American women and forcing them to either become celibate or perpetual birthing machines.
Republicans just can’t get over the fact that they can no longer get together and lynch the black guy they found in the white neighborhood
Elizabeth Lauten was arrested as a teenager in December 2000 for misdemeanor larceny, according to court records reported by the Smoking Gun.
Our right-wing brothers and sisters who go fiddlesticks berserk over the possible presence of the dreaded Ebola, but most likely live in close proximity or downwind of a chemical that makes the largely manufactured (1 death in the U.S.?) Ebola threat look like a hangnail.
Pat Buchanan presents an America where Republicans are the black voter’s best friend and where whites are forced to be Republicans by racist leftist politics
The impact of North Carolina’s voter ID law has already been felt. This impact will only grow more marked as it will be even tougher for minorities to vote come 2016.
Gordon Klingenschmitt brings his demonic obsessions to the Colorado State Senate and Michael Peroutka his neo-Confederate secessionism to Anne Arundel County, Maryland
United States District Court Judge William Osteen for the Middle District of North Carolina , a Bush appointee, allowed Tillis to intervene as a party in the federal district lawsuit, nearly two years old, that legalized same-sex marriage in North Carolina.
Christie may not have the anti-voter credentials of some of his Republican brethren, but he does not support the right to vote for all Americans.
While Kay Hagan spent Tuesday on a NC First tour meeting with diverse groups of voters across the state, a desperate Thom Tillis talked to a chair.
On October 25, Hillary Clinton and North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan will appear together for an early vote event at the convention center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
There are two issues guaranteed to get the wing-nuts to the polls even if they have to crawl on their bellies over barbed wire in a typhoon. The first is anything to do with not being able to let their kids under ten play with howitzers; the second voting magnet is anything to do with the possibility that Bob and Bruce might marry.
One of the ironies of court wars over vote suppression laws lies in the fact that proponents of suppressing the vote argue they want to preserve the “status quo” in the name of preventing confusion among voters.
As the gathering wore on, younger activists, who have been on the ground in Ferguson since an unarmed Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson over two months ago, started growing restless.
Mike Huckabee says he’s tired of this. All I’ve got to say is that we’re tired of it too, and that it’s time for America to unfriend the Republican Party
This monumental victory for North Carolina concluded a historic week nationwide for marriage equality. Ten states in the past week alone have now been added to the list of states where gay marriage is recognized, bringing the total number of states up to 29.
Senator Kay Hagan outperformed her Republican opponent Thom Tillis and Libertarian candidate Sean Haugh during North Carolina’s third and final debate for the Senate race, on Thursday night.
It’s time for the Supreme Court to officially recognize that marriage equality triumphed over homophobia.
Since North Carolina passed its version of a vote suppression law, it has been one long battle in the courts.
Don’t look now, but even the mainstream corporate controlled media are catching on that Democrats are running more effective Senate campaigns than Republicans.
On Tuesday, not one but two shootings occurred at high schools in this nation. These two shootings represent the 85th and 86th school shootings since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT in late 2012.
Crucial to their success is Republicans’ heavy dependence on one of the Koch brothers’ legislative arms, the American Legislative Exchange Council, to create template legislation for Republicans to block access to voting in what can only be termed as a direct assault on America’s rapidly waning democracy.
The team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists found a wealth of evidence “directly linking” an increase in Colorado and New Mexico earthquakes since 2001 to wastewater injection widely used in hydraulic fracturing as well as conventional drilling.
Over the past six years, at least, there has been a steady assault on democracy from state level Republicans with valuable assistance from ALEC that led one to wonder whether the Koch brothers had directed the Republican legislative arm (ALEC) to disavow and destroy American democracy one state at a time.
Contrast law enforcement’s overwhelmingly violent military response to peaceful, and unarmed, African Americans protesting the cold-blooded murder of an unarmed African American teenager at the hands of a white Ferguson police officer and one can hardly claim law enforcement does not apply a different standard to armed whites as opposed to unarmed African Americans.
On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Peter Economus blocked the Republican Party’s attempt to suppress the vote in Ohio.
The judge, Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood, identified the Republican legislation, “Opportunity Scholarship Program,” as a scam to “siphon money from the public schools in favor of private schools and allows funding of non-public schools that discriminate on account of religion.”
Dan Forest told the Faith and Freedom Coalition this weekend, “America is at a great crossroads where it must decide for or against God.”
In a story posted by Daniel Strauss of Talking Points Memo on Tuesday, Thom Tillis, North Carolina’s State House Speaker and Republican nominee for US Senate, did an interview in 2012 where he suggested that Hispanics and blacks are not ‘traditional’ Americans.
This week, political news site Politico released a poll showing that Democrats are at a seven-point disadvantage against Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. The poll is supposed to reflect voter sentiments in the most competitive House and Senate races this year.
it was left to Human Rights Watch (HRW) to push the federal government to take steps to protect children working on tobacco farms in states such as North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Superior court Judge issued an injunction against North Carolina’s school voucher law because it is likely that suits challenging this law will succeed on the merits.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory knows the dirty coal industry is polluting the environment in North Carolina because his state’s environmental regulators are not doing their jobs. It is why he expects his god to clean up what he knows will be more toxic spills.
Republicans in North Carolina are trying to quash a subpoena for emails regarding the “rationale, purpose and implementation” of House Bill 589, aka the most egregious vote suppression law in the country.
Singer and former American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken officially announced on Wednesday that he will run for Congress against Rep. Renee Elmers (R-NC) in North Carolina’s 2nd District.
Last week, federal Magistrate Judge Joi Elizabeth Peake scheduled a hearing for July 2014, to impose a temporary injunction on North Carolina’s “voter ID” law.
On Sunday, State Senator Bob Rucho, a Republican out of North Carolina, took to Twitter and decided to make a comparison that is just unbelievable in its idiocy and complete lack of historical awareness and understanding.
The tea party is the intersection of cognitive dissonance and reality. It’s certain to become a reality show. Oh wait – it already is.
North Carolina is the true predictor and portent of tragedy inherent when Republicans hold the reins of power.
The south is becoming more and more socially progressive, which is leading to an educated populace that should no longer be stereotyped.
This week’s Republican attempt to reach out to minorities was the latest lesson in how to become less popular than dog poop.
ECSU student Montravius King fought the GOP vote suppression effort and won in North Carolina.
In Republican newspeak, eligible voter is code for voters who are rich, white, male and Republican.
The American people are not stupid, and can’t be tricked by Republicans carrying plates of cookies into giving up their civil rights.
Market-based educational reform is an utter failure, and yet we still can’t shake the nasty remnants of its bad policy influence
