A nonprofit group linked to former Attorney General Eric Holder is suing in state court to throw out North Carolina’s outrageously gerrymandered congressional district map in time for the 2020 elections. The move follows a favorable court ruling earlier this month on state legislative maps. But with North Carolina prim… Read more
Last week, North Carolina Republicans proved both why they can’t be trusted and why they’ve been in power for nearly…
On Wednesday, North Carolina Republicans apparently decided they just didn’t want to bother with that whole…
Two congressional candidates backed by President Donald Trump won special elections on Tuesday night. Republican Dan…
A North Carolina court struck down the state’s legislative district maps on Tuesday, saying they were gerrymandered and unconstitutional under the state constitution. The legislature has until September 18 to redraw them. This case is going to be a window into the future of gerrymandering battles.
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The Intercept put out a piece on Thursday detailing Sen. Chuck Schumer’s so-far lackluster recruiting efforts for…
Dan Forest is the lieutenant governor of North Carolina, the top Republican elected official in the state, and the…
Last night, Charlotte’s City Council passed a resolution denouncing President Donald Trump’s recent “racist and xenophobic social media tweets and comments.” RNC 2020 should be fun!
A week has passed since Donald Trump tweeted an undeniably racist message about four Democratic congresswomen,…
Because this is a story that won’t die, President Trump opened up a predictable new front in his war against Ilhan…
I was standing in a bar in downtown Greenville—Grumpy’s, I’m pretty sure it was—off East 5th Street. This was about…
After days spent hurling racist attacks at Rep. Ilhan Omar spilled into his supporters chanting “send her back” at a…
Republicans really gotta stop using the Holocaust to grandstand their own offensive assertions and proposals.
On Wednesday, seemingly out of nowhere, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina published a scathing column in the Charlotte Observer
North Carolina is among the 14 states in the nation that have still yet to adopt any sort of Medicaid expansion…
More surprises from dead gerrymanderer Thomas Hofeller: his records provided the basis for a legal claim that the North Carolina GOP “misled a federal court to prolong the life of their map of state legislative districts, which had been ruled unconstitutional,” according to the New York Times.
Jerry Windle, a former town council member of Morrisville, NC, abruptly resigned his position this week, saying he…
After the Islamophobic pastor got dunked on by his ethical son and booted from office for employing operatives that i…
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