Eleanore Wood
Two Paths for the Future of Our Health Care As we move into 2026, we’re facing a fork in the road on the future of health care. Costs are set to skyrocket, and Democrats and Republicans are taking vastly different approaches to addressing the looming crisis. Let’s take a look at the two paths ahead…
Read MoreThe opening days of Trump 2.0 have been a disorienting flood of executive actions and memos. Trump set a record (by far) among all US presidents for signing 38 executive orders in less than two weeks.
Read MoreGov. Josh Stein didn’t let an incoming winter storm stop him from making his inaugural speech to tell North Carolinians about his vision for the state’s future earlier this month. The wintry weather canceled most of the inaugural festivities, forcing Stein to speak inside the old state Capitol building in downtown Raleigh instead of outside…
Read More“Permitting post-election litigation that seeks to rewrite our state’s election rules — and, as a result, remove the right to vote in an election from people who already lawfully voted under the existing rules — invites incredible mischief,” Republican Justice Richard Dietz wrote.
Read MoreThe full process, including multiple recounts, has run its course and there is now just one thing left for Jefferson Griffin to do: accept the results and concede the race.
Read MoreWhat Jefferson Griffin and the state GOP are now doing is an attempt to disqualify 60,000 eligible voters and overturn the results of a legitimate election. When state Republicans lose elections they seek to disenfranchise voters instead of accepting the results.
Read MoreThe NC House is expected to vote on the SB382 veto override next week. Republicans need all members – including three who sided with Democrats – to vote for the override, otherwise it will fail.
Read MoreNorth Carolina Republicans are having trouble accepting that voters took away their supermajority and also rejected their MAGA Council of State candidates, so now they are using a bill for desperately needed Helene relief funding to change laws to entrench their power before they lose it.
Read MoreLet’s make things clear: The voters gave more votes to Allison Riggs than Jefferson Griffin, and we will protect and defend these voters’ right to participate in our democracy.
Read MoreThe path to Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s crushing gubernatorial defeat began more than a year and a half before the election, back in April 2023, when Progress NC Action and multiple other statewide progressive organizations joined forces to create the Coalition Against Robinson’s Extremism (CARE).
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