Patrick Zarcone, Author at Progress NC Action

Election season is just around the corner – don’t miss your chance to help stop the Project 2025 agenda

By Patrick Zarcone / September 6, 2024 / Comments Off

Project 2025, the right wing’s blueprint for creating an authoritarian government that will roll back decades of social progress, will affect everything from North Carolinians’ taxes, health care, reproductive rights, education and beyond.

Advocates, legislators, parents hold press event to highlight Michele Morrow and Mark Robinson’s extreme anti-public education views

By Patrick Zarcone / August 30, 2024 / Comments Off

The message is clear: We must stop radical Republicans like Mark Robinson and Michele Morrow from dragging our schools down and hurting our children’s future. We will have that opportunity this fall.

Mark Robinson and Michele Morrow express support for rejecting $1.5B+ in education funding, abolishing US Department of Education

By Patrick Zarcone / August 23, 2024 / Comments Off

Republican gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and state superintendent hopeful Michele Morrow are both facing criticism after they voiced support for an idea that would take more than $1.5 billion out of the state’s education coffers.

Race for NC Superintendent pits the experienced, qualified Mo Green against far-right insurrectionist Michele Morrow

By Patrick Zarcone / August 16, 2024 / Comments Off

State public schools superintendent candidate Michele Morrow, an anti-public school MAGA candidate from Cary who attended the Jan. 6 insurrection, made headlines again this past week after CNN uncovered a video of her calling for Donald Trump to put “the Constitution to the side” and use the military to stay in power following the Capitol riot.

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Tries to Reinvent His Abortion Position in Disingenuous New Ad

By Patrick Zarcone / August 9, 2024 / Comments Off

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson released an ad last week featuring him and his wife, Yolanda Hill Robinson, talking about their decision to get an abortion in 1989 and how difficult a decision it was. The Robinsons, just like everyone else in this nation, should have access to safe, legal abortion care. Despite Robinson’s claim in…

President Joe Biden calls for 3 ‘bold reforms to restore trust and accountability’ to the Supreme Court, including getting rid of presidential immunity

By Patrick Zarcone / August 2, 2024 / Comments Off

President Biden wrote that America “was founded on a simple yet profound principle: No one is above the law. Not the president of the United States. Not a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. No one.”

Thank you, President Joe Biden – and welcome to the race, Vice President Kamala Harris

By Patrick Zarcone / July 26, 2024 / Comments Off

The Biden-Harris administration has made great progress in the last three and a half years, Now Vice President Harris is ready to continue that leadership and will be a fierce defender of our rights and freedoms.

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson changes campaign website to remove references to abortion, other top issues

By Patrick Zarcone / July 19, 2024 / Comments Off

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has seemingly relaunched his campaign website and, in the process, removed all references to some of his top issues like abortion, guns, voter ID and immigration.

‘Project 2025’ is the right wing’s dream scenario – and it’s shockingly close to becoming a reality

By Patrick Zarcone / July 12, 2024 / Comments Off

Project 2025 is a right-wing Christian Nationalist U.S. government takeover plan put together by Donald Trump’s MAGA loyalists – and it’s finally starting to get the attention it deserves.

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson visits NC church, tells congregation that his political opponents ‘need killing’

By Patrick Zarcone / July 12, 2024 / Comments Off

The view that “leftists” have an outsized amount of power to target, attack and persecute conservatives is commonly expressed among the MAGA crowd as a way to justify right-wing political violence.