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President Trump is determined to make sure the ACA fails spectacularly by repeatedly sabotaging it’s infrastructure. By cutting the advertising budget by 90%, shortening the enrollment period by 45 days, and now throwing the whole exchange into chaos by stopping important subsidies that cover low-income patients. Undoubtedly this will raise insurance rates significantly, how much…
Read MoreThe GOP-led General Assembly continues their power grab. The illegitimate legislature already had their legislative districts ruled unconstitutional by a Supreme Court for racially gerrymandering. Then they passed very restrictive voter ID laws. And now what are they doing? The House passed bills in a special session that will take away a voter election for…
Read MoreThe General Assembly is ruthless in their three-pronged war on democracy. First, they racially gerrymandered legislative districts, then they passed stricter voting laws and now they’re trying to gerrymander judicial districts. The Republican-led House voted to cancel a voter election for judges and they voted to gerrymander judicial districts. Following this, Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed…
Read MoreProgress NC Action released the following statement on Tuesday in response to Republican congressmen Ted Budd and Mark Walker joining state lawmakers Jon Hardister, Rick Gunn, and Lt. Gov. Dan Forest to tout Donald Trump’s tax plan which would give huge tax cuts to the wealthy at the expense of working families. “It’s no wonder North Carolina Republicans…
Read MoreThe current state legislature, which has been found to be illegally elected by the US Supreme Court, now wants to draw similarly racially biased maps for our judicial districts. This new judicial redistricting plan is a thinly veiled attempt for Republicans to gain more power. It would eliminate judges in Durham and other counties with significant…
Read MoreOutrageously the current state legislature, which has been found to be illegally elected by the US Supreme Court, now wants to draw similar maps for our judicial districts. This new judicial redistricting plan is a thinly veiled attempt for Republicans to gain more power. If the courts are just as gerrymandered as the legislature Republicans could…
Read MoreIt is true that after adjusting for inflation and enrollment North Carolina classrooms are getting 53% less for classroom supplies than they were 10 years ago. Teachers and families are desperately trying to provide pencils and paper out of their own pockets. Why is the General Assembly treating these items like luxuries? From The Greensboro…
Read MoreLegislators in Raleigh had the chance to prevent Duke Energy from raising their rates to pay for their coal ash mess and they didn’t do it. Families in North Carolina who currently have high levels of toxic hexavalent chromium in their water, and still are drinking bottled water years after it’s discovery, are now being told they…
Read MoreOur current GOP-led legislature continues to cut funding to watchdog agencies protecting our air and water and are lenient on polluters. Legislators in Raleigh had the opportunity to stop Duke Energy from raising their rates to pay for coal ash cleanup and they didn’t do it. Now, unsurprisingly, Duke wants a rate hike that would…
Read MoreProtests at A Preferred Women’s Health Center in Charlotte have been going on for years, especially on weekends. Just two weeks ago, on a Saturday, hundreds of protesters from local churches gathered outside of the clinic screaming and praying and harassing every single person that visited the clinic. In lieu of this, the Charlotte City Council…
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