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Progress NC Action released the following statement on Friday in response to bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE) that would protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller while he leads an investigation into the Trump campaign’s dealings with Russia: “After Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, we urged North Carolina’s senators to support an…
Read MoreProgress NC Action released the following statement on Thursday regarding the special legislative session beginning today: “This Legislature is unconstitutional, illegitimate and has engaged in a multi-year war on democracy,” said Gerrick Brenner, executive director of Progress NC Action. “Their war started with unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, then moved to unconstitutional schemes to make it harder…
Read MoreThe legislature returns for a special session Thursday, August 3, and their main concern should be redrawing unconstitutional racially gerrymandered legislative districts. But they aren’t even planning to address the recent ruling that they have one month left to redraw these districts. Instead, their plan is to focus on overriding Gov. Cooper’s vetoes. We need…
Read MoreProgress NC Action released the following statement on Tuesday in response to a three-judge panel’s ruling ordering the General Assembly to draw new maps by the end of August: “Legislative Republicans have run out of excuses for their racially-gerrymandered districts which were always designed to jam as many African-American voters as possible into as few…
Read MoreFollowing the Senate’s failed “skinny repeal” of the ACA, North Carolina Republican Senators and Representatives are speaking out. They are willing to do anything to repeal the ACA, despite the 16 million Americans who would have lost their health care had the “skinny repeal” passed. Both North Carolina Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr have…
Read MoreProgress NC Action released the following statement on Friday in response to Senate Republicans’ failure to pass the so-called “Skinny Repeal” version of Trumpcare, which would have eliminated health coverage for 16 million Americans and caused a 20% increase in premiums: “Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr have made a lot of noise about being…
Read MoreThe NCGOP racially gerrymandered North Carolina’s legislative districts and following a unanimous United States Supreme Court decision that they were unconstitutional, the NCGOP has yet to redraw the maps. This means that North Carolinians are still being represented in the General Assembly by unconstitutionally elected leaders. As a result of the NCGOP’s racial gerrymandering, legislators…
Read MoreNearly two months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Republican lawmakers unconstitutionally gerrymandered dozens of legislative districts based on race, the General Assembly still hasn’t drawn new maps. In fact, a three-judge panel will meet on Thursday to decide whether to force lawmakers into action. The General Assembly is in no rush to redraw…
Read MoreAfter the Senate’s health care bill didn’t pass, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he will vote for a full repeal of the ACA. Following this breakthrough, Trump tweeted that he will just let the ACA fail. But what they don’t acknowledge is that the ACA is not failing. The GOP claims the ACA is…
Read MoreAfter the Senate’s latest health care plan failed, Trump and the GOP are now rooting for a full repeal of the ACA as soon as next week. Trump has said he wants to repeal the ACA as quickly as possible and the Senate shouldn’t go into their August recess without putting a repeal bill on…
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