Democracy
Maya Angelou told us, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” In Mark Robinson’s case, the hateful person he’s been showing us since he came onto the political scene in 2018 was only a part of the hateful person he actually is.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
On Wednesday, House Republicans overrode three of Gov. Cooper’s vetoes. On Thursday, the Senate voted to override those same bills, meaning that they are now the law in North Carolina.
“Mark Robinson’s history of racist, homophobic, and bigoted comments show that he is unfit to lead in North Carolina,” said Martin Luther King III. “[W]e want to be clear: My father would not support Mark Robinson, and Mark Robinson is nothing like my father.”
“Our teachers deserve our respect and appreciation. Mark Robinson calls them ‘wicked people’ and ‘demons.’ He just wants to fight job-killing culture wars,” said a spokesperson for AG Josh Stein’s campaign.