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Progress 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…

Progress 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…

RALEIGH — Progress NC Action released the following statement on Tuesday in response to the news that Trump spokesperson Kellyanne “Alternative Facts” Conway will be the keynote speaker of the NCGOP’s upcoming state convention: “It’s no surprise that the NCGOP is embracing the politics of deception enough to invite Kellyanne ‘Alternative Facts’ Conway to speak at their convention,”…

RALEIGH — During all the commotion over Thursday’s vote to repeal parts of HB2 (while leaving other parts in place), one conspicuous absence went largely unnoticed: Sen. Chad Barefoot of Wake County, the son-in-law of N.C. Values Coalition director Tami Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald and her anti-LGBT lobbying group were instrumental in pushing Republicans to pass HB2…

Ford proposes an indefinite moratorium on nondiscrimination ordinances, which he opposed in December RALEIGH — Progress NC Action released the following statement in response to Sen. Joel Ford’s new legislation proposing an indefinite moratorium on local nondiscrimination ordinances: “Sen. Ford opposed the Senate’s moratorium proposal in December because it went back on the deal Republican…

Cooper’s education proposal gives all teachers a pay increase, while past budgets have left out the most experienced educators RALEIGH — Even without raising taxes, Gov. Roy Cooper’s newly-released education proposal goes well beyond past budgets by giving a pay raise to ALL teachers in North Carolina. Previous teacher pay plans have included nothing for our most…

As predicted, Republican promises to raise average teacher pay “over $50,000” fall short RALEIGH — Every year, like clockwork, Republican lawmakers make big claims on teacher pay that inevitably fail to materialize — and this year is no different. In 2014, Sen. Phil Berger claimed teachers were getting “the largest pay increase in history.” The claim…

With the news that the NCAA might pull all championship games from North Carolina for the next 6 years, coaches Roy Williams and Mike Krzyzewski have spoken out. They don’t agree on much, but they do agree on at least one thing: HB2 needs to be repealed immediately. The two coaches have made statements about…

$400M wind farm may be shut down weeks before going online thanks to GOP opposition to renewable energy RALEIGH — North Carolina lawmakers, including Sen. Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore, are asking the incoming Trump administration to shut down a $400M wind farm in northeastern North Carolina — even though the facility is…

A procedural vote tied to a larger bill that leaves parts of HB2 in place indefinitely can under NO circumstances be considered a full repeal RALEIGH — After breaking their word by refusing to allow a clean vote on full repeal of HB2, Republican lawmakers are now blaming Democrats for not going along with the…