Right-Wing Attacks
After a decade-long fight, North Carolina expanded Medicaid access in 2023. Expanding the federal health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans took extensive research, advocacy, and rallying. We were the 40th state to achieve expansion, but among the first to do it in the South. We did it with bipartisan support, and now 630,000 North Carolinians have health insurance coverage that they wouldn’t have had before.
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Elon Musk has gone full “demon mode.” Elon’s biographer, Walter Isaacson, once explained how Musk’s inner circle coined the term to describe the manic energy that he radiates while reshaping an organization. He grows angry, channeling that anger into his work. He lives on the floors of his factories, stays up all night, implements mass…
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The first week of Trump’s second term has been a storm of absurd statements and dangerous policies. We’ll highlight some of the most significant actions Trump took this week, and the impact they could have on North Carolina moving forward. Attempting to Restrict Birthright Citizenship Hours after swearing to protect the Constitution, Trump attempted to…
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What Jefferson Griffin and the state GOP are now doing is an attempt to disqualify 60,000 eligible voters and overturn the results of a legitimate election. When state Republicans lose elections they seek to disenfranchise voters instead of accepting the results.
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The NC House is expected to vote on the SB382 veto override next week. Republicans need all members – including three who sided with Democrats – to vote for the override, otherwise it will fail.
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North Carolina Republicans are having trouble accepting that voters took away their supermajority and also rejected their MAGA Council of State candidates, so now they are using a bill for desperately needed Helene relief funding to change laws to entrench their power before they lose it.
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This amendment intentionally creates division across communities, casts doubt on the integrity of our elections, and foments anti-immigration hate and racism.
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The rumors and conspiracy theories that are being spread on social media are actively hurting Helene response efforts in WNC and will have real-life consequences for people who buy into them.
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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.
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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.
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