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Carolina Forward

ForwardCarolina

The real nightmare scenario for Republicans in North Carolina: - Democrats win control of the #NCGA w/Gov. Cooper - immediately install an independent redistricting commission into law (and possibly

1/6 On this date in 1789, North Carolina ratified the U.S. Constitution and joined the reconstituted American union as the 12th state. During the ratification debates of 1788, NC was

Modified recommendations from #ncsbe Director Karen Brisson Bell for #ncga session starting this week. She says some needed ASAP to apply to June 23 primaries in 18 counties and the

Dr. James G. Gilmore

This is significant for two reasons:First: The handful of trump groupies at the "Yay #COVID19!" rally on Tuesday represent a small minority, and didn't deserve anywhere near the wall-to-wall press

Carolina Forward

ForwardCarolina

You might've seen a good deal of outraged right-wing bloviating about "critical race theory" lately. So what *is* critical race theory, actually?Here's a very brief breakdown of how to understand

Senator Phil Berger

Thread on A Tale of Two Cases…You don’t change the rules after the game has started. As we’re seeing, changing the rules after kickoff is one problem with @NCSBE’s secret

Old North State Politics

Data thread on today's North Carolina accepted absentee ballot #s, through 10-18:Total Ballots: 1,526,968Absentee OneStop (In-Person): 918,224Absentee by mail: 608,744Blog post about these dynamics is at http://www.oldnorthstatepolitics

2020 is the year to put a bi-partisan constitutional amendment on the #ncpol March primary ballot eliminating the Sup. of Public Instruction and the State School Board.An executive agency lead

Here is the lawsuit filed by the RNC, citizens, the @NCGOP and two congressman against the @NCSBE:https://drive.google.com/file/d/19nSAE0Sa-ofP58GyflLlGP6U9hQ4Qs2R/view?usp=sharing#NCpol Here is the "affidavit" that voters would g

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Bless the Council of State, they are trying their damnedest to get clarity on the many, many, confusing vagaries with the phase 2 restrictions and inconsistencies #ncpol #ncga #ncgov https://twitter.com/dawnbvaughan/status/12638178504033730

Old North State Politics

Data thread on today's North Carolina accepted absentee ballot #s, through 10-17:Total: 1,433,772Absentee OneStop (In-Person): 828,452Absentee by mail: 605,321By party registration within each vote method & total#ncpol #ncvotes To g

Old North State Politics

1/Today's (8-13) report on NC's requests for absentee by mail (ABM) ballots:Total requests among reporting 97 (out of 100) counties: 195,248Up 12,122 from yesterdayThis same day in 2016's requests: 24,5352020

Cardinal & Pine

CardinalAndPine

A thread on how #covidrelief in @JoeBiden 's #americanrescueplan worked to counter generations of discrimination against Black-owned farms. #ncpol #northcarolina #covid19 #BlackLivesMatter Last month the @USDA published a blog

Old North State Politics

Data on North Carolina's accepted absentee ballots, through 10-25:Total Ballots: 3,171,202NC has now exceed *ALL* of 2016's absentee ballots cast (3,102,093)Absentee OneStop (In-Person): 2,393,047Absentee by mail: 778,155#ncpol #ncv

Old North State Politics

August 28's data thread of requests for NC absentee by mail (ABM) ballots488,550 requests from 98/100 countiesAn increase of 27,656 in processed requests since yesterday's reportCurrently, NC is nearly 15X

Justin Parmenter

JustinParmenter

This so called Academic Transparency bill is really about de-professionalizing teaching and sidelining educators as leaders in their own classrooms. And the vast majority of the public trusts teachers and