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Democracy North Carolina’s Executive Director Bob Hall periodically posts commentary and links of interest about one of our core issue areas. Review his posts below or click here to automatically subscribe to our Link-of-The-Day feed via email and other options.

Tell Gov. Cooper: Veto the Partisan Judges Bill

This week, NC lawmakers approved House Bill 100 – legislation that would make elections for trial court judges partisan. With no one to stop them, legislative leaders have already turned our state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals races into million-dollar partisan elections, making judges worry about how their decisions will sit with wealthy special [...]

By | 2017-03-19T10:01:21-04:00 March 8th, 2017|Judicial Elections, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics, Tales From The Frontline, Voting Rights|0 Comments
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DATA HIGHLIGHT: Beer Money Buys Protection from Competition

On March 4, 2017, The Charlotte Observer published an unusual story about NC legislative leaders stifling competition, contrary to their call to liberate business from government regulation. Craft brewers in cities across the state want to expand production, but a state law requires them to market their product through established beer distributors if they produce [...]

By | 2017-03-08T10:26:16-05:00 March 6th, 2017|Home Slider, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics|0 Comments
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GET IN FORMATION: Democracy Summer

Democracy Summer is an innovative internship program that exposes young leaders to new ideas and political movements, teaching them how to organize people around a shared vision for a better democracy in our state. The program also equips young people with lifelong skills that they can use to work for positive social change in their [...]

By | 2017-03-19T10:00:33-04:00 February 24th, 2017|Link-of-the-Day, Take Action Now!, Tales From The Frontline|0 Comments
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Democracy NC Applauds Actions By Governor, Attorney General to Protect Voting Rights

Following weeks of calls and emails from constituents, today Governor Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein took steps to withdraw the state’s petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court of State of North Carolina v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, the state's strict voting law overturned by the [...]

By | 2017-02-21T15:39:02-05:00 February 21st, 2017|Home Slider, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Tales From The Frontline, Voting Rights|0 Comments
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Become a Digital Democracy Defender (#3D)

Democracy NC's Digital Democracy Defenders (or #3D) is our online team that amplifies our most important messages on social media by helping us say it together. Sign up now for updates on how to spread the Democracy North Carolina word where you already are — on social media — and help build a political system [...]

By | 2017-02-15T11:51:15-05:00 February 15th, 2017|Home Slider, Link-of-the-Day, Take Action Now!, Tales From The Frontline|0 Comments
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ACT: Tell Cooper & Stein to Take a Simple Step to Strengthen Voting

North Carolina's new Governor and Attorney General could take one simple step to protect voting rights in our state: Gov. Roy Cooper and A.G. Josh Stein could withdraw the State’s official request asking the U.S. Supreme Court to bring back the state’s Monster Voting Law. Take one simple step — contact Cooper and Stein and [...]

By | 2017-02-21T14:17:18-05:00 February 3rd, 2017|Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Take Action Now!, Tales From The Frontline, Voting Rights|0 Comments
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ACT: Sign the Petition to End Illegal Gerrymandering

It's a simple concept: voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. In an effort to make North Carolina's elections fair, reduce political divides, and stop racial gerrymandering (and the endless litigation that follows), Democracy North Carolina joins our coalition partners to support legislation that establishes an independent commission to create voting districts [...]

By | 2017-01-29T19:38:49-05:00 January 29th, 2017|Home Slider, Link-of-the-Day, Redistricting, Take Action Now!, Tales From The Frontline, Voting Rights|0 Comments
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NEXT STEPS: Join Us for the 11th Annual Moral March

Join us for the 11th annual Moral March on Raleigh and HKonJ People's Assembly on February 11, 2017. This annual mass mobilization of the Historic Thousands on Jones St. Coalition brings together justice-loving people from across the state and nation to stand against attacks on the people of North Carolina and continues the fight for [...]

By | 2017-02-15T11:34:00-05:00 January 23rd, 2017|Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Take Action Now!, Tales From The Frontline, Voting Rights|0 Comments
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REQUEST A SCREENING: “Democracy For Sale”

North Carolina — perhaps more than any other state in the Union — has been transformed by the new and growing tidal wave of political spending. Zach Galifianakis, the comic star of “The Hangover” movies, travels back to his home state to investigate how North Carolina has become a bellwether for how the money of [...]

By | 2017-02-15T11:49:49-05:00 January 22nd, 2017|Home Slider, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Tales From The Frontline, Voter-Owned Elections, Voting Rights|0 Comments
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