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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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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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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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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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General Assembly Republicans Aim to Rig the System for Control

In a deceitful display of raw power, Republican leaders of the NC General Assembly changed from smiling helpers of hurricane victims to greedy manipulators determined to expand their power, even as the federal courts said their legislative districts (and election) were illegitimate. Bills introduced on December 14 use a combination sledge hammer and surgical knife [...]

By | 2017-01-27T08:58:31-05:00 December 15th, 2016|Ethics, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Tales From The Frontline, Voting Rights|0 Comments
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RESEARCH: McCrory Election Protests Targeted Innocent People

A new analysis reveals that nearly half of the people that the Pat McCrory campaign and its allies have accused of illegally voting as felons are not serving a felony sentence. “It’s incredibly irresponsible for Gov. McCrory to allow these poorly researched accusations against voters to continue,” said Bob Hall, executive director of Democracy North [...]

By | 2021-10-26T11:50:02-04:00 December 5th, 2016|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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