Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
When I blogged last week that North Carolina Republicans are guilty of “the most extreme and egregious gerrymandering in American political history,” they responded: Democrats did it, too. No, they didn’t. Not like this. Democrats last drew maps after the 2000 census. The elections that followed were close, so close that one legislative session had…
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Hamas slaughtered Israelis, anger shot across the internet – Biden said he ‘had Israel’s back.’ Israel bombed Gaza, civilians died, Biden said he wanted to give Gaza $100 million. Nursing an old grievance, after Hamas attacked Israel Trump mocked Netanyahu, called Hezbollah ‘very smart’ – that backfired. About facing Trump said he stood 100% with…
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Cameras rolled, the second Republican debate started, a surprising thing happened: Fox News played a video of Oliver Anthony singing, “These rich men north of Richmond, Lord knows they all just wanna have total control…” Out to get MAGA Republican viewers to increase ratings Fox News played Anthony singing about corrupt politicians. After dropping out…
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Donald Trump’s Big Lie is the father of today’s Republican gerrymandering in North Carolina. It’s the same authoritarian, democracy-denying DNA. Duke professor Jonathan Mattingly, who analyzed the Republicans’ new redistricting plan here, concluded, “The maps the legislature have proposed essentially negate the need to have elections for the U.S. House of Representatives.” Trump and MAGA…
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Attacking a court clerk in his New York trial, Trump put a post on Truth Social and on his campaign website. The judge, angry, ordered him to take it down. Trump nodded. But left the post on his campaign website. The judge slapped him with a $5000 fine. It’s ironic. Trump likes to say eighty-year-old…
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Starting out Ron DeSantis was Trump’s strongest opponent – Trump punched him, punched him again, DeSantis tumbled in polls. DeSantis’ Super PAC did an ad saying: Trump’s mean. But who doesn’t know Trump’s got a mean streak? Telling people what they already knew didn’t work. Then the unexpected happened: Hamas slaughtered Israelis; Trump, fuming over…
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North Carolina Republicans have given Democrats our crowning issue for 2024: their cynical, corrupt, hyper-partisan gerrymandering of congressional and legislative districts. They’ve packed and cracked and sliced and diced a 50-50 state – the most closely divided state in the country, where fairly drawn districts produced a 7-7 congressional split – in a blatant effort…
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Mark Robinson’s Republican opponents in the race for governor have raised fundamental questions about his honesty, trustworthiness and fitness for public office. First, State Treasurer Dale Folwell called the lieutenant governor’s much-hyped avowal of solidarity with Israel a “shameful publicity stunt,” adding: “As a person who has shamefully denied the Holocaust and whose history is…
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N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore’s petty vengeance backfired. Moore exiled Rep. Terence Everitt, a Wake County Democrat, to a tiny office in the basement of the Legislative Building. Everitt posted this sign (photo) in his new office: “I asked prosecutors to open an investigation into credible allegations that Speaker Tim Moore used taxpayer money to…
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