A new population makes up a disproportionate percentage of first-time gun owners: people of color, especially women.
Donald Trump
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Op-Ed: In This Year’s Midterm Election, Democracy Won
Americans did their part to preserve democracy by turning out to vote; it’s time for the U.S. Justice Department to do its job and prosecute Donald Trump.
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Trump-Aligned Legislators in NC Pose Danger to Democracy, Report Says
The report isolated three primary threats in North Carolina: harassment of local elections officials, lawsuits, and voter suppression efforts.
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With Voting By Mail Underway, Beasley-Budd Race Remains Neck and Neck
Budd, who avoided debates during an extended and contentious GOP primary, agreed to go toe-to-toe with Beasley, who faced nominal opposition and no debates in the Democratic primary, on October 7.
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Latest Polling Finds Candidate “Favorability” Ratings Influencing NC’s U.S. Senate Race
With the start of early voting just seven weeks away, Democrat Cheri Beasley continues to run stronger than pundits had projected.
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Beasley vs. Budd: With 12 Weeks to Go, Dem. Senate Candidate Finds Momentum
Pivotal contest that some had already conceded to the GOP is shaping up to be closer than expected.
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Op-Ed: Oath Keepers Chief Stewart Rhodes’s Son Explains Why He Left “Daddy Trump”—and the Far Right Cult
Implicit in everything was the sense that even the GOP, with its authoritarian tendencies and bloodthirsty enthusiasm for the global war on terror, was inherently more closely aligned with ‘us’ enlightened souls than anyone on the left.
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Durham Council Member Rescinded Vote for Insurrectionist to Join Human Relations Commission
“I absolutely want Durham residents to know that I am willing to welcome all different perspectives and diverse opinions, and believe they all work for a better good. I do believe working from a common set of values is necessary to move forward.”
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Sunday Reading: When the Stealth Slate Wins the School Board
The pervasiveness of the GOP’s national movement to overtake school boards—and the disturbing rhetoric that conservative board members push once seated—is laid out in an investigative ProPublica piece out this week from reporter Nicole Carr.
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Op-Ed: Why the January 6 Committee Hearings Matter for North Carolina
The committee’s hearings matter for North Carolina because of what they might prevent. Our state has largely avoided the wave of election subversion legislation that has swept through other states.