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North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis speaking during a Senate hearing.

Opinion: Congress wants you to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy

Just last month, the US House approved plans that would give $70,000 in tax cuts to the richest North Carolinians while raising health care premiums
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‘Veterans are going to die’: Hundreds protest Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts in Raleigh

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The cuts Elon Musk has sought would include VA counselors who answer calls for the veterans crisis hotline. Fewer counselors and longer wait times, one veteran at the rally said, means veterans would be left on their own when they need the most help.
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OPINION: NC-13’s veterans deserve answers from Congressman Brad Knott

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Scott Peoples, a North Carolina Army veteran and veteran rights advocate, has tried to contact his congressman to express his concerns about the mass firings by the Trump Administration and their effects on the VA. He has not gotten an answer.
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Opinion: Jefferson Griffin wants to throw out my vote because he lost. That disqualifies him from serving on the NC Supreme Court.

For Judge Griffin to question the integrity of over 60,000 North Carolinians, and find various ways to try to overturn the will of the people is a sign that he is willing to forgo his judicial responsibilities of being faithful to the law and unswayed by partisan interests.
Mark Robinson

The NC Republican Party stands by Mark Robinson after latest scandal, while some candidates try to distance themselves

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In our follow up to the Mark Robinson “I’m a black NAZI”-porn-site story that CNN reported this week, we'd planned to quote from some of the comments that Robinson allegedly posted on the site’s message board but which CNN said were too graphic to publish. Then we read them. 
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Mark Robinson called himself a ‘black NAZI!,’ said he would ‘buy a few’ slaves if he could, according to new report

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Hours before the CNN story published, reports spread that state Republicans were looking for ways to push Robinson out of the governors race. Robinson, who denied the allegations, rejected any notion that he would drop out.