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Several Mark Robinson campaign staffers quit as fallout over online posts continues

The CNN report on Thursday unearthed past posts it said Robinson left on a porn site’s message boards in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI;" said he enjoyed transgender pornography; said in 2012 he preferred Hitler to then-President Barack Obama; and slammed the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as “worse than a maggot.”

FILE - North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Asheville, N.C., Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos

One centerpiece of that program is dozens of never-before-published videos created for Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy. The vast majority of these videos — 23 in all, totaling more than 14 hours of content — were provided to ProPublica and Documented by a person who had access to them.

Kristen Eichamer, center, talks to fairgoers in the Project 2025 tent at the Iowa State Fair, Aug. 14, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump. The Project 2025 effort is being led by the Heritage Foundation think tank. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, speaks at the campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 27, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

All the racist, hateful things said at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden

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The rally bore glaring similarities to a Nazi rally held at an earlier iteration of Madison Square Garden in 1939. “My reaction is that it was a combination of 1933 Germany, 1939 Madison Square Garden last night,” former Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci said on Monday.
Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday , Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Examining Dan Bishop’s ties to far-right extremists, conspiracy theorists, and Jan. 6 rioters

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Bishop has ties to groups and individuals who’ve spread racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Muslim conspiracy theories; denounced the separation of church and state; gotten into online arguments with the Auschwitz Memorial; and tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
RIGHTWING EXTREMISM - Cardinal & Pine

‘This is war.’ Michele Morrow suggests violence may be necessary  if Trump loses in November

Michele Morrow, the Republican candidate to lead North Carolina's public schools, wrote in a recent message to fellow Republicans that “we either willingly fight now, or we will be forced to fight on Nov 6th," the day after Election Day. “This is war, ladies and gentlemen," she wrote.
RIGHTWING EXTREMISM - Cardinal & Pine

NC man is arrested for threatening FEMA officials after Trump spent weeks lying about them

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William Jacob Parsons, 44, of Bostic, N.C., was arrested on Saturday armed with an assault rifle and a handgun soon after being overheard threatening to hurt FEMA officials. Trump has frequently accused federal officials of conspiracies tied to Helene.
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Opinion: How Trump caused a veteran and Republican to switch political parties

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An Army veteran who once voted for John McCain says that the Republican Party's continued embrace of President Donald Trump’s "corrupt reality TV fantasy/nightmare, has me ready to vote for Democrats for as long as it takes to defeat the MAGA movement."
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‘Truly dangerous narrative’: Lies about NC’s Helene response cause a second wave of harm

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Donald Trump, Mark Robinson and others have been spreading lies about the state and federal response to Hurricane Helene, This kind of misinformation can hurt efforts to help those who need it.