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2024 ELECTIONS
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Your easy, breezy guide to voting on Election Day in North Carolina
We recommend voting early because it’s easy and accessible. But if you want to tap into the Election Day excitement, here’s what you need to know in North Carolina.
Aug
2024
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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.
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2024
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Michele Morrow, GOP candidate to lead NC public schools, once called for security cameras in student bathrooms
Michele Morrow, who has called for the execution of Democrats, included the measure in a post about stopping school shootings. She recently walked back the suggestion.
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2024
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JD Vance says he wants to help families, but missed vote to expand child tax credit
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance proposed more than doubling the federal child tax credit to $5,000 over the weekend, but recently missed the chance to vote for an expanded credit—an effort his fellow Senate Republicans blocked.
Aug
2024
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Early voting in North Carolina: Your 2024 guide to when, where, and how
The 2024 presidential election is just around the corner, and if you’re looking to beat the lines and get your vote in early, here’s everything you need to know.
Aug
2024
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Josh Stein’s goal for North Carolina? ‘Make this a great state for everyone.’
Stein sat on his front porch with Cardinal & Pine to lay out his priorities as he runs for governor of a state with challenges as real as its charms. In his bid to move from North Carolina’s attorney general to its governor, Josh Stein has traveled the state...
Aug
2024
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Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, being turned away from ERs despite federal law
Even as the Biden administration publicly warned hospitals to treat pregnant patients in emergencies, facilities continue to violate the federal law. The issue became a focus for the administration following reports of women being improperly treated in emergency rooms after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion more than two years ago.
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2024
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Mail-in voting made simple: What NC voters need to know
Voting by mail in North Carolina is easy, but making sure your vote counts requires knowing the rules. Here’s a rundown of what you need to know, with answers to some of the most common questions.
Aug
2024
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Opinion: As a rural Ohioan, I see J.D. Vance for who he is
Vance’s career has been built on a phony image of him as a product of and de facto spokesperson for poor, rural Appalachians, despite the fact that he was raised in a middle-class family in Middletown, Ohio – a city of about 50,000 people situated between Cincinnati and Dayton.
Four of the Republican judges in the Jefferson Griffin case were his de facto running mates in a previous election
| March 24, 2025
The state court judges will soon decide whether to overrule the will of the voters and hand Griffin an election he lost. Social media posts from 2020 show the judges praising Griffin and feature smiling photos of themselves standing next to him.
Republicans tried to cancel their votes in the NC Supreme Court race. So voters spoke out with a disco party.
| March 3, 2025
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Judge Jefferson Griffin lost his race but is still trying to toss out 65,000 votes. At ‘Disenfranchised Disco’ on Friday night, North Carolinians proved that protecting democracy requires mobilization—both on and off the dance floor.
Jefferson Griffin’s attempt to throw out 65,000 votes finally gets a court hearing on the merits
| February 7, 2025
There have been several previous rulings in separate courts, both state and federal, but those dealt with procedural issues. On Friday, a state judge will hear the first arguments about the fundamental questions at hand.
NC Supreme Court stalls Jefferson Griffin’s effort to overturn his election loss, but hints at a long road ahead
| January 23, 2025
The court ruled that Griffin improperly attempted to bypass a lower court when he petitioned the issue directly to them, and ordered the case sent to the Wake County Superior Court, which, by law, should have gotten first crack. And now, a case that has dragged well into the new year has no end in sight.
The billionaires surrounding Donald Trump at his inauguration suggest who will most benefit from his second term
| January 20, 2025
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to immediately end inflation and to make gas, food, and healthcare more affordable for the middle class, but the image of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk standing front and center during the inauguration suggested the middle class might not be on his priority list.