Video: Gen Z leader in NC says her peers are exhausted, but not checked out
Cardinal & Pine talks with Hannah Preston of Influence NC about Gen Z and politics.
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Video: Protesters removed from NC legislature over GOP-backed gerrymandering
Protesters chanted “Racist maps make racist reps” outside a NC legislative meeting ahead of Republicans' vote to gerrymander the state's Congressional maps again.
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Billy Ball Explains NC: PFAS and why some NC politicians might be making you sicker
In a new "Billy Ball Explains NC," we take a look at PFAS—aka "forever chemicals—their spread across North Carolina, and their connection to the 2026 US Senate race.
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Video: UNC student speaks out against GOP-backed gerrymandering in North Carolina
A UNC student laid into North Carolina lawmakers as they prepared to gerrymander the state's voting maps for President Trump.
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2025
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Civics 101: Fascism and why we need to know what that means in NC
We're talking fascism, autocracy, and authoritarianism in the second part of "Let's Get Civic-al," Cardinal & Pine's crash course on civics in NC.
Oct
2025
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Video: NC lawmaker gives 18-minute speech condemning gerrymandering
The 18-minute speech condemning gerrymandering that NC Republicans didn't want you to hear.
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Video: Weed, gerrymandering, and political corruption — ‘Billy Ball Explains NC’ is back ✊🏻
In North Carolina, weed’s illegal, gerrymandering’s not — and politicians are rigging the rules to stay in power. We're going to break it down it every week at "Billy Ball Explains NC."
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Video: Trump attempt to intimidate ‘No Kings’ protesters didn’t work in North Carolina
President Trump called the No Kings protesters nothing but criminals and people who hate America. Cardinal & Pine’s political correspondent Michael McElroy walks though a North Carolina protest to see if that is true.
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Video: Influence NC founder says Gen Z is learning resistance the hard way in North Carolina
For Hannah Preston, founder of Influence NC, a nonpartisan organization run "by Gen Z for Gen Z," resistance isn't just protest—it's survival.
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Video: Republican gerrymandering is the real ‘DEI’, North Carolina Democrat says
A top Democrat in North Carolina has sharp words for the latest round of Republican gerrymandering in the state.
Video: How to legally and safely film Border Patrol agents
| November 26, 2025
Yes, you can film Border Patrol raids. No you can’t disrupt them. NC Rep. Phil Rubin, a Wake County Democrat and former federal prosecutor, told Cardinal & Pine what people need to know about legally filming an encounter with federal agents.
Billy Ball Explains NC: The path to universal healthcare in the US
| November 25, 2025
Let's demystify the boogeyman—the single payer option for healthcare and universal healthcare. This is what keeps some conservatives up at night.
Video: Woman calls religious centers across the U.S. for help buying baby formula
| November 25, 2025
A woman runs an ongoing social experiment — calling religious centers across the U.S. to see who will help a mom and baby in need of baby formula.
Video: Talking to your neurodivergent child about their diagnosis
| November 25, 2025
Jennie Ventures takes a hike to Midnight Hole in NC and explains the ins and outs of talking to your neurodivergent child about their diagnosis.
Billy Ball Explains NC: What Democrats’ domination of the 2025 elections tells us — and what it doesn’t.
| November 21, 2025
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What Democrats' domination of the 2025 elections tells us. "Billy Ball Explains NC" premieres Wednesdays on YouTube. Make sure you're following Cardinal & Pine so you won’t miss an episode!