Videos
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Video: A mom asked NC Republicans to fund Medicaid. They went home instead.
A NC mom, who has a child with a severe disability, tells her story after state lawmakers left Raleigh without filling a Medicaid shortfall.
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Video: She left the US after 7 months in ICE detention. Here’s why she still wants to come back.
After 7 months in ICE detention, a nursing student from NC talks about wanting to return home.
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Video: Book bans in NC — ‘And Tango Makes Three’
As a former K–5 teacher, a mom, and a Black woman in NC, I know the power of access. Historically, people who look like me were denied the right to read and write. That’s why book bans feel personal.
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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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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.
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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.”
