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We fight for a better, freer North Carolina that works for everyone. The future is a policy choice. YIMBY, esse quam videri, go Canes. 🏔
Jun 19, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Former GOP candidate @ScottRLassiter has accused Republican @NCHouseSpeaker Tim Moore of carrying on an adulterous relationship with his wife for 3+ years, naming him in a legal complaint.

This thing is... detailed. Yikes.
dailyhaymaker.com/complaint-spea… #ncpol ... wait, what? Image
Apr 30, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
It's difficult to discern which of #ncpol's Republican echo chamber have convinced themselves of such an eye-poppingly uninformed view like Frank's here, and which are simply repeating it due to partisan solidarity. Nevertheless, it crosses into the territory of fantasyland. What they never tell you (or perhaps don't even know) about this Democratic-drawn map was that it was highly competitive.

It was a 50/50 map, often 6D/7R. The party that won a majority of votes won the majority of Congressional seats.
#ncpol
Apr 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The big difference between going to a movie or buying a beer (which require showing ID) and voting is that the latter is protected by the United States Constitution.

Citizens of the United States have the right to vote, as enshrined in the 14th Amendment. No qualifiers. Many of the same people who believe that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms with no qualifiers whatsoever (which ignores the entire first part of that amendment) curiously believe that the right to vote IS conditional.

Partisanship, hell of a drug, etc.
Mar 6, 2023 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
[NEW] The Political Geography of North Carolina

In a democracy, you have to go where the voters are. But what does that mean for leaders (and their challengers) in #ncpol?

To find out, you have to understand a few things about NC's "political geography."
carolinaforward.org/blog/political… North Carolina's voters are highly clustered in just a handful of metro areas.

For example: half of all voters in North Carolina live in just 12 of our 100 counties (highlighted). A THIRD of voters live in just the counties highlighted in blue.
carolinaforward.org/blog/political… #ncpol
Feb 27, 2023 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
Breaking: Based on evidence from Carolina Forward, the @NCSBE has launched formal investigations into two major #ncpol Republican politicians: @ECforNC and @RepMarkWalker.

Evidence shows major campaign finance violations by both in the 2022 cycle.
carolinaforward.org/blog/investiga… In his campaign, far-right fundamentalist @ECforNC partnered with the Christian nationalist org @ADFLegal, which provided him with personal media training to obscure his radical prohibitionist position on abortion. Sykes failed to report it - oops?
carolinaforward.org/blog/investiga… #ncpol
Feb 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
New survey data from @PRRIpoll shows how deeply infected the Republican Party has become with "Christian nationalist" ideology - the belief that America is rightfully a Christian "dominion" and that other faiths should be second-class citizens.
prri.org/research/a-chr… Adherents of Christian nationalist ideology are significantly more likely to hold anti-Black racist views.

Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of Christian nationalists are white, elderly, and unlikely to hold a college degree.
prri.org/research/a-chr…
Feb 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is a popular slogan on the Right. The problem? All the data says the opposite.

U-Chicago: "Total foot traffic fell by 60 percentage points [at the outset of COVID], but legal restrictions explain only around 7 percentage points of this decline."
bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/upl… Let's do more.

Here are researchers from the University of Washington who found that states "reopening" had variable and relatively little impact on consumer spending, because most people were choosing to lay low, because they were concerned about COVID.
arxiv.org/pdf/2012.08028…
Feb 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
[NEW] The Housing Bill North Carolina Needs

North Carolina has a worsening housing crisis that is hurting our urban, rural, and suburban areas and driving up the cost of living. Could our state lawmakers be ready to do something about it?

carolinaforward.org/blog/housing-b… #ncpol NC's housing supply has never recovered since the 2008 Great Recession. We are not building nearly enough housing stock to meet demand, leading to an increase in price.

Graph credit: @PolicyWithPaige
carolinaforward.org/blog/housing-b… #ncpol Image
Aug 17, 2022 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
NEW - Mark Martin, the Republican former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, was one of the core plotters of Trump's attempted coup. Now, @highpointu wants to make him dean of their new law school.

That isn't right.

Tell Mark No: tellmarkno.com #ncpol Mark Martin was an early and eager participant in the plot to overthrow the 2020 election and extralegally install Trump as president.

His efforts were outrageous, well-documented, and demonstrated pure contempt for the Constitution.

Tell Mark No: tellmarkno.com #ncpol
Jul 28, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The abortion bans that anti-choice Republican politicians are pushing (and in many places passing) in many states, including #ncpol, directly threaten access not just to reproductive health services - but also to basic birth control.

Here are just a few examples. In Idaho: “IUDs, I’m not for certain yet on where I would be on that particular issue." - Republican House State Affairs Chairman Brent Crane

Another state where Rs have passed a total ban.
idahostatesman.com/news/politics-…
Jul 27, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Vocal Charlotte city council Republican @FinTechInnov8r spent over a year recruiting this GOP slate, all of them have gotten crushed. Bokhari's race for the D6 seat is itself razor-thin: he's behind @hand4CLTdist6 by just 87 votes. #cltcc That's it! @FinTechInnov8r has hung on (barely) to his District 6 seat on the #cltcc, by just 377 votes.

Truly a remarkable feat of political survivorship. Bokhari won his 2019 race by ~3300 votes.

The rest of the Charlotte GOP slate crashes and burns.
Jun 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
It looks like the vendor the Green Party paid to collect signatures for its petition to get on NC's US Senate ballot, First Choice Consulting, is the same one implicated in the massive Republican signature forgery scandal unfolding in Michigan.
bridgemi.com/michigan-gover… #ncpol Basically, First Choice Consulting, which has a history of fraud, collected tens of thousands of fraudulent signatures for GOP candidates running for governor in Michigan. They got caught, and now 5 of those candidates have been disqualified.
axios.com/local/detroit/… #ncpol
Jun 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is a really powerful ad. #ncpol Note: one key difference between the coalitions on the left vs. right is that many activists on the right have really internalized message discipline.

They know that "we're going to overrule women's control over their bodies" is very unpopular. So they just don't say that.