Many large organizations, including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Attorney General Association, and the Republican State Leadership Committee, failed to submit digital reports for their expenditures in the 2024 election cycle.
Hardline ideological purity tests are the death of a political party. The demand for absolute party loyalty leads only to one of two scenarios: a room full of “yes men” or a very lonely room.
Unlike traditional term limits, leadership term limits would not restrict voters' choices on their representatives, only prevent the stagnation of power.
NC Republican candidates are in a lose-lose situation: condemn Robinson’s alleged actions and alienate base voters who don't believe the story, or don't distance themselves and lose moderate voters.
Publications, particularly those local to NC, lacked the basic level of journalistic scrutiny on the story, not bothering to review statutes or see how other organizations register voters.
Recently, Democrats filed a bill that would make the Republican candidate for superintendent of public instruction ineligible for the office. What happened to "saving democracy"?
Recently, retired North Carolina Supreme Court justice and 2022 redistricting special master Bob Orr filed a lawsuit challenging the redrawn congressional and state legislative maps based on “fairness.” My colleague Dr. Andy Jackson explained how the plaintiffs’ central claim in this lawsuit is just another partisan gerrymandering claim presented under a new name. The case...
Con la presentación oficial para las elecciones de 2024 en Carolina del Norte cerrada, ahora sabemos qué escaños legislativos se disputarán y quién se postula. El desglose completo de las presentaciones de candidatos para la Legislatura y el Congreso de Carolina del Norte se puede encontrar aquí. CARRERAS DEL CONGRESO DE CAROLINA DEL NORTE Los...
With filing for the 2024 elections in North Carolina officially closed, we now know which legislative seats will be contested and who is running. The full breakdown of candidate filings for the North Carolina Legislature and Congress can be found here.
Even if you believe that all is well with voting machines in North Carolina and how the North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) handles election data, our election systems are only as secure as the people running them allow them to be. That is why election observers and other volunteers are vital to ensuring...
With only six weeks till North Carolina’s primary election, legislative and congressional candidates have been working on getting as much attention to their campaign as possible to represent their party this November. While not being North Carolina’s toss-up congressional districts, few races have gotten as much attention as North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District. Much of...
Jim Stirling, research fellow at the Civitas Center for Public Integrity at the John Locke Foundation, discusses Action NC’s noncompliance with state law. Learn more here: “Left-leaning advocacy group still operating in N.C. despite three years of noncompliance.”