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2024 primaries are important crossroads for GOP

In recent years, the Republican Party has found itself at a crossroads, torn between traditional conservative values and the rising tide of populism. Nowhere is this conflict more evident than in North Carolina, where the battle for the soul of the GOP has profound implications for both the state and the nation as a whole....

Algenon Cash

Primaries: the ice baths of electoral politics

No one seems to like them: The parties endure them; the voting public suffers them; the cynical resent them; and candidates would wish them over yesterday if assured victory. Yet, they are necessary as an absolutely critical part of the whole electoral process. We’re talking, of course, about primaries. On March 5, 2024, North Carolina...

Jeff Moore

NC officials praise Texas in border battle with Biden

North Carolina’s top officials have expressed their support for the 25 states backing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border fight against the Biden administration.

Brianna Kraemer

State GOP leadership lawsuit ends as plaintiffs drop appeal

Critics have ended their legal battle against the North Carolina Republican Party’s last leadership election. Paperwork filed Friday in Wake County Superior Court indicates that the plaintiffs have withdrawn their appeal in the case.

Judge’s ruling against GOP leadership lawsuit appealed

Three Republicans are appealing a judge’s decision this month to throw out their lawsuit against the state GOP’s last leadership election. The three plaintiffs filed a notice of appeal Thursday.

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State GOP objects to Sept. 5 hearing in leadership lawsuit

The state Republican Party objects to a planned Sept. 5 Wake County court hearing in a lawsuit challenging the party’s recent leadership election. State GOP lawyers urge a judge to delay the hearing on a possible injunction in the case.

Former CEO Jesse Thomas discusses entering GOP primary for NC governor

Jesse Thomas wants you to know that he doesn’t have the aspiration to be a career politician but instead as a public servant. “I bill myself as a citizen public servant,” he told Carolina Journal in a recent telephone interview.

Theresa Opeka

Three NC Republicans file suit to block state chairman selection

Three Republicans filed a lawsuit this week to block results of the state GOP’s June leadership vote. The suit in Wake County Superior Court challenges the process the party used to elect a chairman during its state convention.

Ada Fisher, 74, dies leaving a legacy of service

Dr. Ada Fisher served as the RNC’s Committeewoman for North Carolina for more than decade, elected in June of 2008 and reelected in 2012.

Conservatives have a lot to learn from the past

A review of “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism” by Matthew Continetti. A master at synthesizing information is one way to describe Matthew Continetti’s 100-year history of conservatism. In the weeds and details of the conservative movement is where his account shines. Overall, despite his joyous recollections of the glory days of mid-2000s neoconservatism, the account...

Ray Nothstine