Republican North Carolina U.S. Sen. Ted Budd, along with Sen. Katie Britt, R-AL, introduced a bill Wednesday named for the 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student who was brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant/alien last month.
North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis introduced two bills Tuesday geared toward issues caused by illegal immigration, which remains the most important issue for voters in most polls, including Carolina Journal’s most recent poll.
Two left-leaning organizations sent a letter to North Carolina’s State Board of Elections last week urging the state officials to block former president Donald J. Trump from being able to run for president, arguing that his involvement in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol legally disqualified him according to Section three of the 14th amendment. However, legal experts say their argument lacks evidence.
The recently rehabilitated Marjorie Taylor Greene and a few other fringy figures have floated the idea of a national dissolution, or divorce, with Republicans and Democrats ensconced within their own national boundaries. While we are manifestly a divided nation, such a separation is impractical for many reasons, including the necessity of an integrated national defense. And...
When I did more on-the-ground reporting, I was assigned to go to a Durham town hall leading up to the N.C. General Assembly’s drawing of new electoral maps. Republicans billed the meetings, with a stop in each of the state’s congressional districts, as a listening tour of sorts. I remember as I listened to progressive...
In September of 2021, the Texas Legislature passed a law meant to reel in the social media giants’ monopoly of online opinion. The bill, known as H.B. 20, requires large tech companies to produce regular reports of removed content, create a complaint system, and disclose their content regulation procedures. It applies to companies whose users...
Former President Trump endorsed 26-year-old Bo Hines Tuesday March 14 for the newly created 13th congressional district. Hines played one year of football at N.C. State before graduating from Yale, and lives far outside the district with a scant political resume. In a statement from former President Trump’s Save America PAC, Trump called Hines a...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a tragedy, an outrage, and a wake-up call about the continued threat to liberty and order posed by dictators pursuing 19th-century aims with 21st-century arms.
Congressional candidate Bo Hines and his parents will host a fundraiser with U.S. House members Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ga-14, and Madison Cawthorn, NC-14, two of the most high-profile Republican members of the U.S. House. The Christmas fundraiser is planned for December 17. A location has yet to be announced. The Hines campaign Twitter account made...
