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An important win by Allison Riggs, the Democratic justice & candidate in the 2024 North Carolina supreme court race: a federal appeals court pauses state courts' order that helped her GOP opponent's bid to overturn Riggs' win in November.

Volunteer Interest Form · North Carolina Democrats Republicans are still trying to throw out over 66,000 votes to give Jefferson Griffin an electoral win he didn't earn. Democrats are fighting back in the courts and we expect a win. If you're interes...

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Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid.

So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

They Followed North Carolina Election Rules When They Cast Their Ballots. Now Their Votes Could Be Tossed Anyway. A Republican judge is trying to overturn his election loss by challenging more than 60,000 ballots. These are some of those voters’ stories.

Elizabeth MacDonald lives in an area ravaged by Hurricane Helene. She made sure to cast a ballot. “The prospect of losing my vote for arbitrary reasons is especially painful given the personal and communal trauma we’ve endured,” she wrote to Griffin. @dougbockclark.bsky.social @propublica.org #ncpol

NC voters aren’t shy with their outrage over Griffin’s election challenge | Opinion In a special edition of the New and Observer’s letter to the editor, people angered by Judge Jefferson Griffin’s bid to toss votes express their rage | Opinion

"I haven't lost my temper in forty years, but, pilgrim, you caused a lot of trouble this morning." — John Wayne

N&O: "Few recent issues have animated North Carolinians as much as Jefferson Griffin’s" attempts to cancel 60,000 of his neighbors' votes.
www.newsobserver.com/opinion/lett... #ncpol

To gain a court seat, Republicans seek to throw out thousands of votes Republican Jefferson Griffin narrowly lost his race for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat. He’s asking the justices to throw out tens of thousands of votes.

Let’s be very clear here. North Carolina Republicans are trying to:

*steal
*cheat
*disenfranchise
*lie

their way to a state Supreme Court seat they lost at the ballot box.

Stay focused on this; oppose their shameful actions and protect democracy.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I wish every Dem office would read this and internalize it. "The only sensible and dignified course of action is to accept that Republicans are in charge and to focus in on making their unpopular actions as painful as possible...The job of the opposition is quite literally to oppose. Get to it."

Just gonna keep quoting this over and over again from @joshtpm.bsky.social: "the job of an opposition party is to oppose."

This doesn't have to be complicated!

I and many others warned that the anti-CRT, anti-DEI propaganda campaign that so many embraced or down played was always about creating the narrative for and paving the way for a larger attack on civil rights. We are here.

It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.

Opinion | The TikTok Economy Is All Americans Have Left

“Young people feel trapped. Their sense that they don’t have a shot at economic opportunity is being funneled into their online influencer fantasies. They seem desperate for anything that promises a way forward, even if it is just an algorithm.” — Tressie McMillan Cottom

It’s 25 degrees in Kansas City where the Chiefs and Texans are playing for a full stadium. Guess it’s only dangerous when it’s an inauguration.

Something missing in #ncpol coverage of Supreme Court race: It's been 72 days since the election. Where's Jefferson Griffin? No interviews. No public events. No social media activity. All we've heard from him: A 31-word canned statement two months ago.

The attempt to overturn the NC Supreme Court election result is anti-democratic and dangerous • NC Newsline Judge Jefferson Griffin should abandon his baseless effort to overturn the 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court election

The attempt to overturn the NC Supreme Court election result is anti-democratic and dangerous ncnewsline.com/2025/01/16/t... (commentary) #ncpol #ncga

"Just keep moving the goalposts until I win, ok?"

-Jefferson Griffin #ncpol

Fill the Gallery · North Carolina Democrats Democracy dies in darkness. We are partnering with the Virginia Democrats to make sure that members of the public attend oral arguments in the court case surrounding Republicans' unconstitutional atte...

FILL. THE. GALLERY. The GOP is trying to steal an wlection and we will not let democracy die in darkness. Sign up below @ncdemocrats.bsky.social @vademocrats.bsky.social @democracyoutloud.bsky.social @indivisible.org @indivisibleva.bsky.social
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@charliereece.com I trust you have checked the list of 60k voters that Griffin is challenging! Was just combing through it and saw a Laura Reece.

Events | CantWinVictoryFund

Recap of the State Supreme Court Justice race in NC.

- Justice Allison Riggs won

- Sore Loser Jefferson Griffin is trying to throw out 60,000 votes because he’s a toddler

- We’re reading all 60,000 names aloud in front of the court building on Tuesday

www.cantwinvictoryfund.com/event-list

Analysis | The gravity of a GOP election challenge in N.C.: ‘Invites incredible mischief’ Why the North Carolina Supreme Court allowing the case to proceed two months after the election is so extraordinary.

"This is an effort to invalidate votes, even though there is no indication that they’re fraudulent or that voters would have known they could be problematic..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Quick facts re: NC Supreme Court race -

-NC voters elected Justice Riggs in November. PERIOD. Her win was confirmed by 2 recounts.

-Voters decide elections. NOT candidates and NOT judges. No candidate can retroactively pick their voters, which is what Judge Griffin is trying to do.

#ncpol

Panama Unsettled by Trump Threat to Seize Canal Few took the president-elect’s combative comments at face value, but they still sent a shudder through a country that has been invaded by the United States before.

When members of the press and political leaders in either party treat Trump’s imperialist talk as “bonkers” “crazy” or “just talk” you deny that real people live in these places Trump is threatening. Panama has been invaded by the U.S. before. None of this is a joke.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/w...

What’s happening in North Carolina is way more damaging to democratic norms than trump’s gulf of America troll.

Reminder: More than two months post-election, North Carolina's Supreme Court race is one of just four contests that have yet to be called or have a second-place finisher concede. It'll soon be the only uncertified statewide contest. #ncpol

The crisis of democracy didn't end with Trump's victory—it got worse. When North Carolina's state Supreme Court is blocking certification of a state Supreme Court election, the house is on fire.

North Carolina's GOP supreme court appears to be laying the groundwork to overturning a Dem justice's reelection.

This comes weeks after the GOP passed a law to grab control of state elections despite November's results (boltsmag.org/north-caroli...).

North Carolina Republicans’ scheme to overturn their 700-vote loss for a critical state Supreme Court seat continues to proceed